As a European I'll never cease to find it mind blowing that it is normal for a Americans that the cost to them of damn near everything is more than the cost initially shown to them.

Logical next step, hacker sues the developer for copyright infringement?

It's Microsoft, they'll probably try to move onto Teams and or SharePoint.
/s

Unity: Disappointed to discover denying access to a document with legal standing to the affected parties could have legal implications, and now trying to make up a cover story.

There fixed it for you.

Posts and comments are federated (synchronised). Upvotes are actually a bit of a fudge, they are actually 'Favourites' if considered from an activity pub (e.g. Mastodon) perspective, and yes favourites are also federated.
Downvotes don't exist in activity pub and, as a result, they do not federate between instances.
At least that is my understanding.

There was clearly a large bot net which started stencilling the outlines of the letters, but then it was magic, everybody understood the assignment. The letters filled out in a handful of minutes. Then, then the whiteout slowed - the apes (mostly) agreed the job was done. It took another half an hour or so for the white fog to finally take hold.

But r/place is ruled by bots... I bet the kind of people who develop bots are reeeeaaaly pleased about the API changes...

Sales tax is the most obvious example of adding to the cost I've been shown, but it's everything. Here if there is a price on something that is the price you pay. Period.
If I have €5 and the price on the shelf is €4.90 we are all good, and I don't even need to know what country I'm in!

But is is more than that, if I take my car in to be fixed, they have to agree every cost they want to charge me in advance at no point can anything cost me more than I expected and agreed to up front.
Airline tickets, theatre tickets, hospital bills, TV ads, you name it, the price they state or advertise is what I pay, no ifs-no buts.

"Trying to help your boss steal an election is not part of the chief of staff's official duties in serving the presidency. Sounds like the work of the campaign at best, a criminal conspiracy at worst, and the judge says it will stay in the courts in Georgia for a decision."

Oof, a burn like that is gonna sting.

And here I am amused to be reading all the Lemmy centric replies to a Lemmy specific meme ... but doing it from elsewhere on the Fediverse. Here on kbin we interact with Mastodon just like we do with Lemmy. It all looks like one wonderful integrated fediverse from here!

Except at it's core chromium is open source, and I can't see the FOSS community embracing the idea. The French also wouldn't be able to fully limit access to unrestricted browsers.

It's an all round dumb idea. Much easier and more effective to tell ISPs to do the blocking.

Oh absolutely, but the venn diagram of people who can do this, and people who value open APIs is pretty close to a circle.

Shamelessly stealing a comment from another site on this:

u/rogtharg
It is, there are like only three major roads leading on and off Crimea. This one is the one furthest away from the frontline and pointing towards Melitopol which is one of the cities Ukraine is hoping to reach with their counter offensive to cut the Russians in half.

Two other roads point more towards Kherson and where the dam was, so a bit of two roads to nowhere atm.

It seems this is to further limit resupply routes for Russia.

Neither very much. Python won't change. Excel when running in the cloud will become more powerful, but the workbooks using Python will also be incompatible with desktop versions of Excel. At least that's what I'm understanding so far.

That may be true, but it is still presenting a distorted picture. The power users who interact with Reddit most are almost certainly more likely to have at least tried other (i.e. 3rd party) apps - furthermore it doesn't seem to be being debated that the official app is missing key tools moderators find useful which would suggest moderators are are more likely to use 3rd party apps too.

Not all users are equal, some are more equal and others!

Congratulations, you have a reputation of 1,427 as observed on kbin.social!
Kbin / mbin do expose reputation (karma) even for federated users. e.g.
https://kbin.social/u/@GreyTechnician@lemm.ee

This seems to highlight a common misconception, kbin isn't really any smaller than Lemmy when we look at active users, in fact it seems it has only just (three days ago) caught up:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
Somehow Lemmy seems to have stronger brand recognition, and people often seem say Lemmy to mean things which include Lemmy and kbin users/platforms.

