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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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 6th, 2023
  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Someone is creating sockpuppet account after sockpuppet account self-promoting an AI slop plagiarized news site.English
    9 hours

    I’m of a mind that link shorteners should be banned everywhere. You should never click a link unless you know exactly where it’s going. Plus, some of them have interstitial ads and/or get deleted after a period of time, so even in the best case scenarios, they’re just spraying out ads and link rot when you get down to it.

    Not to mention, they’re almost always used on platforms where you can just click on the link regardless of how long and/or unwieldy it is.

    The only use case for bit [dot] ly and their ilk are if you need to publish a long link in print medium (such as a newspaper public notice or something) where a full link to a specific page would be unreasonable to expect people to type into a browser by hand.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Someone is creating sockpuppet account after sockpuppet account self-promoting an AI slop plagiarized news site.English
    7 hours

    Edit: Apparently it can do URLs and not just domains. See @flamingos@feddit.uk 's reply below.

    URLS, no, but it can disallow specific domains. So it could work against specific spam domains but not against a bunch of accounts spamming, say, a Github repo, unless you want to block links to all of Github which isn’t ideal.

    There’s a list of disallowed domains that can be configured in the admin area. Until relatively recently, it would only prevent users of that instance from posting to them, but somewhat recently it now prevents inbound federation of anything linking to those. If something links to a blocked URL (post, comment, user with that in their bio, etc), Lemmy will reject it.

    I don’t know why more admins don’t look at the spam that gets modded and add the domain to their URL block list other than it being tedious work lol.

You Should Know@lemmy.worldbyAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.org
21 hours

YSK: Someone is creating sockpuppet account after sockpuppet account self-promoting an AI slop plagiarized news site.

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They’re trying really hard to make their AI-plagiarized slop “news” site happen. You’ll see posts linking to primestories24 [dot] com but they’re AI slop regurgitating likely legit news articles. Every “reporter” has some generic profile that is most likely the system prompt used for everything they “write”.

If you see a post to that domain, report it as spam. The accounts all look similar to this:

This list isn’t comprehensive.

Update: They are now using sockpuppet alts to vote/boost their posts. Just found @Babrah28@ttrpg.network that way and, surprise surprise, it was registered the same time as the latest batch.

Note: Technically the above is violating rule 7 if you consider spambots to be members. I don’t, but if this is a problem, let me know, and I’ll remove that part.

The domain was registered in May of 2026 and is roughly when these accounts started popping up.

   Domain Name: PRIMESTORIES24.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 3105727536_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.web4africa.net
   Registrar URL: http://hostafrica.com/
   Updated Date: 2026-06-19T10:01:29Z
   Creation Date: 2026-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2027-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registrar: Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
   Registrar IANA ID: 664
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web4africa.net
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6465850088
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: DAN1.HOST-WW.NET
   Name Server: DAN2.HOST-WW.NET
   DNSSEC: unsigned

Admins, I’m aware Lemmy is severely lacking in moderation capability, but one thing it does have is domain blocking. That prevents posting to those domains and it now seems to prevent links to those domains from federating in.

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    [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.worldbyAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.org
    1 year

    Are Superconducting Magnets the Future of Space Propulsion?

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    Hack-a-Day Summary

    Ion thrusters are an amazing spacecraft propulsion technology, providing very high efficiency with relatively little fuel. Yet getting one to produce more thrust than that required to lift a sheet of A4 paper requires a lot of electricity. This is why they have been only used for applications where sustained thrust and extremely low fuel usage are important, such as the attitude management of satellites and other spacecraft. Now researchers in New Zealand have created a prototype magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster with a superconducting electromagnet that is claimed to reduce the required input power by 99% while generating a three times as strong a magnetic field.

    Although MPD thrusters have been researched since the 1970s – much like their electrostatic cousins, Hall-effect thrusters – the power limitations on the average spacecraft have limited mission profiles. Through the use of a high-temperature superconducting electromagnet with an integrated cryocooler, the MPD thruster should be able to generate a very strong field, while only sipping power. Whether this works and is as reliable as hoped will be tested this year when the prototype thruster is installed on the ISS for experiments.

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      Technology@lemmy.worldbyAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.org
      2 years

      [Meta] Mods: The Community Icon and Banner are Both Broken

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      The community banner and icon are both broken and seem to be hosted away from Lemmy World on fry.gs which I believe is/was the home instance for one of the original mods. That instance appears to be no longer functional.

      Not sure how long they’ve been broken; I just noticed that when I flushed my cache recently they weren’t working and then realized the banner and icon links the API returns no longer work.

        "icon": "https://fry.gs/pictrs/image/c6832070-8625-4688-b9e5-5d519541e092.png",
  "banner": "https://fry.gs/pictrs/image/1a1e9226-87cb-4499-94a7-d43b1e520e50.png",

      Update: I did find the banner. I don’t have a copy of the banner, but I do have the icon in my instance’s proxy/cache if you want to save it and re-apply it from Lemmy World.

      Icon

      Banner

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