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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • So where’s the line defining malicious downvotes?

    Someone who downvotes 60% of a community’s posts? 75%? 90%.

    Youre setting yourself up as vote arbiter, telling users they can only vote the way you want. That’s just as problematic, maybe more so.

    Yea, there are people who consistently downvote stuff, but isn’t that how votes work? Like another commenter, I too downvote a lot of AI garbage, because it’s garbage. Am I a malicious downvoter, no longer permitted my opinion?

    The last few weeks I’ve consistently downvoted any political posts in communities where they clearly don’t belong (my opinion). Am I a malicious downvoter for that?


  • There’s a number of tags that could be useful, like politics, sports (or specific sports, though I’d filter all of them, just not my thing), or pick something.

    It would also be a useful way to setup different collections, like right now I want to see posts about cooking - I could have a view with just “cooking” tags (a category that could have further tags, eg “Cooking, veggies” or “Cooking, Pork”, etc).

    Of course this would require voluntary and consistent use of the tagging system, but I think over time most posters would embrace such a thing.

    A couple days ago I decided to just start blocking people who post political crap, especially where it doesn’t belong (particularly political tirades or rants). Such people provide no value, so no need to have them in my feed.






  • Haha.

    OK, dammit, I was annoyed by the opening, but I went along just to see where it goes.

    You made me snort. And dammit you’re right. Have my upvote.

    What’s doubly frustrating is the same technology is used as a giant vacuum, it’s the same motor, same compressor wheel (albeit aluminum), same case, with a giant bag attached. If these asshats were vacuuming stuff up instead of just blowing over to the next yard, I’d be a little less annoyed.

    The other day I watched a city worker blowing grass clippings out of the street back into the park that had just been mowed. Why? We have pretty steady breezes here through the summer, so you’re just wasting time. If they’d left the clippings, passing cars (at 30mph) would kick them up for the breeze to carry away and decompose on some grass.

    Instead they did the opposite, use energy to do what Mother Nature would do just as quickly.


  • Ubiquiti?

    You can’t give me that garbage. I despise it, after setting up a single access point (plus also watching friends deal with it at client sites).

    Besides the discovery issues and slow performance when trying to manage it, I had a random open network on it after setup. This network didn’t appear anywhere in the control panel. I could turn off the access point and the network disappeared.

    It didn’t show up in the guest network config (which was turned off anyway). It had the same name as the WPA-protected network, it was just open - no security at all.

    I had to reset the access point to get rid of this weird random open network.

    What kind of garbage product does that?

    Now let’s look at cloud keys. One has a hard drive in it. Just one drive, 3.5", which besides storing data also stores the OS. What? Why is the OS not on some firmware or at least an M2, since the drive is really for storing surveillance data (did I mention it’s a single drive?), what a joke. Why would I bother with such an expensive device that has zero fault tolerance, when I could simply buy a cheaper real machine, run multiple drives, and host the software there?

    I lack the vocabulary to describe how bad Unifi is.