CoyoteFacts

Using Retrieve a post from the original server on the sidebar I was able to fill it in that way; is that expected to be used often? I wouldn't even know to use it if I didn't have another account on lemmy.ca, so it seems weird as a feature.

I'm still noticing this sometimes for communities that are already subscribed on piefed.ca. For example, this post on !otters@lemmy.world which shows up on lemmy.ca but not piefed.ca, even though I'm subscribed to the community on both instances. I'm using my lemmy.ca and piefed.ca accounts interchangeably at the moment so sometimes I notice these inconsistencies on my subscribed view.

Isn't one of the problems with X that applications can log your keystrokes in other applications and record your screen? Obviously you shouldn't be installing compromised software, but who knows if Borderlands 2 now includes some malicious code in its DRM or something.

I wonder if this opens up any new opportunities for cool Distrobox usecases.

I usually use GNOME Disks (gnome-disk-utility) when I need a GUI for disk management. If you're not doing anything complicated or scripting disk manipulation the GUI is probably sufficient.

I've found that using RedLib instances through LibRedirect is very slick for accessing Reddit results from search engines.

For what it's worth, when I signed up to piefed.ca it asked me to pick 3 interests and there were only 2 interests to even choose. I just clicked past the screen without picking anything, and it seemed to accept that as an answer. So maybe it's already working fine, and the text just needs to be updated to be more optional-sounding?

By default, Wine/Proton has access to your full Linux filesystem under the virtual Z:/ drive from within the Wine environment, so any dedicated adversary could include your Linux stuff into its data collection. The odds of this already occurring are probably low-ish. You can use bubblewrap raw to start sandboxing resources (e.g. blocking network access or masking directories), or there's a project called sandwine which presumably auto-configures the important stuff through bubblewrap (though I've never gotten around to trying it). Wine itself can also be configured to drop the Z:/ drive through its winecfg tool.

Without a dedicated configuration, I'm not sure Wine has any real priority or guarantee about sandboxing your original system from Windows executables, which is also why it's important to remember that Windows malware can still do damage when running on a Linux system. The malware doesn't really even have to be aware that it's running in Wine if it just tries to encrypt any files it can reach.

The comment collapsing I think is fine; Lemmy-style forums already heavily rely on voting to move content around, and I think net -10 is a pretty good indicator that the comment in question has bad info, is a troll, or is otherwise not good content (as voted by the local community).

The low karma icon I'm seeing out in the wild and honestly, so far every time I see someone with that icon I look at that profile and sure enough there really are a lot of downvoted comments and antagonistic behavior. It's probably handy to determine whether someone is sealioning, trolling, or just otherwise has a lot of bad takes (again, as voted by their local community) before deciding whether to waste energy trying to engage in a thoughtful conversation.

4chan screenshots being reported is pretty opinionated (the rationale being that it's not about the content itself, it's about the normalization of 4chan and the enablement of the alt-right pipeline it provides), but hopefully it's at least optional?

It's much better at federation than Lemmy.

Do you have an example or source for what this means? Like is it faster/more efficient to propagate things, more featureful in what it federates, etc.?

Yeah my import also took a few minutes and then errored out, but it did end up making some progress on my subscribed communities. I tried it a couple more times and then ended up adding the last few subscribed communities over. I don't know if retrying it was making incremental progress or whether it was hitting the same error every time. It looks like my blocked communities didn't come over at all though.

Edit: On closer inspection almost all of my blocked communities don't even exist on Piefed.ca yet, so that's an interesting wrinkle. I guess I'll have to wait until they pop up again before blocking them? I don't feel right telling Piefed.ca to start tracking those communities just so I can block them, lol.

Pie flavor. I'm stoked that Piefed has Atkinson Hyperlegible as a font choice! It's my favorite font, especially for ereaders.