Morton up in here spreading free salt.

Perhaps, but I sucked at touch typing when I was younger.

No idea; does autocorrect even exist in an inbuilt fashion on Windows? I’ve never really tried using anything like that.

Oh, and here’s a one-off test I just did without autocorrection turned on. With a few more tries, I’m sure I could get up to 100+.

Ironically, I can almost type as fast on my phone (102 WPM PB) as I can on most keyboards (110 WPM PB), and that’s with my weird improper method of touch typing. These scores are for the 15 second word test on MonkeyType.

I feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.

We do something similar over at !mavica@normalcity.life, but with photos. Of course, we’re using old floppy disk cameras, so the compression, aberration, and CCD weirdness is indeed authentic.

I forgot: are Lemmy’s active and hot sorts chronological? They’re pretty decent, but I do find stale content does get stuck on one that isn’t there on the other.

There’s also always a million reasons why your intelligence test might not be quite accurate, and certainly a person themselves will never be able to accurately assess their intelligence without some sort of test. An objective ruler to measure intelligence by is far from trivial, and essentially impossible. It’s especially impossible in the sense that a single test could accurately sum up a person’s capacity to be a productive human being as one number.

Oh, and the other mind-bending realization is that our perception of what it means to be intelligent is ultimately influenced by our own intelligence. So, chances are we’re all probably conceptualizing what it means to be successful in different ways anyway. In this way, there is a chance that the things you envy, like talent or skills you lack, are something that you can teach yourself. The things you’re aware of and can grasp conceptually are probably things you can learn to fully understand. Whether you have the time or motivation to learn new things is ultimately a different question entirely. So, take time to learn new things. In that sense, everyone can always become smarter than they are right now.

That’s not universally true, at least if you’re not on the same LAN. For example, most small-scale apps hosted on VPSs are typically configured with a public-facing SSH login.

You can always brute force the SSH login and take a look around yourself. If you leave an apology.txt file in /home, I’m sure the admin won’t mind.

If the piece was merely sharing an opinion, it does seem like over-moderation to remove something like that. I often take the approach of surface-level content moderation, as I don’t have the time or desire to vet every single link and keep track of which sites have the “right” viewpoints on certain things. Vote-based sites like Lemmy or Reddit often are sufficient to weed out bad links; a mod’s job should be to remove content that is obviously against the plain meaning interpretation of the community rules. If someone posts a Nazi flag here with the title “Hitler Rules,” it would obviously be against any rules about “hateful content.” However, this is the equivalent of someone saying, “This article about which bottled water brands are the best is bad because the person who wrote it said something mean to me a few years ago.”

Sounds like a crap idea.

If the Earth was a torus, Homer Simpson would’ve eaten it already.

Got that crystal drip.

If you think about it, Lemmy literally is all third-party apps.

Further, copyright and the rest of the intellectual property lot only serve the current corporatist arrangement, helping keep large companies hard to compete with. It’s funny how people praise things like patents for “protecting” people, but it’s literally a government-granted monopoly on useful shit that would be cheap and accessible if people couldn’t pay for the rights to legally screw other people over.

I feel like this post is going to implode.

Yeah, I heavily modified and expanded upon someone else’s query to seek out and destroy more of the accounts. Theirs is basically pattern-matching some of the Gmail-with-numbers spam, but there’s a subset using junk@junk with no actual .TLD to try and get people’s email verification to bounce. Someone else said that ended up in people getting their email relay account suspended, hence why email verification (at least without CAPTCHAs) is a fairly bad idea. I added a table join and some extra matching to find some of those extra bogus “emails,” which typically results in quite a few more accounts being banned. There are two major caveats with my method: 1) it doesn’t delete the accounts, which is really just a simple modification to the query to “fix,” and 2) it doesn’t deal with spam accounts that have no email attached, although those seem to be a fairly small subset of the account spam. I’ll see if there is an easier way to deal with those, but getting most banned or deleted is still pretty easy.

I had this issue as well on my instance. Here’s how I fixed it with SQL commands included. TL;DR Turn on CAPTCHAs, don’t use email verification (as they will spam the shit out of it), and use SQL commands to ban all of them in one fell swoop.

I just realized that Steve looks a fair bit like Ed Speleers (at least as a Borg).