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"If things weren't the way they actually are, things would be different!"

Man, people did vote.

I was in a programming class in the 9th grade in which we were taught Visual Basic. I found out that you can run other executable from applications written in Visual Basic using the Shell command and that this bypassed whatever restrictions they had placed on our computers. I could open any Windows XP (I think?) admin utility this way. But more noticeably, I could open the previously disallowed crappy space pinball game. I showed this to some of my friends, and they did the same. A few days later, some of them are suspended for, no shit, "hacking," because they were caught playing pinball. Not me, though. I kinda resented that.

Oh, I also did an infinite loop with the "Beep" command in it and this caused my computer to bluescreen and not come back.

Jake the dog type

Well I'm not losing lem.monster because I'm not a fucking idiot.

I wonder if something else happened

My first question is "how long ago?" Because if I'm talking to a 30 year old who was a nazi at 20, then I'm not even suspicious. If it was much more recent, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt but I'll keep an eye on em. I don't want people whose sympathies are changing from far right to far left to think that they will always be unwelcome, but I have to be wary of bad faith actors.

Whichever Jetbrains IDE is appropriate. I fell in love with Rider and wound up paying for their all-inclusive license. I've since made heavy use of Webstorm, CLion, and Datagrip professionally and personally.

I could be wrong, but I don't think I can see the IP addresses of remote users. What I'm pointing out is that if a post was marked as anonymous on instance A, even if you trust admin of instance A the identity could be revealed by the admins of instance N.

It's difficult to see how this could work without keeping the association between those posts and the person entity in the database. All it would take is one so-motivated instance admin to reveal the identity of the poster. It might still have value for low-stakes stuff, but it might give the end user the incorrect idea that their posts are truly anonymous.

Oh, maybe lemmy.world is using another definition of "hot." ;)

Thanks for the tip! And I happen to be the admin, lol. I'll set a cron job to restart the lemmy container and see what changes.

The problem with sorting by hot, at least on my instance, is that I always seem to wind up looking at a post from years ago mixed in with more recent stuff. That's not a problem per se, but I find myself almost responding to a conversation that happened a long time ago.

Haha, I knew the answer before reading the article.