aye exactly. since voting is apparently a big thing now, if we have to work within it, some ideas might help such as mentioned above where hackernews prevents downvoting replies to you.

some other ideas

• permit upvoting but downvotes require a textbox reply (imo downvoting without a valid explanation is just noise, and we want signal over noise right?)

• self posts not being upvoted (all posts start at 0)

• i really like how lemmy shows both up & down rather than final value on alot of sites

• no voting until you ‘earn your stripes’. not perfect, but somewhat helps at keeping voting within domain expertise.

eg. i ‘fucking love science’, but just because an answer feels nice to me on nuclear rocket surgery doesn’t mean my vote should count. let alone be equal to someone with expertise

how so?

check here for some basic examples. eg. it can be used to leak info from one context to another.

there’s ofc legit uses for it too, which is why i argue for user intervention.

chromium based browsers behave like that if I’m not mistaken

i may be wrong? but my understanding is they’ll currently limit resources, but execution still takes place? that’s definitely useful, but my argument is for for an option where CPU resources be limited to 0 in background (without user intervention).

background/defocused tabs are ‘paused’ by default.

paused meaning no runtime execution of scripts or anything else.

firstly, there’s always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.

secondly, it’s almost always wasting cycles, so its just wasteful of resources and energy.

ofc with some option for you to eg. right-click on a tab and mark it as ‘runtime in background’ or something, for webmail or messengers etc which you do want runtime.

but it should essentially be whitelisted.

i’ve actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it.

probably an unpopular view but tbh i think voting has ruined modern forums

firstly its much much easier to game, and for big platforms to fake

but more to the point, voting makes excellent sense when the topic is something with a clearly provable right/wrong answer. eg. technical questions are ideal for voting, where the wrong information does belong at the bottom because its simply wrong and in most cases most people can easily verify if it works or doesn’t work.

instead we get voting for everything now, so it merely becomes a poll of opinions not facts, but unfortunately our monkey brains sees the numbers and somewhat equates emotions with facts.

oldschool forums ALREADY HAD a poll feature, so when we wanted a poll we could get one. now everything is a poll, and when everything is a poll nothing is especially meaningful.

does doing so mean you can bypass the microsoft account bs?

imo honor is roughly a synonym for integrity.

yet integrity means different things to different people.

and people also mistake honor and pride.

you make excellent points, but not sure i can agree with your conclusion

if we had full source a variety of automated analysis and hardening tooling could be applied which is much much more efficient compared to parsing the arch docs.

Gesturefy just installed now, seem great so far. ty

not fav, but deserving a mention is Sabine Hossenfelder she’s certainly weighed in on topics she probably should’ve stayed out of. But her ability to cut through science/physics bs is pretty high. As with everyone, you have to take and leave certain perspectives they offer.

as someone who was among those early to point out the incoming dangers of bots manipulating discussion,

i’ve recently begun to think i’ve massively underestimated the extent and breadth of bot manipulation of public perception

but the dome is round, yeah? :>

We need holidays and celebrations for all cultures.

It’s harder to be racist when you’ve got the day off because of someone’s cultural celebration.

true kindness would be to not demonise and ban entheogentic medicines with thousands of years of contemporary peer review in the sickening pursuit of corporate greed

cos nothing proves “microsoft <3 opensource” like releasing a project over ⅓ of a century old

I love the way you think.

great news, openai keeps getting more open by the minute

/s

nice! how to you assess if the old appliance is likely to be salvagable or not? either when viewing online, or in person at their place?

https://librivox.org/

If ads are a form of payment, then unsolicited ads are theft

brilliantly put, love it!!

when anything is that important, the medicine must be opensourced ¹.

if so, and it’s handled correctly, you can still have body autonomy in those situations due to the resulting freedoms - much akin in nature to the software foss freedoms we all cherish. and in that sense, would not be a limit of “Your body, your choice". while still maintaining, if not increasing, the public protection to such threats.

it was really refreshing to see some discussion in public health policy from some very smart and relevant people for opensourcing those medications. unsurprisingly it was swiftly shot down, but it was nice to at least see it taking place - which is a small positive change.

¹ naturally we decouple authentication and traceability from commercial interests. and ofc it does not mean noone gets paid