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L.A. Public Library to Publish Books in c/libraries@literature.cafe

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

After reading the article it’s not as great as I was hoping for. From the article:

“We’re obviously going to be interested in having the books sell as successfully as possible, but we’re not going to harm the fundamental mission of the library to provide free and easy access to the content on our shelves. We’re not going to sacrifice that mission. Just because we’re operating Angel City Press, we’re not going to buy 500 copies of every title and put them in every branch library. That’s not prudent. That’s not what a good library would do.”

So it’s still a profit-driven press. This is a conflict of interest but the library seems confident they can negoiate that fairly.

I was hoping the press would become non-profit and then be used to print and distribute creative commons licensed content. I have a friend (who shall remain unnamed but who is well known) who would like to release their work into the commons and give up all rights apart from attribution. In principle a library-owned press would seem ideal. But I guess this is not the right tool for the job. It also seems the books this press will print are LA-specific anyway.

Plz, for me, send more faxes. Do it for privacy. in c/right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You really underestimate how outdated this technology is.

What makes something outdated? No matter how old the wheel is, we don’t say the wheel is outdated. To become outdated requires having an option that is superiour in every way, or for every use case. Email in the ’90s probably came close (if not wholly) better than fax in every way, but at that time fax was more accessible than email and PGP did not catch on. Then email in the 2000s took a serious regression… nearly useless to privacy and digital rights proponents, thanks to Google, Microsoft, and Spamhaus. Email has become more accessible to people who don’t give a shit about privacy, decentralisation and digital rights, but it has become less viable to those who do.

Plz, for me, send more faxes. Do it for privacy. in c/right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

New People starting at a workplace today maybe have heard of those but the knowledge how to use/maintain/fix them is fading rapidly.

If someone struggles with the knowledge of fax maintenance, which is just a printer with a phone line, they are probably not sufficiently competent for other aspects of the office job that would task them with it. I’m not going to give up fax so that people can be less competent at their jobs.

Besides that its a massive waste of trees.

Receiving a fax does not imply using tree-based paper. In fact, does not imply using paper of any kind. A fax arrives in a digital format (TIFF Class F). Whether a recipient chooses to print it is a matter of the recipient’s preference, which the sender does not control. If they opt to print it, that paper is recyclable.

It is not wasteful to make a useful purpose of something, particularly when paper is a quite useful form of carbon storage. If you are concerned with wasting trees, you would be better focused on the tree services who dispose of cut down trees into landfills. Several trees were threatening the foundation of a house I lived in. The tree service removed them. They offer the wood to any takers but no one was interested in it. And that was at the time lumber costs quadrupled. So they brought the trees to the landfill. Converting those trees into paper would have /avoided/ the waste. The trees they dumped into the landfill may not have been buried deeply. So if they end up in a shallow grave, the tree rots and emits methane gas that escapes into the atmosphere, which is 25 times more harmful than CO₂.

If you want to focus action on deforestation, targeting the paper industry (or any industry that puts the stored carbon to good use) is misfocused. Boycott Pepsi (#PalmOil) and the beef industry. Stop eating beef. This makes a more effective stride against deforestation.

We need a better system then Email,

You’re not going to incentivize departure from email by attacking fax. That’s a recipe for forcing people to cling to email even more.

What you can probably always do is to deliver a physical letter without return address.

I do use the postal service when fax is not an option. It costs me money and has a higher CO₂ footprint. But I am trapped. The more offices that pull the plug on fax, the more snail mail I am forced to send because I have cancelled email. Because email¹ has cancelled me.

¹ Gmail, Outlook, SpamHaus et al

Why the ~~fedi~~ threadiverse has a disproportionate imbalance of centralized mega-nodes: → software deficiency in c/fediverse@discuss.online

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mobile apps for this sort of thing is quite alien to me -- out of sight and out of mind because I cannot imagine using a small screen and tiny keyboard for forums when I am all day sitting at a PC with proper keyboard. Although speech to text probably makes small device input a little more tolerable.

The small nodes are not dead, so I wonder if the activity and accounts on the disproportionately small nodes can be attributed largely to mobile app users.

Little things you can do to save the environment in c/climatememes@lemmy.world

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

thanks!

