[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 63 points 1 year ago

Like it or not, this is the curse of modern media and, in particular, social media (including Lemmy). Boring details don’t get clicks or upvotes. Hype does. If you spend much time being exposed to one sensational headline, article or discourse after another, you’re going to have a much different view of the world than those who don’t.

If you don’t believe me, walk away from internet media and cable news networks for two weeks. I guarantee you’ll notice some change in your perspective and, possibly, an even see improvement in your overall mental health.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 70 points 1 year ago

Nothing. It’s one of the alluring aspects of using third-parties. You pay a flat fee, people do work. You avoid all the overhead of HR, benefits, workers compensation and unemployment insurance. If you want someone gone there’s no process, you simply tell the third party that Joe doesn’t need to come back to work, ever, and you’re done.

Amazon and Google are not alone in this practice, nor is it exclusive to Fortune 500 companies.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aka PATA or IDE hard disks. Basically consumer grade kit.

The statement that the kernel would only ever handle IDE was basically a confession that this would never be a product suitable for enterprise or professional use where SCSI was the typical interface.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 82 points 1 year ago

Desantis didn’t have an issue raising his hand when the question was whether they would support Trump should he receive the nomination.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Senior management made the case that my unit didn’t have the appropriately documented KPIs to work from home. I made the point that we’d been operating under the existing KPIs for the last 15+ years in the office without issue so the only obvious metric missing was “butts in seats”.

While nobody clapped I’m still employed and the team does have WFH agreements in place.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 90 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is much less US-centric than Reddit.

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There's some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.

While it's not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.

Do with that what you will.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I legit believe she could pull it off.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 59 points 1 year ago

Who had “side with Zuckerberg” on their 2023 bingo card?

No, me neither.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 58 points 1 year ago

Some people take unkindly to downvotes. On Reddit they’d just add and “Edit: fuck you guys and your downvotes… pussies!” And be gone.

On Lemmy they can target you personally. Maybe search your post history in an attempt to dox you. Redditors would expect this possibility if they commented and might refrain from doing so to avoid the potential harassment. Most people would never suspect that it could happen as the result of a simple upvote.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not just YOUR server admin... Anybody capable of setting up a Lemmy instance has access to this data.

While most people at discuss.tchncs.de may assume that /u/milan and /u/erAck can see this type of thing, it may not be obvious that so can /u/muddybulldog@mylemmy.win or /u/ruud@lemmy.world and every other instance admin in the world can, as well.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 128 points 1 year ago

Knowing they're visible on kbin made me realize that most Lemmy users probably weren't aware, as it's non-obvious.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 76 points 1 year ago

and not interacting with anyone else.

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Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)...

What you see via the UI isn't "all that exists". Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see "under the hood". Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won't normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

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