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why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 2 points 1 week ago

I'm sure responsibility is variable but kinda sounds like could be a political issue rather than skill at least sometimes. They might be requesting data from elsewhere that comes to them all jumbled. And no authority to demand changes from the source.

Sometimes the chaotic sorting is very intentional, as with amazon. Cory Doctorow has written about how the sorting is one piece of their overall scheme: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

Though once in a while I get prices sorted like $1 $10 $2 $200... If the coder was motivated they could've done better.

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anything with time sensitivity, context or relation to other events.

Haven't you ever read something very differently that was written Jan 2020 compared to April 2020? They're both "5 years ago". Or sometimes people will reference current events in passing. If someone mentions "what trump just did" you need to know with more granularity than 1 year to understand.

More mundanely, "Indiana stinks this time of year" is meaningless without knowing the date.

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 1 points 1 week ago

I disagree with your premise that web developers “want to make it hard”, as that isn’t the motivation.

Yes that is fair enough it is unlikely to be a correct characterization. I was just annoyed and feeling persecuted by people who make a great platform that I love using.

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If I had to make a general rule I would say relative dates for recent but precise for older. "1 hour" is good enough in a lot of cases but "2 years" is too vague.

A fancier UI could have a user setting for what dates to display, or if you click the date it changes to the other format. Maybe even for all dates on the page so it could be quickly toggled. Or clicking the date selects/copies it.

Admittedly a very marginal use case so for a small software, might not be a good use of time.

I think text on the page should be selectable but tooltips should not. Although I do generally appreciate lemmy's overall use of user-select: none because it omits all the little icons like voting and reply which are unlikely needed and clutter up destination text file. I don't always love how it skips the link icon because then I need to copy it separately. (Combining the timestamp with the link in the way of old blog trackbacks is still logical.)

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I disagree that this software could be functional without some way to show the date. That is a basic functionality.

Having to hover over each individual comment or post rather than displaying on the page means it's obscured. You can't see it unless you do something, and then you can only see it for a moment. Even if you want to manually transcribe the date, you can't type in one window and have that tooltip active in the other so you need to go back and forth unless you can memorize the whole thing at once.

Whether it is a good design decision as is another matter, I can see why you wouldn't want the full date/time displayed in all situations. Maybe I'm just a freak for wanting to copy the dates.

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 3 points 1 week ago

Nice investigation. :)

If you will go as far back as LJ and phpBB I wouldn't expect the dates to be relative because it would be extra work for the server. You would have to generate all the dates every time the page loaded? Using... perl? Sounds too demanding. And since everyone was browsing from a computer, not a tiny phone, screen real estate wasn't at such a premium.

For disallowing selection, the support for user-select has only recently become fully supported across the board.

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 2 points 1 week ago

Fantastic I look forward to it.

why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 2 points 1 week ago

I had a quick peek at the style.css:

.user-select-none{
    -webkit-user-select:none!important;
    -moz-user-select:none!important;
    user-select:none!important
}

I know I could use Stylus or Greasemonkey to override that rule. It works when I try it in the inspector. But is there a way to get the full date out of "data-tippy-content" and redirect it to the displayed page?

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why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by laserjet to c/[email protected]
34 comments fedilink
 

Why is it that on social platforms, the date stamps are obscured? It there some sort of security or other technical reason for this? Is it user oriented somehow that I am failing to consider?

I want to see, select and copy the dates associated with posts. Ideally everywhere on the web. Bypass? Can ublock origin do anything about this?

On dbz for example, you get a relative time only unless you hover to see the specific time:

Piefed and reddit both do this.

Additionally, the text that displays the relative time is often not normal and cannot be selected and copied. "Select all" skips it:

Here's how dates look in the source. lemmy.dbzer0.com:

<span class="moment-time pointer unselectable" data-tippy-content="Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at 3:58:32 AM GMT+00:00">6 hours ago</span>

I see there is class unselectable. I don't know what exactly is going on.

On PieFed you can select/copy the relative time stamp, like "2 years ago", but still not the actual date.

Mastodon displays recent posts with a relative time like "12h" but at some point things get old enough to graduate to just the date: "Dec 9, 2023". And you can select the text as normal.

edit: title "why do web developers ~~want to~~ make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments?"

YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 1 points 1 month ago

but since there are 2 parties it complies with your request of

a rigorous definition of gerrymandering that isn’t just “I know it when I see it.”

YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 2 points 1 month ago

Yes

Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

elite nerds who use lemmy will be able to circumvent

if the snobs are fine, why care?

those people kvetching about how the endless September ruined everything will have their wish

Underground railroad energy in c/[email protected]
[–] laserjet 3 points 1 month ago

I'm sure OP didn't mean it but comparing anything happening with dem politicians to the underground railway amounts to denialism of white supremacy and the enslavement of African people.

African people were forcibly removed from their homes. Their descendants were owned from birth. Both were forced to perform labor of various sorts and lived cradle to grave without any semblance of legal rights at all. This was heritable, passing from mother and/or father to all children. It was not only illegal for a white person to assist them to exist the situation, it was legally required to prevent them from doing so. Which is to say nothing of the penalties on any Black person caught escaping or assisting an escape.

The underground railway was a system of attempting to assist a class of people to gain freedom in defiance of every law and social convention, one person at a time. It was an act of racial, class and national treachery far beyond anything I've ever heard any democrat even contemplate.

Therefore, comparing any contemporary situation serves only to diminish the gravity of the underground railway. Which was not just about going somewhere else for political reasons.

Need a different analogy.

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selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts? (self.selfhosted)
 

I went to https://selfh.st/ because someone posted a link to a github repo that had some tracking appended to the URL (?ref=selfh.st). OK your marketing worked on me I'm a mark.

