Are you aware of Redlib? Self-hostable frontend for Reddit aimed at privacy. I’ve never had a problem with old.reddit but Redlib has a bit of a more modern UI if that’s what you’re after. There are a bunch of public instances if you don’t want to host it.

Otherwise I’m sure you could use uMatrix to disable the tracking (can’t give detailed instructions sorry), but I’d argue hitting Reddit’s domain at all is already less than ideal if you’re trying not to be tracked.

Is there a reason you can’t use the generic CSV format?

Regardless, I have tested and it doesn’t look like those IDs are used during import. Import works perfectly fine with a Zipfile containing an unencrypted JSON file, as formatted by ProtonPass export, with all those base64 strings (itemId, itemUuid, shareId) removed or blanked out:

{
  "encrypted": false,
  "userId": "",
  "vaults": {
    "": {
      "name": "test",
      "description": "",
      "display": {
        "color": 0,
        "icon": 0
      },
      "items": [
        {
          "data": {
            "metadata": {
              "name": "test-login",
              "note": ""
            },
            "extraFields": [],
            "type": "login",
            "content": {
              "itemEmail": "",
              "password": "password",
              "urls": [],
              "totpUri": "",
              "passkeys": [],
              "itemUsername": "username"
            }
          },
          "state": 1,
          "aliasEmail": null,
          "contentFormatVersion": 6,
          "createTime": 1733128994,
          "modifyTime": 1733128994,
          "pinned": false
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "version": "1.25.0"
}

When re-exporting those imported values, they have new IDs even when you include the old IDs from the original export, so they’re obviously not being used. My guess is they’re just some sort of random UUID.

I had never heard of coffee tonic, but I love both coffee and tonic, and it’s rolling into summer here. I am absolutely going to try this!

I’m on Wayland these days, but if you happen to be using X11 this is the homebrew solution I used to use:

xdotool type --delay 50 "$(xclip -o -sel c)"

The --delay argument specifies the delay in milliseconds between keystrokes; if you go too low on that it tends to break things.

Interested to see what solrize comes up with because this method definitely has drawbacks – no way to interrupt it and if you accidentally paste something large it takes a long time to finish due to the forced delays.

I’ve never really had the need for a Wayland version, but I don’t see why subbing ydotool for xdotool and wl-paste for xclip wouldn’t work.

I’m not sure the invidious: protocol supports live streams, it seems like it’s only fetching a single fragment from the HLS stream. What you’re trying works for me using a direct invidious instance URL, e.g. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=cmkAbDUEoyA.

For fun I did a quick check and based on GEBCO elevation data this looks like about 20m sea rise (I’m guessing exactly – I assume whoever made the image picked a round number).

I could have posted what 2m looks like but at this scale it just looks like current Florida.

shopt -s dotglob will make * include .dotfiles.

That’s just a one-time pad with extra steps.

Australia’s about as sparsely populated …

Sorry what? Australia’s population density is is 3.6/km², the US’s is 33.6/km², almost 10 times higher. Even if you fudge it by treating the swathes of uninhabited desert as an outlier and ignoring them, you’re still dealing with a raw number of people lower than the population of Texas.

Are we really so far down the “obligatory memetic envelope because apparently just stating opinions isn’t socially acceptable any more” slope that we’ve dropped past “can’t stop thinking about x lmao” and on to “i was talking to my sister and, get this, i said x”?

I guessed the same, but according to Wikipedia:

The name wallaby comes from Dharug walabi or waliba.

I’m not sure how modern anglicisation works but I assume what’s given there is considered the most accurate spelling of the indigenous word. So “wallaby” isn’t too far off.

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This is honestly quite mild by website bloat standards. If that’s really the entirety of their Javascript it’s already way smaller than e.g. Medium or what this blog post considers “slightly bloated”. The fact that it’s in one file in 13 lines is also very standard. It makes no difference to the parser whether there are newlines or not, and removing them will in fact be saving bytes.

I’m guessing the performance issues with the site are more to do with how it’s coded. If it’s really bad for what sounds like a simple use case it might even be a cryptominer or something. A lot of those “random utility as a service” sites are.

