Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • The thing about these deprecated tools is that the replacements either suck, are too convoluted, don’t give you the same info, or are overly verbose/obtuse.

    ifconfig gave you the most relevant information for the network interfaces almost like a dashboard: IP, MAC address, link status, TX/RX packet counts and errors, etc. You can get that with ip but you’ve got to add a bunch of arguments, make multiple calls with different arguments, and it’s still not quite what ifconfig was.

    Similarly, iwconfig gave you that same “dashboard” like information for your wireless adapters. I use iw to configure but iwconfig was my go-to for viewing useful information about it. Don’t get me started on how much I hate iw’s syntax and verbosity.

    They can pry scp out of my cold dead hands.

    At least nftables is syntax-compatible.





  • Just about anything as long as you don’t need to serve it to hundreds of people simultaneously. Hell, I once hosted Jellyfin over a 3G hotpot and it managed.

    Pretty much any web-based app will work fine. Streaming servers (Emby, Plex, Jellyfin, etc) work fine for a few simultaneous people as long as you’re not trying to push 4K or something. 1080p can work fine at 4 Mbps or less (transcoding is your friend here). Chat servers (Matrix, XMPP, etc) are also a good candidate.

    I hosted everything I wanted with 30 Mbps upload before I got symmetric fiber.







  • 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:




  • 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”).



  • Granted, I don’t think the instance level URL filters were meant to be used for the domains of other instances like I was doing here. They’re more for blocking spam domains, etc.

    e.g. I also have those spam sites you see in c/News every so often in that block list (e.g. dvdfab [dot] cn, digital-escape-tools [dot] phi [dot] vercel [dot] app, etc) , so I never see/report them because they’re rejected immediately.

    During one of the many, many spam storms here, it was desired by admins for those filters to stop anything that matched them from federating-in instead of just changing the text to removed on the frontend. So it is a good feature to have. Just maybe applied too widely.

    Though I think if a user edited their own description to include a widely-blocked URL (no URLs are blocked by default), they’d just be soft-banning themselves from everywhere that has that domain blocked.

    If a malicious community mod edited their communities’ descriptions to a include a widely-blocked URL, then yeah, that could cut off new posts coming in to any instance that has that domain blocked (old posts and the community itself would still be available).

    All of those would require instances to have certain URLs blocked. The list of blocked URLs for an instance is publicly available from the info in getSite API call, so it wouldn’t be hard to game if someone really wanted to. Fortunately, most people are too busy gaming the “delete account” feature right now 🙄.


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    The person who cross-posted it was probably definitely from your local instance.

    You only ever interact with your local instance’s copy of any community, even remote ones. If the community is to a remote instance that is either offline or since de-federated, there’s nothing that prohibits you from interacting with it*. Because lemm.ee is no longer there to federate out the post/comments to any of the community’s subscribers, only people local to your instance will see it.

    *Admins can remove the community and, prior to it going offline, mods can lock it. But if an instance just disappears, you can still locally interact with any of its communities on your instance; the content just won’t federate outside your instance.




  • I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

    Ugh, this. And I hate that it’s like that.

    Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn’t overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it’s just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.

    My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn’t tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will probably definitely not look good on me by association despite that I’m nowhere near that.

    So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.




  • Like someone else said: Block the news and politics communities if you like to browse /all. You can always unblock them later.

    It was with heavy heart but I also blocked silence7@slrpnk.net. Nothing against them, and they post nothing but quality material in what I fully believe to be good faith, but they’re just…too much. The only reason I had to block them individually is they post in more than just news/politics communities but never goes off-brand and only posts news/politics/“everything is a bummer” things. There’s probably a few other people like that, but shouldn’t be many.

    That should just leave you with the few oddball posts where it’s just the people that don’t follow the no news/politics rules.



  • I haven’t been to Odysee for a good while, but is it still Rumble-lite?

    I only learned of Odysee because I saw a video linked to it here and went directly to the video. When I saw it had embed code, I added support in Tesseract UI so the videos would play from the post. Then I went to the main site and saw the front page full of rightwing nutjob rants and vaccine skepticism and was like “nope”. Had I saw that beforehand, I wouldn’t have added embed support, but the work was already done so I left it in. That’s basically why I refuse to add embed support for Rumble.

    Wondering if ownership/leadership/policies have changed since about 2 years ago when I wrote the embed components for it and last interacted with it.