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  1. Comment on How can a post be reported or a moderator contacted? in ~tildes

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    For comments, you can label them as malice or message Deimos. He is the only person who can lock threads or delete comments. Deimos is also the only person who can delete topics. There is no quick...

    For comments, you can label them as malice or message Deimos. He is the only person who can lock threads or delete comments.

    Deimos is also the only person who can delete topics. There is no quick way to report or label topics, so you would have to message Deimos directly.

    However, some users (cfabbro, mycketforvirrad, kfwyre I think, and myself) have the abilities to edit the links and titles of topics, and to move them to different groups. This means that any of us could, if necessary, bury a topic in ~test where 99% of the site won't see it. I have done this before and would be happy to do it again.

    So, if you find a topic on Tildes that you think needs immediate attention because it's so obviously malicious, spammy, or otherwise doesn't belong, you can always message us (one of the users I mentioned earlier or myself) about it and we will review the topic and possibly "quarantine" it until Deimos can take a look himself.

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  2. Comment on Atlassian acquires The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) in ~tech

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    I have used Zen for almost a year and it's pretty neat. Zen's sidebar and vertical tabs are cool, and I think I prefer them over normal horizontal tabs now. I'm not sure the way Zen handles...

    I have used Zen for almost a year and it's pretty neat. Zen's sidebar and vertical tabs are cool, and I think I prefer them over normal horizontal tabs now. I'm not sure the way Zen handles vertical tabs is much different or any better than the various Firefox extensions one could install (or your modification that you linked, that looks cool by the way). So, I can't really come up with any compelling reasons for why people should use Zen over rolling their own solution in Firefox... other than that with Zen, you don't have to roll your own solution in Firefox I guess.

    Actually, Zen does have other neat features than just vertical tabs. Its "peek" feature that opens a link as a temporary window (inside the browser's window), rather than a new tab, is cool. Split-view for tabs, customizing keyboard shortcuts (the lowest hanging fruit, c'mon Firefox), and Zen mods are all useful. I also like the way Zen presents pinned tabs in the sidebar better than how Firefox handles them.

    I wouldn't feel like I lost much if I had to go back to Firefox, but Zen brings enough of its own features that I'll continue to use it as long is it keeps up with Firefox updates.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Moser's Frame Shop: I am an AI hater in ~tech

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    I wonder what's the point of articles like this.

    Anyway, not trying to make a point or anything here. Just wondering out loud

    11 votes

  6. Comment on Does anyone know how many users have been banned from Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Yeah if someone's account was deleted it will say something different. Example: https://tildes.net/user/tindall I guess in theory a user who wants to delete their account could also ask Deimos to...

    Yeah if someone's account was deleted it will say something different. Example: https://tildes.net/user/tindall

    I guess in theory a user who wants to delete their account could also ask Deimos to ban that account so it can't be re-registered, but I've got a feeling that doesn't happen often.

    3 votes

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  8. Comment on Bluesky will block Mississippi IP addresses in response to its age assurance law in ~tech

  9. Comment on Always invest in good tires in ~transport

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    The hybrid 2022 Ford Maverick's official city MPG is 42: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2022_Ford_Maverick.shtml It's not unthinkable that @macleod could push that even higher depending...

    The hybrid 2022 Ford Maverick's official city MPG is 42: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2022_Ford_Maverick.shtml

    It's not unthinkable that @macleod could push that even higher depending on how and where they drive.

    Tires also can have a significant effect on MPG, but I don't know enough about that to say whether an average increase of 25 MPG is realistic.

    16 votes

  13. Comment on What happened to your first car? in ~transport

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    My first car was a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt. It was my grandmother's car (on my father's side). She died about six months before I turned 16, so I inherited the car. On the morning of New Year's Day,...

    My first car was a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt. It was my grandmother's car (on my father's side). She died about six months before I turned 16, so I inherited the car.

    On the morning of New Year's Day, I was driving my girlfriend (we started dating the night before), her sister, and her dog home from a party. I was not hungover or under the influence. This was January, in Western North Carolina, high up in the mountains. It was cold, but there had been no snow or rain, nor was there any ice on the roads. I grew up in the area. Twisty mountain roads were nothing new to me in general, and I had been on this road dozens of times before. I was not speeding.

    About five minutes after leaving, I approached a particularly sharp curve and was braking when I noticed that the brake pedal was very stiff. The car wasn't slowing down. I tried to turn into the curve early to give us a better chance of staying on the road, but then the steering wheel locked. I couldn't stop. I couldn't turn.

    We flew off the road and down the mountain. Mid air, we hit a thin tree that immediately buckled under the car's weight, but also flipped us upside down. We flew so far and for so long that when we landed, we did so on the roof of the car. After sliding for what felt like an eternity, we finally came to a stop a long way down the mountain. The airbags did not deploy.

    Miraculously, everyone was okay. A few cuts, scrapes, and bruises, and glass particles everywhere (I vividly remember rinsing glass out of my ear the next day).

    After unbuckling and crawling out of the car, we hiked back up the mountain, then walked down the road until we had cell service, and called 911.

    In hindsight, that turned out to be a mistake. Of course we should have gone to the hospital to be checked after an accident like that, but we really didn't need the ambulance to take us there (or the bill for it). Calling 911 also meant the police got involved. They did their accident investigation and, at the hospital, said to me "it's your lucky day, we aren't giving you a ticket" because they couldn't prove that I was speeding (they made it absolutely clear they thought I was), or high or drunk. They were generally just assholes about the entire thing and made the day even worse.

    After getting checked out at the hospital, we got a ride back to the scene of the crash to collect things we had left in the car, and to watch it be towed up the mountain (a tedious process). During this, I realized that I left the keys inside the car. I never turned the car off or removed the keys. In fact, the keys were not just still inside the car, they were still in the on-position, but the car was completely dead. The battery was not, and was still connected. I started putting the pieces together that the car somehow turned off while I was driving. It sounded insane, but that was the only explanation that was consistent with what happened.

    Long story short, I spent the next month feeling like I was being gaslit by the universe. I got so much shit "for almost killing girlfriend and girlfriends_sister". By my friends, by her friends, by some of her family. Literally the only people who didn't give me a hard time about the crash were my girlfriend, her sister, her parents, and my parents. I even had a random person in town who I never met before tell me they heard about the crash and told me to "slow down out there".

    But then, the first week of February, I got it: the recall letter from General Motors.

    It turned out that, for over a decade, various General Motors vehicle models had been sold with faulty ignition switches. The faulty switches could cause the vehicle to turn off while driving.

    Specifically, if you kept your car key on a keychain (like I did), and that keychain had any significant weight (say, as much weight as the car key itself, like mine did), then that extra weight hanging off the back of the car key could cause the key to become dislodged. When the car key became dislodged in the ignition switch (such as after going over a bump), the vehicle would turn off. No braking, no steering, no airbags.

    17 votes

  15. Comment on Sydney Sweeney’s Hollywood career just got a whole lot more complicated in ~society

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    I found a blog post earlier today about Sweeney that I thought was interesting: The Sydney Sweeney Psyop -- How Manufactured Outrage Weaponizes Attention I don't know anything about Sweeney, other...

    I found a blog post earlier today about Sweeney that I thought was interesting:

    The Sydney Sweeney Psyop -- How Manufactured Outrage Weaponizes Attention

    I don't know anything about Sweeney, other than that she is an actress, or anything about this controversy, other than that she was in a clothing commercial and said something about having "good jeans" and that made people mad. I think the blog post raises some good points about the "attention war" though (which I guess is like the culture war, or part of it?), and just how fucked everything is. It's not a great blog post. It leans a little too heavily into the Democrat/American leftist "omg Trump is destroying our entire democracy" screeching for my tastes, but I like its underlying point that controversies like this are generally not worth our time fighting about.

    If you liked that blog post, may I present:

    Reading the news is the new smoking

    22 votes

  16. Comment on xkcd: Undocumented Feature in ~tech

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    Build 42 should get a stable release "soon". That would be a great time to spin up a server

    Build 42 should get a stable release "soon". That would be a great time to spin up a server

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  17. Comment on I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec in ~comp

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    Yeah Via's site has been taken down too. It was a very cool project, and I was hoping Valve would hire him and run with the idea, but I guess they didn't :( I hope he does release the code...

    Yeah Via's site has been taken down too. It was a very cool project, and I was hoping Valve would hire him and run with the idea, but I guess they didn't :(

    I hope he does release the code eventually. I'd really like to be able to offload my entire Steam library onto my NAS, and then use Via to stream game files onto my device. On my local network that probably wouldn't be any better than "regular" game streaming like Steam's Remote Play or Sunshine, but I think Via's approach of streaming files instead of video frames would work better for playing away from home.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on North Korean Career Coaches in ~comp

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    Everyone saying "don't do it" are probably the type of people who eat vanilla ice cream and don't even put pepper on it first. You should absolutely 100% work with the Democratic People's Republic...

    Everyone saying "don't do it" are probably the type of people who eat vanilla ice cream and don't even put pepper on it first. You should absolutely 100% work with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea government agents to get a tech job. What CEO wouldn't appreciate your think-outside-the-box strategy for landing interviews?

    And I can promise you, from personal experience, Democratic People's Republic of Korea agents know how The Game is played. If you cut off contact with them after landing a job, they absolutely will not send a sleeper agent to murder, kidnap, kidnap-murder, or murder-kidnap you in your sleep.

    Carpe diem! I look forward to hearing about your future successes with your new (temporary) friends.

    17 votes