Little things you can do to save the environment in c/climatememes@lemmy.world

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I cannot see the image because it’s posted in the walled garden of #Cloudflare, which excludes me. Would someone please repost the image on an open-access instance or website so everyone can view it?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Just a tip, if you want to report this one in place that has a chance at being seen or forwarded into github, gaupol happens to be in the official Debian repos. So there is a debian bug tracker db which takes submissions via email, and there is also an Ubuntu bug db for it on Launchpad.

Take that with a grain of salt though, especially if you don’t test it on debian or ubuntu before submission. Some Debian maintainers are willing to mirror the report upstream but most will ask you to do that (which you can refuse). Technically, the Debian rules favor upstream reports to be made to debian, but many maintainers ignore that guidance. Ubuntu maintainers tend to be less active. They won’t complain about upstream bug reports but at the same time the reports there tend to just sit idle AFAICT.

wanted: e-mail provider that supplies onion email addresses and allows users to use them on clearnet in c/privacy@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gmail doesn’t care what the FROM field address is. It can be entirely unrelated to the sending server and can be complete gibberish nonsense. MS did not care either back when MS did not consider dynamic IPs blacklisted. Now that MS wholly rejects dynamic IPs I’m not interested in retesting that anyway.

The forced use of e-receipts in Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, England, & Italy) in c/privacy@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even from a narrow purely infosec-privacy PoV, how can people be so clueless this day in age with the fully enshitified web?

It’s not going to be a simple text email with your receipt attached. The email will be HTML with a tracker pixel (text MIME part broken or generally non-existent), so the seller can log the fact that you read the receipt, when, and with what IP address. Then when you get the email open, it won’t even contain the receipt because it will be used as an opportunity to get you on their website where they can get more sales. It will say “come to our website and pick up your receipt”. When you try to visit the site with the unique URL they send, Tor will be blocked (under the guise of “security” but in reality they want your browser print and IP again in case you used a text-only MUA). This will give them what makes it trivial to link your online identity to your offline purchase (cha-ching.. mo money). Then a Google Plastore-only non-FOSS app will be shoved in your face as a more convenient way to fetch your receipts in the future. You will have to solve a CAPTCHA to reach your receipt, which generates more profit for them while steering people toward a shitty app.

It will be like London Heathrow or JFK airport, where you cannot simply walk to your gate without being long-hauled through a series of marketing opportunities.

And before you irrationally call this “paranoia” as well, I will preempt that by saying no, it’s capitalism. Which brings us the enshitified web.

The forced use of e-receipts in Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, England, & Italy) in c/privacy@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

NFC would encourage phone upgrading which is worse for the environment than the problem they think they are solving. Paper is biodegradable. Phones are not.

Android 2.3+¹ supports bluetooth file transfers. This would avoid both the problem of using cloud energy and privacy problem (but only for smartphone owners who carry their smartphones). The article mentioned PDF being rejected. PNG could work, though it’d be a missed opportunity to get a digitally signed receipt. In any case, the paper receipt cannot be wholly replaced if it requires consumers to have a phone and to carry it, or if it requires sharing email addresses.

¹ maybe even AOS 1.8.. didn’t check

The forced use of e-receipts in Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, England, & Italy) in c/privacy@sopuli.xyz

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Privacy is about control.

You don’t understand privacy given your conflation with paranoia and oversight of my mention of a boycott. Privacy is not just about non-disclosure of sensitive information. It’s much more than infosec.

When you mislabel privacy as “paranoia”, you become part of the problem of advocating disempowerment of people in favor of control misappropriation.

If you don’t want to receive emails from servers belonging to Microsoft, Google, or Amazon, you better delete your mail account and ask them to mail you the receipt.

This absurd attempt at a false dichotomy showcases contempt for individuals having power to boycott selectively. What you suggest is wholly disempowering to people -- to claim this all or nothing narrative.. that people should either not have email access at all, or they should have zero control over who they connect with over email. Your stance represents a boot-licking wet dream for corporations and governments. It has no place in any privacy community.

wanted: e-mail provider that supplies onion email addresses and allows users to use them on clearnet in c/privacy@links.hackliberty.org

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m fine with all that. I’ve mostly abandoned #email anyway because I do not accept the terms Google has imposed on the world. I send most messages by postal mail when recipients have only exclusive and restrictive receiving options.

The inability of the recipient to reply to an onion address using their normal service is actually part of the idea. I would not want a gmail user to be able to use gmail to reply, for example. While Google drags people into their walled garden, I’m happy to exert pressure in the opposite direction.

