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Lemmy moderation is frustrating as hell

I’ve been posting in the meme communities in Lemmy for a few months now. For the most part, if I make some silly meme about how broke I am or how bad American healthcare is, it doesn’t get removed and the meme does well. But I’ve had several memes get removed that I was pretty sure don’t violate the rules of the instance...

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in other words, you’re upset that memes that punch up are accepted and memes that punch down aren’t

Respect should extend to everyone. No exceptions.

The philosophical architects of liberalism made an exception for savages, people too backwards to appreciate liberty. Socialism made exceptions for the bourgeois, people too attached to their ownership of the means of production to be beyond saving. Conservatism is built upon the idea that some people are better than others....

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.”

—Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance”, Newsweek (1980-01-21)

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  • the launcher starts with updating itself and grabbing the most recent file manifest
  • launcher then prioritizes the game engine itself before starting on the data files
  • data files (textures, models, maps, etc.) are then prioritized by what the developer thinks you are most likely to encounter first (ie. starter towns, main cities, new content, etc.)
  • once the game engine is ready and some certain amount of base data is downloaded, the game will be marked as playable
  • most likely you will never notice anything but if you zone into an area where the data hasn’t been downloaded yet then you’ll get some lag and texture flickering as the game tries to shove that content to the front of the queue
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“because hey, you know, the modders will fix that”

Make the vote UI consistent

I can see downvotes on comments, but on posts there’s only a total score. Can you please make the UI consistent by either giving posts both up and down votes visibility, which would be my preferred course of action, or make comments have only a total value shown like posts? It’s a pet peeve of mine, I mainly just want to see...

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it’s a problem inherit with federation:

  • Lemmy allows upvotes and downvotes
  • allowing downvotes is instance dependent
  • visibility of totals/upvotes/downvotes is theme dependent
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considering how willing they were to throw vendors like EVGA under the bus, trying to figure out what pressure Nvidia listens too might be a challenge in of of itself …

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(this is all from an outsider, so grain of salt)

  • is something like Coffitivity as much of a stressor?
  • in the same vein, does Adriano Celentano’s faux English Prisencolinensinainciusol cause as many problems?
  • how are you with true noise – white noise, pink noise, brown noise?
  • my guess, with breakcore and the like, you know there’s a level of coherency and your subconscious can hear it whereas with crowd noise, not only are you fighting the volume levels, but your subconscious is expecting a level of coherency (triggered by snippets intelligible words, phrases, phonemes) that doesn’t exist and it is exhausting itself trying to “make it make sense” – your mind is attempting to piece unmatched jigsaw puzzle pieces together at very high speed
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mental healthcare instead of being beaten to death by cops

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throw in “wanting to do something” versus “having to do something” – I want to build my own keyboard so I spend the time to learn about them, I have to use Windows at work but as long as it doesn’t catastrophically break I’m not spending any more of my time on it than I have to – if it does break, there’s the paid IT department who’s going to be oh-so-thrilled that Amateur McJones decided he could fix it himself …

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just missing a scanline filter …

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https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/aec687b2-a21b-4735-956b-197fab49ee77.webp

even spookier – Comictober 4: Pumpkin by KB Comics

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as @Travalaaaaaaanche! mentioned, it’s just a form of brinksmanship – they don’t care “how it affects people” so long as they get their way

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(have heard a similar argument about Python – there’s no killer app and it’s not the best, but it’s good enough and just keeps going)

Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)

The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is...

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a service that started out as a way to stalk girls turned out so bad? who knew?

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just because you’re not using their service doesn’t mean they aren’t using your shadow profile

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network effect – easy when it’s just you – but then you need to convince all your friends and family to switch over as well – and they’re not interested because it would mean convincing all their friends and family too … best you can hope for is a trust thermocline, a catastrophic event that’s more likely to leave millions of Facebook users floundering in anger than in curiosity at alternatives …

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when the punishment is less than the profit, there’s no incentive not to deceive …

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from the company that now completely ignores all the search syntax they trained us on – when -, +, “…” actually meant something

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Cory Doctorow’s post this morning – Google’s enshittification memos

“Google search is so bad you might as well ask Jeeves.”