I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. As far as I know it’s an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you’d expect it to fail to boot any time you don’t have an Internet connection.

Windows is bad but it’s not that bad yet.

Looks like the laptops are able to be recovered with a bit of finagling, so fortunately they haven’t bricked everything.

And yeah staged updates or even just… some testing? Not sure how this one slipped through.

I’ve tried several times to make celeriac “fish”, boiled in whatever stock you fancy as suggested in various recipes. Every single time though it comes out as soft, wonderfully textured fish-like flesh… completely shot through with awful, bad-tasting lumps of gristle. I still don’t know if I’m doing something wrong in the preparation, if my local supermarket sources really terrible celeriac, or if my standards are just too high. Wondering if anyone else has tried this, and had a better experience?

after calling Australia’s emergency line 001

So close.

I’m a bit too young to really remember a time before CSS, but I wholeheartedly agree with you on the growth of websites needing a mess of convoluted Javascript just to load/construct what is essentially static content. The idea of both CSS and JS is that they should be used for progressive enhancement – take a good starting HTML webpage, make it prettier with CSS, then make it even prettier with JS. But in practice people just build React apps and the like, that show nothing unless you enable Javascript. (Even Lemmy-UI sadly succumbs to this; it should be perfectly possible to enable most forms of interaction on this site with plain old HTML forms.)

Again I agree with you on dark themes, but for screenshots that’s a user problem, I don’t think there’s much Mozilla can do about that. FWIW I’m using Dark Background and Light Text which has an “invert” option that’s generally pretty successful even when style-based approaches fail. (But it goes out of its way to not invert images, so you still get those blaring Twitter screenshots.)

I think I actually remember being frustrated by Firefox’s handling of broken images in the past, so really we agree about pretty much everything haha. I have a user CSS style for Lemmy that sets a min width and a border for images even when they’re broken, but that should absolutely not be necessary of course.

The last part of the CommonMark page is an exercise! It’s giving you a challenge: to add alt text to the image. “SHOW HINT” is giving you a hint. So I definitely don’t think it’s encouraging you to not add the alt text; quite the opposite.

CommonMark is not in alpha. It’s a specification for Markdown, which is a kind of text formatting that’s been around since 2004. There were a bunch of differing implementations of it, so CommonMark was created as a standard. (Variants of) Markdown are used on Reddit, Github, Discord, and in comments in the Rust programming language, among many other places. But alt text itself is not even a Markdown thing – it’s part of HTML, and has been since 1993. It has its own Wikipedia page and everything.

Markdown compiles to HTML, so Markdown has a way to specify alt attributes, and Lemmy uses Markdown for message formatting, so Lemmy transitively also has a way to specify alt attributes. Both of these are good things, because alt text is a web standard that is widely recommended for accessibility reasons.

To your point on welcoming people into the Fediverse, sure, there is definitely a lot more that could be done there. I haven’t used Mastodon much, but I believe they have a more user friendly UI for adding alt text to images, that encourages you to do so and explains why. Maybe something similar will eventually come to Lemmy as well.

Alt text is a well-established mechanism for making images accessible – not so much in the case that they don’t load, but for screen readers and other accessibility tools. I agree it would be nice to have some easy way of viewing alt text if I want to (there are probably browser extensions out there?), but just because it doesn’t work like that currently, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it. It works fine for its intended purpose (again, screen readers).

Your link describing inconsistent browser support is from 13 years ago, I have to assume it’s gotten better since then.

As for the markdown syntax, any good markdown reference should explain alt text (it’s a widely used standard, nothing to do with Lemmy being in alpha). Your link to the CommonMark tutorial has it right there (granted, behind a nondescript floating button, which is a questionable design choice if you ask me):

Here’s how I embedded the image above:

![Text box containing the text "Alternate (alt) text is displayed when the image can't be shown, or for the visually impaired. It's fine to leave this blank but the `[]` is required".](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d9fb19c0-5e60-4f96-9225-a36809031ef2.png)

This is helpful for anyone using a screen reader, who would otherwise have no idea what the image showed.

abandoning it altogether and finding an open-source solution

Is Firefox not open-source?