(edit)
If I were to send a msg to gmail user in a way that they could simply reply from Google, then I become part of the problem by reinforcing the use of Gmail and helping Google get fed. That’s not going to happen. It’s a non-starter.

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(Lemmy) no UI support for DMing arbitrary users (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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I needed to DM a security bug to @LemmyDev@mastodon.social, but the Lemmy UI gives no way to freely compose a DM and manually enter an address. Users are expected to find a hyperlinked user click on it, and then click “send message”. The search functionality failed to find anything when I queried @LemmyDev@mastodon.social.

But the capability is there for advanced users who discover that they can click on the user of an external account and then mimic the URL format to manually enter an account.

#lemmyBug

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update <Lemmy> security issue: spontaneous access given to admin’s account (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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I think I was refreshing my profile or notifications page (forget which). As it was loading for ~1—2 seconds my screen color theme changed and in the top right corner I saw someone else’s userID, then it quickly reverted back to my theme and userID.

As fast as it happened I only took mental note of the first half of the other userID, which happened to match that of the admin. I described the colors I saw in that 1—2 second timeframe to the admin who confirmed it was indeed the color theme they configured for their environment (which differs from the default).

I clearly had the admin’s session for a second or two. It was so quick that a malicious user probably could not do anything malicious. But of course just as I have no idea how I apparently got the admin’s cookie for a second or two, I have no idea how I got back my cookie. Maybe if I had quickly hit ESC mid-loading the access breach could have been sustained.

#lemmyBug

As usual, this bug report is posted here because the official bug tracker is jailed in MS Github. I should add that Microsoft supports those responsible for the death of Hind Rajab by financing AnyVision, which is good cause to boycott Microsoft.

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Which US states respect voter’s privacy? (I’m a non-voter in a privacy-hostile state) (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@links.hackliberty.org

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/9861733

I would cast my drop-in-the-ocean vote if it didn’t require needlessly reckless disclosures. The question is- which states offer more privacy than others? These are some of the issues:

publication of residential address

It’s obviously fair enough that you must disclose your residential address to the election authority so you get the correct ballot. But then the address is public. WTF? I’m baffled that the voter turnout isn’t lower.

Exceptionally, Alaska enables voters to also supply a mailing address along with their residential address. In those cases, the residential address is not made public. But still an injustice as PO Boxes are not gratis so privacy has a needless cost.

Some states give the mailing address option exclusively to battered spouses. So if you are a victim of domestic abuse, you can go through a process by which you receive an address for the public voting records that differs from your residential address. Only victims of domestic abuse get privacy that should be given to everyone.

publication of political party affiliation

You are blocked from voting in primary elections unless you register a party affiliation, in which case you can only vote in the primary election of that party. A green party voter cannot vote in the democrat primary despite the parties being similar. The party you register in is public. So e.g. your neighbors, your boss, and your prospective future boss can snoop into your political leanings.

AFAIK, this is the same for all states.

publication of your voting activity (which is used for shaming)

Whether you voted or not is public. If you register to vote but do not vote, it’s noticed. There is a shaming tactic whereby postcards are sent saying “your neighbors the Johnsons at 123 Main St. voted early -- will you do your civic duty too? Note that the McKinneys at 125 Main St. have not voted; perhaps you can remind them?” They of course do this in an automated way, so non-voters know their neighbors are receiving postcards that say they did not partake in their civic duty.

forced disclosure to Cloudflare

These states force all voter registrations through Cloudflare:

Arizona

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

New York

Ohio

Rhode Island

Washington

That’s not just public info, but everything you submit with your registration including sensitive info like DL# and/or SSN goes to Cloudflare Inc. Cloudflare is not only a privacy offender but they also operate a walled garden that excludes some demographics of people from access. Voters can always register on paper, but whoever the state hires to do the data entry will likely use the Cloudflare website anyway. So the only way to escape Cloudflare getting your sensitive info in the above-mentioned states is to not vote.

To add to the embarrassment, the “US Election Assistance Commission” (#USEAC) has jailed their website in Cloudflare’s walled garden. Access is exclusive and yet they proudly advertise: “Advancing Safe, Secure, Accessible Elections”.

solutions

What can a self-respecting privacy seeker do? When I read @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s mention¹ of casting a “spoiled” vote which gets counted, I thought I’ll do that.. but then realized I probably can’t even get my hands on a ballot if I am not registered to vote. So I guess the penis drawing spoiled vote option only makes a statement about the ballot options. It’s useless for those who want to register their protest against the voter registration disclosures.

