[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Some of the human-alignment projects

And some look like "I flip shit bigger, align with me or I will flip your shit"

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I think opinionated is different from being for a non-power-user.

Click 'brave' is not opinionated, because I could click chromium instead. "There is a web browser (and it is Firefox)" is more opinionated, and easier at first, then harder if you happen to need a chromium-based browser.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I think someone else mentioned the same here, but as I've browsed down the opinions, I wonder if it's good for different communities to have their own subculture on what votes mean.

For sure, outsiders dropping by might vote 'counter-culturally' and unhelpfully, but you can get a general sense of understanding in a community.

For r/all-alike stuff I'm sure things are different.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I feel that should be balanced with: this is appropriate here so I won't downvote it, even if it's irrelevant to me.

... I suppose for big communities that averages out so it's okay, but maybe not for small

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

See, I always find it funny when people say Linux is rubbish for desktop. I main Linux and boot Windows for some games, and Windows continues to find ways to bug me while my Linux desktop feels great.

I guess YMMV

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

what would happen to distribution X if Canonical suddeny made Ubuntu closed-source?

I believe Linux Mint has done some planning for if Ubuntu does something like that - probably to rebase off Debian in that case

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Happy to have more of the y'all in English English, but personally I'd like an uptake in youse.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I count with my thumb on my finger sections (what do you call them?) rather than my fingertips. So one hand comfortably counts to 12. (You can do a similar version, with a little more stretching, to count to 16... but I can't be bothered, and besides, I like 12.)

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Why would you include your hostname in the hash? That just sounds like an invitations for a mistake to leak semi-private telemetry data.

Come to think of it.... Isn't obscured telemetry exactly what your suggestion is doing? If they get or guess your hostname by other means, then they have a nice timestamped request from you, signed with your hostname, every second

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it's possible ...and not overly undesirable... to have your instance essentially put an import tax on other instances' votes. On the one hand, it's a dangerous direction for a free and equal internet; but on the other, it's a way of allowing access to dubious communities/instances, without giving them the power to overwhelm your users' feeds. Essentially, the user gets the content of the fediverse, primarily curated by the community of their own instance.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

That's right! Put dollars in the chicken recipe!

Anyway that's my two cents.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I suppose one of the losses from Reddit is not being able to link to the "Swamps of Dagobah"...

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