drspod

I frequently access Lemmy through quite old hardware, and I'd be a bit worried that these PoW scripts would make the site unusably slow for me.

Ok I just finished watching it and I don't know how anyone could watch this and think that he is presenting a "both sides" argument.

It's very clear what Louis wants the viewer to take away from this documentary, from whom he interviews, the questions he asks and how he asks those questions, and what he chooses to show. I could tell from start to finish what he's trying to say, and it stayed consistent throughout. It was especially apparent at the end, as you said.

If you think this was a milquetoast critique then perhaps you're not familiar with Louis Theroux's work and his style of documentary.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/

Who is "we"?

I have even less respect for the BBC after watching this.

You're going to need to explain why, since it's only available to watch in the UK.

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Does Unraid still use JBOD with a single parity disk or have they moved to a sane drive layout?

Please tell me you're not vibe coding this project.

I thought the fine was for not allowing apps to tell users about alternate payment systems. Nothing to do with sideloading apps. Unless there was a second judgement with a fine recently?

I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool.

Where in this post do you describe the ethics of such a tool?

non-technical users believe that their votes are private, which is far from the truth. This attitude could potentially lead to harassment of Lemmings (yes, that’s what we Lemmy users call ourselves) for upvoting a particular post. Lemvotes makes it clear that votes are not private, which could help bring a more accurate picture of the way votes work on Lemmy to its users.

This is what needs discussion. It is this tool which will lead to harassment due to the way someone votes. And the threat or spectre of harassment will lead to the Chilling Effect, ie. self-censorship (of voting) to avoid harassment.

The chilling effect this causes will make communities even more like echo-chambers, as dissent will be pre-emptively squashed.

Without a tool like this existing, people have to go out of their way to find out this information (setting up their own instance, or finding someone who already does this surreptitiously). By making such a tool available to the lemmy community at large, you make it extremely easy for anyone to do this, and so the chance of harassment occurring is much higher.

You might think you're being clever, or on some kind of crusade to educate the uneducated. But actually your actions are making this (community-built) platform worse. Compare your actions to releasing a 0-day exploit for a security vulnerability instead of responsibly disclosing. It doesn't help, it just causes chaos until the people who do the actual work can figure out a solution.

Think about how your tool existing now changes the dynamic of Lemmy as a whole. Is it better, or worse? How would you actually solve this problem in Lemmy, instead of exploiting it?

don't feed the trolls