Moderation of bad actors. Not just people who are assholes, or people who post spam, but I mean astroturfing and vote manipulation schemes that cross instances.

I’ve been followed around by a set of accounts who never post and never comment but downvote everything I comment. I have zero ways to report them directly. They were consistently downvoting a set of accounts including me and upvoting a different set of accounts. I DM’d 3 admins but the only attention I got was from a dedicated comm mod who could only ban them from a few comms and they talked to their admin on my behalf.

https://lemvotes.org/ paints a picture of a vote manipulation ring but all I could do was manually message people who couldn’t be bothered. I couldn’t care less they were downvoting me, I have nothing important to say, but the fake engagement around who they were boosting didn’t sit right with me.

This sort of sums up my experience: https://lemmy.zip/comment/29353636 and it’s corresponding https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.zip/comment/29353636

The H3 cheating scandal. Everybody involved sucks.

I don’t like that “knowing about AI” is linked with knowing about AI execs. They don’t know shit. They think smoking is cool again. There’s a senior dev somewhere who hasn’t seen sunlight this week, I want to hear what they have to say.

How do they have the battery for this?

Nerdfighteria of the vlogbrothers seem like a good group

I don’t even run arch but I’d be thrilled to stumble upon a Linux store this size. I now realize how much I want a stuffed penguin!

This should be marked NSFW. If Threepo wasn’t open source before, the picture of his naked wires reveals all his secrets now!

You don’t have to go full vegan or vegetarian. Reducing beef intake without giving it up is better than nothing. Even swapping to chicken or pork for a meal or two a week will impact your big picture water usage more than you’d think.

Occasionally I miss my old Nexus 5. The screen felt so big at the time and I loved it’s sharp edges

Assholes have family. Assholes have interests. People are multitudes.

It’s such a small thing, but not having to explicitly instantiate embedded structs to specify embedded fields is going to clean up a lot of my DB code because we embed an Auditable structure to handle common fields like id, createdBy, etc. I’ve been looking forward to that for years! Generic functions are cool too I guess.