@nullagent #elon #epstein #GOP
GOP Is shielding the billionaire pedophiles

https://people.com/emails-reveal-that-elon-musk-asked-jeffrey-epstein-about-visiting-his-island-11896842

I’m splitting this into two parts. First identifying the issue. And second my personal idea for a solution. I’m hoping for a lot of discussion so please be clear which part you are responding to.

Part 1: The problem

Reddit as a platform has many flaws. Obviously being a corporation means they’re terrible no matter what. But their platform is also flawed. Even if Reddit was 100% community owned the platform would still be flawed. The number one thing that is ruining Reddit are the tyrannical mods.

Each community on Reddit is a dictatorship. Whoever is arbitrarily in charge of a community has full unrestricted power to do whatever they want. The people who are actually creating the content and sharing it are totally at their whim. I understand that modding is a difficult and thankless job, but toxic mods ruined Reddit and Lemmy will do the same if it’s not addressed.

Lemmy’s answer is to allow people to create their own instances. Don’t like the mods at World? Go make your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers. But that’s not sufficient. It takes years to build up a community to have enough people for meaningful discussion to happen, and nearly all communities or instances fail. We absolutely need a way for mods to answer to the users.

Part 2: My solution

My solution is simple. Lemmy is built on the community. Everyone helps run it. Therefore mods are elected by the users who generate the highest upvoted content in a community.

Elections should happen on a schedule and, if a community is particularly upset with a mod, a vote of no confidence can be taken.

I understand that this will be a huge undertaking. But I truly believe that we need to fix this issue for Lemmy to thrive long term. Or else we’ll just end up with another Reddit.

@ChrisPirillo
Thanks Chris. For those who haven’t seen it, there’s a great write up about the creation of VBA, by the Microsoft program manager Joel Sposky.
In that article, Joel talks through that 1-2-3 to #Excel date handling idiosyncrasy, and the super stressful face-to-face spec review of VBA he had with Bill Gates.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/

Game of Thrones sounds tedious af but the theme music is pretty neat

In the age of AI, 90 days isn’t fast enough. Today, Project Zero updated our disclosure policy to reflect the changes needed to protect users in this new world.

https://projectzero.google/2026/11/disclosure-policy.html

Scroll ūndēquīnquāgintā - Mike "Shellsharks":
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-11-06

Some cybersecurity links from it...

The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed - Filipo Valsorda:
https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/
CW: Anthropic prominantly discussed

Secure Practices for Domain Owners - Kal Feher:
https://kalfeher.com/secure-practices-for-domain-owners/

Are Emojis Allowed in XMPP Addresses? - Georg Lukas:
https://op-co.de/blog/posts/emoji_xmpp_address/

a tale of volatile memories. - S.Nakano:
https://sumeshi.github.io/posts/knowledges/windows-memory-forensics-101-en

I guess #Outlook got started a day early.

#FridayThe13th #Triskaidekaphobia #Triskaidekamania

@usi Mir erzählte heute ein ITler, bei ihm spönne (🤔) heute sogar das lokal betriebene Exchange Cluster mit Outlook 2024, weil der Exchangeserver immer mal wieder nach Hause zu MS telefonieren wollte und die Verbindungen time-out waren.

Was genau der Vorteil des on prem Betriebes von MS Kram sein soll, erschließt sich mir dann noch weniger. #microsoft

@futurebird @spacehobo I hadn't thought about it until just now, but I guess icons are like historical snapshots: this was the dominant storage media when graphical user interfaces first appeared on personal computers

HOLY SHIT GAMERS NEXUS EXCLUSIVE:

Exclusive proof of nVidia AI chips smuggled to China being sold to Russia for use in Russian drones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYU_geUwQoA

nVidia refusing to comment.

#GamersNexus #JensenHuang #nVidia #exclusive #AI #smuggling #subterfuge #espionage #greed #corruption

Obviously being a corporation means they’re terrible no matter what. […] Even if Reddit was 100% community owned

It would still be a corporation. Do you realise unions, non-profit NGOs, churches, and every legal entity that isn’t a literal human, is a corporation?

toxic mods ruined Reddit

No they didn’t. At most they ruined their community. But anyone can make another community on Reddit. Doubly so here on Lemmy.

@jalefkowit On one hand you can’t look at a Reddit thread about your favorite MLB team without someone bringing up how Claude made them a super programmer with the skills and efficiency 100 pre AI programmers.

On the other hand software keeps getting worse.

#Microsoft

En route pour le @capitoledulibre ! Rendez-vous demain midi pour discuter de libre et de propriétaire dans @thunderbird 🙂

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117610034739601163

Second major union calling for Schumer to be replaced...

as someone who has been making things with processing, teaching processing, writing books about processing, and generally being a part of the processing community for the last 20 years, i can't say that i'm surprised at this news, but it still feels like a gut punch https://processingfoundation.org/blog/anthropic-backs-processing-foundations-open-source-software/

Secret Panel HERE ❤️ https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/11/12/end-game

@LanceJZ she's called artemis and lives nearby. she comes to the park every day, i've been seeing her for years actually. apparently she has a sibling who is more of a stay-at-home cat