I think we could start with just encouraging people to provide reasons when downvoting posts, by just showing a small box for comment for example. If we see improvements on engagement and that it ends up encouraging good conversations, then we’re all good. Otherwise, we can then get feedback on how people feel about that addition, or just observe from anonymized data, eg “How often does someone make a comment after downvoting?”

I think going straight to harder requirements might backfire in this particular case; I can see a lot of people to just stop downvoting things because they’re too lazy to provide a reason.

For what seems like controversial posts, I seriously hope people would at least state why they downvoted something instead of just downvoting and leaving. If it’s straight up bad, we all know why, but this seems to invite debate more than just stating a bad take (for the record, I don’t think this is bad).

AMD has just historically been better, while NVIDIA terrible. The fact that NVIDIA became better is a relatively recent event, after they decided to start putting out official Linux drivers, and even then it took a while for them to make that stable, afaik.

Meanwhile, and this is also afaik, AMD has basically not really changed by much. NVIDIA just leaped them on the compat front on newer cards.

I actually use Rakuten to get e-books cause I live in a rather small space. Rakuten also rather clearly labels their books for whether they’re DRM-ed or not, and has a bunch of non-DRM-ed books. This is a win for me.

Not directly related, but it reminded me of an article I read a while ago so I tried digging it up:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman

The article’s about the far-right, and how it’s essentially being championed in the shadows by a very organized entity. This isn’t written as fiction; it’s part of a documentary.

Votes for O&G interests -> Continues the slaughtering of our nature, worsening climate change -> Forests burn more uncontrollably -> Complains

Big brain move there Republicunts

That makes more sense. Thank you for the explanation.

From what you’re saying though, it sounds like we’re assuming English usage translates to Western usage? But that’s not necessarily accurate though. South East Asia, for example, also has a huge population when combined, has a really big gaming scene, and gamers are frequently English speakers / users, if not just don’t mind using English in their systems, even if they don’t necessarily speak it well. That corner of the world is wholly dominated by Windows as well.

As someone who hasn’t been following what’s going on, this reads like a really weird post.

What does it mean for a language to… “drop”? Did you mean language usage? Why would Linux “grow” (whatever you mean by “grow” here) whenever this language “drops”?

And assuming I understood your post correctly, why should we consider Chinese users of Linux as “noise”? In what context are you posting this such that they can be considered “noise” instead of “more data points”?

Sorry for blasting questions at ya, but this is really out of left field.

That’s a sick mask! 👍 Did Carney comment on it?

Dittoing @[email protected] here.

I’ve recently read an interview with a professor in International Politics, and basically there hasn’t been any good news on that front, and the world is heading back towards an age where “might makes right”. I think we see it too: countries are becoming more and more self-centred, willing to trade values for the benefit of their own country (or just the government themselves). The age of values-based international relations is over.

I don’t think that would stop tRump from trUmping. If anything, he’ll use that to further his lie that Canada’s a nasty country to deal with.

I’m using an app called Voyager and you can create user tags in it. It’s local on your device though.

No doubt about it. And I’m actually glad to read that is, and that there are banks who are happy to just hop on something that they didn’t make themselves, and don’t necessarily have control over, which many banks around the world are very keen to do as, well, most major banks are extremely conservative (small c of course) organizations, all over the world.

In Japan, afaik, none of em have really worked with any of the transit cards in any meaningful way, despite us actually seeing some of these cards becoming more and more universal, ie their systems are becoming more predominant than what the Japanese banks use (can’t remember the name right now). That said, Japan is still a mostly cash-reliant country, esp the older shops, many of which just don’t care about adopting technology.

In Malaysia, one of their major banks have instead tried to mimic what TouchNGo does, allowing people to transfer money via scanning a QR code, and essentially use their status as a major bank to sort of compete with the original toll card. Some other players (non-banks tho) have sort of just joined in the bandwagon and so you end up seeing some shops ending up with a bunch of different QR codes plastered on their counters. Despite the fragmentation, because QR codes are just super easy for even a small roadside stall to set up, it’s actually gotten really good adoption even in smaller, near rural places. Carrying cash is still a good recommendation, but you really just need a few bills of different denominations (there are only a handful), and can generally go without using cash.

Presto essentially had that sort of potential in Ontario, if it just expanded beyond being a transit card.

There are lots of such examples outside of NA. In Japan, their transit cards can be used in lots of convenience stores, vending machines, and even claw machines. In Malaysia, the old highway toll debit card called TouchNGo can now be used essentially anywhere where the vendor pastes their QR code.

That’s not always bad though, but you definitely need a strong leverage. And a strong leverage is not something the US really has these days. In fact, they’re working really hard to get rid of their leverages. That’s some smart politics there. /s

So this rando just came here and just said something like “I’m gonna make it harder for people in your neighbourhood to do business with mine if you don’t stop the fighting.” Like, sure bro. Like that’s gonna work.

Sure, Thailand exports 19% of its products to the US, might hurt em a lil, but I don’t think that’d stop them from fighting Cambodia if they’re serious about it, and they were. Cambodia does export 42% of its stuff to the US, so it’d hurt em, but if Thailand isn’t gonna be bothered, it’s not like they have a choice.

So much for the self-proclaimed master negotiator.

I’m sorry, but if you want to promote something, at least do it in the right places, and don’t try to spam your message everywhere to try to get support. You’re pretty much making yourself out to be a spammer, and most importantly here, your insensitivity to the topic here has only ruined any chances that I’d look at your project.

I’m sure it’s well known at this point, but Trump’s strategy is a tale as old as time: keep lying and at some point, some people will believe you, and it will then multiply and spread like fucking cancer. Not everyone has the ability to tell truths from lies, and they rely purely on “How many people are saying it?” Other times there’s a nugget of truth to the lie. And more often than not, people accept a lie because it keeps them safe in their community.

Seriously, for all the shade Westerners throw at the Chinese government for their surveillance of their people, we’re just gonna do the same? WTF is wrong with our governments? Who are the people giving these advices if it’s not their own idea?

Believe he talked about that in a bit more detail in another video about trams. I think that video was titled “Trams are the G.O.A.T” or something to that effect.

But essentially, and iirc, trams and subways serve subtly different purposes. Sure, at the end of the day, they move people between points, but the difference lies in what you can get between those points. Running trams at ground level close to shops means that they facilitate local foot traffic, and makes it easy for people to just get off and go get what they want to easily, sometimes at the moment they see what’s on their way. They can do that without the need to get up and down via stairs / escalators / lifts. Sure, you could check out a map to know where you wanna go, but where’s the serendipity in that?

Subways are great for faster point-to-point travel, especially if you don’t need to visit any of the areas between those points. Trams are generally slower than subways cause, at the end of the day, even if you give it priority on the surface, you are still close to humans on foot traffic, and there are points where you’ll have to slow down to not make people feel unsafe, even if their path is predictable.

Let’s make us all feel worse… courtesy by NJB https://youtu.be/HhQxNHrD6fA

I know some people absolutely dislike the guy for essentially dumping Canada and emigrated to the Netherlands, but seriously, if I go through the episodes he did: trying hard at advocacy and planning hard to improve the city, only to be met with unreasonable car-brained suburbanites throwing absolutely ridiculous arguments against the plans and essentially pouring cold water all over everyone, all in the face of facts, and you end up having to just watch things go to the shitters like you expected, you flip the table, and you leave. I can say that cause I’ve went through something similar. You end up not being able to just stay at that place anymore, no matter how much you loved it.