cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/10994517

Sorry if this isn't relevant to the community, but couldn't think of anywhere better to post. I saw something curious in my RSS comics feed last night for the Abstruse Goose comic. The author is fairly prolific and used to post comics based on math, technology, etc. His site and archive of comics has now been replaced with a single cryptic message:

"AGI will not be designed by humans. It will be evolved through relentless evolutionary computational processes designed by humans."

Very curious! Anybody have any theories on what is going on? I can't imagine what his motivation might be :)

I felt compelled to take this picture while on a late night walk a couple of nights ago. The fog had rolled in, and the lights seemed magical.

Unedited image below:

Would it be possible to have a quick settings button to hide (not just blur) all NSFW posts in the feed?

In normal browsing I like having the blurred NSFW images available in the feed, but whenever I'm in a public space, I'm always terrified I'll accidentally open one of the NSFW images. This is compounded by the fact that the last post at the end of a feed is extra-clickable because of the way feed loading works. If I'm scrolling down and the feed needs to load more, Sync will often count that interaction as a click on the last item in the feed.

Thanks!

When navigating posts in the feed, the URL is changed to each active post. This means that when the page is reloaded, Alexandrite goes to that page instead of the active feed. In the above screenshot, I was browsing all, but refreshing the page left me on the post that was active.

Perhaps a fix might be to append the active post to the URL? Something like:

https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/all#post/5936117

This is a request for a UI change for consideration if the community isn't against it.

IMO the UI for opening a thread to view comments could be better. Right now when scrolling through the feed, I have to click the tiny comments icon to open the thread, and it soft-navigates to the comments thread. Clicking back (in the browser, or using the button in the thread UI) takes me right back, which is great, however, it seems like I sometimes lose my place in the feed. The problems here are: 1. the link to open comments is tiny, and 2. the thread takes over the feed.

It would be great if the experience could be a bit more like Alexandrite, where clicking on the post opens the thread in a panel in-place, which you can click outside to close without losing your place in the feed. Just feels a bit more intuitive IMO. If this is a controversial change, it could be a configurable option.

Thanks for considering this feedback!

The linked post and discussion from the Photon dev re: the lemmy 0.19 release got me thinking about how Alexandrite will handle the migration since the release includes breaking changes.

@sheodox@lemmy.world thoughts?

I see an "Ultra preview" tag next to some posts, but I have no idea what this feature is. Does anybody know?

I want to filter out references to the website formerly known as Twitter, but I'm not sure how the content filter "X" will work.

I'm assuming an 'X' without spaces will also filter out Xylophone, but what about "X "? Will I need to add the double quotes? What about capitalization?

Shanks :)

Hey folks. I've been running a media and torrenting server off an Odroid HC2 running OpenMediaVault 6 on Armbian. It's been doing pretty great, and I have it set to run docker containers for qBittorrent, ProtonVPN, the *arrs, etc.

The problem I'm running into is that the HC2 has an arm32 CPU that is not supported by most apps, so I'm stuck running old images. I want to upgrade to a newer mini PC/SBC that is more future-friendly. I'd like it to be capable of running Plex streaming at 4K, Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr, etc. as well as other apps as docker containers. I might repurpose the HC2 to just run self-hosted NextDNS.

Here are my questions:

1. What mini PCs or SBCs would you recommend? I'm leaning strongly towards a mini PC over an SBC because it would be more powerful, I don't need specialized software for it, recovery and backups are much easier, etc. I'm not too concerned about power usage unless it's extravagant.
2. Which OS would you recommend as a media server?
3. What is the simplest way to transfer my server over with minimal fuss? I use private trackers, so I'll have to very carefully stand up the new server and transfer over torrents, etc. in one fell swoop. I'm guessing I should just be able to install the apps and then transfer over the configurations and media files and change permissions, etc.
4. Anything else I need to consider?

Thanks!

I've been constantly running into issues of stale content and errors fetching post on lemmy.ca the past couple of days.

While scrolling on my client (Sync), I keep seeing errors about fetching new posts and have to click retry a few times to fetch more posts. At times I have to retry 6-7 times. Additionally, it seems like I'm seeing posts I've already seen a lot from the past more quickly than I'd expect in "Hot".

I tried changing to a different instance and at least the first issue was immediately resolved. Posts were fetched quicker, and I didn't get any more errors while fetching posts.

I haven't run into this on alex.lemmy.ca on desktop (yet), so it's possible that it's an API issue. It's also possibly a Sync bug.

I suspect there's been a recent performance/federation regression, could one of the admins confirm/deny my suspicions? Totally not a problem if it's not something that can be fixed right away, just wanted to bring it to y'all's attention.

Edit: although the screenshot mentions posts being filtered, I don't have enough filters to completely prevent fetching new content

It looks pretty slick and seems like it's officially supported on lemmy.world.

While we're at it, any chance the Alexandrite UI could be supported too?

Thanks! You guys are killing it!

Since Lemmy doesn't have a lot of content yet, I primarily browse all. Since there are a lot of active communities in all that I'm not interested in (different language/NSFW, etc), it would be really handy to be able to block them from the ellipsis menu. Right now you have to go I to the community and find the block option there. Similarly for users.