Are there any states besides Alaska that at least give voters a way to keep their residential address out of publicly accessible records?

it was mentioned in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8502419

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Which US states respect voter’s privacy? (I’m a non-voter in a privacy-hostile state) (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/notvoting

14 comments fedilink

I would cast my drop-in-the-ocean vote if it didn’t require needlessly reckless disclosures. The question is- which states offer more privacy than others? These are some of the issues:

publication of residential address

It’s obviously fair enough that you must disclose your residential address to the election authority so you get the correct ballot. But then the address is public. WTF? I’m baffled that the voter turnout isn’t lower.

Exceptionally, Alaska enables voters to also supply a mailing address along with their residential address. In those cases, the residential address is not made public. But still an injustice as PO Boxes are not gratis so privacy has a needless cost.

Some states give the mailing address option exclusively to battered spouses. So if you are a victim of domestic abuse, you can go through a process by which you receive an address for the public voting records that differs from your residential address. Only victims of domestic abuse get privacy that should be given to everyone.

publication of political party affiliation

You are blocked from voting in primary elections unless you register a party affiliation, in which case you can only vote in the primary election of that party. A green party voter cannot vote in the democrat primary despite the parties being similar. The party you register in is public. So e.g. your neighbors, your boss, and your prospective future boss can snoop into your political leanings.

AFAIK, this is the same for all states.

publication of your voting activity (which is used for shaming)

Whether you voted or not is public. If you register to vote but do not vote, it’s noticed. There is a shaming tactic whereby postcards are sent saying “your neighbors the Johnsons at 123 Main St. voted early -- will you do your civic duty too? Note that the McKinneys at 125 Main St. have not voted; perhaps you can remind them?” They of course do this in an automated way, so non-voters know their neighbors are receiving postcards that say they did not partake in their civic duty.

forced disclosure to Cloudflare

These states force all voter registrations through Cloudflare:

Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
New York
Ohio
Rhode Island
Washington

That’s not just public info, but everything you submit with your registration including sensitive info like DL# and/or SSN goes to Cloudflare Inc. Cloudflare is not only a privacy offender but they also operate a walled garden that excludes some demographics of people from access. Voters can always register on paper, but whoever the state hires to do the data entry will likely use the Cloudflare website anyway. So the only way to escape Cloudflare getting your sensitive info in the above-mentioned states is to not register to vote.

To add to the embarrassment, the “US Election Assistance Commission” (#USEAC) has jailed their website in Cloudflare’s walled garden. Access is exclusive and yet they proudly advertise: “Advancing Safe, Secure, Accessible Elections”.

solutions

What can a self-respecting privacy seeker do? When I read @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s mention¹ of casting a “spoiled” vote which gets counted, I thought I’ll do that.. but then realized I probably can’t even get my hands on a ballot if I am not registered to vote. So I guess the penis drawing spoiled vote option only makes a statement about the ballot options. It’s useless for those who want to register their protest against the voter registration disclosures.

Are there any states besides Alaska that at least give voters a way to keep their residential address out of publicly accessible records?

it was mentioned in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8502419

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When someone speaks anonymously on the radio and criticize their gov ([cough]Russia[cough]Israel[cough]), do their voice prints give them away? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@links.hackliberty.org

2 comments fedilink

In the US banks are capturing the voices of their customers who contact their call centers for any reason. So if a USian vocally says something controversial they probably have no hope of anonymity if they called their bank in recent years.

Is the same thing not happening in Russia and Israel? An IDF soldier came on broadcast radio and criticized Israel, and a Russian citizen criticized Putin. Shouldn’t they be concerned about doxxing risks?

It would be reckless if the radio station did not disguise their voices, but I don’t get the impression their voices are being disguised. So I just wonder if voice disguising tech is so good at making the voice sound natural that it’s not detectable.

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No whistle-blowing, according to EDPB internal doc: If you discover a GDPR violation but your own personal GDPR rights were not infringed, an Art.77 complaint is inadmissible (edpb.europa.eu)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/gdpr@sopuli.xyz

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This is interesting but quite unfortunate. As individuals we often spot #GDPR infringements in situations where we are not a victim. The GDPR does not empower us to act with any slight expectation of getting results. There is no reporting mechanism and no remedial correction if the complainant’s own personal data was not mishandled. No Article 77 possibility.

