So does that mean jlai.lu is blocked by lecho.be? I figured it was more likely that lecho.be was blocking Tor, thus blocking my connection.

Indeed. And it’s a needlessly destructive form of sanitization. That is, sanitizing properly normally means replacing the special characters with an encoding to ensure literals render.

I think this is a regression. IIRC, there was a time when a removal only removed it from the timeline. You could still reach it via the modlog. IIRC. But those days are gone. It’s a shame because it’s important for the community to be able to evaluate the mod’s decision making.

I’ve even seen cases where an over-zealous mod gets embarrassed by the mod log and purges the mod log itself to remove traces of the censorship itself. I suppose that’s only possible if the mod is also an admin.

Claming that car owners have less intelligence strikes me as a bit elitist,

I suppose the Douglas Adams joke & anecdotes might be the culprit there but the intelligence paragraph was motivated by research by others & not really meant to be supported by my experience. IQ tests have some unavoidable subjectivity but hopefully modern standardized tests have gotten past the elitist history of IQ tests in the 70s. Readers of course should chase up the citations and see for themselves if the research is solid if there’s any doubt & sufficient motivation.

they are for the most part victims of a misinformation campaign of colossal scale.

Indeed it’s tricky to separate misinfo from true info. OTOH cycling has benefits even if climate denial were to nix the climate factor although it’d be less clear-cut.

Frequency is actually an issue that can make public transit basically unusable if it’s low enough.

True. It would perhaps be more sensible to dispatch smaller lighter vehicles in preference to frequency dropping below <15min. The double-decker buses and bus-trains (double length with that accordian connector) could be replaced with normal sized buses with more seats for handicapped and more flip-up seats for strollers & bicycles.

I recall some parts of Los Angeles where a bus comes once hourly. It was reasonably full but that infrequency probably kept people in cars. I think I only used it when my timing was just right. I’ve gotten quite spoiled where I am now. My blood would start to boil if I have to wait more than ~7 min.

And if ridership gets low enough the bus route will be canceled or relocated which can be a death sentence for disabled people who relied on that bus stop to get around.

Low ridership of non-handicapped people enables routes and schedules to better cater for those who really need the network. Disabled people have fewer masses of people to compete with and can be prioritized. Bus stops could be put closer to their homes with less impact to others.

Great find! Glad to see there are some onion hosts as well.

Any idea how to adapt the monero.stackexchange link in the sidebar? The code.whatever.social page cannot handle that link apparently because it does not lead to a specific thread.

There are bug reports and then there is user support. There’s some confusion because I filed a bug report in a user support community (because there is no bug reporting community).

Indeed the user support solution is to either request that the admin to change the slur filter config, or change instances. But the purpose of the thread was to report a bug in an in-band way (without interacting with a Microsoft asset [#deleteGithub]).

I can see your point in many situations but when I say I am the one b*tching (myself… in the 1st person), in this context I am not saying I am acting badly myself. So the “women are bad” narrative doesn’t follow. In this case the word merely serves as a more expressive complaint.

If someone were to talk about someone else b*tching, it might well be what you’re saying, as they are complaining about someone else complaining & maybe they oppose that other person complaining or their aggressive style thereof.

GDPR gives people a fair amount of protection and it is enforced.

Not in my experience. I have filed complaints of ~20+ GDPR violations under article 77 going years back. Not a single one of them enforced to date. These cases just sit idle for years. The problem is the GDPR gives no recourse when DPAs fail to honor article 77 obligations. It’s toothless.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

That shows a low count of cherry-picked enforcement actions. If you had a way to get a count of unenforced reports it would likely be an embarrassing comparison.

You should simply pickup a few dictionaries and recognize there are multiple meanings, rather than cherry picking whatever definition plays into whatever narrative you’re fixated on. Have a look at mainstream definitions that most people are commonly working with.

