If you have to ask the question, just take the secret to your grave. You should only risk the blowback on yourself if you know how properly to mitigate the risk of “doing the right thing”.

And maybe it’s fine. Like, if you found a vulnerability in a piece of FOSS software, most projects have an official path for disclosure of such things. Just look on their website and follow the instructions there. But if anyone asked me this question specifically about a vulnerability in some FOSS software, a) I’d say they don’t have the knowledge to make an informed decision whether it’s safe for them to do so and b) I’d question whether they’d actually found what they thought they’d found.

At least until the AI bubble bursts and they pivot to something worse. :(

The only “creepy” thing about it is that viewing who upvoted/downvoted what isn’t a feature that’s just built into Lemmy (and Lemmy-UI). I can’t imagine why the authors of Lemmy would want to have a class system with some (instance admins) being able to see vote information and others (everyone else) being unable.

You say “we all know our votes here are public record”, but that’s not really true. Even Lemvotes doesn’t work for at least half of the posts I’ve tried it on. It’d be more accurate to say “we all know our votes here aren’t secret”.

Just ban LLMs already.

And if it doesn’t, they’ll just implement it anyway even if Missourians vote against it. (Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve done that with one bill or another.)

1. Sell tomatoes.
2. Use money to buy pasta sauce.
3. …
4. Profit!

Fair. Definitely don’t blame you. I only participate because it’s fun to poke the bear and have fun at Madthumbs’ expense sometimes. Like the Buttcoin community (or rather “communities” - there are at least 4 on Lemmy) does with cryptobros. And Artificial Ignorance does with generative AI.

Ah! Ok. That makes sense and seems plausible. The Linuxsucks Sucks community is a little over a month old and hasn’t had all that many folks participate.

Ah. I’m with you. Well that’s super annoying. Maybe one more reason why lemmy.world should defederate from lemmy.ml. :\

Edit: Oh, I wrote this before I saw your edit. I thought you were saying that if a lemmy.ml user responds to a thread on lemmy.world, then the whole thread won’t work on Lemvotes. Which… I don’t specifically know isn’t the case at this point. But yeah.

Yes, but as I said in another comment, I have examples of comments made by the same user to two different communities on the same instance which none-the-less differ with regard to whether they work on Lemvotes. So apparently it can vary by which community it’s posted to, not just by instance.

Huh! After reviewing, I think I must have mistaken something because my last two posts are not in the same community. (I also switched computers between my last comment two up and this one.)

And now, if I pick a bunch of my posts in the same community, I’m consistently seeing that those apparently don’t work on Lemvotes. (Or at least I haven’t found a counterexample yet.)

But the OP for this thread (to this community which is on Lemmy.world) works fine (for me, at least) on Lemvotes while my second-most-recent post (also to a community on Lemmy.world) doesn’t work on Lemvotes.

And, yeah, I’m using the fediverse symbol link for all these tests. Maybe Lemmy.world blocks some communities for federation but not others? That’s about the only theory that makes sense to me off the top of my head so far.

Instance owners decide whether to federate to Lemvotes or not.

Yeah, but I’m quite certain that I can find examples of posts/comments from the same instance, some of which works fine on Lemvotes and one of which doesn’t.

For instance, my most recent two posts were:

• Made by the same user (me)
• Posted to the same instance
• Posted to the same community on that instance
• Within three days of each other

But the most recent post works fine on Lemvotes while the second-most-recent gives me the 404 page.

It’s like a koan. I keep expecting “and then he was enlightened” at the end.

You’ve figured it out. Take as much advantage of your employer as you can. Try not to make life harder on your coworkers. People matter. Heartless corporations don’t. Eek out as much fulfillment as you can within that context. There’s nothing better. At least not within capitalism.

Dexter fan?

Apparently Hy-vee is employee-owned

From what I’ve heard from former employees of employee-owned grocery stores, it sounds like “employee-owned” can often be an “on paper”, kind of technicality that bolsters their image marketing-wise/PR-wise while not actually being true in practice.

