Would you mind describing it? That forge is apparently down.

It ends silent downvotes and forces transparency. Then they are inclined to reply and say “the mod action was justified for X… Y… Z.” Then the mod supporters upvote that, which in turn shows us what feedback and votes are sensible and which can be disregarded (e.g. when the reaction is unrelated to enforcing rules).

Makes no sense to support downvotes on the basis that upvotes don’t change. Lack of upvotes does not have the silencing effect that downvotes has, or the misleading sum of votes that conceals upvotes.

The current state of the ambiguous sidebar is cause for people to call the rules shit.

Having well articulated rules is not generally for the haters. It’s to properly guide those with goodwill – at least in this case, where it’s an unenforcable rule.

Of course the best fix is to move to a well-configured node.

I don’t see any solution for this in a public internet forum.

A good fix is to move this community to one of these instances:

• libretechni.ca
• crazypeople.online
• beehaw.org

because downvotes are rightfully disabled on those nodes.

“Justified” is far more subjective than “breaks a written rule”. People are indeed voting with their emotion (as opposed to assessing whether a rule was broken which is much less subjective).

“It is justified that that asshole who disagrees with me got censored”.

I agree with your whole thesis here, however unpopular. The voting is so arbitrary it’s useless.

The sidebar is unclear:

“Do not downvote posts if you think they deserved it. Use the comment votes (see below) for that.”

The side-bar still today fails to answer @sudo@programming.dev’s question. It does not specify how the voting should be used.

In principle, the interesting question is whether a mod action is consistent with the rules. Folks often post here because a mod took action against a rule-abiding post. Yet they get down-voted anyway because of distaste for the user who is being oppressed (thus the down-voter simply agrees w/oppressing opposing viewpoints).

Even IF the side-bar were well written to cover this, the crowd doesn’t give a shit. It’s plainly evident that voters vote to push their emotion. Too many undisciplined brains. So really, the only sensible fix is this.

Gotta say the way Kaidan documents their work is probably the most impressive I have encountered in the FOSS world. The list of new features is long and detailed, as are the bug fixes. The packaging status at the end of the page is brilliant. We can quickly see from knowing our distro whether we have the changes.

I miss when Google and Facebook were XMPP

XMPP is a good option precisely because those companies are not involved.

The tldr app is in Debian official repos so I installed it with apt tools. From there, it failed me:

$ tldr wg
Downloading tldr pages to ~/.local/share/tldr
tldr: HttpExceptionRequest Request {
  host                 = "tldr.sh"
  port                 = 443
  secure               = True
  requestHeaders       = []
  path                 = "/assets/tldr.zip"
  queryString          = ""
  method               = "GET"
  proxy                = Nothing
  rawBody              = False
  redirectCount        = 10
  responseTimeout      = ResponseTimeoutDefault
  requestVersion       = HTTP/1.1
  proxySecureMode      = ProxySecureWithConnect
}
 (ConnectionFailure Network.Socket.getAddrInfo (called with preferred socket type/protocol: AddrInfo {addrFlags = [], addrFamily = AF_UNSPEC, addrSocketType = Stream, addrProtocol = 0, addrAddress = 0.0.0.0:0, addrCanonName = Nothing}, host name: Just "tldr.sh", service name: Just "443"): does not exist (Temporary failure in name resolution))

Looks like it needs cloud access. My gear only works on Tor, so then I tried it this way:

$ torsocks tldr wg
No tldr entry for wg
$ torsocks tldr wget
No tldr entry for wget
$ torsocks tldr find
No tldr entry for find
$ torsocks tldr rsync
No tldr entry for rsync
$ torsocks tldr -u
Downloading tldr pages to ~/.local/share/tldr
tldr: Data.Binary.Get.runGet at position 4: Did not find end of central directory signature
CallStack (from HasCallStack):
  error, called at libraries/binary/src/Data/Binary/Get.hs:351:5 in binary-0.8.8.0:Data.Binary.Get

Also checked for kmdr but that’s not in the official debian repos, which I try to stick to. I appreciate the tips though.

Sadly, not enough people will realise Matrix is a shitty alternative.

SimpleX is Cloudflare-free. Matrix is not.

yikes! Not smart for “chasing digital sovereignty”.

SimpleX is Cloudflare-free. Matrix is not.

I was quite confused when I read your post because Tesseract is an OCR engine. Your link helped sort it out.

I think I have come across various fedi web clients that do conversions. I think peertube shrinks videos, IIRC. The auto conversions are useful but they must be conservative in the extent of their changes. The posterizing that I do w/Imagemagick makes a dramatic change so it could not be done automatically by a client or server, as users need to review the output and decide. So I believe the best compression will always require manual effort in order to judge whether the quality loss is still acceptable for the application.

Regarding Tesseract (the lemmy client) – does that work offline? I’m always looking for a Lemmy client that can briefly connect to sync content and then support reading and writing messages when offline.

It’s important to realise that programming.dev is centralised in Cloudflare, a US-based gatekeeper who is antithetical to fedi principles. When someone looks for an alternative to #Reddit, I imagine they don’t want yet another tech giant. They are looking for a decentralised place that values balance of power.

So I suggest directing people to !emacs@lemmy.sdf.org instead.

In my case I need geocoding because I am starting with addresses, not coordinates.

Nonetheless, I am amazed to hear that chatgpt can write software like that. I am getting out of touch because I boycott Cloudflare, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. So I appreciate the tip. Theoretically I could make use of that for my 2nd step of going from DB to GPX file, but I’ll be tempted to try something like gpsbabel first.

thanks. Indeed I just checked and Nominatim is still viable. I may just do that.

Though I must say it’s bizarre that such a common need has no software. Everytime I travel somewhere, reviews for interesting restaurants, beer, attractions, etc, only give addresses, not GPS coords. I would expect by now someone would have been driven mad by all the manual entry by hand.

Really? Zsh expands short parameters to long? My search comes up dry. This is apparently the most comprehensive treatment on the topic:

https://thevaluable.dev/zsh-expansion-guide-example/

I don’t see mention of tool options expanding… just other parameters like variables.

Glad to verify my click bait worked. A doc once told me the pinky toe is getting increasingly smaller and will one day go away. So the next notable evolution may be 4 toes… 2 toenails less to clip!

I suppose UIs will evolve away from keyboards faster than we evolve to have more fingers.