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- Comment on Before GPS There Was LORAN 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It shows you love them 2 weeks ago:
I would’ve assumed so too, but nope! I even checked before posting to make sure.
Here in Atlanta, the “big four” local network affiliates are owned by Tegna, Meredith, Cox, and Fox, respectively. The nearest Sinclair station is apparently in Macon.
- Comment on It shows you love them 2 weeks ago:
Just don’t make the mistake of installing OTA antennas for them like I did. Put all the old black-and-white movies they want to watch on a Jellyfin server instead.
- Comment on It shows you love them 2 weeks ago:
I finally, after much cajoling (and more importantly, after much increase in the monthly bill) got my parents to finally cut cable TV entirely. I even made sure they got Netflix as their streaming service so that they wouldn’t be exposed to any commercials.
Now they sit around watching mostly OTA TV all day, with so many ads for medicine and mortgage scams and other old-people shit that I can’t fathom how they can even stand it, let alone prefer it.
The one small comfort is that at least the local news in my area isn’t owned by Sinclair.
- Comment on It shows you love them 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery 2 weeks ago:
Did you consider using the FreeCAD Gridfinity Workbench (or, for that matter, writing a patch for it to support drawers)?
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 weeks ago:
Hi folks, I’m the mod @GreenKnight23 is complaining about.
I removed four of his comments for incivility, out of the eight he had posted in the thread at the time. I chose those four and only those four because they consisted pretty much entirely of insults and accusations against another user. I omitted the other four because, while some of them contained incivility too, they also contained valid arguments and/or weren’t as egregious.
The comments removed were:
- lemmy.world/comment/14285074
- lemmy.world/comment/14288217
- lemmy.world/comment/14288405
- lemmy.world/comment/14285112
The contents of these comments are visible in the !fuckcars modlog:
lemmy.world/modlog/3902?page=1&actionType=All
He then proceeded to post the paranoid unhinged rant attacking me that he copied above, basically leaving me no choice but to ban him. After some waffling over the duration (which you can also see reflected in the modlog), I chose to temporarily ban him for 1 day, the shortest interval possible.
The contents of that removed comment are not visible in the !fuckcars modlog.
Later, he wrote the comment here in !selfhosted I’m now replying to (which I noticed because it showed up in my inbox due to the username mention) and I read that he claimed that all of his comments in the thread were removed. At first I thought it was just a blatant lie and began writing a rebuttal, but then I realized that he’s right: all of them are gone, and there are no entries in the modlog detailing why they were removed or who did it.
I think what happened was that when I banned him, I checked the “remove content” checkbox thinking that it removed the comment I was banning him for, but it apparently removed all of his comments in the thread instead. Worse, it doesn’t record in the modlog that that’s what it did. On top of that, unbanning him doesn’t undo the comment removals, which is unfortunate because testing that possibility and then re-banning him afterward reset the timer to the full 24 hours again.
Anyway, I’ve looked through the thread and attempted to individually restore the comments I never intended to remove. That in itself is difficult because I can’t see what the original text was until I restore it, and the comment IDs apparently change(!) when the original text is overwritten or when they’re viewed in context or something (I haven’t quite figured out the reason yet), so I can’t just match the numbers in the URLs. Nevertheless, the state of his comments in the thread should be as intended now. Also, I learned something new about how moderation works, so that’s nice I guess.
P.S.: I’d like to give a special shout-out to this comment of his…
…which I not only didn’t remove initially but also went to the trouble of restoring, even though it almost certainly deserves removal, just because of the minuscule chance that the deleted comment it’s replying to contained something that somehow justified it. That’s how lenient I’ve intended to be this entire time, and had still been in practice at the point @GreenKnight23 posted his rant.
P.P.S. I’m not actually colluding with any other users, BTW.
