manicdave

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I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works. in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry about that. Only way I could think to stop spam was to use IP as unique id. Try disconnecting from WiFi.

Edit: if you've already voted, it overwrites that vote with the new one. This is just the quickest laziest way of stopping someone using a bot to skew the results.

I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works. in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good point. I kinda rushed it and didn't really think to check. Just bought it cause .uk is a better tld

I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works. in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The first step in my mental roadmap for making this more than a toy is going to be user accounts and magic links, so small orgs can manually vet people for local party branches and meetings. I'll have to look into TLSNotary.

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I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works. (publicslate.co.uk)
 

I don't know if this is too self-promotey to put in the more serious subs so I'm putting it here. I need to blag being able to do the django framework so I spent a week fannying about with it to make this. Feel free to mess about with it, give feedback or repost it on reddit or any other lemmy knock-offs.

Wells Fargo fires employees for utilising down time. in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not even mad at the employers to be fair. The problem is that so many jobs are just busy-work that exists because as a society we can't imagine decoupling labour from subjugation.

Wells Fargo fires employees for utilising down time. in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah. That's the problem. It doesn't seem to be that they didn't do the work, it's that they did other stuff too.

Wells Fargo fires employees for utilising down time. in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The article doesn't say anything about productivity or targets. They got as much done as someone who manually wiggles the mouse while thinking instead of going for a walk while thinking.

Wells Fargo fires employees for utilising down time. in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 80 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Notice how this doesn't even have anything to do with productivity. These people were fired purely for having the gall to not respect office hours regardless of the completion of tasks.

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Wells Fargo fires employees for utilising down time. (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak aide placed bet on election date days before announcement in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How do you decide it's a good idea to risk getting a criminal record for fraud in the hopes of winning just one day's salary!?

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Rishi Sunak aide placed bet on election date days before announcement (www.theguardian.com)
Going to the pub for the first time, I have some questions [wrong answers only] in c/casualuk@feddit.uk
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Never approach an empty section of the bar. Make sure to form an orderly queue that blocks the front door and the route to the toilets.

agile is far left too. I will die on this hill in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

I'm blaming imgflip, not my incredible laziness

what's your best method to remove glue from a shoe outsole? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Search for "Hexamethyldisiloxane adhesive remover". It's designed for removing ostomy bags but it will remove pretty much any gummy sticky glue from anything with very little effort.

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Is there any reason the fediverse doesn't use torrents to not ddos itself? (feddit.uk)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/programming@programming.dev
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This is a question that comes to mind every time I spend a few days focusing on the fediverse. Normally I'm on the microblogging side, but now I have a Lemmy account it might start a proper discussion.

So, to the point, pretty much every fedi platform has similar problems with small servers taking a beating whenever a post goes viral. This ends up costing the server owner a bunch of money trying to keep their server alive while thousands of instances attempt to pull large static files from the original host's post. This recently instigated this call to action on this forum.

I've never seen the question of torrents answered and it feels like a lot of effort and a bit self entitled to get the ear of fedi software devs to implement torrents as a solution, so I'm putting this here.

If media files were made into torrents when a post was being created, an extra object could be added to post objects like

'torrentcdn': {
  'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg': {
    'infohash': 'ba618eab...',
    'torrentLocation': 'https://directlinkto.torrent',
    'webseed': 'https://imagePathAsKey.jpg',
    ...
  }
}

This would not break compatibility as it would just be ignored by anything not looking for a 'torrentcdn' object, yet up to date instances could use this instead of directly pulling the static files.

This would benefit instances as when a post goes viral, the load would be distributed amongst all instances attempting to download the file.

This could also benefit clients and instances as larger files like short videos could be distributed using webtorrent, massively reducing the load on server when many people are watching the same video.

Thoughts?

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