Thread about that here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/54901501

What? That really doesn’t make much sense, the admin has direct access to the server and reset the password of any account, including their own admin account and any alternate account they use.

sad John Perry Barlow noises

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

On YOUR server you can do whatever you want. You are the admin, so it’s logical that you can perform any action whatsoever on your local copy of everything that has been copied there. (If you couldn’t through the UI, you certainly could through manual changes in the DB.)

Nothing you do because of this will be successfully federated to anywhere other than your server. That would be a major security issue, after all anyone could maliciously set up a server and make random changes affecting everyone.

No one should.

Think about how much you’ve paid in taxes in your life. What could possibly be wrong with trying to get some of that money back?

It always looks funny tho. :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)

Similar thoughts here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/

Particularly interesting is this comment:

One really interesting addition to me is that the early internet was a very, VERY free speech place. It loved Gish Gallops of enormous numbers of arguments from all sides and the idea that you would tell anyone, even the most foolish, that they should be banned was verboten.

In fact, early atheists loved creationists posting! It gave them content because these people were so obviously wrong. And creationists the same, because it allowed them to fight back too.

The modern deplatforming support on both sides is another sign that that era is gone.

Among techy people.

Among ordinary users, I don’t think so.

ctrl+f for “calculator”, though it doesn’t really use the (detailed) wording from the OP, which I think they copied from this list of links without attribution :P

Me, absolutely. At breakfast buffets you may have to stop me from eating way too many eggs.

The random place in your head is likely a CGP Grey video about animal domestication. 😁

Yes it does. It is possible to comment on Lemmy posts from Mastodon if the posts were for some reason federated to a Mastodon server.

That “most people” part kinda reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/

Don’t look at “all”, just “subscribed”, then subscribe to things you want to see.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

If at all.

What do you expect that to do, on a technical level?

Because if all you want to do is the societal result, you can use any existing backend and configure it to disable federation except with other servers with the same goal. Unclear what you are trying to achieve.

Check out this: https://exiftool.org/#filename

That can move photos into directories according to their EXIF date, which should already help you a lot.

I recommend “new comments”.

An ISO file is just binary data representing the data on an optical disk.

So it makes sense that VLC can in principle open ISO files, they could be audio CDs or movie DVDs. I suppose what you see here is the result of it doing its best to “show” a DVD containing something entirely different.