A former employee of the Price Cutter location I was talking about, when I asked about Price Cutter being worker-owned (it says so in a sign on the door as you walk in), told me that the union there was completely captured/controlled by the upper management. Like, the vice president had full veto power over what the union decided. (And why TF would a truly “employee-owned” company have/need a union. So you can collectively bargain with yourselves, the collective owners?) In practice, the union was kindof just to give employees some degree of illusion that they weren’t just wage slaves. And maybe to make creating a real union seem less feasible to employees. And maybe there are meetings that employees can attend and theoretically vote on things or whatever, but in practice, the attendees who vote don’t actually have any sway over the direction of the company or conditions for workers or anything.

Not to say I’m not filing a complaint. It probably can’t hurt to do so. But I don’t think “it’s employee-owned” is actually necessarily any reason to think results might be better than if it didn’t say “employee-owned” on the website, unfortunately.

Trumplandia. :\

old stuff needs to be pulled to the front

Yeah, the stuff I’m talking about is always the front unit on the shelf. I can’t always be arsed to search behind the front one for fresher units, but when I do, usually the entire stock on the shelf of that particular product is expired all the way to the back of the shelf. So I don’t really think that’s the issue in my case. I might be more vigilant about searching behind the frontmost unit in the future, though.

every major retail store in the country is cutting staff to save money

Yeah, this store clearly has huge turnover as well. Probably not uncommon to see in grocery stores in general, but I think it’s worse here than other stores. The checkout clerks, for instance, often times have to ask for help for things like “how do I ring up the gallon drinking water refills” or whatever. (Which, of course, isn’t the clerk’s fault at all.)

Why don’t you grab someone who works there and tell them…

Because I want to keep shopping there and don’t want everyone there to hate me. Plus I’m conflict averse. If I was going to complain, I’d probably try to do so as anonymously as I can.

(And I’m talking about the second location – the HyVee. The Price Cutter’s done for. I really don’t think there’s any hope for them.)

That’s interesting to hear.

I’ve got a major tangent to go on here quick. You know the YouTube channel “Legal Eagle”? (I think he’s also on Nebula.)

I have a lay interest in law, particularly contract and IP law, and sometimes the YouTube algorithm recommends Legal Eagle. I watched something random about how “Disney might lose the rights to Spiderman”. Seemed interesting and all.

But in the middle of the video he totally confuses the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) passed in 1998. He said the Copyright Act of 1976 was “the life’s work of Sony Bono”. The CTEA was the life’s work of Sonny Bono. Sonny Bono had, so far as I’ve been able to determine, nothing to do with the Copyright Act of 1976.

And I knew enough about the CTEA and Copyright Act of 1976 to catch the error immediately. And honestly, I’ve tried to steer clear of Legal Eagle. If he can get something as basic as that wrong (despite being a professional lawyer, mind you) then how can I be sure I’m not getting BS every time I watch his content. Or at least so my reasoning went.

And I’m super interested in the human story around these laws. For instance, did you know that the CTEA was introduced posthumously (as in, after Sonny Bono’s death)? By his widow Mary Bono who ran for and won the seat that Sonny’s death left vacant? And it was introduced only 9 months after his death? And that Mary Bono advocated for continuing to extend the term of copyright forever? And in the court case Eldred v. Ashcroft which challenged the constitutionality of the CTEA, Lawrence Lessig was the lawyer for the petitioner? Who called the CTEA the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” in reference to Disney’s strong lobbying for the CTEA? And Aaron Schwartz testified to the SCOTUS in that case on the side of the petitioner? At the age of 14?

That stuff is super interesting to me, and Legal Eagle getting something as simple and basic as that wrong made it seem like he really didn’t care to get such details right, which made me reticent to want to expose myself to much more of his content.

Anyway. Super tangent, but your comment about how law school doesn’t seem to value knowledge of history explains a bit, I think.

Hopefully some of what I’ve suggested gets you closer to what you’re looking for!