That’s interesting. I’d be a little concerned that widespread use of that might create more legal issues for Archive.org that wouldn’t be problems if it never caught on much. On that basis, I’d probably not use it.

But I’d imagine ideological opposition to such a thing wouldn’t be enough to keep it from catching on either.

Step 1: Print a photo of your dad.

Step 2: Hold it up to the camera.

Step 3: Play Resident Evil 7.

I’ve got a smart TV on which the Wifi broke very shortly after I got it. I just use a Chromecast and it works nicely.

I know this is supposed to be humor, but if philosoraptor is trying to say AI is overhyped, I wholeheartedly agree.

Yeah. I’m definitely for some pretty seamless integration. Probably in the optimal case:

• The wikis would be hosted on the same domain as the Lemmy servers.
• Any account you had on the associated Lemmy server would automatically exist to the wiki as well.
• If you were logged into Lemmy, you’d also be logged into the wiki.
• Only mods would be able to enable wikis but the process of doing so would be trivially easy.
• I’d personally say that it makes the most sense to just have the mods link the associated wiki from the sidebar rather than creating new special interface features to add a link outside the sidebar or whatever. (Unless some kind of plugin infrastructure that would allow that already exists.)

But all that can be done without putting any wiki-specific code into the Lemmy or Lemmy-UI source repositories, which I think is preferable for the same reason you wouldn’t add flight simulator code to a spreadsheet application. (Ok, maybe a bad example, but you get my point.)

Edit: And I’ll admit there are both upsides and downsides to my approach here. One downside would be that some Lemmy instances would offer attached wikis and others wouldn’t. It’s possible it also just wouldn’t catch on at all and nobody would enable attached wikis as a feature if it was a whole separate step to setting up “Lemmy”.

Mostly I mean the wikis for really informational subreddits like /r/bodyweightfitness or /r/personalfinance. Those would usually be the best place to get information on whatever topic that wasn’t mostly sponsored propaganda. And it had uses that the threads didn’t fill because the wikis would take a comprehensive view of the subject matter whereas threads would be about one or another detail.

Who knows. Maybe I was the only one who felt like they got benefit from the wikis. Ha!

I don’t want to be constantly comparing Lemmy to Reddit, but on Reddit, the wikis were invaluable. As helpful as the threads were, the wikis frequently had amazingly useful info.

That said, I’m not sure I think adding wikis to Lemmy is the right way to go. “One thing well” and all that.

Maybe instead, some ancilliary wiki platform that can be run alongside Lemmy that lets a community mod easily set up a wiki that can be linked to in the sidebar?

Or we could go really simple and just link specific posts in the sidebar with useful information of the kind you’d otherwise put into a wiki.

Oh I’m with you. There used to be (though I haven’t been able to find any lately) Tor web gateways that would let you visit a tor site without having to run Tor or Tor Browser yourself. They don’t protect your identity when you use them the way using Tor Browser protects your identity, but they could be used. And some onion sites still come up as results when you search DDG for something like “Hidden Wiki site:onion.pet”. The result doesn’t link you to the .onion address, but to a .onion.pet address that takes you to the same page/site.

As far as Tor and speeds, I think Tor imposes very large latencies (that is, it takes a few seconds to get a download started), which is more what you’re experiencing when you notice sites “being slow” when browsing through Tor. But bandwidth isn’t affected all that much.

One caveat, though. When downloading through Tor, your request is being proxied through a chain of proxies. If any one of those is slow or purposefully limits speeds, that will limit your bandwidth. That’s a problem, maybe 30% of the time or so. But there are commands you can use to tell Tor to “please select a different route.” After doing that once or twice, you’ll generally get a decently fast “circuit.”

Just as a test, I downloaded the latest Arch Linux ISO (which is 853MB in size) from here both via Tor and directly. Direct took 7 minutes 36.324 seconds for an average speed of 1.869MB/s. Tor took 9 minutes 26.627 seconds for an average speed of 1.505MB/s. In short, a pretty moderate difference in speed.

