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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do posts from instances that don't allow downvotes have an unfair advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
If I understand the rules correctly, the problem is that voting with your feet doesn’t work because trolls can use no-downvote instances to do some major trolling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do posts from instances that don't allow downvotes have an unfair advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It seems odd to me that we would federate with instances lacking such basic functionality. Not allowing their users to downvote is one thing, but if they don’t recognize downvotes from other instances, that sort of ruins the whole upvote/downvote dynamic for everyone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Galaxy Class Starship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I assumed it was just Sync being weird. I guess not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you notice Lemmy is quieter than usual, thean have a look at the Lemmy.world status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I think we’ll be good if everyone splits up relatively evenly between the top 10-20 instances.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meanwhile electron⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I was talking specifically about NodeJS servers. JS has much better execution speed than Python due to having JIT compilation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
What issue do you have with not automatically opening a link externally? Some apps have a setting in-app for whether or not to use an external browser.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Press the 3 dots when you’re in a web view and go to “Open in Firefox.” I don’t know how to make it automatic, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, that’s the dystopia we’re ~~headed towards~~ already arriving at, except I’m not fucking happy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meanwhile electron⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Well, it’s faster than Python.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It should be illegal to restrict what people can do with their own goddamn motherfucking private property.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The link still isn’t in the post.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Plot twist: you’re just a British smoker.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit Happens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It depends on how badly you need to use the site. If you need it and it’s your site, it’s a lot better because you can fix it. If you don’t need it, you still have to fix it if it’s yours, but you can just walk away if it isn’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movies vs life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds really complicated! My daily driver is Windows (I know, I know… I can’t give up my games), so I’m not sure that would even be possible for me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movies vs life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I like visual simplicity. Other than the terminal, I usually maximize all of my windows. I’ve just gotten good at using alt-tab and win-# to quickly flip between windows as needed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movies vs life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I hate even just having a background that isn’t a solid color if any software is running. I could never use a transparent screen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing C++ is easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m confused by your comment. Yes, that is a major benefit of using Rust. That was my point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing C++ is easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Rust has better runtime errors, too. If you run a dev build, it should pretty much never segfault unless you use unsafe.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ISP see when I use custom DNS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The ISP can still see which IPs you’re visiting, so couldn’t they cover most cases by just doing their own lookup, but backwards?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC is seeking public comments on an ESRB proposal to use facial recognition for COPPA verification.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The article is vague. If this goes through, will it require everyone to upload pictures of themselves, or just people who have accounts with parental controls on game stores?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Improperly wiring something up on your property with the risk of causing a fire makes that action no longer confined to your property, even if before the fire, all of the wiring is on your side of the line. There’s simply no reasonable way for just a shed without the accidental pyrotechnics can bring enough risk of harm to your neighbors that it could be considered a violation of their rights.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
If it’s not to code, just tear it down before selling the place. A not up to code shed on your own property isn’t a threat to your neighbors unless they’re trespassing on your property. Arguing that it shouldn’t be allowed because it looks bad is the real-estate equivalent of trying to pass a law to force women to smile at all times so that men have eye candy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rules for bots on lemm.ee & Lemmy programming stream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I think cracking down on bots is a great idea. I hope there’s a way to deal with existing bots too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Tell me more about how me building a shed for myself that nobody else ever even looks at causes harm to anyone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
New law: every time they lock someone out of a game they paid for, either for lack of Internet or any other reason, they have to give a 1,000% refund and the contents of the CEO’s phone get uploaded to their store to be downloaded for free.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I fucking love that Valve is privately owned and hope it stays that way forever. It seems like they’re the only game store not subject to enshittification and I’m sure that not being a public company is a huge part of why. They’ve kept their amazing search feature all this time, just put out a significant UI update that helps UX a lot on high res monitors, and still let you play without updating if you go into offline mode (though it is a bit of a hassle).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Laws that prevent people from doing what they want on their own property when it doesn’t hurt anyone else are completely unjustifiable tools of oppression. Anything that helps the state enforce those laws is inherently bad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve been a 3PA user for years, so that never really happened to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Well Reddit still gets to decide which posts/subs to show over other ones based on voting and engagement metrics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This is pedantic, but misinformation is accidental, while disinformation is intentional. Lying with propaganda and astroturfing are examples of disinformation.