Which generation refused cookies?
I feel like most look at me like I’m crazy, regardless of age, when I deny/only accept the functional cookies on sites every single visit.

When I wanted my current server to be available for more experimental loads I decided I needed a new machine and at that time all hdds had gone up in price, but a package of ds225+ with 2x16TB had not yet been price increased so I got the NAS “for free”.
I would’ve repurposed an old gaming machine otherwise.
Worth looking for those kind of “deals” where someone has forgotten to increase a bundle price.

Depends on which Piefed instance you’re trying to contact and for what reason.
In the cases of feature requests a good place to start would be piefed.social/c/piefed_meta - !piefed_meta@piefed.social

If it’s about contacting a specific piefed instance then check their about page, f.e.: https://piefed.europe.pub/about

If it’s about helping out with developing etcetera then this page has links that will bring you to the right place: https://join.piefed.social/

Now that sek has strengthened towards euro and usd, the percentage of swedes who want the euro has lowered again.

May 2024 34,4% positive / 46,1% negative
May 2025 32% positive / 49,5% negative

32,0 procent uppgav att de skulle rösta ja till euron om det var folkomröstning i maj, medan 49,5 procent uppgav att de skulle rösta nej. Det kan jämföras med 34,4 respektive 46,1 procent i mätningen i maj 2024.

• https://efn.se/okat-motstand-mot-euron-hos-hushallen

I blame it on rarely upvoting posts at all! Or maybe it was someone elses fault, must be someone else to blame. I think. Is it your fault? You made me not do it? You must’ve made me not do it. You’re to blame. I’m certain.

Yeah, if you wanna lurk and not comment because you want to stay private then I recommend not voting at all.
If a person is already engaging in communities with comments like you and I are right now then I think the added details from our upvotes only strengthen what they already know from our comments.

I think most of my upvotes are in comment chains like this, when I think that they add value and are on topic.

I feel like this is what upvotes and down votes are for though. Expressing that you agree, like, or don’t like what someone is doing, or saying is not a mental disorder. I have been on the internet long enough, to know that starting a discussion about something, is almost never really worth it. I do feel that I should be able to join in on a general sentiment of approve or disapprove on a platform like this.

This is something where everyone has their own personal idea of what the votes are for. I was taught to think of the votes as relevant (on topic)/irrelevant (off topic) when I first encountered the system.

And that assumption is why I think the choice of the devs to hide it was wrong. They essentially tricked you.

Having votes transparent makes manipulation much harder and people much nicer.

4/999 negative votes (0.4%) or 99.6% positive
You’re one happy dude!
https://lemvotes.org/user/dumbass@piefed.social

I mostly solve this by upvoting what I like and ignoring the downvote option, reserving it for advertisement bots and spam.
I think that having the voting record hidden in the client UI makes more harm than good to be honest and would’ve preferred if the devs changed their mind on tricking end users that voting is anonymous.

The federated design of fediverse means that upvotes and downvotes must sync between instances and as such they’re not hidden or anonymous in any real sense. Anyone with a fediverse instance can see the votes.

lemvotes.org democratise this by allowing everyone, not just techies with their own instance, to see the votes.

One should know that lemvotes.org isn’t a perfect source of truth though, when I lefthand scroll I sometimes fat finger a downvote that I remove again. The latest downvote in my record is one of those.

https://lemvotes.org/ state I downvoted a post:

https://feddit.uk/ sees 75 upvotes:

https://sopuli.xyz/ sees 75 upvotes and I clearly have not voted:

I mean they have added a chatbot to their website and I’m sure they have replaced overseas first line support in many products with chatbots as well to encourage their customers to give up on getting support (and ensure that the customers that prevails and get sent to a human coworker are sufficiently pissed off).

“They ruthlessly cut costs, R&D, and employee benefits and then replace existing employees with overseas contractors. Innovation and growth take a back seat to sheer profitability.”

This is the operating manual that explains why IgniteTech’s much-publicized AI purge feels more like a familiar private-equity play.
[…]
IgniteTech is owned by ESW. For anyone who’s watched the ESW orbit, that vagueness is not accidental. ESW’s playbook, summarized in a long explanatory dossier that has circulated inside the industry, is blunt: buy distressed software, strip costs, move work to an hourly contractor model through a unit like Crossover (which has been described in Forbes as a “global software sweatshop”), and squeeze recurring revenue out of an existing customer base rather than invest in new products.

• https://aimmediahouse.com/market-industry/ignitetech-didnt-fire-80-for-ai-it-fired-them-for-profits

That was an interesting read.

If you wanna own your audiobooks you might wanna check out https://libro.fm/ - they allow you to download the bought audiobook without drm.
I gladly accept tips for similar sites when it comes to buying ebooks.

Mullvad - June 2023, the third audit. We’d also like an update, but it has completed a number of other security audits since

Oh, I can feel mullvads policy in that article opinion, especially since Mullvad too has had their no logging policies tested in practice just like Windscribe
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request

We never pay for reviews
It may come as a surprise that many product reviews found on the Internet are actually paid ads disguised as unbiased reviews. Sometimes, the more a company pays, the more favorable its product or service is reviewed. From a consumer’s standpoint, this makes it hard – if not impossible – to know when a review is genuine and when it’s a biased advertisement.

We do not have affiliates, and do not pay for influencers
In other words, we do not pay anyone to write about Mullvad – good or bad. We don’t even pay for links back to our website.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-affiliates

I enjoy that Mullvad are transparent with their third party security audits:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-completed-by-cure53