cross-posted from: https://lemmyf.uk/post/10975988

cross-posted from: https://lemmyf.uk/post/10878570

> HAWK TUAH!

HAWK TUAH!

cross-posted from: https://lemmyf.uk/post/10752823

> G-Eazy has always had a flair for the dramatic, evidenced both in his discography and onstage. As such, Freak Show presents the Bay Area rapper as the lustful ringmaster of a veritable carnival of carnal delights. Following the enticing introduction “Welcome,” he glides into the spotlight he’s grown ever confidently into over the years. On the title track, he revels in self-described toxicity infused in a lothario’s finesse, French Montana pushing the envelope with his own flashy hedonism on the back half. He gets that same energy back twofold from Coi Leray and Kaliii on “Femme Fatale,” a sex-positive standout that benefits from the mutual mischief. > > Given his proven track record for flipping other artists’ familiar songs into inventively fresh cuts for himself, nobody should be shocked to hear G-Eazy do so again here. He offers a few necessary warnings on the slightly sinister “Showbiz,” its Cypress Hill interpolation recalling the temptations and trappings of fame. Elsewhere, a classic from The Clash becomes a demon time stomper called “Anxiety,” where his inner monologue does battle with his detractors. > > As he reflects upon a life that has taken him well beyond Oakland’s borders, his storytelling prowess manifests on the druggy and profane New York chronicle “Backseat,” while “South of France” finds him jet-setting high above his haters. Lest one think he’s gone full-blown rock star, “Love You Forever” breaks with the raw physicality of its preceding themes to exhibit some genuinely heartfelt

G-Eazy has always had a flair for the dramatic, evidenced both in his discography and onstage. As such, Freak Show presents the Bay Area rapper as the lustful ringmaster of a veritable carnival of carnal delights. Following the enticing introduction “Welcome,” he glides into the spotlight he’s grown ever confidently into over the years. On the title track, he revels in self-described toxicity infused in a lothario’s finesse, French Montana pushing the envelope with his own flashy hedonism on the back half. He gets that same energy back twofold from Coi Leray and Kaliii on “Femme Fatale,” a sex-positive standout that benefits from the mutual mischief.

Given his proven track record for flipping other artists’ familiar songs into inventively fresh cuts for himself, nobody should be shocked to hear G-Eazy do so again here. He offers a few necessary warnings on the slightly sinister “Showbiz,” its Cypress Hill interpolation recalling the temptations and trappings of fame. Elsewhere, a classic from The Clash becomes a demon time stomper called “Anxiety,” where his inner monologue does battle with his detractors.

As he reflects upon a life that has taken him well beyond Oakland’s borders, his storytelling prowess manifests on the druggy and profane New York chronicle “Backseat,” while “South of France” finds him jet-setting high above his haters. Lest one think he’s gone full-blown rock star, “Love You Forever” breaks with the raw physicality of its preceding themes to exhibit some genuinely heartfelt

Everything should be good to go. Report any issues!

Everything should be good to go. Report any issues!

Overnight you may experiences errors or downtime as there’s three different things receiving an upgrade. I’ll shoot to start after midnight EST.

Feel free to join the telegram or matrix server in case there’s any major issues that need to be communicated.

Major Changes

This v0.19.4 release is a big one, with > 200 pull requests merged since v0.19.3. As such we can only give a general overview of the major changes in this post, and without going into detail. For more information, read the full changelogs at the bottom of this post.

Local Only Communities

Communities have a new visibility setting, which can be either Public (current behaviour) or LocalOnly. The latter means that the community won’t federate, and can only be viewed by users who are logged in to the local instance. This can be useful for meta communities discussing moderation policies of the local instance, where outside users shouldn’t be able to participate. It is also a first step towards implementing private communities. Local only communities still need more testing and should be considered experimental for now.

