CoderKat

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[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Recordings from the home’s smart doorbell appeared to show the delivery driver, whom Mr Jackson said was the same race as him, misheard an automated response from the device asking: “excuse me, can I help you?”

Seriously, that's what it was? They'll ban him for that?

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Fuck the cities, too. They've kept these laws knowing that cycling infrastructure is insufficient and that the laws are poorly enforced. If the city can't provide safe infrastructure for cyclists, they shouldn't be outlawing reasonable actions to stay safe (by all means, ticket anyone cycling aggressively on the side walk, but not just for being there).

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Barriers are relative. Everything that makes it slightly harder will stop a large chunk of bots, since bots aren't able to easily adapt like humans can. Plenty of very basic bots are in fact stopped by lack of emails.

But yeah, email verification is heavily more so that you can verify they have access to the email, and thus the email is safe to use for things like password resetting. Without it, webmasters can get swamped with complaints about people getting locked out of accounts or the likes because they signed up with the wrong email.

In theory, you can also go further by only allowing email providers that have anti bot mechanisms, but it's difficult to maintain that and it will always exclude some legitimate users.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago

I'm very skeptical that mCaptcha would actually work besides perhaps temporarily slowing bots down due to being niche. How expensive can you make it without hurting legitimate users? And how expensive does it need to be to discourage bots? Especially when purposefully designed bots can actually do the kinda math we're talking about in optimized software and hardware while legitimate users can't.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But even if you don't believe them, it's got a 50% chance on a coin toss.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

The importance of jump starting can't be understated. Most people will go to the community that has content. If a community is empty, a lot of people won't even start participating in it. Plenty of people who make posts want them to be discussed, so they're only looking for active communities.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, it's hard to do that. Chrome's dominance means much of the internet has been designed for chrome. If you don't support the same features, people will complain that your browser is broken or sucks.

Myself, I used Firefox for the longest time before I eventually just got too annoyed with the umpteenth site not working correctly and switched to Chrome.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

You can't aggregate them internally, anyway. You need to be able to know if someone already voted on something.

I think activitypub needs to be extended so that the likes and reduces only need to be sent to the host of the content, with federation then being told just the aggregate number. Then the only servers that need to know identity of votes are the host server (necessary to ensure nobody can multi vote) and optionally the server the user voted on (could just relay the information to the host server and not store it locally, but then it'd be harder to tell what you've already upvoted -- could use local storage but I think lots of people use social media on multiple devices).

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sometimes reporting technically covers the last one. But usually not. Not all subs have rules against bigotry, trolling, dog whistles, general assholery, etc. I strongly hold it's important that downvoting is an option to deal with these kinda things. It's a way to show everyone that the comment isn't acceptable.

Plus even when reporting is an option, it may not be fast enough. Can't really automate removals, either, as people will abuse that.

Arguably "disagree but acceptable" should just not upvote. In a certain sense, that's already a middle option.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the key thing here is that you (and OP) should be only using one account (in both of your cases, your kbin account) on the site your account belongs to (kbin.social). The site takes care of the federation. There's generally nothing you need to do † and you don't even actually need to know how the federation works. Simply treat the @domain thing as part of a magazine's name (eg, it's never just "memes" but "memes@kbin.social").

† The exception is when you're the first person on your instance to subscribe to a sub on another instance. Right now this has a phenomenally bad UX and I'm hoping it will be improved quickly.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That will would cause load for peertube that it otherwise would have though. I'm not sure how well it will be able to scale. Hosting videos is really expensive. If something is already on YouTube it may be best to just leave it there so as to not put all our weight on a new, untested product.

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I honestly cannot describe it. It feels like a mixture of too many flavours to be able to quite put my finger to it.

I love it, though.

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