One dictionary defines it as “the feeling of hating that a man has for women”. Another dictionary: “hatred of women”. Another: “Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women”. Did alternate definitions not survive your whatever cleansing you’ve undergone? Is there a specific book that caused you to deviate from common definitions?

I would avoid trying to pin down absolutes. If you’re looking for absolutes you won’t get that from me.

However generally when a woman uses the word it’s not a reflection of a derogatory attitude toward women but rather just one or a few they are referring to in particular. Of course self hate & hating one’s own people w/same attributes is certainly possible, which is why you’re not getting any absolutes here.

Do you know what I should look for? Is it the version number? I recall Lemmy was forked to Lenny, but not sure how to recognize Lenny instances.

(btw, fwiw, I wouldn’t use sh.itjust.works because that’s even more nannied [by Cloudflare]).

Indeed people with malicious intentions will get around the filter anyway. It’s the non-malicious authors who get burnt by this filter.

but it is still considered misogynistic

Men and women both use that word and when a woman uses it, it’s not misogyny because it’s directed at a specific woman (not a demonstration of hatred of women generally). It usage has murky origins but it can’t be assumed that the author is even conscious of that. The bot is making a blunt blanket decision that it can’t, and it assumes the worst of people.

The other two bugs I mention are bugs regardless of how justified or true the positive detection is.

i’m not the best person to ask since I’m not maintaining and domains myself right now. I thought porkbun.com looked like a good choice at one point. They announced that they were going to move to cloudflare (just for the management portal), which was quite off-putting nonetheless, but it looks like they did not follow through with that.

EDIT-- I recently heard they are using CF for DNS and some people are avoiding #Porkbun for that reason.

Some sites use CF DNS just to have the ability to spontaneously switch on the proxy at will. They tend to keep the proxy turned off but then when traffic peaks a bandwidth detection mechanism switches on CF proxying. The problem with that is users don’t know from one click to the next whether their traffic will be intercepted. It can happen at any moment. So the deCloudflare project treats CF DNS cases no different than always-proxying sites.

So if you have no intention of using CF’s proxy, using a non-CF service would make more sense so your domains don’t get treated as CF. CF is not a good company to support anyway.

A list of Cloudflare-compromised domains is being tracked here. You can also use this query tool to lookup websites:

• onion
• clearnet

There is a browser plugin called BMCA which will detect when you click on a link to a Cloudflare service and redirect you to the archive.org mirror of that site so you don’t connect to CF. There’s another plugin that puts a strikethrough on CF URLs so you know before you click if something is CF’d. Those tools along with others are published here:

http://wmj5kiic7b6kjplpbvwadnht2nh2qnkbnqtcv3dyvpqtz7ssbssftxid.onion/dCF/deCloudflare/-/tree/master/tool?ref_type=heads

Search engines have become extremely polluted with Cloudflare sites in the results. There is a search service called Ombrelo that filters out CF sites from the results:

http://ombrelo.im5wixghmfmt7gf7wb4xrgdm6byx2gj26zn47da6nwo7xvybgxnqryid.onion/

W.r.t. a list of CF’s dangers, I don’t know of a paper that covers that as a thesis. A lot of the problems with Cloudflare are documented here and in other documents in that same repo.

This page covers a lot of Cloudflare issues:

https://git.kescher.at/dCF/deCloudflare/src/branch/master/subfiles/rapsheet.cloudflare.md

The 2nd link on that page goes to:

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/

which details the traffic exposure to #Cloudflare as a consequence of Cloudflare holding the keys & terminating the tunnel (thus performing the decryption). Indeed the padlock is misleading as most users believe the tunnel goes all the way to the source website.

edit: BTW, I see that you are on #lemmyWorld. You might be interested in knowing that that’s also a Cloudflare site. Cloudflare sees your login credentials, your IP address, and everything you do with your lemmy account. As far as gatekeeping goes, Lemmy World has been manually configured to be less exclusive than default-configured sites like stackexchange. E.g. I am blocked from stackexchange but not from lemmy world.