Kalcifer

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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I can't wait until Lemmy's Peertube integration is released ^[1]^. Then, iiuc, this comment section should be able to happen directly on The Linux Experiment's videos within Lemmy.

References

  1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3837.]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T00:59Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3837#issuecomment-2757172791.
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is this intended to fit in with existing Wii emulators ^[1]^? Is it essentially just trying to offer a more convenient mobile option?

References

  1. Type: Website. Title: "Dolphin Emulator". Accessed: 2025-07-12T00:48Z. URI: https://dolphin-emu.org/.
    • Type: Text.

      Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!

      • Dolphin offers emulation for the Nintendo Wii.
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I retrained myself in Dvorak many years back […]

It's been a while since I've tried Dvorak, so I'm not very confident in my memory, but, iirc, I remmeber Dvorak causing some discomfort in my wrists. Not as bad as QWERTY, mind you, but I found that Workman was much more comfortable for me. Plus, I found that the general proximity of Workman to QWERTY, when compared with the proximity of Dvorak to QWERTY, made it much more convenient to use. For example, on Workman, copy and paste (ie Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) are each just moved over one key to the right ^[1]^, whereas Dvorak puts them on the opposite end of the keyboard ^[2]^, that is, when comparing them with QWERTY ^[3]^.

References

  1. Type: Image. Publisher: [Type: Website. Title: "Workman Keyboard Layout". URI: https://workmanlayout.org/.]. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:48Z. URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kdeloach/workman/gh-pages/images/workman_layout.png.
    • Workman's keyboard layout

      • C is 4 to the right on the bottom row. V is 5 to the right on the bottom row.
  2. Type: Image. Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "Dvorak keyboard layout". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-05-29T22:38Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout.]. Published: 2025-02-08. URI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg/1920px-KB_United_States_Dvorak.svg.png.
    • Dvorak's keyboard layout

      • C is 8 to the right on the top row. V is 9 to the right on the bottom row.
  3. Type: Image. Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "QWERTY". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: "2025-06-18T19:29Z". URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY.]. Created: 2006-01-12. Published: 2018-11-22. Accessed: 2025-07-11T16:57Z. URI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/KB_United_States.svg/1920px-KB_United_States.svg.png.
    • QWERTY's keyboard layout

      • C is 3 to the right on the bottom row. V is 4 to the right on the bottom row.
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. […] ^[1]^

Neat! Though, from a brief search, it's not clear to me if that means that they were the first "live CD Linux distribution" overall, or just the first company to release one.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2024-11-23T19:32Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:31Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X.
    • Type: Text. Location: ¶2.
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[…] But unlike pewds I’m sure they would call out a lot of cons cause they seem more relatable to normal people than pwd who calls everyone a normie.

Could you clarify what you mean here? I'm not sure that I understand.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What bother's me about these sorts of posts is they don't give people a consumption goal. Blindly telling everyone to consume less isn't exactly fair. Say, for example, there's person A who consumes 1 unit of red meat per month, and person B who consumes 100 units of red meat per month. If you say to everyone "consume 1 unit of red meat less per month", well, now person A consumes 0 units of red meat per month, and person B consumes 99 units of red meat per month. Is that fair? Say, you tell everyone "halve your consumption of red meat per month", well, now person A consumes 0.5 units of red meat per month, and person B consumes 50 units of red meat per month. Is that fair? Now, say, you tell everyone "you should try to eat at most 2 units of meat per month", well now person A may happily stay at 1 unit knowing that they're already below the target maximum, they may choose to decrease of their own accord, or they may feel validated to increase to 2 units of red meat per month, and person B will feel pressured to dramatically, and (importantly, imo) proportionally, reduce their consumption. Blindly saying that everyone should reduce their consumption in such an even manner disproportionately imparts blame, as there are likely those who are much more in need of reduction than others. It may even be that a very small minority of very large consumers are responsible for the majority of the overall consumption, so the "average" person may not even need to change their diet much, if at all, in order to meet a target maximum.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I don't understand your comparison; how does the misappropriation of a symbol equate to one using their popularity to increase awareness of a subject?

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Civilization ][

I have never seen a roman numeral 2 stylized with square brackets before. Neat!

