How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer
Using uBlock Origin, you can add your own filter. This filter will block any post with the text "Elon Musk" (not case sensitive), modify as needed.
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon musk/i"))
div.post-listing is the element to block
:has(args) returns elements where args evaluate to true
span is the element with the title text
:has-text(needle) returns the element if it has the next needle, supports regex with \needle\ and remove case sensitivity with i
Read more here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-filters
I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.
I think he is doing it to himself imho.
Not quickly enough
Better late than never I suppose
Did this with Kim Khardashian on my pc, if I can do it for mobile too that would be lit.
uBlock works on Firefox mobile, filters can be set.
Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering! :)
What I really want is a browser plugin that replaces any mention of "Ron Johnson" with "Ron Johnson, THAT fucker"
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/19/ron-johnson-spending-blockade-puts-government-shutdown-in-focus/70895824007/
"Ron Johnson, THAT fucker's blockade of spending measure puts government shutdown in focus"
There are so many other people that could and should be applicable to.
Too late.
I have been wondering how I could do the same for X (formerly known as twitter). I'm tired of reading about it every day. I don't know how to filter it out since it's just one letter and it'll filter out everything just containing an X in a word
You can use the regex:
/\bx\b/iIt'll catch 'x' surrounded by word boundaries (stuff like spaces, dashes/hyphens, commas, etc.) but not 'x' with other letters on either side, so it won't match e.g. "sax" or "boxer", but it'll match "x.com" and "Elon's X" and stuff. It's probably not perfect though, so use with caution.
Stuff about X-rays will be filtered, for example. You could probably go a little safer with the regex.
Now you have two problems.
Yeah, there's room for improvement. I did say, though, that it probably wasn't perfect. I'm sure someone more patient than me can come up with a much more effective regex.
It's sadly not perfect as @Mananasi@feddit.nl also states, and since I like maths related stuff too and science it'll likely filter out too much stuff. But I appreciate your efforts. An ai algorithm or a community created blacklist is probably the only solution.
Yeah, good points. I did note, though, that it probably wasn't perfect. I kinda figured it would probably catch other stuff too but I couldn't think of anything specific at the time.
Don't block them, we need you to help downvote them.
No thanks let the bots have at it at this point.
Neat! I follow Lemmy communities in an RSS feed so I can just filter right in my RSS reader. It's pretty nice.
And I heartily encourage people who loathe Elon Musk to do this. Perhaps then it will be easier to discuss subjects like reusable rocketry or electric cars without so much "but the Twitter!" digression.
He’s not designing the rockets, dude. He’s on ketamine posting rot about The Jews. The world does not need Elon Musk to have technological progress.
So doesn't that make it even more reasonable to not constantly jump in with how awful Elon Musk is when discussing SpaceX's rockets?
No, fuck him
He's very much involved in the designing of those rockets. That's a fact, not opinion
There is exactly one patent with his name on it and it's the shitty door handle that breaks all the fucking time. I'll believe he's involved with the rocketry division the moment he develops any kind of engineering experience or skill that he's willing to show the public, which if he had it, given that he's an ego driven megalomaniac, the public would definitely have seen.
Anyone capable of dispassionately studying this subject even one level deeper than the headlines can quite easily find a ton of sources proving he's both personally involved in the design progress of these rockets as well as quite competent on many fields relating to it. It's understandable that people hate him but spreading lies is where I draw the line.
I would argue that anyone capable of dispassionately studying this subject can equally easily find that Elon Musk is not a reliable source of information (I'd dare say a liar) , eg:
I don't know whether Elon is a genius or not - but when somebody, who is proven to be somewhat creative with the truth, also claims that he is a genius - specially in the "I know more about manufacturing than anyone else alive" manner - I don't think it is unreasonable to have doubts.
The discussion was about wether he's personally involved in the design of the SpaceX rockets or not.
This is what I'm arguing against.
Yes?
I'm often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like 'why are you worried about fuel, it's not that expensive, guys' because he didn't understand the questions. He didn't understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn't understand the rocket equation. He doesn't understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.
A bunch of ass-kissers and people who don't work there think he's an engineering genius are quoted in a Reddit post and you think it's true.
They had a whole group babysitting him into making the correct decisions. Just look at the design disaster that truck is, do you think he can find his behind with his both hands when it comes to space rockers?
Lol
His rockets suck and his cars suck.
His cars really suck, the amount of build quality problems on those cars is way too high for a car that costs as much as it does
And that's something that can be discussed entirely without jumping to "Elon Musk says bad things about people."