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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very important update: it's up to 14 poptarts!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Is the Borzoi named Abbey?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
With a moderately careful user and a slightly more robust implementation it would have done exactly what it was meant to do, and what my ultimate goal is - which is to enable (but not guarantee) a longer term, archival level of privacy. The concept is not perfect, but it is a massive improvement, which could lay the groundwork for a future framework where user privacy and community management are both handled in more elegant ways. Without going into too many details, I am extremely well aware of how data gets linked to users in this way, which is why I am so adamant and vocal about this particular threat. I am not just sounding an alarm to keep my skin smooth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The way it was implemented was that a user was basically two accounts - one voted, one commented. You could ban either one without knowing the other. The point being that if the issue was vote manipulation, you could ban the voting agent and be done with it. If the issue was as content violation then you could ban the other account and be done with it. It was literally just like having an app where you can log in with two accounts at once and choose which one to use to vote vs comment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, that is exactly how the original piefed implementation worked, which was a fantastic compromise between true anonymous voting and the need for community management. But this wasn't enough for a small subset of admins and mods who did not actually thing the issue through, and took offense under the guise of "vote brigading."
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Having a single voting agent per user doesn't change that though. If you've got downvote trolls you can just ban the voting agent just like you could otherwise ban the sockpuppet. All it does it allow actual users to have a small bit important layer of privacy which allowed them to vote on content they might not otherwise choose to comment on. The Charlie Kirk thing is an absolutely perfect example of a scenario where one might want to upvote a meme without taking the risk of joining the conversation. Having that vote registered as xxyyttrreedd instead of "socsa" makes it a lot harder for someone to come back a month or a year later and say "wow, I saw my coworker's account name over their shoulder and I can't believe they voted on this meme."
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The voting agents can still be identified and banned. As with all of these imagined issues, a single permanent voting agent introduces no actual vulnerability above normal sockpuppets without voting agents. Misbehave in the votes, ban the voting agent. Misbehave in the comments, ban the user. In terms of just vote manipulation, it literally does not reduce the effort of the troll or increase the work of the mod.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What debate? This was discussed mostly in a discord stovepipe. There was one open thread about it in the piefed meta community which never showed up in my feed.

The frustrating thing is that the problems were entirely imagined. Having a voting agent is literally no different from me having a voting alt, except it's only one instead of unlimited. I could write a browser plugin which restores the functionality that could do far more damage, so if a single voting agent is truly a game breaking issue, then the alleged problems are far more fundamental. But they aren't. There was never any actual problem and this whole thing was just shitty forum politics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We've been over this before. I believe my ability to explicitly control how my information and privacy is handled on the fediverse is far more important than fake Internet points, especially when you can eliminate the impact of vote brigading by just reducing the impact of downvotes, or let a mod selectively wipe downvotes, or selectively make a post immune to downvotes. There's absolutely no reason why every action I make on the fediverse ahould be saved in plaintext in a thousand different places so that a person can be protected from seeing a largely inconsequential negative number on a UI. It's absolutely insane that so many people who are otherwise so concerned with privacy and cyber security even attempt to defend this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They don't actually give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just want a catalyst for their enabling acts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You know you want to
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It was absolutely the reason why I switched. I know several other people who made accounts for the same reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Mostly I'm talking about various algorithmic ways to diminish or eliminate the influence of downvotes for post ranking purposes. Nothing that can be done without forking Lemmy or piefed unfortunately. Even something like downvotes don't actually rank posts, but enough of them will auto-report content would be better than what we have.

It's unfortunate that nobody wants to put serious effort into this kind of thing though, because it feels like admins are addicted to the tiny amount of insider power which comes with watching public votes, so there's no incentive to implement features which might allow closing that obnoxious privacy hole.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Piefed's original surge in popularity was arguably due to the main dev quickly implementing a voting agent function for pseudonymous voting. It wasn't perfect but it worked quite well until a bunch of other admins got butthurt about it and basically convinced rimu to abandon the idea in some discord back channels.

I have been vocal about my opinion that this was a mistake, and that public voting is the number one biggest issue with the fediverse at the moment (besides tankies, but that's a problem which will wither away with more users). Nothing good can come out of public voting though. People have this idea that it's some panacea for vote manipulation, but there are way better ways to handle that than IMO
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I'm glad more people are starting to come around on this. Maybe rimu will resurrect voting agents for piefed if the sentiment becomes common enough.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I still want a placebo downvote button but I don't want it to do anything. Othet than that, I agree - public votes are cancer and 90% of the cancer involves down votes. It's a shame piefed caved to forum politics on this issue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pied⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I'll allow it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important update: It's 10 poptarts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Great now it has captured my soul
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Fucking welfare queens thinking they are just entitled to blood like that
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
K
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This guy over here doesn't even know about java.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Shit I don't have any kids
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So it's basically the standard platformer formula going back three or more decades?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
We saw a massive, concerted "don't vote, bot sides are the same" effort in Lemmy. It was incredibly obvious and shocking that some people still deny it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It's even worse on Lemmy because there are fewer users and the amount of data which can be gotten from things like vote data is super valuable.

I am pretty convinced that a non-trivial portion of .ml users are information warfare trainees who get trained on Lemmy before being moved over the Facebook and reddit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misogyny or something... Idk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Left thumb, upper ankle, clavicle, ears, appendix
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there no good inexpensive CAD software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I really don't understand why people have so much trouble with FreeCAD. It does everything the other software does, it just crashes on occasion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Right, Obama didn't snap his fingers and fix every problem in the world or country, but it really felt like we were finally getting to a point where we had a new liberal voting coalition which would start to push US politics left, so that we could finally unwind a lot of those underlying legacy issues.

Fixing the core issues which created this "obligate imperialism" in the first place were never going to be fixed in the span of one decade, but Obama arguably set us up to grind out more progress in the next administration.

That's why this whole thing is so frustrating. We were on the path to a supreme court majority and burying a lot of old school conservative ideas in the coming decades, and now we are farther away than ever, because so many people can't see the long game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It was 2014. That was the final year of that Obama high where things really felt like they were turning a corner before we were slowly confronted with a world where Donald Trump might actually be president, and the only one standing in his way was somehow Hillary Clinton, a woman that Republicans had been preparing to beat for literally 20 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nature: exists.

Humans:
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current limiting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Turning a voltage sensing relay into a current sensing relay is basically just putting a small resistor in parallel with the sensing pins and setting the cutoff accordingly. Or like the other poster said, using the pico to do the same thing with pwm control, or just driving a FET on the power feed if you want to avoid writing pwm control code.