Image Proxying

There is a new config option called image\_modewhich provides a way to proxy external image linksthrough the local instance. This prevents deanonymization attacks where an attacker uploads an image to his own server, embeds it in a Lemmy post and watches the IPs which load the image.

Instead if image_mode is set to ProxyAllImages, image urls are rewritten to be proxied through /api/v3/image_proxy. This can also improve performance and avoid overloading other websites. The setting works by rewriting links in new posts, comments and other places when they are inserted in the database. This means the setting has no effect on posts created before the setting was activated. And after disabling the setting, existing images will continue to be proxied. It should also be considered experimental.

Many thanks to @asonix for adding this functionality to pict-rs v0.5.

Post hiding

You can now hide a post as a dropdown option, and there is a new toggle to filter hidden posts in lemmy-ui. Apps can use the new show_hiddenfield on GetPosts to enable this.

Moderation enhancements

With the URL blocklist admins can prevent users from linking to specific sites.

Admins and mods can now view the report historyand moderation history for a given post or comment.

The functionality to resolve reports automatically when a post is removed was previously broken and is now fixed. Additionally, reports for already removed items are now ignored.

The site.content\_warning setting lets admins show a message to users before rendering any content. If it is active, nsfw posts can be viewed without login, after consenting.

Mods and admins can now comment in locked posts.

Mods and admins can also use external tools such as LemmyAutomod for more advanced cases.

Media

There is a new functionality for users to list all images they have previously uploaded, and delete them if desired. It also allows admins to view and delete images hosted on the local instance.

When uploading a new avatar or banner, the old one is automatically deleted.

Instance admins should also checkout lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner which can delete thumbnails for old posts, and free significant amounts of storage.

Federation

Lemmy can now federate with Wordpress, Discourseand NodeBB. So far there was only minor testing and these projects are still under heavy development. If you encounter any issues federating with these platforms, open an issue either in the Lemmy repo or in the respective project’s issue tracker. You can test it by fetching the following posts:

• Wordpress
• Discourse
• NodeBB

In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.

Reliability and security of federation have been improved, and numerous bugs squashed. Signed fetch was broken and is fixed now.

Vote display user setting

There is now a user setting to change the way vote counts are displayed, called vote display mode.

You can specify which of the following vote data you’d like to see (or hide): Upvotes, Downvotes, Score, Upvote Percentage, or none of the above. The default (based on user feedback) is showing the upvotes + downvotes.

App developers will need to update their apps to support this setting.

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds now include post thumbnail and embedded images.

Security Audit

A security audit was recently performed on Lemmy. Big thanks to Radically Open Security for the generous funding, and to Sabrina Deibe and Joe Neeman for carrying out the audit. The focus was on federation logic, and discovered various problems in this area. Most of the problems are being mitigated as part of this release. Fortunately no critical security vulnerabilities were discovered.

This is already the third security audit of Lemmy, all organized by ROS. We’re greatly indebted to them for their support.

Other Changes

• Added Community local_subscribers count
• Support for custom post thumbnail
• For new user accounts the interface languageand discussion languages are set automatically based on accept-language HTTP header
• Added instance-level default sort type
• Indicate to user when they are banned from community
• Added alt\_text for image posts
• Dont require leading ! or @ to fetch a user or community
• Extra fields for PostReport and CommentReport views

0.19.5 has also just dropped

This is a smaller bugfix release, with the following changes:

Lemmy

• Don’t change encoding style in clean\_url\_params.
• Fix for federation last\_successful\_id.
• Fixing featured\_local trigger.
• Fix postres TLS connection.

Lemmy-UI

• Fix for fetch page title.
• Fix create post focus resets.
• Make media uploads viewable only on your own profile.
• Fixing an auto-download bug.
• Regenerating lemmy-ui themes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmyf.uk/post/10578429

> Smooooootthhh

Smooooootthhh

If anyone knows the source let me know. Seems like it was clipped.

cross-posted from: https://lemmyf.uk/post/10518192

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