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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but no native desktop app. 😭 I miss 1Password's early years.

 

The Twitter shitshow continues.

 

Since Cormac McCarthy passed, we decided it was a good time to familiarize ourselves with at least one of his books. It was between that and No Country for Old Men.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always try to ask what problem is being solved.

Is it having a universal parser? Actually xml kind of did solve that problem. You could easily exchange data without having to write a parser and as long as the data was mostly text, it was fine.

But that's all it solved. It made it so you didn't have to write a new parser. You still had to figure out on a schema to serialize and deserialize though. And you needed to parse non-scalars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What's the cleaning cloth cost?

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When @[email protected], @[email protected] and I started this instance, we figured we'd get a dozen or so signups from people we knew. We left registration open, figuring no one would care because we did exactly nothing to promote this.

It's by any measure still a small instance (~100 users) but even so, moderation of other instances is now a thing: we've blocked some troublesome instances, in particular ones that we suspect traffic in borderline illegal content. We by no means, however, have any good grasp on what's federating to us from the open web.

Sooner or later, bots and spammers and trolls will find our humble little instance. Lemmy's only real remedies for that is an application process and/or verified email. Both to our mind seem useless, because bots can convincingly automate either or both. Cloudflare can keep out the more naive bots, though ratcheting up the security in it causes inconvenience for users, especially ones who protect their privacy (think of captchas you get when using a VPN).

For its part, Lemmy is fun software, but not especially feature-rich. There's really no admin interface to speak of. If you get 100 bot signups, you have to ban them, one at a time. That hasn't happened yet to us, but it has happened to other instances, and it's rough. We've considered even just slapping a Django admin UI on its Postgres database, but we'd need to learn the table structure and also make sure that just updating tables in Postgres is enough (ie, does Lemmy's backend have state in RAM, etc). It's not something we're ready to take on right now.

Anyway, about the possible future of bots and spammers: So what do you guys think? Leave registrations wide open? Require approval? Keep it the way it is, but lean more on Cloudflare for protection?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s more efficient, certainly. But telling someone pretrial in 2023 they can’t use a computer isn’t realistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh totally. And they’re not even alleged to have done anything wrong.

The prosecutor will say “well they could have lived in a Four Seasons instead of with their father.” Prosecutors are seldom reasonable people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Computers are remarkably efficient but at the dawn of the Gutenberg press, you could have made similar observations. For the first time with paper, it was possible to commit crimes in the privacy of your own home merely by writing things down and sending them to a publisher.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Absolutely.

In 1950, if you were told as a pretrial release condition, you weren't allowed to use paper because your alleged crime involved a book, no one would have thought that reasonable. Today, devices are the equivalent of paper.

 

Lately I've liked Spotify's Adrenaline Workout. Something about Rob Zombie makes me want to push myself. Maybe I'm running from zombies??

 

The Long Earth... Trying to decide on my next book.

Lately the world itself has been dystopian enough, so I'm leaning toward a less dystopian sci fi book. Anyone got a recommendation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So confidently predicting an outcome is the problem?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a problem that could emerge with any system used to predict the outcome of any election.

If you make a prediction, you're arguably telling people not to vote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is he, a religious leader now?

He was a good modeler and handicapper. His model happened to work well for the 2016 election. That's it. He's not a fucking oracle.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he chose to agree to be monitored and they chose to continue living with him” was uttered

That got me too.

"The alternative is that they could have rented a separate house while the breadwinner of the family was in jail. They agreed to it!"

Utterly absurd. I also think, especially for the 14 year old, that level of surveillance is itself a form of abuse.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the fact that any reasonable person would say that its use constitutes a punishment in and of itself.

We need a standard for pretrial release where if any measure could, if taken in isolation, be considered punitive, prosecutors are not allowed to ask for it.

 

Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces a new legal challenge - this time from the government he used to lead - with charges for illegally retaining classified documents and other crimes expected to be filed next week in federal court in Miami.

 

Just introducing myself and thinking of creating a sci-fi sub. I’m into Philip K Dick, Isaac Asimov, Neal Stephenson, etc.

Also into weight training and CrossFit.

Live in Portland.

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