FINALLY. BT+DD

Preach

I think it's more accurate to say that the Eagles disappeared at the right time. There's really no evidence of a suddenly improved Falcons offense - just a baffling absence of eagles defense. Prevent never works.

I maintain that we should all aspire to be a firetruck when we grow up.

Plexamp fuckin' rules whips the llama's ass.

Whatever they have to do to shoehorn Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid into Starfleet Academy or SNW.

Eagles v Steelers @ Beaver Stadium.

You could say the same thing about Barry Sanders. Go watch Frank Gore highlights if you want to watch a RB who gets 4 yards every time.

Amazon SES is dirt cheap, billed per-send, you just need to bring the Everything Else with something like Mailcoach or Sendy.

Holding out for KMag.

Oh man, I hope it stays that way. Filtering by "In a cherish ball" is currently the only way to find (most of, but not all of) your event Pokemon in Pokemon Home.

I mean, that battery is probably dead. If it's not, I think there's a fuckin' wild way to get it up to current gen if you're willing to crack your 3DS.

Yeah, I'm currently wondering how I'm going to get a Pokeball Pattern Vivillion.

I feel a special connection to some of my event Pokemon because they are keepsakes. I appreciate their rarity because I actually went to get them, or plugged in the code, or whatever and others did not.

I'm old, so I remember missing out on Mew when there were extremely limited North American mall tours. Never won the Nintendo Power contests. Missed, skipped, or was wholly unaware of basically all of these. I refused to risk my save files to GameShark one, and I didn't understand how to execute the Emerald glitch to get one without an event item.

But then, I got to use my Adult Superpower of Spending Money on Whatever I Fucking Feel Like on Let's Go Pikachu with the Pokeball Plus. Now I have a Mew. Its name is Anne.

Isn't that what mbin is?

Delete the community until you have rules.

"Nico, get up front and get us out of here."

[ Sirens in the distance, closing ]

"Kevin, you know what to do."

TL;DW - Housing co-ops.

Gotify. Home Assistant. DDClient.

I guess we'll see if he's a dropaholic or not, now that he's with a QB who doesn't huck bricks.

Yeah, I know. I was speaking in general terms.

An eternity ago, I got really good at manually strafe-hopping in Team Fortress Classic. I got banned from a few pubs for "scripting" anyway.

I don't like banning users because of the devices they use or the technical knowledge they have. I feel like the onus should be on the development team to make hardware or software macros impossible or unnecessary. Like, maybe the switch from left to right has a random interval that would instantly nerf a script. Or maybe the apex of a player's jump is also a little variable or random - or deeply tied to their momentum in a weird way.

Barely noticeable changes for natural players, kryptonite to script kiddies and Mad Katz Turbo Mode, but still accessible to people with disabilities who legitimately need macros or weird hardware because they only have 2 fingers or whatever.

Amazing.

Ah fuck! I mistook the piefed docs for the pixelfed docs.

I swear there was documentation there.

I think you're conflating my two separate concerns. One's automated vote manipulation. The other is targeted harassment.

Looks like it's kinda hard to spin up a piefed bot. Not impossible, but it's a removed without an API.

If I have an insightful contributer who's going out of their way and outside of their normal communities to be a dick to another user, maybe they're not so insightful after all. Or they've got a great reason!

Either way, I want to be able to point to their behavior - without the extra step of having to de-anonymize their activity - and tell them to chill the fuck out or get the fuck out. Out means out. Totally and forever.

mods are just as capable of manipulation and targeted harassment when they can curate the voting and react based on votes

I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

I'm speaking as an admin, not as a mod. I own the servers. I have direct access to the databases. When law enforcement comes a'knockin', it's my ass that gets arrested. I have total control over my instances and can completely sever them from the fediverse if I feel it necessary. Mods are mall cops that can lock posts and deal with problem users one at a time.

On reddit, votes are only visible to the admins, and the admins would take care of this type of thing when they saw it (or it tripped some kind of automated something or other)

There are no built in automations. Decoupling votes from the users that cast them interferes with my ability to "take care of this type of thing."

Wow your documentation is so much better than ours.

PieFed tracks the percentage of downvotes vs upvotes (calling it “Attitude” in the code and admin UI)

That's cool. I wonder what my attitude is and I wonder how accurate the score is, if our federations don't overlap super well. What happens if I have a ton of interactions on an instance that yours is completely unaware of?

(I think "Attitude" is a perfect word, because it's perceptive. Like, "you say they're great but all I see them do is get drunk and complain about how every Pokemon after Mewtwo isn't 'legit'," sort of thing.)

Well, doesn't that fly in the face of federated autonomy and privacy?

On one end, if it's my instance and I want to ban a user, I want the whole fucking user banned -- not just remove their ability to vote anonymously. If one of my communities or users is being attacked, it's my responsibility to react. If I can't remove the whole problem with a ban, then I have to remove the whole problem with a de-federation. (A thing I fundamentally don't want to do.)

On the other, if some other admin says, "one of your users is being problematic, please tell me who they are," I'm going to tell that other admin to fuck right off because I just implemented a feature that made their votes anonymous. I'm not about to out my users to some rando because they're raining downvotes on MeinHitler69@nazi.hut.

It's a philosophical difference of opinion.

What about PieFed-based shitty humans?

It actually adds a tool for harassers, in that targeted harassment can't be tied back to a harasser without the cooperation of their instance admin.

In reality, I think a better answer might be to anonymize the username and publicize the votes.

If the same account is voting in the same direction on every single post and comment in an entire community in a matter of seconds while contributing neither posts nor comments? Yes, vote manipulation.

If one user is following another around, down voting their content across a wide range of topics? Yes, targeted harassment.

Hey, Lemmy admin here. If I ban an anonymous account, does the account it's tethered to also get banned?

This can be made even simpler by installing all the repos you want to mirror as submodules of the parent directory's git repository. Instead of many git pull or git fetch, you blast a single git submodule update --recursive --remote and go about your day.

Bonus: This has the added benefit of generating a git history for your automated process if you script in a commit message with a timestamp, making your mirrors reversible.

From an interview I read, but can't remember the source:

Alex Kurtzman: [Paul Giamatti] was doing press for The Holdovers, and when he was asked about the part that he would most want to play, he said, “I want to play a Klingon on Star Trek.”… So we called his agent and said, “Was that a thing he just said, was that a bit?”… And she called back and she said, “He’d love to sit down with you. We got on a Zoom with him and he cried.

[...]

Noga Landau: He also chose which role he wanted to play. We came to him and we said, “You could be this guy or that guy, or that guy.” And he thought about it and he came back and told us that the part he plays is the one he wanted.

Alex Kurtzman: We thought it was going to be like one episode because his schedule is so busy, and he was like, “No, I want to play the villain.” We’re like, “That’s the whole season.” He was like, “Great, let’s do it!”

Like... no one's stopping you from being a Klingon on Star Trek, Paul Giamatti.

LA 2028? System of a Down.

The whole segment is a 20-minute Rime of The Ancient Mariner stage play.

GWAR.

It's WIND ROSE and you know it.