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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • This should be handled by (auto)mod tools, allowing good faith users to help filter non-fitting or low quality posts, and preventing bad actors from downvote fireworks.

    There are possibilities to limit available downvotes either by throttling amount per time/community/instance/user, by demanding to have a certain “reputation” in the community/instance or by making downvote cost your own “reputation”.

    None of the above is perfect, but IMO outright removing a right to disagree is against community interests.

    Currently I can either leave a “harassment” comment: “wtf this is doing in this community”, make complain to a mod (if there is any active), or ignore the post. Neither help community grow stronger, I think.





  • Well, hardware-designed dock station would work, sure. They don’t require any additional software. For example, for M1 MacBook Air with MacOS there are two options: HW docks would work out of the box, no software or tinkering needed. But you are limited with only one external display (Apple decided so). SW docks (DisplayLink) work great and give you multiple displays and stuff, but require drivers. And also after reboot you have to log in before dock can launch its software companion. Also, since it’s software, OS updates can cause malfunction and/or incompatibility. I expect situation be more or less the same with all OS.





  • Yeah, I think in technical sense the best way is to retrieve the linked post as some package (ZIPped JSON, for example) and cache it for a while. And then check once in a while if the original has changed. So you can display latest available version of the original was removed.

    However, this way sparks another conversation about if original author have a right to take his words back (remove/edit the post).