Making it possible to vote up and/or down while preventing double-voting for the same account in a distributed application like Fediverse sort of applications seems challenging at best unless every instance knows exactly who voted which way on what. What I wish is that Lemmy would make it a proper feature that it was public information who voted on what.

I dunno. Maybe it would be possible to implement some zero-knowledge proof sort of thing that would keep people from double-voting (purposefully or accidentally) without anybody but the voter knowing who voted for what. But absent that, I’d rather that seeing that information wasn’t limited to an elite group of users composed of just mods/admins. I’d also rather that I didn’t have to go to a separate site to see information about upvotes and downvotes.

I suppose the argument could be made that we could get away with not having votes. Just make how high it shows up high on the “hot” sort by how many comments it has. Though I do feel like there are “good” posts that I’d want to see with few/no comments.

Ha! I don’t mod many communities, but I like to think I’m pretty reasonable about it. I definitely try to err on the side of not taking mod action.

I have a very selective list of “I want to see all the posts that get posted to this community” communities that I’m subscribed to that gives me like 5 posts per day at most, and I sort that by subscribed/new. Once I’m done catching up with those, I go to all/new, and I block communities I don’t ever want to see again. It’s nice because 1) I get to see all the posts I really want to see, 2) I can block the “crap I don’t want in front of me for no reason”, and 3) new communities that I might be interested in make it in front of my eyes without me having to go search for them or hope the ones I’d want to see happen to come up in a “new communities” community on my feed.

Thanks for this! I’m not sure it’s working correctly for me. It’s only showing five downvoted posts. (And according to lemvotes.org, I’ve downvoted over 300 posts.) After that it gives me an error: TypeError: can't access property "data", W.value[r.feedId] is undefined and the “retry” button doesn’t do anything. But it still gives me something to try if I can figure a way to fix that somehow.

Council Bluffs, IA. I once had family there and there’s a story in our family. One of them had a radio of some sort that works on trucker frequencies and he overheard a conversation between trucker CBs that went something like:

• “I’ve never been to Council Bluffs before. What’s it like?”
• “Well, if the earth needed an enema, Bluffs is where they’d put the tube.”

It used to be a railroad town, but the railroad pulled out and left economic carnage in its wake. Meanwhile, Omaha, just across the river, is comparatively very affluent with skilled jobs in tech, so Bluffs is kindof “the slums” (casualties of the worst end of capitalism.) and Omaha is all gentrified and hip, which rubs salt in the wound, and those who are still in Bluffs are the ones who lacked the wherewithal (luck, credit (social, financial, or otherwise), mental health, etc) to move to Omaha. Last time I was in Bluffs (and that was even before I knew the rail background story) it really felt like there was just a pall over the whole place. The strangers you saw at the grocery store or whatever just seemed “down and out” in an undefinable way. The local government seems some combination of corrupt and incompetent and the few folks I know of who still live in Bluffs there are racists and MAGA nuts and grifters and (I say this with love) deeply mentally ill. It’s a disturbingly strange and depressing place.

Some of these are more than just one sentence, sorry.

“I just do what I’m told. That’s why I’m paid the big bucks.”

“Yeah, I quit <previous position> because the management wouldn’t step in to help me with <problem>, so the team was just completely run by the biggest personalities.”

“They don’t pay me enough to be on call outside business hours.”

“Yeah, I never turn my camera on in Zoom meetings.” (Particularly good if you have a remote position. Triggers scrum people because “Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication”.)

“Oh yeah, all the tickets where I work are super detailed. Really helps avoid distractions like having to go talk to the person who filed the ticket.” (Have you heard agile people “working software over comprehensive documentation” or “a ticket is a placeholder for a conversation”?)

“Why? Oh, I don’t know why they wanted me to do <such-and-such feature>. I just did it because they asked me to.”

“How is the business supposed to plan without the dev team coming up with an estimate in days up front?”

“Yeah, we’ve gotten better with our daily scrum meetings. They’re only like an hour now-a-days.”

“Yeah, we do demos every sprint. They go a lot better now that product doesn’t attend any more.”

“Yeah, <name of most senior dev> is the person who always works on the sprint goal. Everyone else works on whatever they’re a SME in.”

“Yeah, we missed the Big Deadline™. It was <intern>'s fault.”

“I think it would be better for the company to outsource its IT department.”

“Our JIRA board columns and swim lanes are standardized across the department ever since the JIRA Enforcement department took that over.”

And this next bit is just me editorializing. I personally have mixed feelings about agile in general. I’ve seen it completely disregarded to great peril, and I’ve also seen it taken extremely seriously in ways that actively cause problems. (Problems bad enough to be dealbreakers that prompted me to leave that particular employment position.) I also have great respect for the agile coach at that place, but there were definitely things he did that pissed me off too.

So, in the debate of agile vs. not-agile, I guess I think what’s best is for everyone to just appoint me supreme dictator for life so I can teach them all the right way to do things. 🫡

For sure. But I’ve seen a lot more sins committed in the name of reusing code than in the name of minimizing dependencies.

“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”

As a super Dune nerd, Erasmus.

From DC: Larfleeze and Volthoom tied. Oh! The Anti-Monitor too.

From Supernatural (the TV series), Crowley is amazing.

BSG: Dr. Gaius Baltar.

You’re right, that’s way too simple. Definitely need to rotate the booleans daily. For… security. Yeah, security.

create table boolean (
  id integer primary key,
  name text not null unique
)
insert into boolean (name) values ('true');
insert into boolean (name) values ('false');
create table document (
  id integer primary key,
  name text not null unique,
  body text not null,
  is_archived not null integer,
  foreign key (is_archived) references boolean (id)
    on delete cascade
    on update no action
);

Solved.

Bonus: DBAs hate this one weird trick that can free up incredible amounts of disk space by deleting just two rows.

Can’t tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.

Does it matter? Either way, it’s just a symptom of the hype/bubble around “AI” lately.

Can you… make a community for this and confine it to that community? So I can block it?

If we come up with something in this thread, I’ll be here to corrupt its meaning by misusing it.

Why? Does fungus need a reason to give you jock itch?

• Video Killed The Radio Star cover by The Presidents of the United States of America
• Major Tom (Coming Home) by Shiny Toy Guns
• Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These by Marilyn Manson

Unauthorized Bread (knife)

Laughs in Ubuntu Touch

Cries in Ubuntu Touch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSYeP77_2o

Watched that so many times when I was… I dunno. 13?

Of course back then, I had to spend 10 minutes waiting for it to load before I could listen to it.

“You are a fungal organism.” - Paul Stamets

Nobody here is talking about metaphysics except you.