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Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms company

Extremely disappointing #Heriot-Watt University doesn’t respect, prioritise #students over corporations

The Uni will monitor student #chat groups and #discussion #forums for talk of any planned #protest, monitoring #CCTV for signs of #groups #gathering, and having an “enhanced” physical presence on the day to “help safeguard the #Raytheon employees attending.”

heraldscotland.com/news/253086

The Herald · Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms companyPar Garrett Stell, Aaron Walawalkar and Harriet Clugston
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@0x75BCD15@c.im

You said it yourself, that post was very much edited.

The big thing I dislike about Linux Support Forums is how they tend to gate keep and even shame people. Then when someone finally has had enough, and they call people out, those same people will go back, edit their post, and make it seem like you're the bad guy with their now, newly sensible and newly reasonable comments.

You'll notice (in my post history), I'm still having a few minor issues, but am I being helped? No. Anyone, right now, could shut me up, and shut me down, but folks rather go on with the nonsense, which only further validates my claim that AI can be more helpful.

And as you said, even after they edited their post, they still could not help themselves.

#NixOs #Nix #Linux #SupportForums #Forums

Quoi de neuf ? Mes 12 dernières heures de veille ont été englouties par du #scrolling et de la lecture de posts et de #forums tout pourris, pourquoi ?

Tsss ça me rend malade de voir ce gâchis de temps, tout ça pour ne pas être plus reposée, plus épanouie ni divertie. Le moins qu'on puisse dire c'est que je suis pas fière de moi. Faut que je me sorte de ces comportements nuls mais c'est dur. C'est donc ça l'addiction ?

Suite du fil

I am likely going to be banned from the NixOs Community Forum, as I posted this as my reply to someone. - I do not even care.

Why?

If you look at my post history, I solved my own problems. All I ever got was people criticizing and never actually providing solutions. Which is what most people looking of help want - A solution (or at best a working tip, beyond a vague cryptic statement).

#NixOs #Nix #Forums #SupportForums #Foss

The golden rule for support forums should be, if you have nothing to actually add to help someone achieve their goal, then you should shut the fuck up.

If all you're going to do is criticize someone's efforts, without offering a working solution, you should shut the fuck up.

If you add no value to the conversation, you most certainly should, shut the fuck up.

#Linux #Forums #SupportForums

Topic thumbnails, uploads, and media display

There have been some scattered feedback on a change I made for v4.0.0 that caught some people off-guard: Uploaded media is now shown in addition to topic thumbnails.

I'll start with why this change was made, and then solicit feedback.

The why

v4.0.0 introduced ActivityPub integration into NodeBB. This added dimension meant that content was consumed in a manner that was similar, but unfamiliar to NodeBB, and so much of the work involved normalizing that data into a format that made sense. (As an aside, I tell people that that's pretty much 99% of my job — glueing together APIs. I jest, but it's also basically true.)

One of those unfamiliar aspects was uploaded media in the form of attachments. NodeBB had discrete concepts of inline media and topic thumbnails, but attachments were something different entirely. Attachments were not inlined in the text (they tended to be added before or after the main content), and thumbnails were images only, while attachments could be lots of other things.

The second part was that a lot of the content I received relied on media to do the heavy lifting. Oftentimes the text would be minimal and in response to the attachment. After all, a picture's worth a thousand words.

Given those two things, I allowed NodeBB to consume and store attachments separately, and updated the topic thumbnail retrieval logic to pull media from both post attachments and inline media. That retrieval logic is what governs what you see next to the title. I also decided on the all-in approach because while NodeBB has multiple ways of slotting media, majority of ActivityPub software generally only uses attachments. This means both inline media and topic thumbnails were unceremoniously shoved into attachments when federating outward. There is movement toward changing this, and so this rationale may no longer make sense today.

I initially did have concerns that perhaps this would dilute the meaning and specificity of the "topic thumbnail", but I also wagered that the UX improvement of promoting any and all media found would be of greater benefit.

Your turn — feedback!

Maybe I'm wrong!

  • Perhaps the media row is best used to showcase topic thumbnails and post attachments only (not inlined media.)
  • Perhaps a configurable option would appease all folks (although I'm usually loathe to add options purely for that reason.)

community.nodebb.org/post/1046

NodeBB Community · Topic thumbnails, uploads, and media displayThere have been some scattered feedback on a change I made for v4.0.0 that caught some people off-guard: Uploaded media is now shown in addition to topic thu...

The silver lining of the "AI" hype is the increased aversion that more and more people are having to the overly shiny, phony mainstream internet and how all of that is pushing more underground, independent weirdo creators to thrive and to make REAL things of human value on the web, be they blogs, personal websites, indie services, or back to the small forums of old.

The upcoming possibility of browsing to remote federated categories/communities has me thinking about interesting use cases for it.

Note that Lemmy, PieFed, mBin, and other "community-centric" software already do support this, so it's nothing new, I'm actually playing catch-up.

One interesting use case centers around NodeBB's /unread route, which tracks new topics since your last visit. Since ever, and even now in v4, this is only for local categories, but if you're able to "subscribe" to a remote category, then we could enable use of this page for that content too.

Think about waking up and seeing a self-curated feed of new content from your subscribed communities! There are some interesting parallels to RSS here, too.

What other forum-centric use cases do you think would be enhanced by the ability to browse remote categories?