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Other accounts owned by me are strictly for moderation purposes, and they are:
I genuinely am curious where you’re living that everyone’s having a hard time putting a roof over their head. The stats simply don’t match this narrative in the overwhelming majority of areas in the US.
This outrageous hyperbole that you repeat day-in and day-out is just unproductive and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone wanting meaningful political discussion here.
Commenting the same things over and over on a political forum isn’t going to change anything.
It is great that folks make these options available but this is far more work than I’m (and many others are) willing to expend on any kind of chat, especially for minimal daily benefit.
My chat services are iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and Whatsapp. This, with Slack and Discord, gets me into contact with >99.999% of people with no maintenance effort required.
I used to enjoy setting this stuff up when I was younger but now I want to focus time elsewhere.
There’s nothing wrong with them, Matrix hasn’t been bad the few times I’ve jumped in either. I think Matrix is worth evaluating at least.
But as far as intended-for-multiuser-chat apps go, my laptop and phone have Slack and Discord installed and both get significant use. I don’t see the value in adding yet another app to alt-tab into or have clutter my Startup items. I’d be willing to bet that’s a common sentiment.
A ton of people, myself included, bounced from IRC a decade+ ago.
Libera.chat/OTFC only have 30k online users each, according to netsplit.de (wow! still going) right now. That’s a minuscule fraction of Discord’s userbase estimates.
Getting a comparable experience requires setting up a BNC (effort) or using IRCCloud (proprietary; also a new account for a service for exactly 1 thing).
The downvote button already gets used as a “I disagree” button. Distributed moderation gives more teeth to a “I disagree” button that isn’t particularly helpful.
Practically speaking, go to the Technology community on LW. A lot of perfectly sane and rational takes get downvoted because a bunch of people simply disagree or it isn’t on the right side of the fanboyism everyone’s expected to have on some topic.
You’re free to not use Discord for any reason you desire but don’t expect anyone to cater to you. Especially if you aren’t putting in work to support a project.
I don’t see how you intend to convince anyone to ditch Discord by deliberately misunderstanding a simple point.
Many support Discords expect people to chat in a channel, not DM. Many issues will be in the public, in a channel. There is simply no privacy issue here for the vast majority of problems.
Discoverability of past issues is another problem, but that’d still be problematic if you’re on Matrix.
I’m keeping my project’s community on Discord. People who use my stuff seem satisfied.
This thread shows that merely having a Discord acts as a good filter to inhibit users who aren’t going to be helpful.
I’ll simplify:
How is there is a practical privacy issue here when the purpose of the chat is public support?
There should be no expectation of privacy in a public support chat/forum to begin with.
Let’s not be unreasonable with dogmatism here.
Open source isn’t a religion. I put code out there because I made something useful and believe others will find it useful. I will answer questions if it takes little to no effort to do so.
I do not put code out there for the purpose of running infrastructure for end-users. This is an unreasonable waste of time. I do enough of that at work.
“Help, your library isn’t loading the Foobar files created in Bazfoo 2024” is not something that is sensitive data.
It is not my responsibility to manage random people’s baseless paranoia as a project maintainer.
What are you exchanging on Discord where this is an issue?
I’d hope your doctor isn’t joining your OSS project discord to conduct appointments or anything.
Running and managing a server takes a non-zero amount of work and is a commitment…if you’re actually serious about it.
That’s work wasted on sysadmining and not going into project development.
I’d imagine this line of thinking harmonizes with the herd mentality
Yup, exactly! If your fingerprint is 1-in-10 it’d be easy to pick you out. If your fingerprint is 1-in-50,000,000, it’d take far more work.
I think the solution is for privacy protections to be established as a default on platforms used by a lot of people but there’s very little incentive for Google to do this, and I don’t think Microsoft cares.
For better-or-worse, Apple is the only major (well, double-digit marketshare) platform remotely attempting this right now. Consider their blocking advertising trackers for all users of Mobile Safari. You can’t really narrow down Safari users by “those who use privacy protection” and “those who are on vanilla installs”.
There aren’t enough Linux users to hide amongst so I suppose the next best thing is to get your fingerprint to match a typical user on another widely-used platform. In this example, pretending to be Safari.
These surveys are next-to-useless. I do surveys for Ipsos all the time and it’s depressing how bad the questions are phrased, especially considering Gallup and Ipsos are generally highly regarded…
Gallup posted their question:
Next, I am going to read you a list of possible threats to the vital interests of the United States in the next 10 years. For each one, please tell me if you see this as a critical threat, an important but not critical threat, or not an important threat at all.
So if you hold either the opinion:
“The US needs to stop illegal immigration because it impacts the safety of the US”
or
“The US needs to allow more asylum refugees in a more formalized manner because cities are having to pick up the slack and are potentially cutting back services, exacerbating local crisises”
Congratulations! Both people can bucket themselves in the “considers a threat” even though the two people backing these opinions will want completely different government action.
What exact power under the presidency would remotely grant that? The Supreme Court explicitly gave that power back to the states, an EO saying “ignore the SC” wouldn’t hold up under even the most liberal of courts.
The closest/largest thing available was directing the military to facilitate moving servicemembers around for care.
And updating the definition for emergency care for everyone else and telling hospitals that take Medicare to use the federal definition of care:
Seems to me that they’ve been cautious about which EOs to enact to prevent the courts from further limiting access.
No, I’m waving away reactionary nonsense.
But keep pretending like you know what you’re doing because you’ve made your competency level clear as day here.
Yet another “privacy advocate” not knowing what they’re doing.
For starters:
In the worst case, this leaks App Store searches. Who cares?
Zero investigation was done about what this tool does besides just opening a network connection. For all we know, it could be merely be downloading a DB to fix up/normalize EXIF fields.
Even Kaspersky says it was likely a test/debug feature.
The Linux community is the absolute worst part of using Linux.
Even the worst of Google searches pull up more relevant content than an empty Fediverse community.
There simply isn’t enough quality content yet.
Rivian’s network is incredibly tiny compared to Tesla’s network but they plug a couple of holes in Tesla’s network coverage.
Exciting news all around.
I’m not a fan of raising it but you’re just incorrect and ought to look into how this works.
You can start pulling benefits out at 62 but you can collect more per month the longer you wait.
There is nothing stopping you from deciding at age 62 to start collecting if you’re fine with the lower amount.
Next, the amount provided is never promised. You pay into Social Security for current benefit recipients and Social Security gives you an estimated amount of benefits you may see. This is called out many times, and I implore you to utilize the information on its site effectively.
Here’s the disclaimer: