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[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 18 points 1 year ago

By using the same hostnames that you need for wanted content.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly don't care who they play for, as long as it's not at the cost of of any regular scheduled gig.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Regarding electronic voting, you can either have reliable and secure, or anonymous, but not both. Sounds like Estonia went for option 1.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Flashback to 2001 when someone with zero programming skills created a virus that shut down countless mailservers al over the world:

De Wit created Anna Kournikova in a matter of hours using a simple online Visual Basic Worm Generator program written by an Argentinian programmer called [K]Alamar. "The young man had downloaded a program on Sunday, February 11, from the Internet and later the same day, around 3:00 p.m., set the virus loose in a newsgroup."

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Where? I do see people obsessing over Elon in the comments, but they're not his fanboys.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 16 points 1 year ago

I'm more surprised they hadn't yet, to be honest.

Over here regular banks have been doing that for years 😥

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For that matter - I'm okay with filtering out people who think it's too much effort. Quality over quantity.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm no federation expert, but I think if you could convince your own instance admin, or the one hosting this community (lemmy.world), to do so, you'd be good. But that would potentially affect a lot more users than just the ones in this community, so they might take some effort.

Also, I'm not aware of any tools that could automate this for you.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We should rather stop allowing sign ups without an application. The captchas are not good enough.

That's near impossible to enforce, due to the federated nature. Server admins could whitelist which instances they trust, but I don't think that'll do much good from a community point of view.

Perhaps a sticky to find better moderator/timezone coverage could help. (And for that matter, I wouldn't mind stricter moderation on post relevance - not all news about tech companies or events that just happen to take place online is tech news, imho)

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For over 15 years, I oversaw the technical aspect of the biggest weblog in my country. I took great professional pride in making sure that every time we migrated to a new cms, links would keep on working, even when the external pages they linked to were since long dead.

A couple of years ago I left. Last year they changed cms once more. Now all the links are dead, and can best be found through through archive. The content was ported to the new cms, but the links weren't. So even though the content is in the database, it's just inaccessible by its old url.

Such a shame.

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