Paragraph 2 page 3:

The GDPR does not explicitly define what constitutes a complaint but Article 77 gives a first understanding providing that “every data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint (…) if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes this Regulation”.

Page 4 examples of non-complaints:

a suggestion made by a natural person that he or she thinks that a particular company is not compliant with the GDPR as long as he or she is not among the data subjects.

There is a hack but it’s purely the DPA’s discretion whether to act. From page 5:

The supervisory authority may act upon its own motion (ex officio), e.g., after being “informed otherwise of situations that entail possible infringements” 6 (e.g. by the press, another administration, a court, or another private company, a hint by a natural person which is however not a complaint within the meaning of Article 77).

So a natural person can tattle (tip off) the DPA but the DPA can simply ignore it. If the DPA feels like it, they can act on it as their own initiative (not under Art.77), which means the whistle blower can (and likely will) be kept out of the loop and in the dark. So such reports might as well be sent anonymously. And if it’s not a big interesting case (e.g. involving a tech giant), it’s probably unlikely a DPA will act.

Why this is a problem

I often want to engage with a data controller but their procedures demand irrelevant info in violation of data minimisation. In principle I should be able to use a corrective process to make the data controller compliant before I engage them. There is no useful mechanism unless a prospective data subject partakes in subjecting themself to a breach (self harm) before filing an Art.77 complaint.

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Anonymous Overflow should use itself when Stackexchange et al links appear within a SE page (dog food problem, of sorts) (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

0 comments fedilink

I’m very grateful that #AnonymousOverflow exists and was already in place to give us refuge when #Stackexchange et al returned to #Cloudflare’s jail. I use this search service because it automatically integrates (SE→AO) replacement:

https://search.fabiomanganiello.com/search

A search led to this thread:

https://overflow.manganiello.tech/exchange/tex/questions/225027/how-to-create-new-font-which-is-thicker-version-of-computer-modern

The three links in the itemized links all point to Stackexchange, which puts the exclusion problem back in our face -- for those who are blocked from Cloudflare. Anonymous Overflow (AO) should eat its own #dogFood. Like the fabiomanganiello search service, AO should replace SE links with AO links within SE pages.

Yes, it may be a bit tricky because AO has a number of instances which go up and down. The onion ones are quite flaky. In principle, SE links should be replaced with the same instance the article is viewed on.

This #bug is posted here because the bug tracker is exclusively on MS #Github:

https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow

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Lemmy search terminates prematurely when local hits are found -- thus breaking content import capability (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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Normally it’s possible to import comments into the Sopuli timeline by querying on URLs of external comments that are not yet local. Thereafter, it’s possible to interact with imported msgs.

But when I linked to an external comment (https://jlai.lu/comment/5309447) in this thread, and then later queried the URL of the comment, the search stops upon finding my own local mention of that comment. If the search feature is going to stop upon finding local results, then there needs to be a “go deeper” button, or an “import” button to give a means to import a comment.

As a consequence of this bug, I cannot reply to https://jlai.lu/comment/5309447 from Sopuli.

Also notable is if the search category is narrowed from “ALL” to “URL”, nothing results.

#LemmyBug

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Lemmy comments on jlai.lu in response to a post do not reach sopuli.xyz (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/meta@sopuli.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/9076220

I posted this thread on jlai.lu. I got no replies as far as I could see from sopuli -- no notifications, and when I enter that thread there are still zero replies. But when I visit the thread on the hosting instance, I see a reply. This behavior is the same as if I were blocking that community -- but I am not.

When I search in sopuli for the direct link to the comment, the search finds it. And then I was able to forcibly interact with the comment.

I have to wonder how often someone replies to me and I have no idea because the response is hidden from me. This is a serious bug. Wholly unacceptable for a platform designed specifically for communication.

update 1 (another occurrence)

Here’s another thread with the same issue. Zero replies when I visit that thread mirror within sopuli, but 3 replies when visiting direct. I was disappointed that high-effort post got no replies. Now 2 months later I see there actually were replies. I will search those comment URLs perhaps in a couple days to interact. But I’ll hold off in case someone wants to investigate (because I think the act of searching those URLs results in copying the comments which could interfere with the investigation).

update 2 (subscription relevancy)

I was asked if I am subscribed to the community. Good question! The answer is no, so there’s a clue. Perhaps mentions do not trigger notifications if no one on the instance of the mentioned account is subscribed to the community. This could be the root cause of the bug.

