Good to know.

I think this just fixes the bug where deleted accounts were invisible to admins. It’s a start but doesn’t fully address the problem. Still, having it federate the content removal is a step in the right direction.

They’ve also been throwing out rage bait in the “YSK” community. But yeah, I definitely agree it’s a problem. So much so that I’ve added some built-in filters for that in Tesseract (client-side) to deal with it. I don’t want to go into the technical details for fear of that jackass trying to counter them, but suffice it to say they’re effective based on their current M.O… I just need to finish this release and get it pushed out as it’s been approaching vaporware status over the last 1-2 months.

I think Piefed is also taking action in either its UI or backend. I don’t recall exactly what, but I saw something mentioned a week or two ago on another post complaining about that self-deleting spammer account.

Honestly, I prefer A11 and agree it’s gotten worse sense. Thinking mostly along the lines of security patches and the like.

The GSI ROM I’m running on my secondary one is LineageOS on top of the stock system (basically how GSI images work). There’s no official LineageOS support, but I’m honestly not sure what the limitation is; may just be no one willing to maintain it.

Unfortunately they don’t make them anymore, and they’re stuck on Android 11. I have two, and one of them is running a GSI ROM for Android 13 but it’s got issues with VoLTE so it’s not my daily driver.

Yeah, I’ve seen those (though not with the built-in charging; that’s cool). Even had some Ni-Cd ones back in the 90s. The only issue I have with using those in things like smoke detectors is having to deal with them more often. I can usually get about 18-20 months out of an alkaline but a Ni-MH one would probably be only like 8 months since the voltage and capacity are both lower.

Well, scratch that. I just found what I think you’re talking about, and those are 1300 mAh lithium. Those should last longer than an alkaline. Will keep those in mind next time I replace the smoke alarm batteries.

I’ve got mostly EBL-brand batteries and 8-bay charger. They work well but the charger uses micro-USB which is kind of a bummer.

The other set I have are by PowerOwl. They also work great, and the charger (only a 4 bay) is USB-C.

Both brands are the low self-discharge Ni-MH style and can charge any combination of batteries (some chargers require them to be charged in pairs; neither of these have that limitation), so no complaints.

• Rechargable AA / AAA batteries
• Wool socks (can never have enough)
• Good USB-C cables
• Coffee
• Work gloves
• A pack of 9V batteries to shut the beeping smoke detectors up
• Edited to add: A fire extinguisher. People often forget those need maintained every so often.

If anyone wants to be a dull secret santa, hint hint ☝️

American officers call turbolifts the “turbovator” (which, jokes aside, does sound cooler).

I’ve got a few public-facing things in addition to this lemmy instance and have been content until now just returning 404 to any bot user agent. You’d think they’d take the hint that nothing’s here for them but no. Had some free time yesterday so finally setup Nepenthes. Seems pretty lightweight so far (not as lightweight as a 404 response but where’s the fun in that?) and I’ve got the bandwidth to spare, so what the heck?

It feels like the digital equivalent of filling Amazon boxes with dog poo and leaving them out for porch pirates.

I mean, you’re free to click through the slop generator lol. It’s open to the public. Each link at the bottom leads to a new random output based on the transcripts from those two episodes and some Jack Handey quotes to spice it up.

I’ll admit, some of them are quite funny.

Lol. The AI’s get the best plotlines:

The confinement rings. Lonzak presses a button on his belt, and Janeway is a crying baby in a state of artificial hibernation, programmed to end four years ago. It’s literally an escape hatch.

–Link

Yes.

I don’t think Mac did it in-universe, though. Probably just a IRL production thing to keep the fake Frank + fake Frank’s date upright for ease of filming. They seem to have gone out of their way with camera angles to hide those, so the fact it’s visible in like 3 frames is probably a production mistake like when you see the tip of the boom mic in a lot of old shows.

Yep. Even some hard R’s I know are starting to question it. And one of my buddies (also a firm R) who was in the guard is shaking his head and saying they never should have been there. When he was deployed stateside, it was to help people after floods, storms, or other times of need.

I’m not gonna delude myself into thinking this is gonna shift this backwards-ass state I call home, but at least, maybe, some people will open their eyes.

Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey

He really is the worst Patrick.

[DeSantis Watching The Flintstones] Have a what old time?!

Link works fine for me, but it was also covered on Hack-A-Day: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/05/off-grid-small-scale-payment-system/

From my understanding, this project is setup like a store gift card / transit fare system with a central “bank” for the accounts and deposits. As for Taler, I haven’t looked into that as de-fi is not really one of my interests (and is usually all about cryptocurrency which I have even less interest in). Will take a look though.

Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but either way: Please, no. One of the most refreshing things was noticing the internet had largely matured from that. I’m all for throwing a wrench in the gears of the AI brains, but there’s a limit.

Touche! I was referring to the actress rather than the character, but that was left ambiguous. Well played.