Good luck un-seeing this:

I don’t really have one myself, but there was a lady I knew growing up who made, hands down, the best chili ever. She wouldn’t reveal her recipe or secret ingredient to anyone and swore she’d take it to her grave.

Years later, she and her daughter got into a fight and the daughter posted her mom’s chili recipe on Facebook to spite her. The secret ingredient was, apparently, grape jelly.

I noticed there’s not a t.startrek.website. When would be the best time to have someone from our sales team reach out to you? 😆

Somehow the description of the filter differences for mods and admins got lost, so here’s that:

Filter Behavior for Mods and Admins

Depending on your account’s role in relation to the content’s, the filters behave differently and some functionality is reduced or disabled.

Admins: There are two different types of admins recognized by the filter processor: local and remote.

• Local admins when the content is on the same instance as your account
• Remote admins when the content is from a federated instance

For local admins, all filtering is disabled for posts and comments to local communities, and submissions cannot even be collapsed into a stub.

For remote admins, content from remote instances can be collapsed into a stub but NOT hidden.

Moderators: All filtering is bypassed in communities you moderate. Nothing posted or commented in your moderated communities can be filtered or hidden.

This behavior was chosen in order to prevent moderation blind spots.

Found the first post-release bug, but it’s mostly just the wording.

The imported groups will merge with any existing groups

That is not true at all. It was when I wrote the description for that, but I changed the importer behavior to completely replace your current config. When you import groups through the group editor, they will merge, but not through the settings importer.

The reason for that change was so that copying your settings between devices would move the entire application state (minus profiles, for security/safety reasons).

My dog and I hunt them when we’re outside. They love to nest in my porch roof, so when they’re buzzing around I swat them with a broom, the dog will pin them and keep them from getting back up while I go in for the squish.

I tried setting up a carpenter bee trap, but the bitches ate right through it.

than to carry something like an evaporative cooler

Evaporative coolers don’t really work in high humidity. If you live in an area that’s a dry hot, they work great. Summers in my area, though, are very muggy. Other than ice pack based products, the only passive coolers I’ve found work in humid environments are these sweat bands that have either desiccant beads in them or that stuff that’s in diapers. They pull the sweat away keeping it out of your eyes and give a little evaporative cooling at the same time.

I wanted chili but was out so I ended up pairing it with vegetable soup.

Definitely was.

Totally is.

I was out of honey, so I cut off a big slice and “frosted” it with butter and ate it like the cake it is.

I was thinking “surely that community exists somewhere” but sadly it doesn’t:

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=cornbread

I’ve toyed around with LLM-based moderation tools but it never really panned out. It was too hit or miss to be relied upon even with the temperature parameters turned way down in an attempt to get consistent results. Granted, I was using a small local model and not feeding it to one of the big players.

To give an example, I tried to keep it focused by creating one custom model per rule to enforce. An example prompt to mod calls for violence was basically:

ROLE: You are a forum moderator who does not want users calling for violence.  Examine the input and analyze whether it violates any constraints. 

KNOWLEDGE:
- {list of dog-whistle slang for calling for murder}

CONSTRAINTS:
- Content should not advocate violence
- Content should not normalize violence
- Content should not escalate tensions or fan flames
- Content should avoid promoting harmful stereotypes
- Content should not utilize broad, sweeping generalizations
- Content should not use dehumanizing language
- Content should not undermine human rights, due process, or the rule of law

FORMAT YOUR RESPONSES AS JSON:
{
  reason: [A one to two sentence summary],
  score: [On a scale of 0 to 10, how severe is the content advocating violence]
}

The score part of the response was my band-aid to get around the high number of both false positives and false negatives as I originally had it returning true or false only. Any score 7 or higher caused the item to be passed to the mod queue along with the reason, and I would review its actions later.

Ultimately it was slow and still somewhat unreliable, so I abandoned the idea after running it for a little less than a day since I can 't run bigger models to get better results fast enough to keep up. Using a cloud based service was out of the question for many, many reasons, both financial and ethical.

To answer your question, as long as the models were locally hosted and properly tuned/tested, I’m fine with it in theory, except for the ideology part; that’s pretty messed up. While I don’t want my submissions used to train anyone’s model and take measures to prevent my own instance from being used as a data source, I remain aware that once I post something, I have no control over its fate the moment it federates out.

[1] Yes, I know that’s like half the comments that get posted around here. My goal was to try to have it mod things so posts were bases for actual discussions instead of being a knee-jerk rage factory.

Remember when we “couldn’t” help Puerto Rico after Maria because Puerto Rico is an island, surrounded by big water, ocean water?

Trump on Friday said the disaster relief effort in Puerto Rico is complicated because it is “surrounded by water.” “This is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water,” the president said during a speech in Washington on his tax plan.

I used to do that but once the backend added that feature I removed that step from the automod script. Basically it was to prevent the communities here from being unmoddable on remote instances.

I’m not even a real instance anymore, how did I make the list 😆

But also, you should see the local numbers haha

lemmy=# select count(distinct other_person_id) from mod_ban where mod_person_id in (1, 2,288);
 count 
-------
  9792
(1 row)

I wonder what happens when I hit 10,000?

Why not both? https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/news-punch/

Founded in 2014, The People’s Voice, formerly known as NewsPunch, is a Los Angeles-based clickbait news website that promotes extreme right-wing conspiracy theories and pseudoscience misinformation. The website was founded and formerly edited by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, founder of YourNewsWire. In fact, The People’s Voice is actually YourNewsWire redirected under a new domain name with a clean, attractive website. All previous fake YourNewsWire stories have been ported over to this website/domain. Not much has changed.

Technically, yes. But colloquially, when we’re talking about “analytics” we mean embedded 3rd party trackers that feed to Google or another outside entity. Those are embedded much deeper in the application and track things much more invasively such as how long you hover over certain links, how you move your cursor around the screen, your viewport size, browser fingerprinting, and more.

The analytics I’m utilizing and referring to here are passive in that they’re collected anyway as part of the standard logging that happens when you access the webserver which is also part of our basic security posture. They’re not as granular or invasive but can still give you useful information about what parts of your site people use the most, how many clicks it takes a visitor to get from the homepage to where they want to be (by following the IP, URI, and seeing where that ends), how many visitors the site gets per day/week/month/etc, and such.

Logging is standard practice if you give even the slightest damn about security (read: you should), so I don’t see it as a problem. It’s what you use those logs for, how long they’re retained, and whether you sell them off.

So as long as you’re only using them for security auditing and website analytics and don’t keep them forever and don’t plan to sell them to data brokers, there’s really nothing to fret over. A good place to disclose how you use the logs, how long you retain them, and what is logged is in the site’s privacy policy.

I do the occasional website for local businesses, and I never add any analytics code/trackers. One: they rarely ever ask. And two: the one time someone did ask for it, they never once logged into it or asked for trends. Three: I’d prefer not to unless they demand it.

However, since I’m actually hosting the website for them, I can get decent heat maps from the access logs since they have the IP (which can be roughly geo-located), which URI’s are accessed (and those map to pages, and pages map to products/services), how often those are accessed, which page linked them to it or if they came directly to it (by checking the referrer header), which are most accessed (by count of the URI in the logs), and whether they’re accessing the site from desktop or mobile (via the user agent header). That can also be combined with any data from their “Contact us” form.

One reason they’ve probably never asked for it is because I provide a quarterly report for them using that passive data, and they seem happy with it.