I still have an aversion to this kind of tracking. Maybe considering how old-fashioned it it compared to the undetectable and nearly impossible to evade tracking methods currently deployed, that's wrong. Maybe this is just charming and quaint.

Disregarding the above, I liked the site enough to subscribe to their RSS feed https://selfh.st/rss/. Well that was pointless, as there is no content in the feed. Each entry like this:

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, August 1, 2025

Continue reading on selfh.st...

I kind of expect a meaningful RSS feed these days. It sign of participating in the Libre internet.

Workaround: I have used Kill the Newsletter! (which kicks ass) to convert the email newsletter to an Atom feed which appears to work. Got the confirmation email, now need to wait for a post to be made.

What do you all think?

  1. Link tracking: yay or nay?

  2. Placeholder RSS: Rude or acceptable?

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easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by laserjet to c/[email protected]
17 comments fedilink
 

With Lidarr being not very functional due to the Unable to communicate with LidarrAPI - Lidarr API "Internal Server Error" 500 | Invalid response received from LidarrAPI | HTTP Request Timeout · Issue #5498 · Lidarr/Lidarr I have been thinking about getting rid of it altogether. I have only started using it recently and don't like it.

What I use Lidarr for:

  • Find metadata for music
    • organize files in a consistent way base on metadata
    • obtain album art
    • create .nfo or other files
  • Identify desired music and instruct download utility to get it (this is optional for me--- I can handle myself if needed)
  • Do the above via a web interface which can be browsed nicely

I don't like about Lidarr:

  • The not-really-open-source nature of it, e.g. this current problem, where you are reliant on their external server to run your own home server. I feel this might be a more pervasive issue in the Arrs but not sure of all the implications
  • How unsupported it is to include work that the lidarr servers don't know about. There will never be a metadata database which includes all music. There is just too much music in the world!
  • no audiobook/podcast support

I also have Jellyfin going for the actual serving/streaming of the music. Am not sure if it is able to fully manage the metadata and files?

Lots of options in the awesome-selfhosted list.

I could use a linux desktop app if it was better than a selfhosted server.

Thoughts?

UPDATE after 2 days and 16 total comments on the thread

As suggested by many people, I gave MusicBrainz Picard a try. It is actually quite straight forward functionality-wise. You do have to babysit it for sure, but it gets fairly close a lot of the time.

It would be very much improved by coming with more presets for file naming. Constructing them is obtuse python stuff. Something like how Trash Guides gives you naming schemes that account for many possibilities. No reason the user should need to do all that on their own from scratch.

Being native linux applications is a big plus, it is smooth to run. Would be nice to have some workflow aides like keyboard shortcuts available.

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RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation (wiki.servarr.com)
submitted 2 months ago by laserjet to c/servarr
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47871600

(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)

Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

Key Points

  • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
  • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
  • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
  • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
  • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

Sincerely,
The Servarr Team

The github repo has been archived.

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RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation (wiki.servarr.com)
submitted 2 months ago by laserjet to c/piracy
20 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47871600

(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)

Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

Key Points

  • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
  • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
  • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
  • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
  • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

Sincerely,
The Servarr Team

The github repo has been archived.

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RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation (wiki.servarr.com)
 

(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)

Announcement: Retirement of Readarr

We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.

Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.

Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.

Key Points

  • Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
  • Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
  • Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
  • Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
  • Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.

Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.

Sincerely,
The Servarr Team

The github repo has been archived.

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Screwed up permissions, ownership, attributes on large fs. How to reset? (self.linux)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by laserjet to c/[email protected]
42 comments fedilink
 

I have been playing around with chmod, chown, setfacl and special bits trying to get multiple system/full users in same group correct access permissions to my media collection.

But I've messed it up somehow and now I'm having weird problems that are hard to track.

I would like to set my whole collection back to the defaults.

What is the best way to do this?

One problem I've had when making changes to so many files is the process seems to go forever without completing. Eventually it gets killed so my filesystem has variable attributes throughout. how can this be worked around?

I want everything to be owned by myuser, group media, everything else default I will sort it from there once I have a fresh slate.

And is there a way to backup these attributes only? I don't have enough storage to backup the files themselves.

It is Debian with ext4 filesystem.

Edit to add: Media collection is on its own separate drive/filesystem; this has no impact on anything else on the computer.

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lemmy-style spoilers in obsidian? (self.obsidianmd)
submitted 8 months ago by laserjet to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

obsidian has callouts, and collapsible headings/codeblocks. So that's the native way.

There are a couple plugins for other styles of spoilers. but lemmy's spoilers are weird.

I want to work with lemmy-style markdown in obsidian.

Is there some plugin or other method that would facilitate it?

code:

what's in here?nothing :(
> nothing at all
___

renders as:

what's in here?nothing :(

nothing at all

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How do you manage mega torrents? (self.piracy)
submitted 9 months ago by laserjet to c/piracy
15 comments fedilink
 

When you have some torrent where there is a huge collection of files only some of which you want right now, but maybe you will come back to it later to get something else.

Example: This is a listing for torrents of audiobooks from The Eye. (Alphabetically by author, one torrent per letter.)

So I don't want to download every audiobook ever. I selectively choose which to download. Then the torrent is "completed" when those are done. But I want to keep them around because maybe later I want something else. I just leave them in the queue?

In the torrent apps I've used, they seem to get confused by these. If you move the downloaded file to a proper location in your filesystem, then it is having a "missing files" error, unable to seed, and the torrent is in error state. But if you leave the obtained files, it's still in the "not yet downloaded" directory forever.

Wondering if there is some smart way of managing this, or what?

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