Yeah go ahead. Put it with a plaque that says what will be his famous quote “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year”.

The greatest minds of the Internet are assembling at !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz to create the best variant of this game.

AFAIK, It’s to solve or mitigate the “Replies from other servers may be missing” issue.

Essentially imagine you are signed in on server A, responding to or looking at a comment from server B. But people on servers C, D and E have faved, boosted or replied to that same comment. Unless you or someone on your server had followed people on the other servers, you can’t see those comments or their contributions to the boost count, unless you go to view the comment on server B’s site.

Backfilling means server A fetching those other actions from other servers somehow, so that they will show up when you view it from your own server reliably. Examples of that somehow could be, obtaining all the info from server B (localized single source of truth), it could be collected individually from other servers, from a centralized server, or other means.

If I were to make up the rules:

• Black gets to select at the start, which of the 8 empty tiles of the board should be voided.
• Pieces can move and capture across the void but can’t land in it. It is an invalid move when considering checkmate/evading check/stalemate.
• Black or White can choose to move an adjacent tile into the void regardless of what pieces are on it. This uses their move.
• The tile can be moved to get out of check or avoid checkmate or stalemate. (edit: to make things interesting, you can’t simply reverse the tile move that puts you in check, but you can move a different tile)
• You cannot put yourself or both players in check with the tile move.
• The tile cannot be moved if you are in check and moving the tile doesn’t get you out.
• The space between where a king starts and ends when sitting upon a sliding tile does not count as a vulnerable space, unlike the normal rules for castling.
• The king can castle under otherwise normal rules, if it and the target rook are in the original position even if the tile that they sit on had moved away then back, so long as those pieces were never moved normally. (To prevent the king being forcibly moved by the opponent solely to deny castling opportunity)
• Moving a tile causing one’s own pawn to bypass an opponent pawn’s attacking space (anywhere on the board) only triggers the en passant rule if there is a valid space where the opponent’s piece would capture. No en passant for moving backwards or moving your opponent’s pieces past yours. (edit: Horizontal en passant is out as well, forward only.)
• Pawn Promotion doesn’t happen even if a pawn moves backwards to the player’s own end row.
• It would be rare, but en passant could capture a newly promoted piece if someone had moved their pawn one row backward from their starting row, and their opponent used the tile move to try to bypass it.
• Two promotions can happen in one tile move.
• The opponent chooses the piece(s) to promote if you move their pawn(s) to your end row.
• You cannot move the tile if a resulting opponent’s promotion(s) to queens and/or knights would cause a check on you, even if for whatever reason the opponent would not choose that promotion.
• No prohibitions on causing stalemate through tile moves. Though it is more likely to cause a repetition draw due to the trapped player being able to simply reverse it.

Did I forget to cover anything?

I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of dramata about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved with the ban actions themselves. Appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.

In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:

!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.

!risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.

The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they’ve been toxic, or if it’s the mods on a power-trip, or if it’s controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.

Yeah. I have used that. And I’m sure most with personal instances that just pressed the “Install NextCloud” button have no clue, including me.

She already left a bad Google Maps review, what else can the European Commission do now?

Perhaps the closure of Lemm.ee took away some of the quantity and variety of posts and communities?

Maybe I wouldn’t consider them losing causes, since we have our small wins here and there. Every positive difference you make, is rewarding when it amounts even to the tiniest win. You posting this question and other Lemmings like me answering is itself a little Lemmy W.

But yeah, things for me don’t have value only because they are popular. Yes, popularity can affect that I get recommended stuff that I end up liking, but I consciously reject being told to like something without being aware of the full details.

Here’s some contrasting examples: PEAK is a game I got on the bandwagon for, after seeing it posted on GamingOnLinux via !pcgaming@lemmy.ca . Seeing the gameplay, it looked like fun, and I had friends to play it with so it was worthwhile. On the other hand, trends like Stanley Cup, blindbox toys like Labubu, “Dubai Chocolate”, I’m not going to get any of those, despite their explosive popularity, unless I see a legitimate use for my own needs.

Also, my values are set towards lasting ownership of stuff then renting/BNPL schemes.

I don’t think people believe Israel’s lies as much as uses the legitimization cell’s work to suspend their disbelief towards any message they don’t wish to hear.

Creating a post stating it is Mecha-Hitler is A-OK in Xitter’s current rules.

Kinda bad example: the server you are posting on (lemmy.world) literally started during the time of the subreddit blackouts, and other servers’ user count shot up 5x, 10x or more. It’s likely the surge would be muted without it, and even if more than half left Lemmy and returned to Reddit, it was still the first time it could even be considered a competitor. Its a positive and concrete resulf that came of it.

I dunno what changing a profile pic can do, without more of a goal than, “get a CEO to look at clippys and think its funny”. It would have a positive effect if it was even something small like telling people to change the profile and donate $1 to EFF.org

Do your best, but if all else fails, it would be nice to have you in Canada 🇨🇦

trustevery1

Peacocks and hens, Grouse and Turkeys, and some Phaesants spend most of their time on the ground. Ducks and Swans spend a lot of their time floating on water surfaces. Geese do fly and flock but are often in groups nipping at the ground, rather than in trees.

If birds slithered, tunneled or did other weird land behaviour, I don’t know if we’d still call them birds. Probably something like dino-saur, idk.

I mean, in general, if your business model is to break the law and the government tells you not to, that is the government infringing on your ability to conduct business in the way you want to.

Laws, also generally, are designed to balance the tradeoffs between allowing personal freedoms and protecting a populace from expected or possible harm.

Non-compliance to a country’s laws could lead to: a ban of that product from that country, fines/taxes/expenses to the business, or in serious cases prosecution of company representatives within the country.

I hate being stuck in Dependency Hell thag happens sometimes when compiling programs, and other times when some vital hardware pieces like monitors, ethernet, sound don’t appear to work.

It takes me an hour or more to get them working again, and makes me want to delete everything and reinstall the OS from scratch.

Nojima is a major household electronics supplier, kinda like a Japanese best buy.

Everybody! Yaaaaay