Sometimes it is, say here:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
But you might as well say why isn't Mastodon included? Kbin is a fundamentally different platform and architecture, even if the two are largely compatible (as is Mastodon, to a slightly lesser extent with Lemmy).
It is perfectly reasonable to look at the growth of Lemmy, think of it like quoting use of one flavour of Linux - Linux uptake overall is also interesting, but not the same.

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kbin does that just fine.

No. You might see a Mastodon user if they reply to a comment, but even that way round is not easy to do.
Kbin makes it easier to access Mastodon content while still having access to Lemmy content too... But to discover Mastodon content you are probably best making a true Mastodon account.

You'll find different parts of the fediverse have a different focus and feel with varying levels of compatibility depending how much the core focus overlaps.

Actually... Reddit was open source until 2017.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
But the rest of your comment still stands.

A saw a post a while back commenting on how many upvotes it was taking to get onto the front page of r/all having dropped, but not sure if there is any way to see stats from before API changes now.

Exactly, and "yet" is key.
The issues log still has this open:
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/3
Worth noting both boosts and favourites(upvotes) are inherited from the wider, fediverse and using either is a bit of a fudge which is done to maintain compatibility.
At some point ranking and reputation will be aligned with upvotes, but as you can see from the issues log the best way to do this is still being debated.

Edit: typo.

Ernest (the kbin developer) has addressed this more than once, and this take is untrue. kbin come from the Linux folder sbin.

See one of his comments on this here: https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/344/What-is-Kbin-Join-the-Fediverse#entry-comment-969

There is an option for this under settings which is likely to be more fruitful than a comment in a thread.

Not bad for a 'side project', not bad at all!

I'm very much enjoying your side project, and we all appreciate all the effort you've put in as we've stressed it to (and no doubt beyond!) It's design limits.

I also appreciate the way you pop up and contribute to random threads!

Have you tried asking ChatGPT or Bard to write you code to do something? It is actually remarkably good at it.
That and being an alternative to a thesaurus is about all I use LLMs for.

Even that might not be ideal on military equipment. In a war zone if your plane goes down you don't want to advertise to the enemy where to find it and the pilot.

Interestingly r/PICS still works despite being tagged NSFW (or so I thought?)

A key difference here is we can see who downvoted which I think makes people more cautious to downvote. I guess Lemmy users aren't used to that however (but it might change their behaviour when they realise we can see!)

They are on kbin which doesn't support saving comments (yet).

It is only a guess, but my guess is this originated on the LemmyNSFW instance. Ideally they would mark everything NSFW, but some things over there don't get marked, and Lemmy doesn't have an option so the admins can set/flag the whole instance and all content.

This has been noted as a problem before, LemmyNSFW is certainly running the risk of being widely defederated as a result. I think Ernest is suggesting he'll code something into kbin so that anything which originated on that instance can (and will) be treated as NSFW regardless of whether the users over there identified it as such.

Indeed, and then there is a whole raft of searching, sorting and filtering options for Microblog posts (aka Toots) which kbin does, and which Lemmy can't even see.

If you use kbin you can even see who has made each upvote, so yes easy to then look for patterns of voting together and also at the profiles to see if the accounts looks like real people etc.

I've found the trick or to follow hashtags rather than people. But it's a balancing act, sometimes you'll find your stream gets flooded with one topic so you need to refine what you are following.

I think there was a kbin API and Ernest pulled it because he wanted to improve it. I think time will show that was a smart move. App developers need the API to be stable & unchanging; kbin can likely see how the Lemmy API is used by Apps, learn and improve from this.

We do know a new improved API is in the pipeline, and I agree with z2k, Apps will follow soon after.

I think it is in the public interest to know quite how much aviation fuel this plonker is singlehandedly burning through...

You can already send images as an attachment and it doesn't compress or change the file in anyway.

From the comment I'm guessing Canada... but then India is commonwealth too so the logic doesn't really work.

It could get interesting with right to repair, that probably includes the right to load custom firmware...