hallettj

I've seen admins asking for more fine-grained moderation tools. Maybe eventually things will work the way you're hoping. Here's a quote from a Beehaw admin,

an unfortunate reality we’ve also found is we just don’t have the tools or the time here to parse out all the good from all the bad. all we have is a nuke and some pretty rudimentary mod powers that don’t scale well.

Defederating prevents trolls on another instance from coming into comments in local communities to harass people. From an admin/mod perspective you have to take some kind of action to stop that.

Plastics? No, wait...

Oh, forgotten memory unlocked. I listened to that one a lot in high school

That's good info, thanks!

These are all great ideas, thanks!

Thanks for the heads-up about powerline. My house is oldish, and the wiring might not be amazing. It's good to be warned before I put money into that option.

I'm not sure what you mean by a healthy uplink? Like put a Wi-Fi device in a spot with a better signal, and run a cable there?

You make a good point about 2.4GHz; that would probably be more reliable, but slower. It's kinda disappointing to have a gigabit connection, but lose 70% of the speed at the last-meter connection. But 5GHz also loses most of the upstream speed.

Maybe rolling up my sleeves and putting in a cable is the way to go. I have a thought about going into the furnace closet, snuggling the cable alongside the insulation of a duct into the crawlspace, and coming up out the wall through a modified electrical outlet plate. I might be able to pull it off.

Thanks for the ideas!

One of my kids gets a lot of fevers and headaches. He also is a very picky eater, and doesn't drink enough water. (We're working on both of those.)

My other kid is not so picky, and rarely has fevers or headaches.

You can probably tell I have an opinion on the nature of these correlations.

TIL - I thought of this as a Persian tradition. Apparently the idea of a deliberate flaw in a woven work features in both cultures.

You're probably already aware that there have been literacy requirements to vote in the past in some places in the US, but those were actually an excuse to disenfranchise black people. https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/right-to-vote-suffrage-women-african/voter-registration-literacy

Literacy tests were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There have been recent attacks on that law including the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder which overturned election oversight in jurisdictions with a history of racist disenfranchisement; and Allen v Milligan from a couple months ago was an attempt to overturn gerrymandering restrictions, but thankfully it failed. Combine that with continuing voter disenfranchisement (for example far too few polling places in Atlanta leading to black voters waiting in line many hours to vote), and there is no doubt in my mind that if literacy tests were legal again they would be used the same way they were in the 60's.

Personally I think history has shown that we get better leaders when more votes are counted.

I second kitty. I switched from urxvt to konsole to get support for ligatures. Then I switched to kitty because it also has ligatures, it's faster than konsole, and it's easier to configure with version-controlled files.

I don't do very much customization: font, line spacing, color scheme, and a couple of custom key bindings.

I read in another comment somewhere that introducing a superconductor wouldn't change the properties of the semiconductor bits. So the transistors themselves would still produce heat. But there are also full-conductor bits that produce heat that might be eliminated.