was in a store today and whoever had control of the speakers is a legend because they played never gonna give you up and rickrolled EVERYONE in the store lmao
gotta hand it to bluesky, considering the small team over there it's pretty impressive they've been able to keep the service from fully crashing even once from my experience (and also all the work individuals have done to maintain some of the most popular feeds) while watching over a million brazilians flooded the platform when twitter got blocked
the amount of times I'll make a post and have to instantly edit it because I only realise I made a spelling or grammar mistake after I post. this still happens even though I proofread before posting 
So The Onion’s new owners have updated the site, moving it over to Wordpress (it’s actually a lot nicer now), but that in turn has broken this bot. Everything else works other than the scraper. Issues seem to be:
The bot goes to https://theonion.com/latest which doesn’t exist anymore, I’d say it’d make sense to have it grab the top headline from the homepage instead since it only posts once a day anyway.
It’s grabbing the wrong link, not sure 100% what it’s doing but it might be grabbing the new link in the top left corner of the website that links to the membership page. I’m sure this can be fixed by just having the scraper go to the article page and grabbing the url.
Article’s publish dates are still there but likely have moved in the HTML structure from what I could gleam using inspect. Likely a simple fix of just telling the scraper where to look. This is likely the same thing that happened to how it grabs the start of an article’s body.
I tried figuring it out myself to try and get the scraper working again, but I have 0 knowledge of Node.js or scrapers. I understand what might be wrong, I think, but I simply don’t know how to code it. I was hoping someone with better knowledge of this stuff would be willing to rewrite that part of the code. It’d be nice to relaunch the bot with a new account, since it the last remnant of imadeanaccount. Plus, I just like this bot honestly. Happy to help if I can.
Code is here: https://github.com/imadeanaccount1/onionbot/
for my aoty rebrand project I had to use Photoshop to create the mockups (I usually use affinity designer and affinity photo) and my god Photoshop is slowest, clunky, and irritating software I've had the displeasure of using, it's mind boggling to me that Adobe gets away with shipping such poor software.
the real reason is jeffalo wanted you to experience what it felt like to have dial up internet
also yes, wasteof (and everything else i host) is currently slow for everyone, for some reason past my modem there’s 50%+ packet loss to the internet. it could be up to a week before we see any improvement.
from what I've heard this list of "vulnerabilities" is inaccurate, but even if it was, wasteof would still be a billion times less bug ridden than twitter lmao
warning!
From the tests i have done, there are many vulnerabilities on this website, there are also a lot of bugs. Example: when posting something, if you spam click `post` it will create a post for every time you click the button, there should be an implementation to limit the time between posts and to make the button a one time click. (THIS BUG MAKES THE SITE LAG!). its also a pain to delete all of the posts if you accidentally do so as the site refreshes but will still lag and there is a small chance that the post will not be deleted. There is also a password vulnerability… maybe don’t have the user’s passwords get stored as a plain document.
THERE ARE VULNERABILITIES IN THE REPO!; Yes, even tho the repo is the legacy site and isn’t used anymore it is still good to state the vulnerabilities on the repo as people might use the template to make their own site like this and wont know of the vulnerabilities in the code:
List of the vulnerabilities on the repo: SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR), Lack of Input Validation, Insecure, Outdated Dependencies, Lack of Error Handling, Insecure Session Managemen, Storage of Sensitive Data(user and password information: Insecure Password Storage, Weak Password Hashing, Lack of Password Salting, Insecure Password Verification, Missing Password Complexity Requirements, insecure Password Reset Token Generation, insecure Password Storage in Sessions), Lack of Secure Communication… sry <3
crazy that 2020 is 4 years ago now, if you had told me now that it was actually us all collectively having a fever dream I'd probably believe you
omw to spend a solid 2 minutes pressing the up and down keys on my keyboard deciding the spacing between two elements in a UI design only to go and change it days later after looking at it again
I avoid talking about politics on here, I leave that to the discussion channel in ta's hangout. But since it's engulfed some of the folks I follow and it's also on my mind, I want to say something. So, this is your warning, politics ahead:
The current far-right, racist riots in the UK (mainly in England and some in Northern Ireland, luckily hasn't spread to my home of Scotland nor Wales yet) are harrowing, and shows how we've been failed by so many groups. The previous Tory government that used immigration as a fearmongering tool to stay in power, ironic now that islamophobes are yelling "stop the boats" while attacking Mosques. Or Nigel Farage who eagerly stoked the flames but then denies all accountability for holding the match by using a tragedy for his own political gain, plus all the other far-right losers like Andrew Tate or Tommy Robinson who is continuing to encourage violence while he sunbathes in Cyprus. Or the gutter press like The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Sun, or all the other news orgs who were too scared to call out their peers’ rhetoric that lead us here. Social media also has to answer for allowing misinfo to spread.
To those still suffering from the riots, please stay safe, this is a dark time for the UK, but tonight has given me hope, massive crowds of counter protesters in cities like London have scared off the far-right thugs, in Brighton there are thousands of anti-racist & anti-fascist protesters to 3-4 of the far-right. There is hope.
having a lot of fun making logos for the various departments and whatnot for the @president account. Basing them off of real logos from the IRL US departments, which is certainly an experience when I have not seen some of these logos before since I live in Scotland lol. hope you all are enjoying the account so far 🩷