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I acquire music either through saving what I hear being played around me (if like it), by recommendations from people, by using Spotify's recommendations algorithm, or by saving all the music from an artist that I've found and filtering later by shuffling my library. The last one can become a little overwhelming as I've found that it can quickly balloon the size of one's music library, and the size can be daunting for me to filter through, but it does help me find some obscure music from artists that I like.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

IMO, one of the worst parts of the article is this quote:

[…] "We might have to put DOGE on Elon," [Trump] said. […] "If DOGE looks at Musk, we're going to save a fortune,[sic]" […] ^[1]^

To me, this reads as an admission of guilt from Trump that he instructs DOGE to withhold its scrutiny from entities favorable to him, and that he biases it towards entities unfavorable to him.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Trump says he'll 'look' at deporting Musk as feud reignites". Author: "Rachel Scott", "Fritz Farrow", "Lalee Ibssa", "Ivan Pereira". Publisher: "ABC News Network". Published: 2025-07-01T08:07. Accessed: 2025-07-04T05:11Z. URI: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-deporting-musk-feud-reignites/story?id=123372908.
    • Location: ¶6,10.
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

2, 5, 20 (which one exactly depends on the temperature and my general level of comfort at that moment)

 

ReferencesType: Webpage. Title: "OpenStreetMap". Author: "Adam Dunn". Publisher: "OpenStreetMap". Published: 2025-06-03T20:13:15Z. Accessed: 2025-06-04T00:18Z. URI: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/167151314.

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NotJustBikes uses Linux! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
 

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References

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Share your Bash prompts! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt^[1]^. I'd love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt's PS1, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.

References

  1. Type: Documentation. Title: "Bash Reference Manual". Publisher: Gnu Project. Edition: 5.2. Published: 2022-09-19. Accessed: 2025-03-21T02:46Z. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html.

Crossposts:

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Share your Bash prompts! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
 

I'm looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt^[1]^. I'd love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt's PS1, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.

References

  1. Type: Documentation. Title: "Bash Reference Manual". Publisher: Gnu Project. Edition: 5.2. Published: 2022-09-19. Accessed: 2025-03-21T02:46Z. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html.

Crossposts:

 

nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

References

  1. Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
    • §"nginx". ¶1.
 

References

 

Solution

The Lemmy server appears to have a database limit of 255 characters ^[2]^; however, individual instances appear to put their own limits on username length though the frontend ^[3]^ and/or the API ^[4.1][4.2]^.

Original Post

If you know, please also provide relevant documentation.

UPDATE (2025-02-02T06:06Z): I did some brute-force testing, and, at least for sh.itjust.works, it seems that the maximum username length is 50, and the maximum password length is 60 ^[1]^.


References

  1. "Sign Up". sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Accessed: 2025-02-02T08:49Z. https://sh.itjust.works/signup.
    • When creating an account on sh.itjust.works, the sign-up form will throw this error if the provided password is greater than 60 characters in length.
  2. @TootSweet@lemmy.world To: ["[SOLVED] What is the maximum username length for a Lemmy account?". "Kalcifer" @Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works. "Lemmy Support" !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-03T00:54:51Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/32085936.]. Published: 2025-02-02T05:57:26Z. Accessed: 2025-02-03T00:44Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/32085936/16442382.

    It might be 255 characters? […]

    • They pointed to code on GitHub for the Lemmy server which outlines the length of the username data in the SQL database.
  3. "[SOLVED] What is the maximum username length for a Lemmy account?". "Kalcifer" @Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works. "Lemmy Support" !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-03T00:54:51Z. Accessed: 2025-02-03T00:46Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/32085936.
    • §"Original Post". ¶2.

      […] I did some brute-force testing, and, at least for sh.itjust.works, it seems that the maximum username length is 50 […]

      • The maximum username length for sh.itjust.works was found to be 50 characters by brute-force testing the length limit.
  4. "Andrew" @andrew_s@piefed.social To ["[SOLVED] What is the maximum username length for a Lemmy account?". "Kalcifer" @Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works. "Lemmy Support" !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-03T00:54:51Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/32085936.] Published: 2025-02-02T19:57:49Z. Accessed: 2025-02-03T00:59Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/32085936/16453656.
    1. curl -L http://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length (26)

      • The maximum username length for Lemmy.world was found to be 26 characters via an API request.
    2. curl -L http://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length (50)

      • The maximum username length for sh.itjust.works was found to be 50 characters via an API request.
 

References

 
  • R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, s. 365. Justice Laws Website. Government of Canada. Published: 2024-12-10. Accessed: 2025-01-04T22:46Z. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-365-20030101.html.

    365 Every one who fraudulently

    (a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,

    (b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or

    (c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,

    is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • "An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act" C-51. 42nd Parliament, 1st session. Parliament of Canada. Published: 2018-12-13. Accessed: 2025-01-04T22:50Z. https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/42-1/c-51.
    • §41

      Section 365 of the Act is repealed.

 

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