I’d rather “trust” a company that cuts the bullshit with notices like

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

to remind the user that trusting noncredible information from unreliable sources is a ridiculous concept.

Oh noes: a private company that has no duty to challenge falsehoods has given up any pretense of giving a fuck.

Most likely written by AI

Are comments like this most likely written by AI? Am I AI?

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very bad

Yea I think they’re gonna freak out upon seeing this ballot.

I think you missed the first sentence I wrote:

The ballot is the same for all ranked voting methods.

Maybe explaining what you think that means would clear up confusion?

I can see a bit of strategic voting happening.

Yes, approval voting is indeed susceptible to strategies including burial, which leads to a “chicken dilemma”.

The ballot is the same for all ranked voting methods. The method of determining winner from those ballots varies, and some are clearly worse.

For instance, if a candidate would beat all others 1-on-1 (Condorcet winner), then should a decent method always select that candidate as winner? RCV doesn’t do that.

Other methods also fail.

This nice table compares voting methods by a wide range of properties. I don’t think it hurts to make a more informed decision before backing a method that will be difficult to change. The US got stuck with FPTP through inadequate research, and it’d be great not to repeat that mistake.

While rated voting methods fail the Condorcet winner criterion, by rating instead of ranking candidates they satisfy another set of criteria also worth considering.

Among ranked voting methods, ranked pairs seems most compelling to me. Among rated voting methods, approval seems pretty good (and extremely simple).

I don’t continue reading

Seems like willful illiteracy & incomplete evidence fallacy. There was literally all the resources on the internet & a quick search to check hastily drawn conclusions before posting them.

a filter on lemmy.ml

Good ol’ lemmy.ml protecting our virgin eyes from terrifying words lest our fragile psyches break into an inconsolable mess. And lemmy is censorship resistant.

OP felt a compulsion to protect our virgin eyes & ears.

registry and gpedit

They’re still around and the various configuration technologies tap into them.

Most of us are pissed that all of those methods half work or are depreciating away for no reason other than some UIx twat couldn’t be bothered to hook something properly so they just reskin an element and misplaced half the functions.

Pretty much the case here, too. It mostly works, and the parts that don’t are super annoying & require ad hoc script-fu.

it blows my mind why this has not been resolved

Yep, configuring Microsoft has sucked incredibly hard compared to free OSs. Managing plain text configuration files in /etc & ~/.config is refreshingly nice compared to the bolt-on weirdness hidden behind various interfaces in Windows. It’s cute getting an error to contact your administrator when you’re the administrator.

Attention in that area is extremely late & overdue, so I was happy to see something like configuration.dsc.yaml.

I see AI mostly as an assistant whose work I review. I might give it a fully written text, tell it to clean up my clunky language, then review it. Or I might ask it to provide some answers with references & review those references.

AI won’t fix broken foundations.

I’m sure we can ride out 11 on 10 … right?

I try to avoid Windows altogether if I can & confine it to less serious work.

What if we had all these configuration knobs & switches controlled by a plaintext configuration file, and to replicate the configuration, we could just share the file? Maybe we could call it declarative configuration management?

Wouldn’t that be cool? We already have it (partially)?

Maybe an AI could guide us in preparing that file?

Centralized social media is an advertisement platform that targets advertisements according to information & conduct users feed the platform, and some of those users are teenagers?

They’re advertising cosmetics to teenagers unlike ever before in the history of teen-centric media?

Humans should not be on social media.

Fixed.

Welcome to the internet? Learn skepticism?

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Dude, charge your battery.

you can get banned here

It takes special effort here, though.

And like it was always going to be like that anyways.

It’s not inevitable: some places are very laissez-faire.

Are you suggesting the documentation

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& interactive exercises is harder to understand than your post?

Reading documentation is not for “the average person”

Your post is basically longer, less clear documentation: wouldn’t that take more effort for “the average person”?

implying this post isn’t

Nope: not reading documentation is also free. Only costs more time.

So how would you like to pay?

Do you accept Rai stones? What’s the total? Payment plan available?

Searching markdown guide & reading is free…

I just had a thought: are the Signal people MAGA?

I just had a thought: are the shoelace people MAGA?