This is exactly why I am so frustrated that my youth was spent on girls, drinking, fucking off, and avoiding anything to do with all authority.
That lifestyle is behind me, and I want to do all this cool stuff, but lack the skills and the income to pull it off.
But this article has inspired me to really jump into a whole new DIY thing. Love the mindset and innovation for this. Thanks for this post!
This reminds me that I need to start using the Pi that I have. Life got busy, but I wanna refocus on it. Thanks for this, OP!
Love this cover!
I actually like the look of these!
I like the idea of it. I live in a house. And the windows thing stresses me out because of the expense of fixing them if broken, easy access for intruders, etc. lol
suppose we must push harder for remote work
But most remote work pays enough that housing isn't an issue. Many lower paying jobs require us to be on-site, and we're the ones that can't afford housing.
So I think the option is way more affordable housing, and removing the stigma around that. In my area it's called Section 8, and of course, those options always seem to be in the more crime-ridden areas. So frustrating.
I love the name and the idea. I'm def going to try to be a bigger participant of this sub!
Just curious, and not to beat a dead horse, but if Lemmy can give us notifications that comments are removed, why can't it do a simple ban notification as well?
Because I always get notified when a post or comment has been removed.
Seems simple enough make the removal notification that led to banning something as simple as "Your comment has been removed for xxxx reason. And now you are banned from the community due to reasons xxxxx."
I realize that my particular situation here has been resolved and we can move on, but I'm just curious if the lack of banning notifications is a software issue or if it's a philosophical issue for Lemmy and the fediverse.
Holy shit, that's a great point that I wouldn't have thought of. Great fucking point.
Fuck universal, that’s not the issue.
Hey now! lol
But yeah, to your point, I agree that any bots that ban, also need to notify. Especially since it's a bot, and it's automated, so it's not like it would be much harder to do than the auto-banning. And I don't routinely check modlogs before I post to a community.
This particular bot--if I understand correctly--auto bans based on someone's downvotes, not necessarily on content. Even if those downvotes happened on another instance. Which to me, seems even worse, because some people can be right, even tho downvoted.
The issue started because I had no idea I was banned, and I accidentally posted to the community.
Apparently, it banned my same username from another instance that I was on. My time on that instance was pre-election, so in the weeks leading to it, Lemmy was quite um, passionate about downvoting anyone who wasn't openly supporting Harris.
But I haven't been controversial or posted any controversial content from this slrpnk instance. And I do not have the same downvote ratio on this instance because I stay away from politics here--except for the post to his community. Which was about Bernie Sanders--who I adore.
But the username thing may be an issue in the future too, because some people's usernames are generic enough that that as we grow bigger, duplicates may be used unintentionally on different instances.
So banning based on downvotes of a user name on different instances, without reading content, seems problematic to me.
I have no problem with him running it in his community tho. His community, his rules, but the noise started because I had no idea what was going on until he posted this here.
But I definitely got the point, and won't be posting to his community in the future.
I hope that there won't be many communities doing the same sort of bot modding though.
"Unsalted Counter Info." That is a great freakin' name. I wish I would have known about them when I lived in the midwest. That would have been cool to be a part of when I was growing up.
And I didn't even know the zine world was still a thing. I have a whole new rabbit hole to fall down now.
I realize this is an older post, but I just now found it. I'm actually using this this textbook resource right now as a result of your post. Thank you!