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How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by uranibaba@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think he is doing it to himself imho.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not quickly enough

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Better late than never I suppose

[–] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did this with Kim Khardashian on my pc, if I can do it for mobile too that would be lit.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering! :)

[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] madsen@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You can use the regex: /\bx\b/i

It'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.

[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Mananasi@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stuff about X-rays will be filtered, for example. You could probably go a little safer with the regex.

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Now you have two problems.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

There are so many other people that could and should be applicable to.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Too late.

[–] mark@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Neat! I follow Lemmy communities in an RSS feed so I can just filter right in my RSS reader. It's pretty nice.

[+] FaceDeer@kbin.social -19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nyar@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

His rockets suck and his cars suck.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social -5 points 11 months ago

And that's something that can be discussed entirely without jumping to "Elon Musk says bad things about people."

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

He's very much involved in the designing of those rockets. That's a fact, not opinion

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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:

the famous solar city presentation where Musk showcased several houses with solar tiles. The houses were a tv set for Desperate Hosewives, and tiles he was showing off simply didn't exist. That can't imagine a scenario where this could be an honest mistake.
the funding secured tweet from 2018 where he claimed he had enough money to take Tesla private at 420 USD / share. He got sued therefore we know he didn't - even remotly.

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.