As a Norwegian, that got to be our coolest stat, however I have no idea how it can be true. Even in my engineering bubble there aren’t that many people using Linux. It’s all Windows and macs for home computers.
As a Norwegian, that got to be our coolest stat, however I have no idea how it can be true. Even in my engineering bubble there aren’t that many people using Linux. It’s all Windows and macs for home computers.
Children probably
A few days ago it was a refreshing 8° in Trondheim/Norway, now it’s 22°.
Never would have guessed I would ever see Devon Larratt on Lemmy
There was/is a few communities that are just bots mirroring a similar community on reddit. No idea if those got canned though.
Ubisoft are
but I don’t like the indentation crap
Do you not use indentation in other languages?
It’s been a mix throughout the years. The initial problem software years ago was Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, but since then it’s been various engineering/programming related software that only supports Windows. I’m primarily on Linux at this point on my laptop.
I got a table and some chairs from Torbjørn Afdal, Darby series that’s designed in the 1960s with Brazilian Rosewood. It’s not too expensive at ~2000€ and it’s a nice, well built table, and extendable for when you host an event, but having to worry about damaging the table vs some IKEA table you don’t really care about makes me prefer cheap furniture just for the ease of mind.
My father has reached an age where money means very little to him and his interest in “proper” furniture has skyrocketed. He will go out and buy a simple table for $3k-5k and tell me how the same model was bought for the American embassy in year x, or send me links to matching chairs by designer y.
I’ve yet to see a piece of furniture that’s worth twice the price of what you can find on IKEA. A table needs to be water/stain resistant and that’s about that. /rant
That’s what PieFed changes though. You can still track how someone votes
You need a way to identify which profile is tied to the vote profile so that you can deal with the root account.
Admins need a way to track votes to detect abuse/bots though. And anyone can be an admin if they set up an instance, so votes will still be public.
I did try that years ago, ran into performance issues and other bugs, and it wasn’t worth messing around with when dual booting is so simple. Might reconsider in the future if MS keeps messing up though.
Cost me a few hours and ended up just disabling secure boot in the end. Wish I didn’t need MS for some programs.
Vote manipulation
Hmm, I can understand how someone can be concerned about that, but personally I find it too theoretical and unlikely to matter.
Any company wanting to harvest data from the fediverse would likely just create their own instance to easily copy the databases from every major instance, private voting wouldn’t help against that. I would also say that your comment would be a thousand times more damning than upvoting every comment/post critical of Musk.
If you only lurk, you will stay anonymous as long as you use an anonymous username. If you comment, you are way more likely to “leak” your opinion through comments anyway.
But those are just my thoughts, I might be way off base and lack the full range of perspectives.
To me it feels like comments are what you can actually stand behind publicly, while votes also show what you think privately. And not everyone is willing to stand behind all of their opinions publicly, often for fear of backlash or harassment.
I guess I’m just of the opinion that if someone has that concern, they should rethink how they use social platforms and maybe look into creating a more anonymous profile that suits their need better.
But now we are just down to differing opinions, which is all fine to have, I won’t claim my thoughts are the best one.
I have felt the want to have a more anonymous profile from time to time since being an admin means I need to avoid controversial topics, but it isn’t any more difficult than simply not engaging with it.
Votes doesn’t break the anonymity is my point. You achieve anonymity by using a fake name and not sharing too much personal information in your comments. No amount of voting will reveal that fj4j2l32@instance.com is Jonathan Brown from Newcastle.
I’m surprised most people are against public votes. Most people already seem to have an anonymous account via some weird username not connected to their real identity already. What difference does it make that votes can be viewed, other than for transparency during discussion?
Maybe I’m the odd one out that uses my real name on the Internet and generally try to behave/vote the same as I would in person, but it seems weird wanting a hybrid account that’s private (votes), yet not private (comments).
I can’t remember ever having used meta critic to guide a purchase. There is so much content both from forums and YouTube/Twitch that gives you much more accurate impressions of games. Meta critic seems rather pointless nowadays.