vatlark

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vatlark,

OP wants FOSS BeReal, it’s all there in the title. There is no rule against having a body to the post. I agree that I would be disappointed if showerthoughts was only people’s product ideas.

If this type of post became commonplace we could make a rule trying to avoid spam. How would you word the rule? “No promotion of products or product concepts” that might work. Rules have side effects so I would want to look back through old posts to see if it would hurt quality posts.

This post did get two reports. Reports are not super down votes, things need to break rules for me to pull them, I try to be objective. As always I’m open to discussion.

I did giggle about commenter below that is sometimes old. Silver linings.

vatlark,

Or maybe we could have a rule like “Any post that’s greater than 12hrs old and has less than 30% approval gets removed” I like this because it gives voting more power for shaping the community and it’s objective.

vatlark,

You have a lot of great things to offer this conversation, I’m not sure why all the aggression was needed.

vatlark,

Wow, organic maps is really nice, seems like a much cleaner user interface than OsmAnd, whereas OsmAnd has more options.

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vatlark,

Huh, works fine for me for nearly a year now. The only thing I still use google calendar for are some shared calendars.

After proton adds Standard Notes. I’m hoping google maps will be the last product I’m tied to.

vatlark,

Yeah, assuming the best intentions from everyone, you would still expect some adjustments would be necessary to any new policy as they see the affect of the policy.

vatlark,

If Clear is an equity problem, then the toll lanes that are going in all over California certainly are.

Toll roads would be equal. The toll lanes feel really bad.

Is there a good source of info on rental car liability insurance?

I want to know if the car I’m renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and let’s ignore collision insurance for now....

vatlark,

So you are saying that AI today is like Bluetooth today

vatlark,

That’s very fair. I don’t like how unpredictable Bluetooth is when you have multiple peripherals and multiple hosts paired to eachother and all within range of eachother.

vatlark,

You never have audio coming out of a device you didn’t expect?

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vatlark,

That’s really cool, its a world I know very little about. What is an example of something you have listened to or communicated with?

vatlark,

That really is an impressive accomplishment. Yeah learning more EE seams like a great reason. Aviation radios have all sorts of clever tricks to get a longer antenna. Some WWII era planes would trail their antennas behind the aircraft.

vatlark,

Several of your comments/posts are being reported. You can find the code of conduct here: mastodon.world/about

There is nothing shocking in there just basic thing like no name calling. Which I suspect is why this comment was being reported. And is why I took down your other post.

Text is very poor at communicating a lot of subtleties that you get in other forms of communication. So it’s helpful to expect the best intentions of others and maybe ask clarifying questions.

If you look through other posts and comments you will find that people tend to be pretty chill, looking for a laugh or to make others laugh, and enjoying curious observations about life. People also get passionate about certain topics but I like how the code of conduct puts it “Criticize ideas, never people.”

vatlark,

Were you browsing Wikipedia in the shower?

vatlark,

Lol, beautiful edit

vatlark,

Definitely frustrating, but I like the idea of the community shaping itself through votes and comments whenever possible.

vatlark,

This post received one report pointing out that this post violates the rules 1 & 2; not being a shower thought and the entire shower thought not being in the title. The reporter is correct, at the same time I tend to error on the side of letting posters play with the showerthoughts format and letting the votes do the talking.

Happy to take feedback if you think my approach is bad.

vatlark,

This article has some interesting info for normal people trying to get their bail reduced.

  • The court isn’t allowed to force you to go to jail by setting the bail so high that you can’t afford it.
  • The court is required to give a reason for the bail amount, but it’s not clear if the reason would be public information.
vatlark,

Odd, my phone is far from a flagship but it is only a year old.

vatlark,

I think I’m the 11th comment. Not sure how real time the comments propagated to the other servers though.

vatlark,

I’m a mod, so the latter. I want the reporters to know they are heard, but also I tend to be slow to take action.

vatlark, (edited )

This is my first time being a mod. For example early on I would just remove any post that got a single report, but obviously that’s not a good strategy.

There are also other mods including an automod.

If I’m reading your picture correctly it was only 6 days ago that your post got removed. I’m not even sure if I can undo a mod action but I’ll look into it. Thanks for bringing it up.

Edit: I am having trouble finding the original context of the comment that got removed, finding out how to reverse it, or finding who removed it. It’s possible it was me but I don’t remember it. I have reached out to other mods for help.

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