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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • thank you for following up on that! I’m surprised it’s returning an invalid value — we’re not botting (to my knowledge at least, I’ll check the DB later and make sure nobody’s doing anything weird) and I haven’t written any code that touches nodeinfo directly. to be honest, if I were to modify our stats in any way I’d do it to make our instance look smaller, as larger instances tend to attract more bad actors.

    I see that @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com tried to initiate contact in that thread, but unfortunately I’m unable to reply directly because posts between our instances don’t seem to be federating — this could be due to a federation queue delay, or possibly an automated quarantine due to us being on the suspicious instances list.

    my hunch is that our instance may be misreporting its nodeinfo due to a bug in our (now rather old) version of lemmy. I’ve been meaning to upgrade us for a while, but there is a bit of outstanding infrastructural work I’d like to do as part of that. since it seems to be impacting the health of our federation, I’ll prioritize an upgrade to the newest stable version.










  • it was previously quite easy, but it seems to be getting much harder as Google locks the ecosystem down alongside their push towards manifest v3 (cause nobody can have nice things) and potentially moving their Chromebooks to Android

    a used Chromebook might still be a good option for a cheap linux laptop though — your mileage may vary. if you go that route, look for one that lets you replace its bootloader. the Google one is extremely annoying if you’re running a third-party OS, because it’ll wipe your SSD and reinstall ChromeOS if you hit spacebar during boot (probably Google’s way to punish the user for straying too far from the ecosystem)








  • holy fuck what an embarrassing post

    You’re giving “David,” and I doubt very much you’re personally familiar with him, credit where it isn’t due.

    hey “David”, this fucking weirdo goldbug gold stockpiling enthusiast says we don’t know you

    anyway, I had to dig through way too many of your unending awful posts (please log the fuck off) to find out that the reason why you’re in here posting about gold is because you’re into the other thing weirdo ancaps love:

    Of course, BitCoin is doing better than ever, and it will continue to rise while Russia is under sanctions and drives demand.

    Unless you do what they call a “rookie move” and don’t keep a personal wallet.

    so how about you fuck off out of buttcoin