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Lemmy comments on jlai.lu in response to a post do not reach sopuli.xyz (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

0 comments fedilink

I posted this thread on jlai.lu. I got no replies as far as I could see from sopuli -- no notifications, and when I enter that thread there are still zero replies. But when I visit the thread on the hosting instance, I see a reply. This behavior is the same as if I were blocking that community -- but I am not.

When I search in sopuli for the direct link to the comment, the search finds it. And then I was able to forcibly interact with the comment.

I have to wonder how often someone replies to me and I have no idea because the response is hidden from me. This is a serious bug. Wholly unacceptable for a platform designed specifically for communication.

update 1 (another occurrence)

Here’s another thread with the same issue. Zero replies when I visit that thread mirror within sopuli, but 3 replies when visiting direct. I was disappointed that high-effort post got no replies. Now 2 months later I see there actually were replies. I will search those comment URLs perhaps in a couple days to interact. But I’ll hold off in case someone wants to investigate (because I think the act of searching those URLs results in copying the comments which could interfere with the investigation).

update 2 (subscription relevancy)

I was asked if I am subscribed to the community. Good question! The answer is no, so there’s a clue. Perhaps mentions do not trigger notifications if no one on the instance of the mentioned account is subscribed to the community. This could be the root cause of the bug.

#LemmyBug

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mastodon-archive throws exceptions on eattherich.club (but not other instances) (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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Kensanata’s mastodon-archive tool was originally working as expected to archive posts from eattherich.club. Then out of the blue one day it started printing this:

Loading existing archive: eattherich.club.user.bob.json
Get user info
Get new statusesTraceback (most recent call last):
00] STDIN                                           File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mastodon-archive/mastodon-archive.py", line 5, in <module>
▏
Seen 10 duplicates, stopping now.
Use --no-stopping to prevent this.
Added a total of 25 new items
Get new favourites    mastodon_archive.main()
                                               File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mastodon-archive/mastodon_archive/__init__.py", line 333, in main
             args.command(args)
                                 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mastodon-archive/mastodon_archive/archive.py", line 148, in archive
▏
Seen 10 duplicates, stopping now.
Use --no-stopping to prevent this.
Added a total of 7 new items
Get bookmarks (this may take a while)    bookmarks = mastodon.bookmarks()
                                                                           File "<decorator-gen-59>", line 2, in bookmarks
                                                                                                                            File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mastodon/Mastodon.py", line 96, in wrapper
                                                                   raise MastodonVersionError("Version check failed (Need version " + version + ")")
        mastodon.Mastodon.MastodonVersionError: Version check failed (Need version 3.1.0)

The count of new items never resets to zero. It should go back to zero after every fetch, so this implies fetching no longer occurs (or at least it no longer finishes). The current version of eattherich.club is Mastdoon v4.2.5. Not sure if a version upgrade would be related. Other Mastodon instances do not have this issue.

The bug tracker is on MS Github, thus out of reach for me:

https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-archive/issues

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[solved] TIFF → DjVu conversion produces bigger file from bilevel doc than color (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/paperless@sopuli.xyz

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I would like to get to the bottom of what I am doing wrong that leads to black and white documents having a bigger filesize than color.

My process for a color TIFF is like this:

① tiff2pdf ② ocrmypdf ③ pdf2djvu

Resulting color DjVu file is ~56k. When pdfimages -all runs on the intermediate PDF file, it shows CCITT (fax) is inside.

My process for a black and white TIFF is the same:

① tiff2pdf ② ocrmypdf ③ pdf2djvu

Resulting black and white DjVu file is ~145k (almost 3× the color size). When pdfimages -all runs on the intermediate PDF file, it shows a PNG file is inside. If I replace step ① with ImageMagick’s convert, the first PDF is 10mb, but in the end the resulting djvu file is still ~145k. And PNG is still inside the intermediate PDF.

I can get the bitonal (bilevel) image smaller by using cjb2 -clean, which goes straight from TIFF to DjVu, but then I can’t OCR it due to the lack of PDF intermediate version. And the size is still bigger than the color doc (~68k).

update

I think I found the problem, which would not be evident from what I posted. I was passing the --force-ocr option to ocrmypdf. I did that just to push through errors like “this doc is already OCRd”. But that option does much more than you would expect: it transcodes the doc. Looks like my fix is to pass --redo-ocr instead. It’s not yet obvious to me why --force-ocr impacted bilevel images more.

#askFedi