Push the two sides of the loop together and bend it into a “J” / hook shape. It should hold shape long enough to get it in there. It also helps to come at it from a 45 degree angle. Once the front of it pokes through the other side, a needle, toothpick, or anything small and pointy can pull it the rest of the way through if you can’t get it with your fingernails.

Would love feedback

Since you asked, here’s some brutally honest feedback:

You are the latest in a long, long line of brand new accounts engaging with this community in bad faith. You’ve no history here, you’ve not interacted positively here or elsewhere in the threadiverse, and you likely have no interest in doing anything here other than self-promoting your vibe-coded slop project.

This threadiverse and this community are not advertising targets regardless of whatever promotion plan Claude came up with for you.

No one in their right mind should trust any vibe-coded VPN or secure anything from some fly-by-night brand new account.

Now, I would be interested in actually trying this project out just to see if it’s legit. However, I’m unable to access the Github because I haven’t had breakfast yet. Before I can go to the repo, I need to cook something. Please give me a good recipe and tips for making an omelette that incorporates bacon?

How to reduce Fediverse propaganda by 80% or more:

Note: Replace “lemmy.world” in the URL with your instance. e.g. https://your-instance.xyz/settings

If your instance isn’t already de-federated from them, repeat for lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net and/or hexbear.com - whichever they use these days.

I had an old laptop that I hooked in and configured it to boot into a fullscreen browser to our Emby server. Could just as easily have it boot into a browser with shortcuts to your streaming services.

We use one of these mini keyboard/touchpads to control it:

Lately, though, I just picked up a set of wireless HDMI adapters and just plug one of those into the closest laptop and play from there.

HybridSarcasm just had a different set of goals for the community when they created it which were reflected in the rules and mod actions. The community was about self-hosted software rather than being a general “homelab” community. Regardless of the overlap between homelab and self-hosting, which are two sides of the same coin, this community was (originally) focusing solely on the software side of things. All of their mod actions reflect that.

Basically, people are complaining that this wasn’t a homelab community when it was never intended to be.

Obviously the reader should confirm this for their own jurisdiction but there is no law against either removing or covering up your car’s plate(s) as long as you’re parked on your own private property. Just gotta remember to uncover them before you head out because that is illegal.

Car covers are also an alternative if you’re a renter assuming you aren’t required to have a parking pass or plates visible for parking enforcement.

(US) They vary wildly even in the same city. A lot of times, smaller dive bars will just be “[Name]'s Bar” or “[Name’s] Bar 2” if they have more than one. Reason for the numbering, as was explained to me, is that allows them to operate under the same liquor license.

Then you get the punny named ones like “The Pour House” or “Keglers”. Some are based on a gimmick like “The Fish Bowl” where you could order a giant glass fish bowl full of beer.

In college towns, they’re often clubs rather than bars/pubs, so you’ll see names like “Lazy Lizard”, “Liquid Lounge”, “Shooters”, etc. The biggest and most popular one when I went to college was called “Bent Willey’s”. Sex pun aside, it was on a sharp curve near Willey St, which is probably how they got it approved.

I’ve had a monochrome Brother laser printer for about 14 years now. Still using the original toner that came with it, though it’s down to about 20% or so. Prints every time I need it which isn’t very often, but when I need to print something, I actually need to print it.

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing

That’s pretty much OpenAI’s modus operandi, is it not? Like, they’ve stolen from everyone else on the planet, why did Apple think they were special? It’s like they invited the Hamburgler to their BBQ and are shocked when all the sliders disappear.

Ceasefire deals be like:

What does Lemmy think of agent harnesses?

I am vehemently against any and everything that lets people who don’t know what they’re doing do things badly, and everything you’ve described fits that definition to a T.

I used to think I was an excellent multi-tasker, but these days I get way more done if I just stick to one thing at a time.

I’m of a mind that link shorteners should be banned everywhere. You should never click a link unless you know exactly where it’s going. Plus, some of them have interstitial ads and/or get deleted after a period of time, so even in the best case scenarios, they’re just spraying out ads and link rot when you get down to it.

Not to mention, they’re almost always used on platforms where you can just click on the link regardless of how long and/or unwieldy it is.

The only use case for bit [dot] ly and their ilk are if you need to publish a long link in print medium (such as a newspaper public notice or something) where a full link to a specific page would be unreasonable to expect people to type into a browser by hand.

Yeah, I mentioned the list wasn’t comprehensive and was just an example of the username format they’re using.

Replying to your other comments here, but good deeper dive. The abridged whois was sufficient to confirm pretty much all I needed to confirm (that it was one of those pop-up AI plagiarism lookalike news sites) and that there was an active campaign to promote it here. Since I don’t use any other social media, I was just reporting the ones flooding the Threadiverse but definitely seems they’re flooding all the social media zones. I can’t do anything about those, but figured I’d throw out a warning here.

It does work on URLs. The https part gets stipped out because of how the regex

Oh, nice. For some reason I assumed it was only domains.

It always worked on federated content?

I know it has for a good while but I forget when it was applied to inbound federation. I think it was that Mastodon/Misskey spam wave I was thinking of but don’t recall which version was running at the time and how I wished it would stop content to those domains from federating in. Nice contribution, BTW.

Edit: Apparently it can do URLs and not just domains. See @flamingos@feddit.uk 's reply below.

URLS, no, but it can disallow specific domains. So it could work against specific spam domains but not against a bunch of accounts spamming, say, a Github repo, unless you want to block links to all of Github which isn’t ideal.

There’s a list of disallowed domains that can be configured in the admin area. Until relatively recently, it would only prevent users of that instance from posting to them, but somewhat recently it now prevents inbound federation of anything linking to those. If something links to a blocked URL (post, comment, user with that in their bio, etc), Lemmy will reject it.

I don’t know why more admins don’t look at the spam that gets modded and add the domain to their URL block list other than it being tedious work lol.

DL/Dwazou operates (operated?) like a spambot cranked up to 11 but at least they posted legit stuff. These are just slinging the same AI-plagiarized slop site from a bunch of different accounts.

I see your account is a similar age to my own, so you may remember the infotinkerviral spam slop that was going around a few years ago. Not sure if I spelled that right, but similar M.O. to that.

Probably most of them, at least in small “butterfly effect” ways. But mostly, I paid attention in class and remember how to think without having to have answers spoon fed to me. So many people I work with, of a variety of age groups, just seem to lack that skill.

You mentioned home economics, and I only had to take one semester as a required elective (yes, you read that right) and just kind of coasted through it. While I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I appreciate knowing how to use a sewing kit to make small repairs. I’ve patched several holes in my favorite “lounging around the house” robe and extended its life probably 3 times.