Yeah, I’m def bumping this up on my rewatch list. Been on a 90s kick lately and this fits right in.

Wow. Totally did not recognize that scene at all.

I have so many questions.

First of all, how dare you? Second of all, is that Jan Hooks? Third, what is that from?

Is there EV support?

Looks like it, yeah:

The UI still shows Fuel, but it seems like you can enter the kWh and it should calculate. Maybe plug some values into the demo to be sure. If you do, let us know!

I use Fireflyiii for my money and budgeting.

I don’t see why not. I haven’t stood it up yet, but I’ve played with the demo. It does have a section for parts/repairs/upgrades.

Give the demo a try, and let us know.

Yeah, building a simpler version of something like that was on my ever-growing “to do” list but came across this today. Probably going to deploy it this evening or maybe this weekend (whichever day it’s supposed to rain lol).

For a website, forum, blog, etc, at least the damage caused by poor security would be limited to just that platform. Unfortunate, but contained. With federation, that poor security becomes everyone else’s problem as well. Hence my gripe lol.

It’s been so long since I setup my instance, I honestly don’t recall what the default “Registration mode” is.

I’m but a small drop in the larger fediverse, but I do develop a frontend for Lemmy. I actually coded the “Registration” section in the admin panel to nag you if the config is insecure. lol

It will still let you do it, just with a persistent nag message on that page.

Basically, yeah. Not all admins would defederate, so they probably wouldn’t be completely isolated off, but they would definitely have a very reduced audience for their, uh, antics.

Yup, and I’ve probably still got a lot of those instances on my federation blocklist.

One of my ongoing gripes with the fediverse is that people run instances with little/no oversight and leave registrations wide open. It’s just irresponsible to have open registrations when you don’t have an admin available 24/7.

So let’s say instance A and B are defederated from each other, but both are federated with instance C. After a user from A posts something on C does every user from B get to downvote everything?

Yes. Instance A will not see the downvotes from instance B, but instance C would. Also, anyone federated with all 3 would see the downvotes from B for content posted by someone on A.

The only defense is that mods and admins can see the votes and, if something like that is suspected, they can take action (ban the accounts, mods report the behavior to admins, consider defederating from instance B, etc). Seeing a pattern of mass-downvotes only from a particular instance would be considered a red flag for most admins.

This scenario is less likely than what we see in practice, though, since the overhead to create an instance and the “eggs all in one basket” make it easy to take action against (admins would quickly coordinate to block that instance). Tools like Fediseer would also be used to censure that instance and bring its behavior to light.

In the wild, it’s far more common for them to just spin up a bunch of accounts across “good” instances (particularly those without registration applications) and coordinate.

One example of that: https://dubvee.org/post/1878799

1. Have an actual mission statement beyond just being a general purpose instance (e.g Beehaw, my instance, most of the topic-based ones, etc)
2. Replace the default frontend with anything better than Lemmy-UI
3. Building on #1, try to curate the experience into something positive.
4. Block the toxic aspects as best you can by default. Don’t make new users discover and deal with the toxicity on their own. There’s plenty of other general purpose instances that will let people rawdog everything (and everyone) on the Fediverse if that’s what someone wants.
5. Focus on “quality over quantity” and block all the content repost bots / defed from the instances that do nothing but repost Reddit content. Disallow AI slop in all its forms and focus on human interactions.
6. Consider hiding/disallowing Politics communities and don’t allow accounts who post with an obvious agenda.
7. Systematically Identify and ban accounts that do nothing but downvote (if everything here displeases them so much, perhaps they should go elsewhere, ya know?)
8. Clean up duplicate posts; even if they’re slightly different, seeing the same story posted 10 times gets old for users.

What the hell happened? … I thought FlyingSquid was OK … I had lots of run-ins with them and every time I saw them as being pretty OK … opinionated and prolific but also pretty liberal and open minded on many things. I know that not everyone will agree with everything all the time, that is just human nature … we can’t all be OK with one another on everything on all issues, all the time.

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So what happened? … it’s upsetting because when vague posts like this appear, it’s hard on us who are not fully clued into the community of mods and heavy posters who are plugged in with one another.

I’m not 100% read in on the story, and I’ve only heard authoritatively that he has quit Lemmy. I didn’t mean to be vague, but also, I didn’t want to disclose anything I may not be good to disclose (especially when I don’t have a firsthand account of the full story). Basically, I don’t want to spread / start any rumors.

I’m stating this all as an outside observer, but yeah, definitely opinionated and like you said, open minded on most things. Being a prolific contributor, he attracted a LOT of abuse from some real shithead accounts over the last few years. I’ve seen many of those accounts twist his words around, put words in his mouth, and make accusations/name call based off of those twisted and out-of-context quotes. For better or worse, Squid often didn’t know when to quit / just hit the block button. He was also the target of a few particular trolls (as were I and Jordan Lund, so he had a support group for that lol; those were more hilarious than traumatizing though)

I can only speak for myself in this regard, but stress like that is definitely cumulative. I have thought about leaving many times myself, but have instead block/banned my way to mental health. Perhaps he’ll come back some day, perhaps not.

In general, they probably wouldn’t. But this post is basically a funeral / wake, so I guess “read the room” would be solid advice here.

Rick Berman: Denise, doll, how are you? It’s Rick Berman.

Crosby (smart): [Hangs up]

Berman: Look, I’m doing a little project in Venezuela, and I think you’d be perfect for it. Hello?

(Edited to make Crosby even smarter)

That’s the thing. Most people did. The ones who didn’t seemed to go out of their way to be antagonistic. It’s a shame the jerks ultimately won, but I get why he quit / stepped away.

Edit: Going to use this comment as a soapbox. If someone is constantly antagonistic, putting words in your mouth, twisting your words, and making accusations based off of that, just do yourself a favor and block them (and if it’s bad enough, report them). I’m tired of seeing good people leave the platform because of harassment and trolls.

Congrats on finding a 3rd Rock GIF lol. I had to make that one from DVD screencaps.

Something like this…but the opposite:

Fun fact: They’re dancing to jawa21’s remix of Ode to Spot.

Unpopular opinion, but good. I don’t want Apple or Google embedded in my car. Just give me an aux cord / Bluetooth, and I’ll be on my way. Better yet, bring back the DIN/Double-DIN standard so I actually have options.