I was gonna say I thought I remembered seeing that when I used kagi. Is enabling it buried in a settings menu? I don’t recall

Tldr; pi-hole

Haha well that reveals that you just never read it then.

They said they already went through this once before. Also you assume that “it’s weird” is some kind of vicious attack but it’s not.

Yeah now that I look back there are more than like 3 people not mad/rude about it.

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Getting mad is kinda just what social media does

I would say it’s what the Internet does. Post a question on stack overflow and you’ll get the meanest responses each one telling you you’re stupider than the last. Same vibes in this thread.

I was just taking issue with the responses ignoring the context given, and rudely. If I say I can’t use something and why (and that why is other people’s opinions) it’s super unhelpful to angrily tell me why those other people are wrong. It’s irrelevant if they’re wrong or not. I think I could’ve overlooked whether it is relevant or not honestly, but comment after comment saying it, many of them with a shitty tone, is why I commented.

I’m working on a script that checks my files, dir structure, and audio metadata for issues. For basic problems that can be fixed with a command, the script outputs a suggested command in a csv. I’ve cleaned up many issues with the script so far…

Been thinking of sharing it but it’s still very much a WIP.

OP is relaying an opinion they got from multiple people and frankly an expected one. You got weirdly mad at them for it.

Firstly, sorry you’re having this problem and sorry the responses here have been nearly universally unhelpful and aggressive. This is a pretty perfect case study of what I don’t like about the fediverse. There’s a lot to like about this place but what drives me nuts is the unhinged and reality-divorced types who cannot understand something so simple as normal people thinking things are weird. Half the respondents here think you should scream at your coworkers about this and/or quit. You asked an incredibly reasonable and relatable question and mostly got shat on for it. Just wanted to say that someone sees how ridiculous it is, not everyone here is lost completely in their own (hateful) world. Sorry I don’t have a solution for you.

Primarily because it makes your setup easily repeated and able to be quickly stood up on new machine

Haha yeah that’s where my head went too

themselves immortal

lulz

It was a lot of different ways of claiming these are users that would “scare off normal people”. But I’ve seen several users comment that they were on the blocklist but barely ever comment or say anything controversial and I tend to believe them. Also a lot of the regexes were pretty random. Some are strict perfect matches while others randomly allow digits to follow the username, which was the case with mine.

Did you read his statement on this topic? He had a whole host of reasons and not all of the blocklist can be explained by them imo

Apparently the dev has an account and has taken notes on anyone that ever disagreed with them? I see I got banned from the tesseract community 8 months ago which I’d forgotten about honestly. Don’t think I ever participated there but was banned out of the blue for “advocating violence”. If memory serves I had made an implication about “Luigi” in an unrelated community. So it seems like the dude has lurked and made a list of “bad” people.

Part of me understands that reasoning, and then a part of me is like “how the hell are you going to maintain such a list?”

Seems like a fulltime job. I wonder if it’s possible he instructed AI to make a list based on some criteria and then he just re-runs that periodically.

lol "^TrickDacy([0-9]+)?$", implies “this guy has lots of alts with numbers!” which I don’t have any…

I’m way more curious as to how this dumb shit came about rather than mad I’m being censored from the platform for some people. It’s just bizarre. Like what did I do to get on the list? What did anyone do? I don’t actually buy this “he’s a fascist” thing just because I’ve not seen convincing evidence yet, and the person I asked about that yesterday didn’t respond. Might’ve missed something. I kinda think maybe the dude filtered by most comments and then made a snap judgement. I’ve done a lot of commenting here so I may have been on such a list… who tf knows…

edit: the way that file is formatted suggests it’s maintained by hand. What a weird fuckin thing to do…