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Isn't Karma essentially just the delta between upvotes and downvotes you get with some sort of weighting thrown in?

Because you can very much get that delta on here, it just isn't visible in the default Lemmy interface. If you look at your account through an Mbin frontend for example you can see the "Reputation points" value in the sidebar: https://fedia.io/u/@[email protected]

Know what you mean, would probably be a worthwhile feature request to make on the bug tracker.

As the link in the post body explains you may direct your complaints to https://old.reddit.com/user/HEPS_08 of the r/stalker subreddit, although I'm sure they have heard about it in these past four years.

You can change the zone size by dragging the border with the mouse while you are in the editing mode.

Edit: so drag to 1/3 and 2/3 roughly, split the bigger field again.

I see you figured it out. Will add an explanation to my post as well, if you hadn't deleted your reply I would have answered that instead. :)

What we see here coming from the monarchy is not a meaningful gesture of alliance. That’s what I’m bitter about.

They aren't allowed to make any meaningful gesture of alliance, that was my entire point. There have literally been wars fought specifically to take these responsibilities away from them. The ball is in the parliaments court now.

What does the word ‘Commonwealth’ even mean if the British monarchy can’t say that and mean it.

A loose collection of anglophone colonies and their motherland. Its importance declined along with the power of the British monarchy. Which didn't really bother anyone so far because there were things like the five eyes and NATO to fill the gap.

You have to hold the Shift key while moving a window for it to snap into the tiles you set up. If you just move them normally they have a different snapping behaviour like what you described.

Edit: So as the deleted reply was probably asking, this is how it works in full. If you have the KDE Plasma desktop environment after a certain version (I wanna say 5.6-ish?) you can do the following:

1. Press Windows+T, or as we Linux nerds like to call it Meta+T, to configure your "tiling zones" on your monitors.
2. Hold Shift+LeftClick on the title bar of a window to move them into the "tiling zones" you set up.

Discoverability on this sucks (as much of the Plasma desktop does) but it's a pretty cool feature.

Well if by they you mean the monarchy, I think symbolic actions are about all they have been relegated to do at this point in history, and they seem to be crushing that:

In the royal tradition, a sword like this is seen as a symbol of sovereignty. The Senate originally commissioned the sword to the[!] mark the change of reign from Elizabeth to Charles.

They are telling you that you are on your own and better look for reliable alliances fast.

As far as my limited understanding of Commonwealth and UK politics goes the monarch does actually have some pretty extensive rights, but they come along with a damn near 100% chance of a constitutional crisis if enacted.

So if you are looking for something more material I believe the executive and legislative branches of the respective governments are your tree to bark up at. The monarchy seems to be doing all they can in this particular instance.

Which is not much, in that we agree, but symbols are not worthless either. There is a reason every monarchy, religion, and ideology has used them throughout history.

Do you happen to have a link about public data?

Not really, although I'm quite sure people have wrote about if you care to search. The "Fediverse" communities on many instances would be a place to ask. The underlying protocol is called ActivityPub, which would already give an insight into what is available to the broader network (which includes Mastodon and other services), but if you want to get down to it you can spin up a Lemmy instance and see what you get.

Votes specifically are even publicly visible on some Lemmy frontends, like Piefed and Mbin I think.

I'm just saying consider anything you post on Lemmy specifically or on the broader Fediverse in general part of the public record, for better or for worse.

P.S.: including DMs, they aren't encrypted.

I’m not sure how to link directly to a subsection of Wikipedia.

Mouse over the link to the subsection in the sidebar, right-click, copy link location.

Not sure if there is a way to link to a specific paragraph though. Since you seem to be new to Lemmy you may want to take a look at this for formatting your posts: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

And since it seems you already had a post deleted, there is a modlog. You can reach it from the sidebar of any instance or community. So if you go to [email protected] then click the modlog link in the sidebar, and scroll down a bit you will see the reason your post was removed. You can then appeal that action to either the mods of that Europe community or the admins of the feddit.org instance.

As you seem to be American and inclined to research, here are a few keywords you may want to look up: Operational Security, Signal Intelligence, End-to-end-encryption. Be advised that up/downvotes as well as a lot of other metadata is essentially public on Lemmy, because it is available to every instance (you can host one yourself if you want to). Your government may be blind on four eyes right now, but there is still one remaining.

Also don't get drawn in too deep into the reasons why any of these people do what they do. It's interesting to the point of being too good to be true, I'll admit that, but it is a distraction. Focus on organising yourself and the people around you. Good luck.

Tortoisegit is God awful, stuck in 1999.

If it works don't fix it. Not that it's my go-to.

you just indicated you enjoy reading man pages

I have indicated that I do it, not that I enjoy it. But yeah, I prefer it to skimming 20 verbose blog posts and outdated Stackoverflow questions to find one that is actually related to my specific use case. And often enough the search results will be online versions of the man pages anyway. Not quite sure why you are so hostile about it, I just said "read the docs" basically.