I’ve been fighting with the image proxying for days now, I just gave up on this post since the meat and potatoes is the text post itself

D:

Np! Thanks!

Yea I know there are certainly tangible benefits like privacy, censorship bypass, caching etc

But the crux of the issue

using ffmpeg in the background to recompile the image which will crash and burn it the image has even the slightest issue/corruption.

Does it really need to do all that? IMO it’s a proxy and it should just proxy things, not mess with things. Some basic checks at the most to just verify the image is an image and reject non-images, but that’s it. If there’s a need to also manipulate images then it should be handled separately

I loathe the image proxy -_- I had to strip the proxy part out of the link and open your instance URL in the browser just to see the gif because the image proxy fucked up again

Worth though it was a fitting gif lmao

…kentucky‽‽

Well shit, rare W for Kentucky!

Kinda sus bro

Yeah, because the proxy has decided it doesn’t like it

This is what I actually wanted to link to/embed

https://i.ibb.co/8gHKNsT1/michael-scott-why.gif

Well actually I originally tried with a direct tenor link

https://tenor.com/bdBiU.gif

But it didn’t like that either

It’s a feature of Lemmy where your instance will proxy image links for you, it can be useful in some cases to do things like bypass regional censorships (If you can access your home instance from your country, but not instance lemmy.example.com your home instance can proxy the image from lemmy.example.com so you can still see it (text is handled by federation already, so no proxy required for just text)) or to cache images in case an instance goes down

But it seems to be poorly implemented where it’s end user experience is a pain at best, and the more aggressive it’s set the more annoying it is.

Take for example this instance I’m currently on, infosec.pub, they seem to have it set to aggressively replace all image links including in comments no matter what.

So now my attempt to reply to this comment https://infosec.pub/comment/20590443 is utterly broken because the image service just doesn’t like it despite me just wanting to link to the off-site gif link manually typing the markdown instead.

This is what that gif looks like proxied:

https://infosec.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2F8gHKNsT1%2Fmichael-scott-why.gif

Eating ass and pussy in one step!

EFFICIENCY

“Chic Fil A must be using the vagina portion of the chicken in the food that they serve because it tastes similarly good compared to when I eat the vagina portion of a woman”

Those of us who are trapped without a Zaxby’s :c

Lmao, it’s less about the deception and more about where it led to 😂

Idk if you’ve just been under a rock and never noticed (which is admittedly possible, because Reddit just has so many people it’s easier to never notice them) or are just being intentionally deceptive. But tankies are absolutely on Reddit, they have multiple subreddits there. Hell, Lemmy started because dessalines got perma banned from Reddit because of their tankie crap and literally did the bender meme

I have personally been asked about the tankies on Lemmy and others have seen it too, it absolutely does come up

listen here, you little shit

For just one person limited use like that, i’d just use a VPN for whenever you’re away from home.

But you could learn a bit about hardening and expose it anyways if you want, I personally just want to be able to access my stuff from anywhere so I spend a decent amount of time hardening.

It’s not too hard, you really just need a certain baseline to defend against script kiddies and bot mass scanners. Unless you’re a business or a high value target or something that’ll attract the skills of “real” hackers

Lolol I just needed that yesterday

I kind of love it though it’s like tje fine wine of the internet getting worse and worse yet better and better with time.

Each repost adds another layer of artifact and grit until you can barely make out what the original even meant. It’s been screenshotted and cropped and saved and shared, on Facebook and Reddit and Xitter who cared? From phone to phone and site to site the pixels crumble day and night!

The colors fade, the text grows blurry, reposted fast, reposted hurry! Through Discord servers, Instagram feeds and Fedi-instance’s it spreads like mold, like digital weeds! One hundred times! One thousand more! The quality drops right through the floor! And yet we laugh and yet we share this crusty meme beyond repair!

So let it crumble, let it fray, this meme will live another day. For in its crust we find the truth, the internet’s eternal youth!