Or maybe even to consult the pediatrician.

I don’t sell anything.

Good on you. In the realm of 3D printing, if I were to start a business based on 3D printing stuff, I wouldn’t feel bad about, say, commissions for printing something the client found elsewhere on demand or commissions for designing a model. (I suppose theoretically a “3d printer repair service” would be something I’d be ok with charging for as well.) But I definitely couldn’t feel good about selling models or prints (as opposed to selling my labor and potentially a little bit for raw materials and wear/tear on my printer) that I’d previously designed/printed. I think probably one of my conditions for model design commissions would be that I could publish the model under a CC BY-SA license.

“Information wants to be free.” Something I deeply believe.

I love you all.

I mean, not OP, but the rest of you.

And waking life isn’t real and nothing you do in it matters.

Wow. That’s super shitty that’s becoming necessary for some projects. But I don’t fault the Ladybird folks for deciding this was necessary.

Making it possible to vote up and/or down while preventing double-voting for the same account in a distributed application like Fediverse sort of applications seems challenging at best unless every instance knows exactly who voted which way on what. What I wish is that Lemmy would make it a proper feature that it was public information who voted on what.

I dunno. Maybe it would be possible to implement some zero-knowledge proof sort of thing that would keep people from double-voting (purposefully or accidentally) without anybody but the voter knowing who voted for what. But absent that, I’d rather that seeing that information wasn’t limited to an elite group of users composed of just mods/admins. I’d also rather that I didn’t have to go to a separate site to see information about upvotes and downvotes.

I suppose the argument could be made that we could get away with not having votes. Just make how high it shows up high on the “hot” sort by how many comments it has. Though I do feel like there are “good” posts that I’d want to see with few/no comments.

Ha! I don’t mod many communities, but I like to think I’m pretty reasonable about it. I definitely try to err on the side of not taking mod action.

I have a very selective list of “I want to see all the posts that get posted to this community” communities that I’m subscribed to that gives me like 5 posts per day at most, and I sort that by subscribed/new. Once I’m done catching up with those, I go to all/new, and I block communities I don’t ever want to see again. It’s nice because 1) I get to see all the posts I really want to see, 2) I can block the “crap I don’t want in front of me for no reason”, and 3) new communities that I might be interested in make it in front of my eyes without me having to go search for them or hope the ones I’d want to see happen to come up in a “new communities” community on my feed.

Thanks for this! I’m not sure it’s working correctly for me. It’s only showing five downvoted posts. (And according to lemvotes.org, I’ve downvoted over 300 posts.) After that it gives me an error: TypeError: can't access property "data", W.value[r.feedId] is undefined and the “retry” button doesn’t do anything. But it still gives me something to try if I can figure a way to fix that somehow.

A lot of your posts make me feel like I’m missing a lot of very specific context.

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No worries! Didn’t take me more than a couple of minutes to find. I just posted the link in case anyone else would want it.

Found it: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116708457056507627

You put this better than I could. I hate it when I get that tiny rush of “oh that’s cool” whenever I see/hear/experience something before realizing it’s completely bullshit.

“Oh shit, Shaboozey did a collab with Eminem? Gotta hear that. This is so coo-… fake. It’s fucking fake. Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu…”

Every time, it feels like it “pollutes” or “taints” my brain. I don’t want that shit in there. For a similar reason to why I immediately go and look up a news story I see somewhere random on Snopes if it seems a little too perfect.

Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?

When blockchain was the new hot snakeoil, sure there was the annoying guy at work that would try to buttonhole you and try to get you to invest your life savings in Skibidicoin or whatever, but you could tell them to fuck off and it wouldn’t really be an issue. But there’s no way you can just not participate in the whole “generative AI” thing.

It’s not an offensive sort of vocal hatred. It’s a defensive sort of vocal hatred. If people (and yes, my employer is one of the worse offenders) would quit nonconsentually forcing AI on me, I’d opt out. But as it is, my only option is to take it and then go vent on Lemmy.

Unauthorized… Toast?

Does the pet store offer returns?

Trust me, bro, it’s The Singularity™. Any day now, bro.

I have absolutely no regrets about doing that, although from the storm of anti-AI rage it’s clear that many people think I should be hung up by my toe nails and flogged for even considering doing this.

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Oh, is that up for a vote?

The feds blackmailed and jailed some of the most respected members of the community. That’s kinda when it fell apart.