Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!
These would have to be added to Lemmy development, because currently I can delete a post of my own on a community on another instance and there isn’t a technical way to prevent it. Reporting and banning for behavior is tricky too unless you manage to remember the username of who posted it.
So, that’s an uphill battle at the development level and the moderation level.
How is it easier to delete a post every time than to set preferences to not be emailed just once, then you never have to again?
I think the mods/admins would have more accurate info on how often it’s happening.
It doesn’t make sense, either. There’s no rational reason to delete a thread after the question has been answered.
Even if it wasn’t actually a person but was an AI agent asking questions so it can scrape the data from the answers, there’s no real utility in deleting the posts after recieving responses. It just seems so weird.
Might want to put a warning that this may be “habit forming.” Yuk yuk yuk.
Neat little app, although I don’t think it will help me stop picking my nose.
“How do you kill that which has no life?”
Certified Genius: Have Brain, Will Travel
They should be doing like the Yes Men and actually using the fact that they’re convincing to convince businesses that they’re real and do press conferences and speaking gigs.
The Yes Men accidentally got their start with a parody website of the GATT (pre-WTO) website… and it was so well done they started getting invitations to conferences as representatives for the GATT.
compose files really make everything simpler once you understand their structure and how to build them for projects.
Wots all this then?
lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?
Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…
Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”
Oh I was well aware at the time, but I had a lot of friends who still struggled with trying to use Matrix/Element so at the time I was seeking a simpler solution for them.
They don’t understand that things will never return to how they used to be.
They also fail to understand how much worse things are going to get from here before they even marginally get better again.
Our aging infrastructure simply won’t end up having enough resources to be shored up to modern standards, and a lot of the country will start living with rolling blackouts and power for only short stretches in the day as that will end up being the only amount of power the failing grid can support without burning cities down. This will be exacerbated quickly by AI buildout.
The blackouts can also double as a way to censor the internet, adding new controls to the networks while power is down for everyone else, and when things come back online, it’s more and more tightly controlled.
A few years ago I saw a very old logging truck filled with logs stuck in the middle of a small city street for two days while it got repaired so it could be moved. Just wait until half of our roads are clogged with dead vehicles that we no longer have the resources or tools to move because all other big industrial vehicles have broken down as well. How long before every street is littered with dead vehicles we can no longer afford to move and Americans are forced into walking and cycling to get around them since major arterial roads may not be completely blocked.
Food will be scarce and costly, we don’t have a rural landowning population that can grow their own food anymore, especially as a lot of private land has been poisoned and isn’t fit to grow food on. Hell, if you have an old septic tank, you have to be sure you know exactly where it is and plant food well away from it, if you even have the room since those things can take up a lot of space underground.
Further, when septic tanks, sewers, and water systems fail to be maintained, we may have to resort to old style outhouses, which will further poison towns and cities until it becomes a massive public health hazard that nothing will be done about because our country is too broke. Laws that prevent citizens from collecting rainwater will be increasingly seen as draconian since rainfall will be one of the few (relatively) sources of clean water available, and even after collection it needs purifying with boiling and a small amount of bleach.
We are so deeply and absolutely fucked.
This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.
It’s part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company… which they eventually did.
On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.
Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.
Because it is?
People need to be realistic. We’ve been a poorer nation than we’ve pretended to be for a long, long time.
Like look at modern public buildings, not built to last, not like old stone and brick courthouses from the last century and the like. They’re just made with the same cheap materials as everything else.
The decline started with Nixon, got kicked up a gear by Reagan, but the first real crack in the armor was George W. Bush and his middle east boondoggles in Afghanistan and Iraq. After that the world was willing to look at it as somewhat of an erroneous event and expected cooler heads and serious people to prevail.
Now that instead of serious people prevailing, we’ve been spinning down the drain, and that’s literally the plan. The wholesale dismantling of US democracy was crowed from the rooftops as Project 2025.
The serious people in other countries aren’t going to be fooled again.
To quote George W. Bush “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, sh–, uhhh, you can’t fool me again.”
I just thought it was interesting that someone could not know what a tracker was and also be, you know, using one.
On reddit if a post was deleted I could still interact with the thread, even if the content of the post itself was gone.
So it was a bit more elegant, imho, as it allows continued discussion and being able to link to the thread without it being completely nuked.
I also think that set expectations for how people expected it to work here, where the post contents and author would be nuked but the thread could still be accessed by hotlink.