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ziggurism , to Ask Science in What would happen if we mixed nuclear waste into gasoline
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Adding lead to gasoline didn’t reduce carbon emissions. Why do you think some other toxin would? You’re just poisoning the atmosphere for funsies. Skip the convoluted steps and just detonate bombs in the atmosphere. Inject it right into gothams water main, ya genocidal supervillain.

Gutotito , to RedditMigration in Damn, the ads…
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If I had to guess, I'd say they're trying to maximize their market cap. It's no secret that they're looking for a buyer and/or eyeing and IPO. The more profitable they can seem before that, the more money Huffman can walk away with.

betweenthesixes , to RedditMigration in PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit

This is a great tip! Thanks for posting it.

daredevil , to Linux in What is the most opinionated linux distro?
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Linux Mint Cinnamon has been nice to pick up for me.

SFaulken , to Linux in What is the most opinionated linux distro?
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Fedora Silverblue or openSUSE Aeon, I'd probably say.

epocsquadron ,
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If you really don’t want to even be encouraged to touch the command line but do everything through a graphical software store (that’ll be gnome software) while still having access to everything you need, one of these two is currently the way to go. I just came across this older article comparing them, and it seems for the new user openSUSE Aeon (micro os, formerly) wins out in minimal fiddling.

Galluf , to Work Reform in I got banned from the Reddit sub for asking about union related materials for distribution.

On my experience, 90% of the time there’s more to the story than what people claim to be banned for. I’m not saying that 100% of that 90% of the time necessarily justifies the ban. But it usually changes the context significantly.

DrTautology OP , (edited )

Fair enough. Officially I was banned for making a post that violated the subs rules, which I never did. In reality I was banned because a mod didn’t like my attitude. I made a post asking about union materials, but I noticed that the post never went up, so I sent a mod mail asking if there was something wrong with my post. What I got back was a snarky remark about the mods not being bots and they have to manually approve every post and how dare I ask that question again and waste their precious time. To my surprise I made a post about a year ago and it didn’t get approved after 7 hours so I sent a similar inquiry. Naturally I had completely forgotten about this interaction, so I thank the mod for being petty enough to look it up and mention it. Basically a case of give snark get snark, and they didn’t like it and decided to power trip. That’s the whole story.

Galluf ,

Thank you for being honest enough to admit your title is a lie.

Next time be honest from the beginning and don’t lie in your title.

DrTautology OP ,

Did you read what wrote? I was permanently banned and my post was removed because they said it violated the sub’s rules, which it didn’t. That’s officially why I was banned. I didn’t lie about anything here.

Galluf ,

I’d consider it a lie to say you were supposedly banned for violating a rule when you yourself acknowledged that you know that’s not the reason you were banned.

You could have included a qualifier such as supposedly or ostensibly and then explained the full context up front.

melroy , to RedditMigration in Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?
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Not even a second. I'm glad to first got rid of Facebook several years ago. Then Twitter. And recently also Reddit. No regrets.

Ps. I also don't have Instagram, TikTok or any of those non-sense.

spriteblood , to Linux in This again: What distro are you using for gaming?

Mint for my desktop, SteamOS on Deck. Both do what I need, and the only issues I've run into since switching have been random things like GOG not having an updated Planescape Torment build that works out of the box. I don't play many online competitive games with like invasive anti-cheat stuff, so I haven't run into a ton of compatibility issues.

jakwithoutac OP ,

I forgot about the anti cheat stuff. That may well be an issue - some VM toe-dipping appears to be in order for me

z3n0x , to Fediverse in Lemmy instances are being compromised by a js injection
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looks like it’s already patched: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/766402?scrollToComments=tr…

wetnoodle OP , to Fediverse in Multiple lemmy instances are getting hit with a js injection
Sentrovasi , to RedditMigration in Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?

I had a ten-year-old account that had accumulated a modest amount of karma (34000?) over the years, and had no regrets editing and deleting all the posts (roughly 2700 of them).

I'd contributed in a number of niche subreddits and felt disgusted by the greed that Reddit was showing. More than anything the disgust that they would be profiting off my information was what pushed me to do the editing/deleting.

And since then, I realise I haven't really missed anything.

Caveat: I was never really bound by my karma score anyway, though, and regularly fact-checked people I knew would not listen just to "spend" my karma anyway.

n3m37h , to RedditMigration in Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?

Why are we still talking about that manure fire?

quirzle ,
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Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?

SpaceCadet2000 , to RedditMigration in Automated ways of removing reddit content?
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It can be done with shreddit: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

It has a built-in option to point it to your extracted GDPR data, and will edit and/or delete all the comments that are listed in there.

Just configure it according to the instructions, and then let it run unattended for a while. It took about 15 hours to delete the 13000 comments on my 12 year old account.

Hogger85b ,

Just to add a couple of bits for windows users that the readme there doesn't cover

If you have the exe

Have you gone into Reddit and setup the "script client" and got the client Id and the secret (if not I will have to create some screenshots next time I am on desktop)

In windows start bar type CMD to get a console window

Then set some environment variables (they will only last this session) use the example in the git repo or here (the first four you will need to edit for you details from.reddit as per above) and the gdpr directory (if you put these in a file and save it as .bat you can run it or just type one line at a time into the CMD window

Set SHREDDIT_USERNAME=your_username
Set SHREDDIT_PASSWORD=SuperSecretPassword123
Set SHREDDIT_CLIENT_ID=lk4j56lkj3lk4j5656
Set SHREDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=kl2kj3KJ345lkhRAWE
Set SHREDDIT_DRY_RUN=false
Set SHREDDIT_THING_TYPES=posts,comments
Set SHREDDIT_BEFORE=2023-07-07T00:00:00Z
Set SHREDDIT_EDIT_ONLY=false
Set SHREDDIT_GDPR_EXPORT_DIR=c:\users[name]\Downloads\gdprunpack

Then In the same window drag the exe in so the command line will say "c:.....shreddit.exe" and press enter it will then run for 4s per comment so it will.take hours

e_t_ Admin , to Ask Science in Did Folding@HOME or other distributed computing projects actually make a significant difference in the creation of COVID vaccines?

Here's a video from Dr. David Barker, who leads the Rosetta@Home project, describing how that project's computing has helped COVID research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEIN5V3yLg

rozno OP ,
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I hadn’t seen that video before, but it’s not quite what I’m looking for; it seems that video was made while they were still working on the project, and they were looking for a way to “get it out into the world”. Is there a sort of post-mortem analysis of what the project achieved / is still achieving now?

e_t_ Admin ,

Ultimately, what distributed computing projects provide is processing of data to facilitate scientific research. Most projects publicize scientific papers that make use of their data, like this blog post and the paper linked therein. In terms of post-mortem, that's difficult to have while COVID is still an ongoing field of research.

While it has nothing to do with biology, Milkyway@Home recently announced that one of their projects would be shutting down because all goals had been achieved. They hope to publish a scientific paper later this year.

BadAtNames , to RedditMigration in There needs to be a step by step migration guide

I feel like people are overcomplicating this (& it doesn’t help that most early adopters are techies, who enjoy talking about things like federation protocols)

One doesn’t need to understand the Fediverse in order to use it. That’s like trying to understand the mechanisms of internal combustion engine because I want to drive a car. I mean, that is fun and there are not-too-esoteric scenarios where the knowledge might even be helpful, but it sure as hell isn’t necessary!

Migration was a breeze once I stopped worrying about the internal combustion engine.

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