a double just cuz I haven't posted in a while

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predstrogen: yeah yeah online privacy is important but really i just hate those share tracking things at the end of links because they look ass ugly

predstrogen: [screenshot of tags] #finding disheveled feral links covered in tracking strings and gently cleaning them and picking off all the tracking strings

There are likely various edge cases I've missed, and I am not too sure on performance compared to a purpose-built userscript, but these seem to work well enough for my use cases.

Throw these to My filters in uBO settings. May also work with AdGuard, but I can't support you there as I don't use it. Other ad blockers probably won't work, but then why are you using an ad blocker that isn't uBO anyway?

Remove the exclamation mark preceding the rules and adjust the placeholders accordingly. If you need multiple filters copy paste the appropriate lines.

You may need to replace the lemmy.* part if your home instance is on a different (sub)domain. I'm not using .lemmy-site and a global selector for performance reasons.

! Post filters use :has instead of :upward to take advantage of native CSS support on browsers that implement it.
! If :has is not implemented, uBO will emulate it via JS. :upward might be more efficient on those cases.

! Lemmy: Filter post by link domain
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has(.fst-italic[href*="example.com"])

! Lemmy: Filter post by keyword in title
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has(.post-title:has-text(/\bkeyword\b/i))

! Lemmy: Filter post by author instance
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has(.person-listing[title$="@example.com"])

! Lemmy: Filter post by community instance
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@example.com"])

! Lemmy: Filter post by instance (author or community)
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has([title$="@example.com"]:is(.person-listing, .community-link))

! Lemmy: Filter post by community name (any remote instance)
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title^="!politics@"])

! Lemmy: Filter post by community name (home instance, though in this case you can just use lemmy's own blocking)
! lemmy.*##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title="!politics"])

! Lemmy: Filter comment by keyword 
! lemmy.*##.md-div:has-text(/\bkeyword\b/i):upward(.comment)

! Lemmy: Filter comment by author instance
! lemmy.*##.person-listing[title$="@example.com"]:upward(.comment)

! Lemmy: Filter both by author instance
! lemmy.*##.person-listing[title$="@example.com"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment))

if you try to search for a lemmy thread on calckey/firefish/iceshrimp, you may sometimes encounter this beautiful error message. short, succinct and to the point.

[transcription: a popup with nothing but a a red exclamation mark and a button saying "got it"]

Transcription: A circle labeled "Scientific method"
One half reads "Fuck around", with the sub-sections "Observation/question", "Research topic area", "Hypothesis"
The other half reads "Find out", with the sub-sections "Test with experiment", "Analyze data", "Report conclusions"
There is an arrow that's going around the circle pointing to itself, implying this is a continuous loop of constant refinement, fucking around, and finding out.

Transcription: a cat with some sort of baby clothing over it's head. the label is visible and reads:
"BABY"
"OOOOO TINY BABY"
"UP TO 3KGS"

Transcription: Facebook post by "Mr. electric" "GOT DRNK AND WALKED ON STAGE THE BAN DID N'T SEE N IM PLAYIN BONBGOS YEAAAAAAAAAA" [sic]

Attached image is exactly that. Qute happy lookin dude really be plain his bonbgos

Transcription: anime girl sleeping, with cutesy text that reads "based, redpilled? honey i'm dazed and bedpilled"

Transcription: "They call me 007. 0 idea why my game crashes. 0 idea how to configure mods. 7 types of copper ore."

For completely private services, the obvious answer is a VPN. But what about the ones that need to be "partially" public? Whether just read only, or with restrictions to publicly registered accounts.

For example, If I wanted to open up a git host where I allow public registrations so they can send issues/patches but can't create repos (kinda impossible with pull requests but you get my point)

Is there any specific thing you can do, or do you just disable registrations completely except for something "out-of-band" (ask me on XYZ to create an account for you, git send-email, mirrors to public services, etc...)

Of course, individual software may have access control features built in, but as a whole, is there anything reasonably generic?

How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?

I'm currently in process of "building" my own server and I'm kinda wondering how "far" most people are going, where do y'all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.