Admiral Patrick

I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn’t really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.

Or did I?


I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Probably most of them, at least in small “butterfly effect” ways. But mostly, I paid attention in class and remember how to think without having to have answers spoon fed to me. So many people I work with, of a variety of age groups, just seem to lack that skill.

    You mentioned home economics, and I only had to take one semester as a required elective (yes, you read that right) and just kind of coasted through it. While I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I appreciate knowing how to use a sewing kit to make small repairs. I’ve patched several holes in my favorite “lounging around the house” robe and extended its life probably 3 times.




  • OP nuked their 2 hour old account:

    lemmy=# select id, actor_id, banned, deleted, published from person where name='happyhouseslave';
        id    |               actor_id                | banned | deleted |           published           
    ----------+---------------------------------------+--------+---------+-------------------------------
     12117366 | https://lemmy.world/u/happyhouseslave | f      | t       | 2026-06-18 13:21:00.995133+00
    
    
    
    lemmy=# select name, deleted, removed, ap_id from post where creator_id=12117366;
             name          | deleted | removed |               ap_id               
    -----------------------+---------+---------+-----------------------------------
     *Permanently Deleted* | t       | f       | https://lemmy.world/post/48327685
     *Permanently Deleted* | t       | f       | https://lemmy.world/post/48324567
    
    
    

    One of many reasons I refuse to interact with accounts less than a week old and/or those that have no other activity history.


  • It’s annoying AF, agreed, but there’s no provision in the API to do anything about it. That’s just how the platform is designed to operate.

    The only things we can do about it are:

    1. Notice who does that frequently and refuse to interact with them (block them, tag them, remember their username, whatever works). If mods notice this, it would be nice if they’d ban those users from the community because what they do IS disruptive to the community.
    2. Optionally, don’t interact with accounts younger than a week in the “ask” communities because those are known to self destruct.

    If a user deletes their account or nukes the post, even admins can’t restore it as it just says “Permanently deleted”







  • Cool, thanks. I’ll give that a read and see if I can make it work cleanly. At this point, it’s just an experiment, but I’ve wanted to have some mechanism for a standardized machine-readable community rules for a long time, specifically to put into the report and moderation workflows. If I can make it work cleanly, and if it’s not something already planned for Lemmy 1.0, I’m absolutely willing to make that a Tesseract feature.



  • What’s the significance of this syntax with regard to it not rendering?

      [//]: # (r1: Posts must be ...)
      [//]: # (r3: Posts must not be ...)
      [//]: # (r2: Posts must be ...)
    

    I’ve long wanted a somewhat standardized way to define community rules so I could do exactly what you were describing in your issue, but I’m not clear on how/why that syntax doesn’t render.

    I tried it in Tesseract, which admittedly use a different markdown renderer than other apps, and the first line shows but the second and third don’t.

    If other apps can get on board with that, then I may need to understand what’s happening in that syntax to make sure it doesn’t render.