Looks good on you! Life’s too short to be uncomfortable with whatever/whoever you want to be.

I would have loved AI to fill that need as well, but it’s not an adequate tool for the job.

Please spare me whatever philosophical navel gazing you’re trying to do here. I’m asking what should be an incredibly straightforward question about what should be basic functionality in any P2P seeding based system:

What control, if any, does an individual user have over what they seed back into the system?

Some P2P systems just give each user an encrypted blob of all sorts of stuff, so the individual user can’t choose and on paper isn’t responsible for whatever it is that they are seeding back in. I’m personally not ok with not having a way to ensure that I’m not seeding nazi manifestos that were stealthing as a reasonably named subplebbit.

Holy shit you cannot be serious. In the shortest possible terms: trust systems are forms of moderation. Anything implementing them would not fall under what I was talking about.

This project doesn’t appear to implement that. It doesn’t even appear to have a bare minimum way for users to prevent themselves from sharing something they viewed but don’t want to share. Viewing something should not imply trust.

Definitely appreciate the assumption that I’m just a dumbass and you’ve come to shine the light of enlightenment on me though. That my point of view could only be possible to reach through ignorance. That’s always nice.

How are users able to decide what they seed and what they don’t? Just because I viewed something doesn’t mean I necessarily want to support its proliferation.

I bring this point up every time I see someone pushing the idea of P2P or federated social networks with no moderation and no one has a solution for it yet. Because there isn’t a solution.

It’s like these people don’t even want to look at existing social media with minimal moderation. It doesn’t take long on 4chan and other less reputable *chan style sites to see that no matter how much you want to shake off the chains of overbearing moderators, there is a bare minimum moderation necessary for any social media to survive.

Even social media sites on TOR have moderation.

When even the darkest, least moderated cesspools online still have some minimal moderation, it should be a massive neon sign that there needs to be some moderation functionality.

Which is intensely frustrating for people who actually care about free speech. Can’t talk about it without setting off everyone’s “that guy is probably a nazi” alarms.

It’s absolutely an intentional trap to attempt to get people to support moves against free speech by tainting the concept through negative association.

We shouldn’t tolerate hate speech. But I’m concerned about where we end up in a few decades if the concept of free speech keeps the current connotations.

And people might consider even this comment as sealioning or something.

Meanwhile we have people unironically using phrases like unalive and censoring swear words in screenshots so they don’t trip the automated content filters on mainstream social media. That should be more concerning than people seem to take it. People joke about “literally 1984”, but unalive is blatant newspeak.

For the record, Sea Of Thieves is also available as a standalone purchase through Steam, bypassing the Microsoft Store and their half abandoned UWP format entirely. Never had any issues with the Steam version on Windows.

The “/v/s recommended games” wiki is mostly maintained by 4chan users (yuck), but it’s been a good source for both mainstream and hidden gems.

SNES, Sega Genesis, GBA

If I have time later I’ll edit this with some personal recomendations.

Don’t feel dumb! This is just normal learning!

Symlinks are possible in Windows (at least in NTFS filesystems) but to my knowledge they aren’t used by anything official.

Windows’s weird “psuedo folders” thing it does with “Documents” etc is something else entirely.

We can filter out NSFW work

[citation needed]

I have that turned on, and I heavily lean on blocking communities and users, and I still get NSFW shit fairly regularly.

Maybe make use of the existing blocking features, and use a client that has keyword filtering?

I’ve been able to get my experience pretty damn close to as filtered as I want it just with community, instance, and user blocking.

Who decides what is “without a doubt”?

Everyone’s personal barometer is going to vary on that wildly.

If each instance decides on their own usage, then it no longer becomes a useful filter. We already see this with the NSFW tag (god forbid I ask for it to be put on a post showing the business end of a fleshlight hanging out the rear end of a stuffed animal dog, that isn’t nsfw apparently because it’s not real nudity or something).

From one coder to another: This is classic coder overconfidence. The complexity isn’t in the hypothetical code but in the people and how the feature may or may not be used.

Explodingheads is going to have a distinctly different idea of “political” than Lemmygrad.

The Fediverse has few enough daily users that you can block political communities and the people who post overwhelmingly political content outside of those communities.

You can also use one of the handful of clients that allow keyword filtering.

Man, now I want to see a “cursed terminals” thing take off like the “cursed UI” stuff did.

I find it helps to have a separated space from the business folks, or work from home.

One of the reasons I know I’m on a good team is I’ll mumble something like “What the actual fuck? That shouldn’t be possible.” and I’ll hear a coworker chuckle and say something like “So it’s not just me having one of those days!”

My wife nearly tripped over me when I got down on one knee, lol. It was the height of Pokemon Go, and it was a little too good of a distraction from me being suspicious in the park where we first met.

Yeah, you can actually run C# code “inline” in it without having to compile to an exe, which is simulataneously really cool, kinda janky in practice, a bad idea, and pretty cursed.

There’s definitely some weirdness with the syntax, and some odd footguns, but I’ve found those in most languages I’ve used for any considerable amount of time.

I work in an almost exclusively Windows environment, and the base version of PowerShell is preinstalled on all Windows stuff since I think Windows 7, with some really good integration with the Windows sysadmin tools. Not sure I’d reccomend it outside of that sort of environment.

Hahaha, I’ll do whatever you want boss, but you’re sorely mistaken if you think you’re getting away without a written record of you signing off on telling me to do stupid shit.

Lol, welcome to the party. I’m not in a programming position, I’m on a systems engineering team. Most of my team mates can do some PowerShell scripting, but I have some programming classes under my belt.

I have a PowerShell script that is complex enough that I’m confortable calling it a program instead. Roughly half of the code is comments or logging the program flow. Every run generates a step by step log of all actions taken. I have 2 Word documents that summarize the process to different levels of detail, and a fucking flowchart for the visual peeps.

I’m still treated as the only person who could possibly flip the clearly labelled read only and route email to our team only switches and troubleshoot it.

To be fair, I recently learned during a vendor meet and greet that the vendor’s tech guy in the meeting had previously made a consulting firm to sell exactly what I built this program to do. Probably means I’m in the wrong line of work.