@RaceProUK So you found the answer and didn't post it, like we do on stackoverflow?
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Posts made by fbmac
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RE: App Sotre buplishnig
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RE: :disco: :horse: infects another community
@dangeRuss Registering to a forum just to criticize their forum choice is kind of a trollish thing
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Jaloopa said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
@Fox said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
I think that's something of a rarity though.
I'd assume that most downvotes are from people who don't like a post but don't care enough to reply and get into an argument, not people who are also responding
That's a good rule they have on slashdot: You can either moderate or engage in the conversation, and if you post, all your moderation is undone.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Fox Sometimes I downvote something and don't take part on the discussion, for random reasons.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@djls45 you can't identify a person by their downvotes, so it's not PII
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@masonwheeler said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
@Jaloopa said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
It's quite a stretch to call voting history private information
Not at all. This is information that is known to the person who did it, and not known to the public. That's pretty much the definition of "private information."
"private information" but not "personally identifiable information"
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Polygeekery said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
If people really want me to, I can step down as administrator. @PJH and @boomzilla have exactly the same access as I do.
After this incident, I would be OK with that. You shit the bed on this one.
That's somewhere in between
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RE: Full disk encryption
@remi said in Full disk encryption:
So I turn to you for your opinion: is it likely to totally screw up my compilation time (Visual, C++) and other activities that are normal for devs but not for other users (i.e. I don't care whether editing a Word doc will be affected)?
I didn't notice any difference in compilation times after they applied full disk encryption. Or at anything else, encryption is pretty lightweight.
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RE: The Real SkyNet
@Gurth said in The Real SkyNet:
if you want a reasonably modern one.
What makes a tv a reasonably modern one? It just needs to put whatever I send to it's hdmi port to the screen.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/R2Jhf
Edit: it gets better on the second page
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
In order for them not to go unnoticed, we'd need notifications on downvotes, which might be a good idea as well (or perhaps not) but is a separate concern.
I already disabled the one on upvote because they're annoying. My profile could show each post history.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Public downvotes will allow a person to make an informed decision on how much the downvote he got means to him.
They're more likely to go unnoticed because there isn't a good way to see the votes you get unless you revisit all the topics
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@JBert said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And then the murders began.
Racoon murders apparently
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
If we mentally think of the community as consisting of "desirables" and "undesirables":
Let's just lock the undesirables in concentration camps and force 'em to code.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
Another option, lock @Polygeekery and @fox in the garage and we won't ever remember downvotes exist.
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RE: The Real SkyNet
Our homes have smart thermostats, smart appliances, smart door locks, even smart light bulbs.
Not "our" homes, I never saw any of these "smart" stuff around here, and I doubt I'll ever see. The cost/benefit ratio of them is too high for this fad to ever get out of the richest countries on the planet.
Except for smart TVs, they are selling that shit here, but with my Chromecast I don't see the point in a TV that show ads.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Polygeekery said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
A distant #3, and what I am leaning towards: burn all the downvotes and disable downvotes entirely. The reason I like this option is it forces people to actually respond to the post if they want to show their disapproval.
That's what @codinghorror said as reasoning for Discourse not having downvotes
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Polygeekery there are sites that you can create polls and link it
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@anonymous234 When I'm too behind in a topic sometimes I'll just read the last page.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@loopback0 I just logged in with "-fbmac" and my usual password (hunter2). It logged successfully, and just ignored the -
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RE: Favourite pies
@RaceProUK said in Favourite pies:
@Mikael_Svahnberg All the northern places went for stout-hearted meat pies, and the southern places went for fancy dessert pies ;)
The Midlands, funnily enough, were somewhere in the middle.
Meat pie sounds horrible. I prefer a simple chocolate pie
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RE: In other news today...
“it certainly exposes in very stark terms the challenge which militaries face in attempting to deal with the adaptation of cheap and readily available civilian technology with extremely expensive, high-end hardware designed for state-on-state warfare.”
It's easy to solve, just start a full scale war and wipe all enemies.
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Exposing the shadow forum government
We have a shadow group of forum admins operating over the normal group of @mods we're familiar. Probably members of the Illuminati and the alien lizards that rule the internet.
There is this @Global-Moderators that @pjh just called to decide in the downvote change that excludes @boomzilla . Ant then there is this @administrators group that include @InedoJohn that is probably their leader, operating quietly and almost never mentioned.
The Illuminati are starting to take over the Internet.
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RE: Thoughts on new Format?
@Irrelevant said in Thoughts on new Format?:
Any chance we could lose the JavaScript HTML / rich text control
thingy? I don't trust stuff which deliberately tries to look like
anything as elephantine as Office.You're gonna love htmlmarkdownbb
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RE: Thoughts on new Format?
@Scott_C_Reynolds said in Thoughts on new Format?:
The buttons for Reply and Quote totally wig out in FireFox 1.0.
Found @Lorne-Kates grandfather
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@Yamikuronue said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
@loopback0 I'm concerned about the ongoing pattern of difficulty or unwillingness to communicate, though...
Isn't sucking at communicating part of aspergers symptoms?
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@mods need to do it as a team, like in this video: The IT Crowd | Team Players | Channel 4 – 01:34
edit: video doesn't allow to be embedded
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
If people really want me to, I can step down as administrator. @PJH and @boomzilla have exactly the same access as I do.
Don't overvalue these misunderstandings. I suggest you just let it off until you're all sober and come to a decision as a group.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@ben_lubar Just make voting obligatory like we do.
(that is a terrible idea by the way, people that currently don't care to vote will make poor choices)
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@PJH said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Is this where I resign sysadmin and admin roles? Should I add mod to that list?
Seriously, the first time I hear about a major (I enter this thread as evidence) change is where I get @group mentioned?
@boomzilla said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Hey, @boomzilla, did you misunderstand the thing that we've established I incorrectly thought you misunderstood?
Third base!
Err...I thought that the ability of logged in users to view all voting was accidentally turned on, so I turned it off, because we were all discussing what to do about it. Then I got drunk and you turned it back on and now I'm awake again.
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RE: Should downvotes be public?
@PJH I'm disappointed with the lack of
from this change
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RE: WTF Bites
Also two catch blocks that do nothing but rethrow
I had a coworker that put this on all his functions
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RE: Up/downvotes dialogue stays on screen
@Yamikuronue It was a translation error. We use "moral" for both those meanings in Portuguese. I just learned the difference here: http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/confusing-words/moral-morale
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RE: Up/downvotes dialogue stays on screen
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Up/downvotes dialogue stays on screen:
While the moral is still there go back one page
You gotta close it fast before that downvotes affect your moral?
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RE: Should downvotes be public?
@anotherusername every new thing I learn about Unicode I think it's more silly
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RE: IT marketing dictionary
@anonymous234 we have a team making a "digital platform".
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Greybeard I could Google the correct spelling but that would be work
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RE: How a proper ignore function should work
@anotherusername don't bring me problems, bring me solutions