hi65435

joined 2 years ago
[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

A js-free version is nice though

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have blocked lemmygrad

so did I

and other tankie/nazi (same shit) instances (domains) myself.

didn't see that yet but at least some user with a name in that direction.

Anyway, I found it quite not amusing to see this stuff on my second day of using Lemmy - which was 2 weeks ago or so. Honestly, I've seen enough online communities degenerate and having a few power users/enthusiasts who like fine tuning every setting is not enough to get a healthy community going.

I think if Lemmy doesn't get it's shit together in that regard, it'll be like Mastodon where there are alt-right communities powered by it and then another normal (or whatever you want to call it?) part. However I've been quite surprised when my first subscriber was some alt-right dude. That was enough for me to delete my account.

At the moment I see chances 50/50 that Lemmy can make it. But this highly depends on:

  1. making it convenient for non-technical people (discoverability across instances)
  2. have a reasonable filtering system (if it's fully democratic and it works that would be awesome. but to be realistic, that would be a first...)
[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for the comment. Yeah good point, I really miss people with the 8-5 mindset. At the moment there are too many people who just throw things over the wall, giving me nightmares once a month. (And users hate it) Already settled for something smaller but that definitely makes me feel better with my decision.

 

We're a very small team with little experience in hiring but got approval for a new engineer. Basically HR will look for people through the usual channels and I think we have a reasonably good job description. Unfortunately the coding challenge (a 30h+ take home) is atrociously difficult and doesn't really reflect what we do. On the other hand I think the false positive rate would be low. FWIW it's a Linux application and it might be difficult to only count on experience from the CV.

Any ideas how to build a good challenge from scratch and what time constraints are reasonable?

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago

Verstehe... kein problem ;) Ja aber ganz ehrlich, wenn das nicht behoben wird, sehe ich für Lemmy keine wirkliche Zukunft. Zumindest nicht als Reddit-Ersatz, wer soll das denn benutzen :D

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Das mit den unterschiedlichen Instanzen ist riesig

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think this is not how it works. It's like saying: I'll connect a physical lock to my laptop and I'm more secure. (Many PC laptops have on the side a standardized connector for physical locks which is often used in electronics stores)

Better to go a step back and to consider your Threat Model. What are you doing? What are things that could likely happen right now? Is adding to your security/backing up your Threat Model or is it making things worse because it's adding stuff that you don't need, making workflows so complicated you're likely to misconfigure?

To give a more practical example, there have been a lot of conspiracy theories about Antivirus software. In some sense the nay sayers are right and it actually adds possible holes since they tend to run with elevated privileges. On the other hand, does it really matter for your use case? If you download random stuff online, you should probably install one. (Probably also for your fellow humans so your computer doesn't end up being a botnet host) But if everything on your computer is hand-picked (TM), you might be actually right and they decrease security.

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Actually I once applied for a job at Reddit, there were like 5 or 6 interviews spread over 2 days basically. And almost everyone I talked to did something related to Ads. (The position I was considered for would have been about some service to deal with problematic posts, hate etc.) So it's just a huge ad machine.

This reminds me also about this Facebook documentary from 2 years ago, how ML algorithms implicitly shape how we interact. Maybe such efforts were better put into good moderation (oof), and a well-working UI...

That said, I wouldn't mind paying a little and already even did so to give awards and also for an App. (Can't be that much they earn with ads anyway?) I hope Lemmy is there to stay though, I'd be happy to donate/contribute every once in a while.

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

LibreOffice, I came for Linux support and PDF export... and stayed for the only Office that I know how to use 😄

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Naja Pegida ist jetzt nicht unbedingt das Maß aller Dinge. (Sind die nicht in der gleichen Zeit wie Hogesa entstanden?)

Klar ist es willkürlich aber die Identifikationsmöglichkeiten liegen definitiv näher als "Deutscher" (Mein Gott, wie sich das schon anhört...) Aber ausgehend von der EU und allem was drum rum entstanden ist, ist die Idee deutlich moderner...

[–] hi65435@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

Keine Ahnung, Rammstein sind jetzt nicht die Einzigen, die das Martialische persiflieren. (Mal ganz allgemein gesprochen und auch außerhalb der Musik gesehen.) Aber wer die Musik gut kennt muss sich irgendwann dann doch fragen, ob es da Abgrenzung gibt oder nicht. Andere Kreative kriegen es auch hin. Rammstein offensichtlich nicht, ihnen scheint die Ironie abhanden gekommen zu sein und sie fangen sich an mit ihren Kunstfiguren zu identifizieren. Und ganz ehrlich, hier geht es ja nicht nur um das Martialische sondern auch um Rollenbilder und alles.

Nichts für ungut, als Lindemann unter die Miethaie gegangen ist, waren sie bei mir ohnehin schon unten durch.