And, yes, this is a highly unscientific, n=1 test, but I think it’s pretty well in line with what I’ve seen in the past.

I guess I must not mind whatever speed limits there are, because I use yt-dlp over Tor frequently.

I’m not sure what you mean by “you can’t index onion links in search engines”, though.

Closest thing I’ve found was /r/OpenDirectories on the site that shall not be named. Which is to say, no there’s not really any such thing as “Pirate Bay but for direct downloads.” At least not that I’ve found.

Pirate Bay but for direct downloads does seem like something that might be able to thrive on the dark web, though, doesn’t it? I wonder why something like that hasn’t become a thing and gotten big.

I suppose some site that just acts like a searchable directory of links to IPFS could be used in combination with IPFS web adapter sites. But I haven’t found anything like that.

You sound like someone who has never had their ISP send them a warning letter.

You sound like someone who has never had their ISP send them a warning letter.

Did someone say pirate music sharing thread?

I Am A Pirate - Whitey Cracker

Warez Loader - Whitey Cracker

And everyone knows this one, right?

Don’t Download This Song - Weird Al

As one of the folks who came from Reddit when everyone else did, sorry. :(

It makes sense that any mass exedous from some other community will greatly change the destination community, and much of value will be lost in the process.

So, is there anything I can do to help preserve and embody what I’ve helped destroy? I’ll definitely keep in mind what you’ve said here about “toxicity, entitlement, and stupid challenges,” and I’ll learn more about federation and keep an open mind. Any other advice how we former Redditors can help keep what made Lemmy great before hordes of Redditors flooded it?

Any advice how we can help even enrich the Lemmy community and make it better than we first found it?

I don’t want to go back to Reddit. And I don’t want to be a pariah or paracite here. And I accept that those who were on Lemmy have wisdom to share that newcomers can benefit from.

One option might be to run certain of your apps in Docker. There are ways to go about running even graphical apps in Docker. And with Docker, you can tell it to mount /home/<username>/.config/someapp on the host to /home/<username>/.someapp in the container.

So, if you remove those files you’re considering removing, will you have completely ship-of-thesiused everything in 2xx04’s repo from your repo?

Either way, just my $0.02, maybe it makes sense to just start a whole new repo. If you do need something from 2xx04’s repo (like his fork of Bootstrap, maybe?), I’d say copy it into your repo and make sure the README.md links to 2xx04’s repo and describes specifically what you copied and what’s 2xx04’s.

There ar enough legal gray areas still that it would take a lot of work to even figure out what “all digital piracy” even means. For instance, I don’t think it’s been tested in court yet whether the copying into RAM that your OS does when you run a program runs afoul of copyright.

Though, corporations routinely violate the terms of the GPL by distributing binaries without providing any way to get the source code. I’d say that qualifies as “digital piracy.” So I suppose if the government did try to stop all digital piracy, it wouldn’t be all bad.

If you login in a browser, it’ll most likely give you a “session cookie” that you should be able to see in the developer tools. (If you’re using Firefox’s developer tools, it’d be under the “storage” section.) The name of the cookie will generally have the word “session” in the name. After logging in, that cookie identifies you to the server, letting the server know that “this particular request is from CucumberSalad” (or whatever your user is named on that service.) Wget probably hasn’t been working because the requests from wget don’t include that cookie like the requests from your browser do.

(Just looking at my developer tools while using Lemmy, it seems like the Lemmy web ui doesn’t use session cookies but rather a JSON web token in a cookie named “jwt”, but I think that cookie would suffice if I was trying to scrape the Lemmy web ui.)

Once you have the proper cookie name and value, you can have wget send the cookie to the server with each request by adding the flag --header 'Cookie: <cookie name>=<cookie value>' (but replace the values in angle brackets. Example: --header 'Cookie: JSESSIONID=ksdjflasjdfaskdjfaosidhwe'.)

Also, if you can provide more info as to what you’re trying to scrape, folks can probably help more. Hopefully what I’ve given you is enough to get you going, but it’s possible there might be more hurtles to jump to get it working.