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@freemo

Huh, I mostly hear it from conservatives/right-libertarians (Eric S. Raymond uses the description frequently). I'm surprised it's not a term you more frequently encounter, since that's also where you were on the compasses you did a while back.

@realcaseyrollins

@freemo I notice that many of the ads I've seen this week are posted by accounts with the bot flag set. Since it's already in the server rules that bots may not post to the public timeline, can the server be configured to automatically detect and report such posts and mute them pending your review?

If it's a spambot you can suspend the account, if a legitimate bot you can warn the owner to post unlisted, and if a real user you can let him know he needs to unset the bot flag on his account.

@freemo Glad to chip in. We're not paying anyone to be the maid here, so we have to take responsibility for keeping the space tidy ourselves.

@hrisskar I use Pale Moon for my main and plain Chromium (not Chrome) as a backup. They may not be built like Fort Knox but to my knowledge haven't ever allowed malware onto my system.

Does anyone know why there are no new #LineageOS downloads in the past four or five days? The website shows a history of nightly builds that cuts off after 24 March or 25 March.

It seems the 17.1 builds suffered from a signing problem this week, but it's not clear what happened to the 16.0 builds. Are they affected by the same bug? Discontinued as development shifts to the newest version? Paused due to the virus-fighting measures imposed around the world?

@IOcase Snoonet mainly, although I've in the past been more active on freenode and spotchat

@IOcase

SMS/MMS
Email
IRC
XMPP/Jabber

Along with QOTO, this pretty much meets my needs - although there are a handful of proprietary services I use because they are common to everyone who needs to participate in that setting. The little niche ones are interesting but the people I need to talk to don't use them, so there's little point to me doing so.

@SecondJon they're still reporting only confirmed cases here, but that could change in the coming days. I wouldn't ascribe it to any ulterior motives, though.

There will some with coronavirus who are never tested, so the number of positive tests is an undercount of those who have the disease. On the other hand, there will be some people with a cold/flu who had coincidental contact with a coronavirus patient, so the symptoms+contact figure is an overcount.

I think that up to this point, the higher prevalence of the flu has led to the undercount being the lesser of two evils (i.e. off by less than the overcount). But if coronavirus infections reach the point that the testing infrastructure is unable to keep up, that will change.

@freemo @design_RG @mngrif @arteteco

Why does that change the argument? Suppose @user@example.com is a ban-evading alt of an account I blocked, and the admin of example.com refuses to do anything about it. It's not clear to me what is accomplished by you silencing their instance that isn't accomplished by me hiding everything from the instance. On the flip side there's a clear benefit to the latter in that QOTO users with no complaint against example.com are still free to interact as they wish.

@freemo @design_RG @mngrif @arteteco

I'd be more supportive of an instance silence if we had the feature proposed here. That would make silencing an instance merely an overrideable default, and I have no problem with the mods trying to set up sane defaults to ensure new users have a generally decent experience off the bat.

@freemo @design_RG @mngrif @arteteco

I'd like to register my support for letting the affected user deal with this himself using the "Hide everything from example.com" feature.

The following is on QOTO's about page.

What won't get you banned:
Anything that can be solved by a personal block

Why not apply the same standard to silencing instances as to banning users?

@realcaseyrollins It took me a minute to figure this one out - there's an error in the headline. Southern Poverty Law Centre abbreviates to SPLC; SLPC stands for single-lever power control, which we use in aircraft design.

@snow

> They just don't know how to stop sharing them.
> They don't give a damn about some people feeling annoying for too many of them.

This applies to social media in general, not just cats. People post what they want; they don't care what you want to see.

> The thing they feel cute could be ugly for other people.

Equally so:
The thing they feel interesting could be boring for other people.
The thing they feel insightful could be insipid for other people.
The thing they feel important could be trivial for other people.

You will have a bad time here if you are easily upset by ugly, boring, insipid, or trivial content. It will always exist, but you can still enjoy the worthwhile content mixed in with the chaff.

@freemo I think your typical American doesn't come up against a car repair bill and ask himself, "Do I have enough saved to pay this?"

Instead, the question is, "Which credit card should I put this on?"

The twenty a month won't be saved for future car repairs, true - but in the more common case of someone trying to pay off a prior repair, the money can still be used for the same purpose.

@freemo

It's kind of strange how people treat windfalls differently from their usual income. Someone gets his tax return and feels an impulse to blow it on unnecessary toys (there's a whole sale season dedicated to this). But if he just gets a raise he'll increase his contribution to his retirement plan instead.

It might be better for Americans' financial health for the president to cut them twenty bucks every week for a year.

@freemo does this fall afoul of the "NSFW without a content warning" prohibition?

@freemo apart from that, having a rough idea of the relationship between sample size and confidence interval would improve estimation accuracy by a lot. It's amazing how often I see people claim that, in order to achieve an ±N% margin of error, a pollster must survey (100 - N)% of the population.

@freemo You mean that if I interpret the boxed numbers as a certain base, I have to do the same for the 30 so as not to mix bases?

Interpreting everything in base nine:
11 + 11 + 7 = 30

The decimal interpretation would be:
10 + 10 + 7 = 27

@freemo I never used binary, only bases nine and ten (decimal).

11₉ + 11₉ + 11₉
= 10₁₀ + 10₁₀ + 10₁₀
= 30₁₀ = 30

@freemo

Each box can be filled with 11₉ which is equal to 10 in decimal. 10 + 10 + 10 = 30.