Exactly. If they weren't going to sell, and signs are pointing that they aren't, then the vandalizing is just giving them money via insurance as stated.
And leave the people alone that already had Tesla's prior to Musk going mask-off. They were trying to be part of the solution (moving to EVs) and there's no reason to harass/attack/vandalize them.
But definitely point and laugh at anyone going out and buying a Tesla now.
It's been a long-running thing for blogspam to appear here. Usually admins will step in at some point and squash the accounts, but any time I see anything.blogspot.com as a post URL, I look at the account history and see if that's all they're posting. 9.9 times out of 10, that's all they're posting, and I ban them with content removal. Same for other sites that pop up out of nowhere that get spread from a brand new account.
I have no idea what the objective is (SEO, ad views, etc), but it's been a thing as long as I've been on Lemmy.
Thanks for the list: some of those I had yet to ban.
If anyone has other suggestions to mitigate this (maybe a Greasemonkey snippet to require a click to load inline images as a patch for the lemmy Web UI?), I'm all ears.
Tesseract dev here.
For what it's worth, I went back through and checked my DMs from "Nicole" and they're all uploads directly to the home instance the DM came from (e.g. they went through pict-rs, and only the instance admins would be able to see the client IPs in their access logs). So, this doesn't seem like a de-anonymization attack, though all it would take is "Nicole" to start hosting the images somewhere they control to achieve that effect.
Safety Precautions Available in Tesseract
Use Tesseract's Image Proxy
It has the ability to proxy images (separately / better than the Lemmy built-in method) both local and remote (e.g. to outside image hosts). The hosted instance (tesseract.dubvee.org) has that enabled but each user must enable it in settings (Settings --> Media -> Proxy Images).
If you see the "Proxy Images" options in Settings -> Media, then the admins have enabled the server-side component. If not, you'll need to ask the admins to configure/enable media proxying. If you're self-hosting it, then it may not provide any additional privacy unless you're running it in a cloud server or somewhere other than where you're accessing it.
Disable Inline Images
It also has the option to disable inline images (Settings -> Post and Comments -> Inline Images). I've confirmed this also works for DMs. With inline images disabled, instead of the image, the alt text, if available, will be linked to the image. If no alt text, then the image URL will be a clickable link. In either case, clicking the image link will load it in a modal on-demand.
Coming Soon (Released Just Now in 1.4.32)
After reading this post, as a precaution, I'm going to push out a hotfix (hopefully this evening) that will disable inline images in DMs by default. If someone you trust DMs you, you can just click on the image link to view it in a modal (like any other link preview).
Testing this feature now and should have it released this evening. Works like email clients when you disable inline images; a button/switch will appear at the top if it detects there are images / media embedded which will allow you to show the images; defaults to off.
I remember one time I changed my struts, rotors, pads, and mounted new tires myself. When I was done, I had to drive it about 30 miles to get it aligned. During the drive to the shop, its alignment was "all of the above" in the graphic 😆
Because too many people are frothing at the mouth for violence and don't have enough sense to realize that very obvious/important point.
Edit: In before "well they should just sell it then!!!1!"
I'd imagine trade-in values for those right now are going to be pretty low.
Not everyone can afford to do that, especially with car prices likely to rise due to tariffs.
Interest rates aren't great if they have to finance the replacement car
Everyone's life situation is different. An oversimplified "just do [blank] to satisfy my illogical demands or else you're a Nazi sympathizer and deserve to have your property vandalized" isn't practical.
The whole process "DOGE" is doing is like what he did to Twitter: just start unplugging stuff until things break and then plug the last thing back in. Except this time, instead of brief interruptions to the racism app, it's real people's lives being affected both directly (the employees being fired) and indirectly (the citizens who rely on these services).
Devil's avocado here, but Schumer kind of has a point. They do want a government shutdown Hell, they're trying to dismantle the whole damn thing.
I also wouldn't put it past them to keep dismantling things during the shutdown. Either DOGE cronies are declared necessary and exempt from furlough or they just keep dismantling things anyway. Either way, they would have far less oversight to keep doing what they're doing.
I don't know if there were any poison pills in the spending bill, but assuming the drama is just because he voted to keep things running, then it may be a bit undeserved. I'm under no impression that a government shutdown is going to stop Musk and his ilk from continuing to break things. Plus, I highly doubt they're going to furlough ICE, so it's not like that particular horror is going to stop with a shutdown.
Weird. I did a test download before replying, and it worked. Though I'm just using vanilla yt-dlp and am unfamiliar with the other two variants you listed.
Be that as it may, you're not going to get me to even tacitly endorse arson. Sorry not sorry.