I got lucky on this recently. Saw someone threw away a working washing machine. I will never buy one because it supports companies who block repair (all of them have contempt for repairers). So the only way for me to get one is to pull one from a dump. I saw on one on a curb saying it just needed to be cleaned or something. I went straight to a shop that has cargo bikes and was able to rent one on the spot. They take reservations but I got lucky. Went straight to the washing machine and it was still there. I was surprised the bike could take the weight and was surprised how well it handled.

but fuck apps

The problem with most shared bikes is they impose a closed-source app exclusively from Google. I got lucky that a local shop has a website for reservations and you can just walk in and pick it up at the shop – which means a human has to collect a cash deposit. But no shitty app.

Mulo seems pricey as well. I would not pay more than $/€ 25/day (not electric). Maybe Mulo is electric.

Locomotion is donation based… interesting that that works.

ungoogled chromium

You can see below in this thread herein that someone got >10 downvotes for a perfectly reasonable and civil post by people who merely disagreed with their comment. Automatic censorship would be overly interventionalist. I would not want to participate in a forum that auto-censored like that. Downvotes did their job – pushed the msg low on the page for reduced visibility.

Thanks for the explanation.

Sounds like an anti-feature because the general assumption would be that the mod of that channel intervened in that specific comment. Ideally it would say something like “removed in bulk cleanup of malicious user’s content” and link to whatever modlog might capture it.

I’m a bit confused because what you originally described sounded like a way to disable autoplay. But your followup sounds more like blocking links to hosts.

If I were to run my own instance, blocking known autoplay hosts would work to the extent they are known, but then running my own instance would require having an unlimited connection. The autoplay problem is in part due to having a limited connection.

Appears so.

$ curl -i https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8122d979-9b5a-4c2b-bced-a685a1e05030.jpeg
HTTP/2 200 
server: nginx
date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:55:17 GMT
content-type: image/jpeg
vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
last-modified: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 08:09:58 GMT
cache-control: public, max-age=604800, immutable
access-control-expose-headers: accept-ranges, date, last-modified, content-type, cache-control, transfer-encoding
accept-ranges: bytes
referrer-policy: same-origin
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: DENY
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block

I don’t understand how that’s possible. If someone posts a link to news.sky.com and a viewer follows the link, they are taken to an external site outside the control of the kbin instance. I suspect that setting you describe could only affect what happens if a video is attached or embedded into a post.

Someone posted this link, which seems to imply 5 blocks audio and video both: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1321021

It’s interesting how there are various CSS hacks and short-lived plugins for stopping autoplay and animated GIFs in Firefox, and Google has been stumped on this for 15 years with Chromium – yet Mozilla (who gets 83% of its funding from Google) has this simple switch that supposedly just works. I will certainly be running these settings. It will be interesting to see if it fails in any cases.

Though it’s worth noting that Chromium users are still stuffed. And animated GIFs are probably unaffected by these settings in FF.

Sounds like it needs to be an instance created for this specific goal.

I’m not sure you’ve understood the request. This is a pro-etiquette social move that results in more info for the readers. Good etiquette should not be confined to a single instance but rather it should spread to all forward-thinking instances.

Maybe you’re thinking in terms of a software change? If a Lemmy server were adapted automatically detect and tag various forms of enshitification, it would indeed have to be piloted on specific instance. This is the long-term solution. Ideally, I want to see a long string of symbols next to every URL indicating the kinds of garbage I will step into when following a link. We can do better than Twitter and Reddit… following a link really shouldn’t be a craps-shoot for anyone.

That’s a hard ask because most major news websites (skynews, cbc, fox, nbc, etc.) have in-article video and many of them unfortunately have autoplay on.

That reminds me of a client-side option I will eventually start tinkering with. There is a blacklist plugin where each user can list a site they do not want to return to again. Though that may not be a good community solution because IIUC each person would still get burnt once on every site before their configuration protects them.

Community separation occurred to me, but in such a case it should be the other way around. That is, links that are exclusive or enshitified in various ways should be quarantined in a non-egalitarian community like “walled_gardens” or something. They should not sit around as traps to snuff out people’s bandwidth.

And I wonder if this might be a good moderation action… because not everyone reads the rules. A mod could perhaps non-destructively move a post to a quarantined area and give the author a chance to repost with tags.

Thanks for the tip. I’m using a 16-year old PC that runs Debian. It has lived the lives of ~8 smartphones so far and produced no e-waste. I have a ~9-yr old Android for just some niche purposes but I would not consider using that tiny screen as a browser.

Your tip might be useful in some situations where someone tags an article as autoplay and I am high motivated to read it. But then I would first try lynx before resorting to a phone.

i don’t recall where I got that from.

I would propose one of:

1. “(autoplay)” in the title;
2. “(a/p)” in the title for brevity, but then the body would have to expand that; or
3. “(⚠🢒)” in the title for brevity, but then explanation or itemized list of problems in the body

Or give authors their choice of those. I think these would be sufficient social solutions until the Lemmy software evolves to give the author and visitors a way to tag various anti-features such as autoplay, and then even filter timelines on those tags.

I had media.autoplay.default overridden to 5, which was not apparently working. I’ll try your setting as well. Thanks!

There are countless ways to implement autoplay. You apparently got lucky with one particular toolchain in one situation. Tor Browser is FF based and should not be extended by plugins (as that changes fingerprints), and TB plays whatever junk is on that page.

Have a look at how long Google has been unable to disable autoplay (2009).

The maker of Ungoogled Chromium made an autoplay blocker but it had so many failures he abandoned the project hoping Google would have the resources to tackle the problem.

Electrics cars will make it a non issue

I do not see EVs replacing scooters (which are driven by lower budget commuters). A single unmuffled scooter driving through #Paris at 3am can wake up 10,000 people according to Bruitparif. And don’t forget horns. Assholes will used their horns at 3am on my street. The only thing they give a fuck about is their own convenience when their favorite parking spot is taken.

The idea of harsh punishments works if a vehicle is continuously loud because it will eventually cross paths with a cop. So that position is fair enough. But what about horns? There’s never a cop around when horns are misused.

⚠ That article is a bit enshitified and autoplays video. Just a warning to anyone on a limited internet connection.

50cc scooters are the worst, actually. Nothing like hearing the high-pitch squealing sound comparable to a leaf blower in your ear at 3am. I’d gladly see them banned from the city.