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 2 weeks ago:
Aside from the obvious I, Robot movie allusion, this idea doesn’t really work in the real world because robots have to be able to detect the presence and anticipate the actions of non-robots anyway. Unless you’re willing to ban all the actual people from the street, which is unreasonable, robot-to-robot communication doesn’t actually help you.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
As a newly-appointed moderator myself, I think “customer service representatives curating a space” is going a little too far. I see myself more as a janitor taking out the trash while doing my best to leave all the art alone, whether I like it or not.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
Man, I’m only at the “Company Ethos” question (at the very beginning) and I already don’t like the choices it’s giving me.
- Comment on *agressively keeps pressing 0* 2 weeks ago:
Some of the shittier companies will straight-up hang up on you if you try spamming 0 these days.
- Comment on Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave. 2 weeks ago:
we don’t know if the worker is even eligible for leave under fmla or from amazon employee benefits, nor do we know why the workplace denied the request.
Counterpoint: every worker ought to be eligible for FMLA and employer benefits, from day 1.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 2 weeks ago:
You say that, but then why do things like Tumblr and Reddit keep trying to ban the sex to appease advertisers?
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 2 weeks ago:
I probably just missed its weak point and didn’t think to look up how to beat it
Hint: you have to aim down from above it.
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to find a friend and play Half-Life: Decay, then.
- Comment on Elon Musk uses cybertruck explosion to show Tesla can remotely unlock and monitor vehicles 2 weeks ago:
This is why those of us who actually are paying attention have been planning to continue driving our 2000s-and-older cars indefinitely.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 weeks ago:
He’s not wrong: if the topic isn’t within your circle of control, then worrying over it is just mentally masturbating to disaster porn.
The key is that the advice to ignore such things isn’t about advocating for blissful ignorance like you think it is. It’s that shrinking your circle of concern frees up your focus to grow your circle of control.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 weeks ago:
Why, that’s not nice at all! That’s terrible!
spoiler
(Yes, I know it’s the city name.)
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 2 weeks ago:
The only app I have that does such a thing does it because it’s deliberately gamified for your benefit and tracking/summarizing your achievements for that year. IMO any other kind of app doing that is a gigantic red flag and you ought to delete it and find a replacement in the F-Droid repository (which consists entirely of Free Software that is much less likely to contain those sorts of dark patterns and other antifeatures) instead.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 2 weeks ago:
Welp, that was just as ominous and Chinese curse-y as “prepare for unforseen consequences.” Not sure I’m a fan of it applied IRL. 😬
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 3 weeks ago:
Now if you try to do that with a Cybertruck…
Then your confusion runs considerably deeper than which side the gasoline filler door is on!
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 3 weeks ago:
The mnemonic I use is that longitude lines are all equally long, which means they must be the one that are meridians and thus go north-south.
In contrast, latitude lines are all different lengths, analogous to how being given latitude in the figurative sense affords you freedom of choice.
(I’m willing to bet there’s an Age of Exploration sailing idiom somewhere in that etymology, BTW – probably something about how straying north or south of your target course in order to catch the right wind is no big deal because you can just use your sextant to keep track of it, but straying farther east or west than you intend means you’re screwed because chronometers hadn’t been invented yet.)
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 3 weeks ago:
(Please correct me if I’m wrong!)
You got longitude and latitude backwards, but otherwise 👍
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 3 weeks ago:
If I understand correctly, it’s kinda like an add-on IPMI, in the sense that it doesn’t rely on the target computer’s OS to be running to work.
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 3 weeks ago:
In the Miata community, it’s called “Doing The Thing.”
- Comment on Merry Christmas to all you retro folk! 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of SkiFree.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 5 weeks ago:
WHETHER IT’S YOUR DICK OR YOUR MOTORCYCLE IS LEFT UP TO INTERPRETATION
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, he wasn’t talking about picking the cat up by the scruff of the neck, only squeezing it there.
Anyway, regardless of your anecdote, it is a real thing: cambridge.org/…/CFCC52F39F2235340C1DBA4630EC07F0
- Comment on Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles 1 month ago:
Frankly, the cybertruck rust is 100% inexcusable. Elon Musk is absolutely incompetent compared to John Delorean, who managed to pick the right stainless steel alloy even while being distracted by both the Troubles and cocaine smuggling.
