lemmyng

@lemmyng@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean, Luigi was at my place playing xbox games when that guy got killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The politicians debating online abuse claim to mean well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not killing half the voting system to solve half of the vote manipulation. Downvotes do not even get used at the same ratio as upvotes. I’m sure someone can pull numbers, but I’d roughly estimate that in most communities no more than 10% of votes are downvotes. And even if they were, I’m not sure you quite parsed my full comment.

  • I stated very early that I don’t specifically like disabling downvotes.
  • I stated why I think that post-hoc remediations will not work.
  • I proposed a potential compromise which can be used to mitigate abuse without a blanket downvote ban.

  Blocking voting on fresh accounts is not a novel idea. As another commenter said, it’s the system used on Stack Overflow. Blocking all downvotes is not even the goal. The goal is to make brigading not worth the effort. The worst case scenario is that all downvotes get disabled (which still works, despite its unpopularity - it’s been implemented by instances like beehaw). But in the end, that’s just a baseline. It can be improved, and I like to believe that I was quite clear on that in my first comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know? I didn’t say it didn’t happen, I said that positive vote manipulation can more easily be addressed with spam prevention measures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as it pains me, I think the only solution to vote manipulation is to disable downvotes. Mind you, I don’t like it - I think downvotes are useful in a healthy self-governing community - but here’s my rationale as to why it’s the only solution:

  • The goal of negative vote manipulation is to remove visibility from content. For that, the first few hours of the post’s or comment’s lifetime are critical. Sure, a mod can remove the downvotes, but it would likely be done after the content’s attention window is over, so the damage would be done. [1]
  • Positive brigading (artificial boosting of content) is another problem, but out of scope of this post. I consider it to be in the “dealing with spam” category.

  1) As I’m writing this, it comes to mind that perhaps we can selectively disable downvotes? Just like some instances don’t allow fresh accounts to post, perhaps something similar can be done for downvoting. Maybe it can also be extended to accounts below a certain up- to downvote ratio, to avoid mass downvoters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what your perspective on fair trials is, but a single judge rushing into the chambers, asking the felon 2 questions and immediately declaring the sentence. No attorneys, no hearing. That’s some North Korean shit.

  It was pretty obvious from the first 5 minutes that this was not a short trial, and that what we see is not the full trial but the final veredict hearing. There’s even mention of the captain vying to lower the mother’s sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shrimp platters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my (non expert) opinion, the chain should be shorter than the distance of the handle to the end of the stick. Otherwise you risk pulping your knuckles with a stray flail head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  two thumbs up = 100

  So how would you distinguish this from 55?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you can also count to 12 on one hand, by counting the segments on your index through pinky fingers with the thumb. Fingertips are 1-4, middle segments 5-8, lower segments 9-12.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not disagreeing on that, my comment was more about configuration options. After 4.4 they started removing so much QoL stuff under the excuse of simplicity: the indicator LED, several volume controls, the headphone jack, made gesture controls default, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. 4.4 was the pinnacle of user-configurable Android. after that they started removing features and locking things down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They just switch the locale to Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you do Excel, then they want you to work the sheets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No contest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But well, I have only ever seen people asking about the Enterprise against the Death Star or the Enterprise against a destroyer. On both cases the Enterprise can destroy the ships without even getting in their ranges, of course

  Not just that, but Star Wars ships are effectively unshielded. The enterprise can just use the transporter to send a primed torpedo to their opponent’s bridge, or a tractor beam to rip their hull apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you rebuild your container images yourself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rebuild: no. If the software itself is unmaintained, it gets replaced.

  Patch: yes. If the base image contains vulnerabilities that can be fixed with a package update, then that gets applied. The patch size and side effects can be minimized by using copacetic, which can ingest Trivy scan results to identify vulnerabilities.

  There’s also repos like Chainguard and Docker hardened images which are handy for getting up to date images of commonly used tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given how often memes are reposted: There should probably another vote option like a "Hey, I've seen this before!" vote button beside the upvote and downvote options.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the data needs to be correlated! For example, how many people know it’s a repost but upvote it anyway because it’s a classic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course Phoronix does not report the important follow up message in the thread:

  Rust is already a hard requirement on all Debian release architectures and ports except for alpha, hppa, m68k, and sh4 (which do not provide sqv).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was not copper. Look at the spacing on the text around the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, the cliff notes on Spock's Dick: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1303328840488554499.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m including whoever wrote the Spock’s Brain episode.

  The episode’s dialogue is much better if you replace “brain” with “dick”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or magnetic USB-C adapters. Keeps the gunk out of the charging port while still retaining functionality (including fast charging). There's also charge-only adapters, which are handy for travel when you don't trust the port the phone is connected to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NFC, probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assets. That's what I get for trusting the phone keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Find companies that resell EOL corporate arrest like refurb.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [...] and mostly ignores it

  That's not where my gutter brain went after reading the first five words. Where my brain did go was a Hans Niemann scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you'd read the article (or even the excerpt that OP included), the author firmly places the blame on the American medical and insurance industry that is refusing to cover inhaler versions without greenhouse gas propellants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead they keep stacking more and more techniques to try and steer and reign in this deviation.

  I hate how the tech bros immediately say "this can be solved with an MCP server." Bitch, if the only thing that keeps the LLM from giving me wrong answers is the MCP server, then said server is the one that's actually producing the answers I need, and the LLM is just lipstick on a pig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A møøse bit my sister once...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also have better thermal stability, so less risk of uncontrolled fires.