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  • I’m not sure what your you’re asking here.

    They should do something … but do it quietly, so you don’t have to hear about it again?

    Discussing the issue with parents doesn’t count as doing something? Have you considered that they are doing things and of the various avenues they’re pursuing, the part that hurts most is explaining the problem to their own parents? People who should have been on their side from the start?

    And what exactly to you propose they do? It seems like the current system is designed to exhaust prolatariat to the point where action is too difficult, and then crush anyone who tries. At least they’re posting memes to keep the memory of a better world alive.


  • I’m pretty sure @randon31415@lemmy.world was trying to create a simplified example. To include a generic autistic tech we can modify the example to “40 people making 10 things an hour. A clever autistic person comes along and writes a computer script that improves efficiency. Now 19 people make 20 things an hour, the autistic tech makes 5 times as much as one of the original people and has the specialty job of maintaining the script, the business owner lays off 20 people (4x of their pay compensates the tech) and the business owner pockets the other 16x as extra profit”

    The 19 people still employed don’t get any more pay for their extra efficiency, nor do they get any more time off.

    The 20 people who were let go at no fault of their own now apparently don’t get to eat or live or have any kind of security until they reeducate themselves to a new line of work.

    The autistic tech doesn’t understand where their additional pay comes from, but is happy to get rewarded well for their good work.

    If questioned about why the 20 people needed to be let go, the business owner will blame the scripts efficiency instead of their own decision to pocket the money.

    However, to answer your question directly: it does not matter how many new jobs or specialty positions are created - if the net pay available to workers is reduced and the net jobs workers can fill are reduced, some workers are destined to get the short straw.



  • Ahh, so this isn’t a processing issue it’s a data access issue.

    Frankly, if you can’t access the raw data of your voicemail inbox, probably no third party developer can too. This means that the only way to implement such a tool would to be to work with the voicemail provider. If they’re a for-profit company, they probably have no incentive to make the data available unless there’s a big moneybag involved somewhere in the exchange. That’s probably why no such tool exists.





  • Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g. CW - Gore, CW - Death, CW - Breast, CW - Genitalia.

    Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.

    But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.

    Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify African Swallow or European Swallow (or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts are Africian Swallow unless user changes it.

    Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.

    Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.



  • Let me say, thank you for being here.

    I honestly don’t believe Lemmy is for everyone - at least not yet. There’s too many issues for me to, say, recommend it to my mom. However for Lemmy to become capable of being that network it needs people like you. People that don’t just get frustrated and walk away, but post an honest inquiry about ‘why’. If nothing else the feedback is appreciated.

    The Reddit/Twitter/General Shitification has shaken things up such that pioneers like us are seeding the fediverse with the wide variety of human interests that are richer and deeper than what the developers themselves can provide. Thank you for deciding that, “well, if the experience is going to be frustrating and annoying, at least I’ll go with the frustrating, annoying experience that’s trying to improve itself”. My advice is to take Lemmy itself not too seriously - to laugh when the software has it’s quirks, and to give others the benefit of the doubt. I look forward to looking back and ‘enjoying how wild it was in the early days’.

    Again, thank you. I’m starting to dream that in five years this place might be someplace really, truly amazing.


  • Nobody said we were polished. We’re literally the upstart underdog.

    It is known about, and it’s being worked on, but since it’s ultimately an open source project, there’s no deadline provided for when it will be fixed.

    Luckily it’s not a big deal, it doesn’t prevent the pending subscriptions from showing up in your feeds. If it bothers you just wait for your server to be not busy, unsubscribe and resubscribe, should take care of it.

    There was a different vulnerability found that let the attacker take full ownership of a compromised account - some moderator and admin accounts were compromised. I would prefer the developers fix that first.




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    I’m very glad it works for you. Edge is a perfectly fine browser ever since they ditched their engine and copied Google’s Chrome with a coat of paint and a couple extensions baked in.

    To be frank though, if Edge forking Chromium is the best the tech titan Microsoft can do, I’m genuinely disappointed in them, and I’d rather just use Chromium.