Somewhere between 35 and 39, but yeah. Not sure how old she was when we got her (fully grown), but I was 5 or 6 then and was 40 when she passed. Have to assume it was just old age Always called her “Horse, of Course” lol

Sorry to hear. How old was he? My family had a horse since I was like 5 or 6. She hated being ridden but would follow you around like a dog. She died year-before-last at, I believe, age 39.

I prefer sans-serif fonts visually but prefer serif for readability. So I use Atkinson Hyperlegible which is a mish-mash of both.

And bonus meme:

Oh, you’re right. It does work after updating. I was on 2025.12.08 which was the latest the last time I messed with it around that same time and saw that the SABR bug had been open since March of 2025. Still open so that was what I had been watching.

The 2026.02.04 build worked fine.

Still gonna keep my PT instance lol.

Huh. I’m on the latest release and every video I download fails with the SABR notice and link to the issue for it. Maybe it’s regional?

I used to just yt-dlp any YT video links people share, but that doesn’t work anymore and no ETA on a fix.

My new favorite thing is my PeerTube instance. yt-dlp is basically broken for almost all YT videos now since it doesn’t yet support SABR, and most videos are forcing that now. Peertube’s importer seems to have no problem with it, so that’s where I am.

Someone shares a YT link? Copy, paste into Peertube, wait like 30 seconds for the transcode, and watch. No BS. And if I want to watch it later? Well, there it already is.

Edit: It appears the wonderful people maintaining yt-dlp have fixed that since I last tried back in December.

FYI: I moved the allow rule for DNS to the top of the chain, so that should fix problems with DNS providers not being able to reach the authoritative name servers.

Ugh. Thanks. It’s quite possible, though maybe just a regional one? I did inadvertently block one of the IPs Let’s Encrypt uses for secondary validation, so this may be another case of that.

I get a shitload of bad traffic from the southeast Asia area (mostly Philippines/Singapore AWS) and have taken to blanket blocking their whole routes rather than constantly playing whack-a-mole. Fail2ban only goes so far for case-by-case.

Here’s the image from the meme from an alternate source:

Your IP may unfortunately be inside a CIDR block that largely does nothing but spam my infrastructure with script kiddie tomfoolery. Firewall rules apply to my authoritative DNS servers as well.

Edit: If you would like me to whitelist it, DM me your IP and I’ll add a narrow exception.

:sigh:

1. That doesn’t block obnoxious users from there, only communities
2. New users are still flooded with that and have to block it
3. If you’re a potential new user (which is the topic of this post) and just browsing unauthenticated to see what it’s like here, no, you can’t block instances (or anyone or anything).

Atkinson Hyperlegible is my new jam. I’m dyslexic and it helps tremendously even though that’s not its primary goal. It also looks a lot better than OpenDyslexic which I used to use.

Loaded “Hyperlegible” onto my Kobo, the reader app on my phone, and set it as the default font on my desktop environment.

Also added it as an option in Tesseract UI (which I swear I’ll be releasing “soon”).

Kinda like in recent Trek series where, when an episode begins with a day in the limelight of a non-main character, it’s basically their eulogy.

• DIS: Lt. Miriam Airiam. Stupid autocorrect.
• SNW: Ensign Gamble

I made my own smart outlets with an ESP-01, dual relay board, and ESPHome. Also made some temp/humidity sensors as well as a 20x4 text display. All powered by a bunch of ESP-01s I bought cheap and in-bulk from Ali and programming using ESPHome which handles most of the work interfacing with the components as well as the HomeAssistant integration.

https://esphome.io/

When some rich, Walt Disney-type buys an island and fills it with supercomputers in order to clone a park full of extinct Amy Winehouses?

Find a USB stick in the parking lot? Don’t plug it into your PC and probably destroy it with fire.

Find a USB stick while digging in the park? Plug that baby in, jam to some Back to Black, and watch some vintage porn.

Basically the only thing you want to present with a challenge is the paths/virtual hosts for the web frontends.

Anything /api/v3/ is client-to-server API (i.e. how your client talk to your instance) and needs to be obstruction-free. Otherwise, clients/apps won’t be able to use the API. Same for /pictrs since that proxies through Lemmy and is a de-facto API endpoint (even though it’s a separate component).

Federation traffic also needs to be exempt, but it’s not based on routes but by the HTTP Accept request header and request method.

Looking at the Nginx proxy config, there’s this mapping which tells Nginx how to route inbound requests:

nginx_internal.conf: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/main/templates/nginx_internal.conf

    map "$request_method:$http_accept" $proxpass {
        # If no explicit matches exists below, send traffic to lemmy-ui
        default "http://lemmy-ui:1234/";

        # GET/HEAD requests that accepts ActivityPub or Linked Data JSON should go to lemmy.
        #
        # These requests are used by Mastodon and other fediverse instances to look up profile information,
        # discover site information and so on.
        "~^(?:GET|HEAD):.*?application\/(?:activity|ld)\+json" "http://lemmy:8536/";

        # All non-GET/HEAD requests should go to lemmy
        #
        # Rather than calling out POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, CONNECT and all the verbs manually
        # we simply negate the GET|HEAD pattern from above and accept all possibly $http_accept values
        "~^(?!(GET|HEAD)).*:" "http://lemmy:8536/";

There’s just too many things to support. Rather than pick and choose what I’m going to virtue-signal today, I just…don’t bother. It’s been going on almost 4 years, and in the horror show of the post-2020 world, that’s practically forever and makes it just one thing on a very, very massive pile. Not trying to diminish things there, but it is what it is.

Other than some outright trolls or maybe some rhetoric on instances I refuse to federate with, I haven’t noticed any anti-Ukraine sentiment and have seen plenty of news and updates on the ongoing situation.

FWIW, my work avatar is a sunflower field against a blue sky which is non-political on its own but looks like the Ukranian flag and has been my avatar since 2022.

Probably “copying” Apple’s iNoun naming convention?

It kinda can but not as easily.

Back when I just downloaded everything under the sun on Napster/Limewire, I’d make highly curated CDs of known-hits as well as ones where I sprinkle in some random songs that were in my downloads that I’d never heard before. Not exactly the same, but I’ve definitely listened to a CD I made and been like “what’s that song?! I love it!”.

Plus, for road trips, everyone would usually burn a CD or two of their own to swap in (a precursor to “pass the aux cord”) so there was some novelty/variety.