We go through this every. single. time there’s a batch of new Lemmy signups:

FNG: It’s so empty here (compared to Reddit)! I know! I’ll make a bot/tool that re-posts/syncs Reddit posts. People will love it!

Everyone: Ugh. Again with this??

There’s literally already DEDICATED INSTANCES that do nothing but re-post from Reddit. Just follow one of those instead of adding more secondhand garbage.

Please don’t bring baggage from your ex into your new relationship.

Would be nice so I can set my automod to just look for the labels instead of having to nuke it all by hand.

It will automatically if the target site doesn’t block the request (Cloudflare, rate limits, etc). Per community rules and best practice, the original article URL must always be the post url; uploading a thumbnail will override that (currently).

Once LW updates past 0.19.6 or so, there should be a field for custom thumbnail where you can do so (in addition to the post URL). I don’t know how the rules apply to that (not yet relevant for LW), but I would hope people wouldn’t abuse that to post unrelated images. Prob something to bring up to the mod team once LW updates to a version that supports custom thumbnail images during post creation.

IMO, just drop the original link. If the thumbnail works, it works. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.

And what’s the problem with that?

Laws don’t currently make a concession for federated social media. If the law in an instance’s jurisdiction says that users on a platform must be of a certain age, then for practical/enforcement purposes it makes no difference if they’re local or federated.

FWIW, I also ban people under age 18 on my instance (local and federated). Obviously I can’t know everyone’s age, but if someone offers it and I become aware, and it’s below the minimum age set in our policy, then they’re banned until they’re of age - simple as that.

I’m in the US, so 13 is the minimum age by law for most services (COPPA), and there’s various grumblings to increase the age specifically for social media, so I’m playing it safe with 18 which is the age you’re legally considered an adult.

Considering some of the stuff that gets posted here (legitimately and via bad actors), then my legal liabilities are less as I’m going out of my way to only serve adults on the platform. Mind you, I’m running this as a hobby / volunteer and do not have a team of lawyers on hand.

I’ve always thought the firewall color codes were arbitrary, though I might just have not paid attention all these years lol.

Just to clarify: I meant connect your OpenWRT device to your hotspot instead of the AP you’ve been working with. Just to rule out multiple MACs being blocked on the AP.

Beyond that, I’m not really able to help troubleshoot further, but worst case and if all you need is internet, you can set your OpenWRT device up so that it just NATs your downstream connections. Double-NAT, in most cases, is fine.

Hmm. Is the upstream AP some kind of fancy deal or a run of the mill consumer router?

I’ve seen some Cisco APs configured to not allow multiple MAC addresses from the same station. Caused problems when trying to do VMs on my laptop that had the network in bridge mode.

Are you able to put your phone into hotspot, connect to that instead of the upstream AP, and see if it works?

I did that with a GL.iNet travel router after flashing stock OpenWRT, and used it as a wireless bridge for several years. It uses relayd to bridge the Wifi station interface and Ethernet. Once you have an ethernet bridge, you can connect another AP or do whatever from there.

If you create a second wifi interface in AP mode (in addition to the station/client one connected to the upstream), you should be able to add that to the LAN bridge alongside the ethernet interfaces. That bridge will then be part of the relayd bridge, and it all should just work (should, lol. I haven’t tested that config since I only needed to turn wifi into wired ethernet with this setup).

Interfaces:

LAN Bridge: Ethernet interfaces to be bridged to the wifi

I have both of its interfaces in this bridge, and it also has a static management IP (outside of the WLAN subnet). This management IP is a static out-of-band IP since the devices connected over ethernet won’t be able to access it’s WLAN IP (in the main LAN) to manage it. To access this IP, I just statically set an additional IP on one of the downstream ethernet client devices.

The LAN bridge is in a firewall zone called LAN.

WWAN: Wireless station interface that’s configured as a client to the AP providing upstream access. I have this configured statically, but DHCP is fine too. Firewall zone is WLAN.

WLANBRIDGE: The relayd bridge (Protocol: relay bridge). It’s interfaces are the LAN bridge and the WWAN interface.

Disregard the WGMesh parts; that’s separate and not related to the wireless bridging mode.

That’s literally state history for me, and we actually learned all about it in WV History class in 7th grade. That was decades ago, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it’s no longer taught.

The frustrating and mind boggling part is that the miners here today are now hard-right and voting in people who want to roll back conditions to what past miners fought so hard against. Like, WTF?

And we’ll pay workers in crypto!

Lol. Can we call it “scrip-to”?

We had those. They were called company towns, and you didn’t get paid in real money; you got paid in company scrip that only worked in the company store. Anyone who voluntarily gets on board with this clearly needs to read a history book; that part of our history isn’t even 100 years old yet.

Right? It’s refreshing to see a post here that’s about technology that works for us rather than yet another article about AI being shoved into more places that no one asked for or development progress updates on the Torment Nexus.

More posts like this, please.

Oh, nice! The Xiao seed, unlike the Heltec’s I have, comes with 8 MB of PSRAM which makes it suitable for acting as a store-and-forward node.

May have to pick up at least one of these since that’s one thing I’d like to add to the mesh I’m putting together.

There are so many things about Hackman I’m just now realizing. Had no idea he was that old (95), was suffering from Alzheimer’s, or that he hasn’t acted since 2004. He had such a huge presence that if you put me on the spot, I would have said he was in a movie 2-3 years ago. RIP to a legend.

Wonder if once she died he had uninhibited alzeimers brain.

That’s the sad subtext I got from reading it.

Have worked in civil service and dealt with the procurement process in the past. You are 100% correct.

As someone who lives in a red state that’s pretty heavily dependent upon tourism, I say bring it (or, rather, don’t bring it). Spend your vacation money somewhere that deserves it.

That’d be nice.

The frustrating thing is we’ve already learned this lesson. But b/c people don’t pay attention in school, we have to learn it the hard way all over again.

Honestly, a recession would be best case, wouldn’t it? Everything I read makes it seem like a depression is inevitable.