I’ve seen both of those behaviors as well, but more often than those, it just never displays results.

I’m on latte.isnot.coffee and I just searched both !jerboa@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa and didn’t get results for either. Neither has a message saying that there are no search results, but neither shows any results either.

One important aspect of D&D “rules” is that theoretically there’s no specific limit on what your character can attempt. If you say your character attempts something the DM thinks clearly impossible or trivially easy, they may not even have you roll for it. “You plant your hands firmly at the base of the mountan and push and grunt, but you fail to move it noticeably.” “You squash the cockroach easily under your boot.”

I’ve noticed the same on the web UI. Searching a non-local community more often doesn’t work than does.

Also, it’s a double-edged sword. Don’t be adding your kid as an authorized user for convenience and then surprised pikachu when their credit report raises flags for big debt with no income (like my parents did.) An authorized user isn’t just someone who can use the card. Their credit score is affected by any card they’re authorized on.

If you login in a browser, it’ll most likely give you a “session cookie” that you should be able to see in the developer tools. (If you’re using Firefox’s developer tools, it’d be under the “storage” section.) The name of the cookie will generally have the word “session” in the name. After logging in, that cookie identifies you to the server, letting the server know that “this particular request is from CucumberSalad” (or whatever your user is named on that service.) Wget probably hasn’t been working because the requests from wget don’t include that cookie like the requests from your browser do.

(Just looking at my developer tools while using Lemmy, it seems like the Lemmy web ui doesn’t use session cookies but rather a JSON web token in a cookie named “jwt”, but I think that cookie would suffice if I was trying to scrape the Lemmy web ui.)

Once you have the proper cookie name and value, you can have wget send the cookie to the server with each request by adding the flag --header 'Cookie: <cookie name>=<cookie value>' (but replace the values in angle brackets. Example: --header 'Cookie: JSESSIONID=ksdjflasjdfaskdjfaosidhwe'.)

Also, if you can provide more info as to what you’re trying to scrape, folks can probably help more. Hopefully what I’ve given you is enough to get you going, but it’s possible there might be more hurtles to jump to get it working.

Not sure I have much of a solution, but if it makes you feel better you’re not alone. I do the same thing. Right now I’m back on an “improving my privacy” kick, but I to tend to get burned out and get more lax.

I expected to feel a lot of grief, but Lemmy has matured extremely quickly even since I joined like 4 days ago or so and at this point I’m just excited.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey

That makes it sound like I live a much more minimalistic life than I do. But when I write code (and writing code is a big part of my life), I apply the fuck out of that quote.

I keep catching myself starting (but so far never finishing) to type “reddit.com” into my address bar. Lol.

But more to your point, I’ve done a little more lately on side coding and learning projects while returning to some old favorite sites like Hacker News, Slashdot, and Hackaday. And I’ve found some new ones like Raddle and, well, Lemmy.

I was a reeeaaally late adopter of a smartphone and I’ve never ran anything but (Google-less) LineageOS on a Pixel 3a, so I don’t have much frame of reference, but I’m very happy with that arrangent.

I don’t trust Reddit any more. I made a comment elsewhere about why.

The excitement is infectious on the livestream.

I saw another post today about ArchiveTeam Warrior and on a lark started up a Docker container.

But it occurred to me that maybe today isn’t the best day to be archiving things. Right?

With so many subreddits shut down, isn’t ArchiveTeam going to get a whole lot of “this sub is private” messages rather than actual content?

Hopefully the mothership is smart enough to gracefully account for that. Maybe centrally, they keep track of those pages and “reassign” those pages back out to be fetched again after a good number of hours (days?) have passed.

My Android smartphone is weird. On purpose. I don’t run proprietary apps on my phone. So no Play store, for instance.

I opened a bank account lately and when I walked in and told them I wanted to open a bank account they were like “ok, first you install the app.” And rather than saying “fuck no I don’t want you assholes snooping on my phone” I said “my phone is a little weird and it’s not going to be straightforward to get your app installed on my phone.”

And they kindof pressured me to prove it to them. Show them all my apps to prove I didn’t have the play store. Scan their QR code and download it manually (which I think only didn’t work because I (purposefully) opened the download with the wrong app.)

Next time I’m in a situation like that, Imma be like “I’ll make this real simple for you. I’m not installing your app. Now do you still want my business or shall I take my business elsewhere?”

Patriot Front staged a protest of pride events in my hometown just in the last day or two. Not the first time that’s happened either. Scary stuff.