I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 that is by now almost 10 years old, it runs perfectly on Linux and is a fantastic choice even today. It’s built like a tank and that Intel i5 powering it is immortal. DDR3 RAM is dirt cheap now and it takes up to 16Gb, you can swap its HDD to a SATA SSD (if not done already) and batteries for it are still cheap and plentiful.

If you’re looking for something affordable for software dev, I can’t think of a better choice for $200-$300

https://www.lenovo.com/lt/lt/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t430/

They really built this one right, they don’t make them like this anymore.

It will get better, take it from a stranger on the internet.

Start with the little things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBAqF00gBGk

This is a Lemmy-ui bug, not related to CDN/cache.

I had submitted a bug report for it some time ago but it’s not that urgent in the great scheme of things so they didn’t get around to it yet: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1865

(the report speaks about this happening after you log in, but it’s the same thing).

hey, I’m the admin of lemdit.com, thought I’d offer you my 2 cents.

Generally speaking anyone is welcome on Lemdit. We’re not a political instance, nor are we a strictly ‘free speech’ one. What this means is any ideas are welcome irrespective of political lean, but slurs, attacks or calls for violence are not. To give you a concrete example, disagreeing with government covid policy is fine, calling people fags is not.

Lemdit is indeed a tiny instance. This isn’t really an issue as far as content and engagement is concerned thanks to federation, but it does mean we’re a very small fish that can be easily killed if we get defederated. We’re not big enough to survive under our own content steam, so if you do join, please try to keep this in mind.

The only instances we’ve defederated are ones that host loli porn. In general, anything that can get us into legal trouble is gone on the spot (I don’t mean the lemmy.world interpretation of legal). Otherwise I don’t live in the US and I make it a point not to get involved in politics one way or the other, so you will not see me defederate or block anything based on politics.

Lemdit is also self-hosted and costs me very little to run, so this isn’t a donations grift, we’re not looking to grow at all costs, etc.

You can find more info here: https://lemdit.com/post/2915 https://lemdit.com/post/13

If this sounds like you, then feel free to sign up.

Awesome project and the tool looks great - nice work!

There was an existing tool which was similar: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Yours is definitely nicer.

I made a post about his exploits: https://exploding-heads.com/post/722127

It’s very disappointing. They seem to be testing the waters, for example this guy won’t outright promote pedophilia, instead he’ll make arguments such as:

• teenagers over 14 are fully developed young adults
• it’s bigotry to treat them like children
• it harms and infantilizes teenagers over 14 to treat them like children
• the brain is fully developed by 14, the rest is just a myth
• power imbalances between adults and teens are a myth
• puritans are to blame for the hysteria against age difference in sexual partners
• hysteria around pedophiles today is the same as the witch hunts of the past
• child beauty padgents are just kids playing dress-up and harm nobody
• punishment for adults who have sex with teenagers over 14 is disproportionate for a crime that hurts nobody

…etc. Nothing he says is technically illegal so he’s banking on everyone going along with it on this technicality. At the end of the day, this is a 50+ year old dude with a squeaky voice that is trying to make a case for how he should be able to have sex with 14 year olds. He is (somewhat) indirectly promoting pedophilia and can fuck right off.

You are absolutely not tripping. This guy is a pedophile that spends his time making posts that all eventually feed into the idea that it should be normal and OK for adults to hook up with under-age teenagers. Please report him wherever you see him, I’m happy to share the sleuthing I’ve already done with any instance admin that is having second thoughts.

This is the same person:

That project is a great find, thanks! A real time saver, I should have these marked up shortly.

I’ll do some more thinking on how we represent Cloudflare instances in general, I think for the time being I may just include a short note for them as people will wonder why they’re marked anyway.

Edit: This is now done, all Cloudflare instances marked and an explanation added.

Hey, thanks for your feedback. I like your idea of labeling Cloudflared services, reporting is indeed a bit tricky for those especially if they use “Always online” to serve cached copies while the instance is down. I have some ideas on how to combat that, but labeling them also makes sense.

I can add tags against services - I have done this for ani.social as a proof of concept, I think it works but I welcome feedback. Sorting through the entire list is a bit daunting and will take me a while, but I’ll get there.

Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don’t want to open, I’d rather we try to find other ways to level the playing field.

Yes it was changed some time ago: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/170

I think you’re one “active user” short of being back on there:

I believe you need 5 to be listed.

I’ve updated the post to include clickable URLs. Lesson learnt that I shouldn’t rely on clients to treat domain names as links.

Thanks for your feedback. I like your idea, I’ll have a look into what I can do to make it happen.

Absolutely!

Uptime Kuma Github: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Note that I am not the creator of Uptime Kuma, https://github.com/louislam gets all the credit there.

It’s just a play on words: Le(mmy) + Stat(us) or Le Stat(us)

I think it’s short and easy to remember, the fact that it’s also the name of a famous vampire is just a bonus.

Https HEAD requests - I find it yields accurate results for Lemmy and it’s extremely light on bandwidth.

https://lestat.org

Hey thanks for your feedback. I’ve made them all URLs now.

Search and sort are tricky as it’s not something Uptime Kuma status pages can do, I’ll look into what can be done there.

Of all the ones to miss!

Thanks for pointing it out, I’ve added it now.