Some instances have their own political leanings that can affect content and moderation. The “Tankies” referred to in the previous post tend to be Russia/China supportive anti-capitalist posters. Not everyone on those instances leans that way (I don’t), but some instances don’t federate with those three, especially lemmygrad and hexbears, because of it. You can also individually block instances if you personally don’t want to see their stuff. On the whole, you probably don’t need to worry about it, but if it becomes annoying you have the option.

Sadly true, but if you’re already stuck with one of these TVs like me, you should know that you can get flawless knockoff remotes online in two packs super cheap.

This is nonsense, you don’t just need an “adapter” to convert a 3.5mm to USB-C. What you talking about is a DAC or external soundcard. Just because they can make them small doesn’t make it an adapter and since the laptop clearly already has a DAC and amplifier since it has working speakers, it is silly to make me buy another, especially since the majority of external tiny DACs sounds like crap and are underpowered.

Except none of the GOOD nice are bluetooth.

I used to work two jobs and the middle of the night was the only time I could shop and I still don’t want them to go back to that.

I don’t hate all bots, I hate this bot specifically because:

• they intentionally hide that they are a bot to evade our, and everyone else’s, methods of restricting which bots we allow and how much activity we allow.
• they do not respect the robots.txt
• the already mentioned lack of rate limiting

Bullshit. This bot doesn’t identify itself as a bot and doesn’t rate limit itself to anything that would be an appropriate amount. We were seeing more traffic from this thing that all other crawlers combined.

We’ve had this thing hammering our servers. The scraper uses randomized user-agents browser/OS combinations and comes from a number of distinct IP ranges in different datacenters around the world, but all the IPs track back to Bytedance.

I did that with buying “one-a-day” vitamins for seniors because they were a quarter the price of standard men’s vitamins. I checked the stats and ingredients, they were about identical and from the same brand.

My friend cross stitched a QR code as a tree ornament and gave it to me for Christmas. It worked, and it sent me to a ridiculous meme video. I admire his dedication to the joke.