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I agree with: “At least they have some form of bug reporting.” :-(

most of the time, your only recourse is the same method dealing with any other crap company – calling them out on social media – so many are far more concerned about 1-star reviews and public perception than they are about paying customers

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another resource to keep an eye on – InstallingDebianOn – stumbled across it after watching a couple videos with Debian on RISC-V SBCs

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(every music agent would love to know which bands will still be around in a decade)

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our Overton window has gotten shoved so far right that anything vaguely to the left of center is viewed as “far left” (conservatives are even happy to shove center-right in with “far left”)

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  • “How do you do, fellow kids?”
  • “I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me”
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combine that with their penchant for “every accusation is a confession”

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Overton window – not the actual politics shifting so much as our view of those politics has shifted – instead of sitting over a centrist position keeping both left-wing and right-wing in view, the American window is positioned over right-wing bringing far-right into the perception of being acceptable and moving left-wing into the perception of being extremist

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yes

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new ad rotations

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no one cancels people faster than triggered conservative snowflakes …

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don’t forget the plural form – all y’all

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Ventoy and try out all of them …

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(from Aug 2022) New evidence shows planting around school playgrounds protects children from air pollution

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would’ve still fought him because their job isn’t to stop evil, it’s to maintain the status quo

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saw a comment a couple days ago – “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”

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lake turnover – in spring and fall, water temperatures equalize enough that water near the bottom moves up to the top taking the smells of algae along with it – usually only lasts a week or two each time

EDIT: safety issue – keep your water heater at 140°F or higher to prevent Legionnaires’ disease

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  • you get it more often in temperate climates, with hot climates, there’s usually not enough temperature shifts to push turnover
  • the algae or “pond water” smell is distinctive, if you haven’t noticed it before, then likely something else happening this time
  • agree with the other answers, pick up a testing kit off Amazon – your body can handle a lot of mineral content, but you don’t want to risk biological contamination
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… but shawarma/gyro/doner sauce on fries is SO much better than ketchup …

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  • reinforcing others’ comments – “define the lifestyle you want”
  • do you really want to move up to management? – not just social skills, management requires both a different skillset and mindset – there’s no shame staying on the technical/development/engineering side of things
  • in your off-time, try out stuff and find what feels most comfortable
    • backend? – there can be more focus on interoperability over performance, plenty of companies trying to get their web frontends working with enterprise backends that they’re never planning on upgrading – ex. there’s still a huge call for COBOL programmers
    • embedded? – between maker communities and self-hosting communities, there’s a big hobbyist community sitting outside the corporate sphere – ex. programming microcontollers/SBCs in C, MicroPython, PicoRuby, Forth/Factor, …
    • 8-bit? – tools, programs, and games for virtual consoles (uxn, Pico8, TIC-80), chiptunes and tracker music (keeping the legacy of Amiga MODs alive)
    • Android? – pick up some Go or Dart/Flutter skills (one of the current maintainers of Dart, Bob Nystrom, has put out Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters and likes programming roguelikes)
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  • icebox
  • root cellar
  • in a solarpunk future, we would’ve switched from supermarkets back to markets – more focus on freshness than shelf-life, you only buy what you need for meals for that day, less focus on long term storage (preservation over refrigeration)
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also: trust thermocline and enshittification

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(I’ve been calling that “the Blizzard apology”)

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Unity (led by an ex-EA CEO to give you an idea where this is headed) decided to change their pricing model to charging $0.20 per install (if you’re over $200K revenue and 200K installs) – they haven’t clarified how they’re planning on tracking install numbers (ie. can someone use a VM to tank a competitor?) – then someone pointed out they quietly changed their TOS back in April to “allow” this to go through – and apparently they’ve sent out letters saying they’ll wave the install fee if you use their own IronSource ad system instead of the AppLovin ad system – needless to say, devs are panicking, Godot is seeing a huge influx, and Unity has maintained radio silence all weekend … Monday should be “interesting” …

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  • if you’re using Unity, you definitely want someone knowledgeable looking over all the terms and details (ie. I am not a lawyer)
  • from Sunday’s tweet, it seems they’re considering changes to their new pricing model in reaction to the blow back (“what? people got upset?”)
  • new pricing model doesn’t take effect until 1 Jan 2024
  • looks like they were planning on charging for any installs (for new and old games) from that point on
  • the changes to the TOS they sneaked through a few months back makes it look like they are trying to apply the new terms retroactively and replace whatever terms were in place when the game was developed – which sounds all sorts of shady (but then again, it’s an ex-EA CEO … )
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only other repository that’s on the scale of AUR is the Nix repository – more packages and more up-to-date packages

(and you can install the Nix package manager on whatever OS without having to replace your OS with NixOS)

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heads up: I don’t have any experience with either the package manager or NixOS, but I’ve been looking over both because I like both the idea of a declarative system (everything defined by one master config file) and an immutable system (harder to break things)

for just using the package manager – you can use their online package search which will give you options for installing using the package manager (nix-env), installing under NixOS (editing configuration.nix), or trying out a temporary install (nix-shell) – ex. installing Firefox ESR on a non-NixOS system would be nix-env -iA nixpkgs.firefox-esr

the full manual for the package manager is also online – but a big heads up, if you’re planning on doing anything beyond just installing/removing packages, things can get a little hairy – Nix uses their own functional programming language (also called Nix) to define/declare everything

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