The new version of “swatting”: “Magatting”. Just tell ICE/Secret Service etc someone you don’t like said something mean about Trump.

And wasting children’s lives.

Nearly 500 tons of high-energy biscuits in Dubai are set to expire in July, one former USAID official told Reuters. They could have fed 27,000 acutely malnourished children for a month.

“If a child’s in an inpatient stabilization center and they’re no longer able to access treatment,” said Jeanette Bailey from the International Rescue Committee, “more than 60 percent of those children are at risk of dying very quickly.”

8647?

Re the proposed “National Garden of American Heroes”, you may submit applications to make statues of a selection from the list provided here:

• https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/22/2021-01643/building-the-national-garden-of-american-heroes

From just a quick look:

• Muhammad Ali - avoided fighting in Vietnam by standing up for his woke principles of DEI, not claiming bone spurs
• Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong - both included, presumably in case Donald gets the two confused
• John James Audubon - immigrant from Haiti, and we all know what that means!
• Alexander Graham Bell - Scots and Canadian and worked with people with disabilities; we all know how much that Venn diagram loves Trump
• Ingrid Bergman - Swedish actress. I mean, 100% Swedish. Are you even trying to pick American heroes?
• Johnny Cash - the man who wore black out of empathy for the poor and incarcerated. Probably wouldn’t even piss on Trump if he was on fire.
• Christopher Columbus - I thought Trump was one of those who insisted on “America” meaning only the United States of America. Which Columbus was not born in, naturalized in, lived in or ever even visited. Or does Trump think that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Palm Beach to be welcomed by Paul Bunyan and George Washington saying “50% off all mattresses all weekend!”?

“If you repeat a lie, you know, […] enough times, some people actually believe it, […]"

What an interesting perspective, Elon. Who came up with it originally? Oh, yeah, the fucking Nazis!

Dudek had been a mid-level IT staffer at Social Security before being put on administrative leave for helping Elon Musk’s DOGE team access sensitive databases inside the agency. The Trump administration tapped him to lead the agency after more senior officials refused to cooperate with Musk’s team.

The most fanatically loyal to the Dear Leader, the most contemptuous of both the law and the people, are plucked from mediocrity and placed at the top.

This is America now.

And then the Sturmtrumper gives a masterclass in petulance and childishness.

I believe using a CDN would defeat the author’s goal of not being reliant on third-party service providers.

A problem with this approach was that many readers use VPN’s and other proxies that change IP addresses virtually every time they use them. For that reason and because I believe in protecting every Internet user’s privacy as much as possible, I wanted a way of immediately unblocking visitors to my website without them having to reveal personal information like names and email addresses.

I recently spent a few weeks on a new idea for solving this problem. With some help from two knowledgeable users on Blue Dwarf, I came up with a workable approach two weeks ago. So far, it looks like it works well enough. To summarize this method, when a blocked visitor reaches my custom 403 error page, he is asked whether he would like to be unblocked by having his IP address added to the website’s white list. If he follows that hypertext link, he is sent to the robot test page. If he answers the robot test question correctly, his IP address is automatically added to the white list. He doesn’t need to enter it or even know what it is. If he fails the test, he is told to click on the back button in his browser and try again. After he has passed the robot test, Nginx is commanded to reload its configuration file (PHP command: shell_exec(“sudo nginx -s reload”);), which causes it to immediately accept the new whitelist entry, and he is granted immediate access. He is then allowed to visit cheapskatesguide as often as he likes for as long as he continues to use the same IP address. If he switches IP addresses in the future, he has about a one in twenty chance of needing to pass the robot test again each time he switches IP addresses. My hope is that visitors who use proxies will only have to pass the test a few times a year. As the whitelist grows, I suppose that frequency may decrease. Of course, it will reach a non-zero equilibrium point that depends on the churn in the IP addresses being used by commercial web-hosting companies. In a few years, I may have a better idea of where that equilibrium point is.

You’re welcome.

I believe I found it originally via the “distribuverse”… specifically, ZeroNet.

Already subscribed, thanks!

Thanks!

1. “sort”: that’s the word for the options of “new”, “scaled”, “active” etc, right?
2. “New” does seem to improve things.
3. @Die4Ever pointed out there’s a “Show Read Posts” option in the settings. I’ve unticked that and will see how it goes.

Thanks.

Thanks! I missed that. I’ve unticked it now and will see how it goes.

Thanks for the info.

One thing: I don’t see a “Mark as Read” button.

I might have the wrong terminology: when I say “my main feed”, I don’t mean an RSS feed in a feed reader, I just mean what I see when I go to my instance’s homepage ( https://lemmy.ca/ ) in my web browser.

I’ll keep experimenting and subscribing to more communities and see if it improves over time.

I’m following about 70 communities.

On Pixelfed, I follow only two accounts so far, but I never see repeats.

“I don’t care about your opinion”, says MTG to journalist trying to ask her for her opinion.