We'll take the fact that you haven't noticed much spam as a compliment.

The most recent spam that we have seen is harassment/doxxing campaigns that target specific users. It's not something the average user would notice as the harassment is often DMs or pings on random posts. That, and a ban evader with a recognisable writing style.

As you pointed out, there is no monetary interest on our end. We are just volunteers looking to fix the blindpots in the moderation tools. We have no interest in needlessly censoring speech, and if you ever feel we moderate the instance too harshly, we are open to taking feedback. You can always check the modlog to see our activity. The guidelines for our moderation can be seen here.

You could theoretically just loop through every community via "get_communities" and then com_obj["community_view"]["community"]["hidden"] :: boolean *I'm writing this on memory, the json structure may be slightly different

and then just subscribe to every community that pops up.

It will likely be slow though, and it's mostly NSFW + !news@lemmy.world that would pop up on c/all if you did. I also *think* lemmygrad as an instance is hidden, so those communities may pop up if they tend to reach c/all.

I'll discuss with the team about making a public list of hidden communities.

I've updated the title. Ideally people will read the content of announcements though.

Yes I did read it. I was pointing out that all this will do is screw over citizens of poorer EU countries. India vs USA was simply to make it obvious why the concept of geo blocking makes sense. Germans will on average have stronger buying power than someone in Latvia.

Steam is a storefront, not a competitor to game publisher. It's effectively no different than Lidl agreeing to run a regional rebate program for Samsung TVs in Latvia for whatever reason.

The geo blocking enabled cheaper prices for certain countries, not higher. The only people who would have an issue with it is people from richer countries that for some reason are jealous of lower prices in some countries.

Hexbear is/was the main reason I really wanted a per-user instance blocklist. Even though I never interacted with them, it was annoying to see them flood posts with awful takes. Glad to hear they banned us.

His "work" as you put it, is the only thing of value on the site. SO without users to provide answers are worth zero dollars, so I'm not sure why you put work in quotation mark.

That would never be an option for Stackoverflow

It certainly highlight the need for lemmy to implement a way for users to ban instances instead of relying on instance admins to thread the needle between being too strict or too lax with defederation option.

Wheels is something you use when packaging your module for upload. You will automatically use a wheel package if the module you are downloading was uploaded using wheels and your pc config is compatible with the wheel package.

What wheels does is it pre builds the module for a given system (doesn't need to be a very specific system) so that you don't have to do it locally when installing (if you got a compatible config).

It's not something users have to think about, for them wheel package == smaller and faster install. Pip will by default prioritise wheel package over source.

How is it morally grey? What factors makes it potentially unethical to buy a game from Larian? I don't see an angle that wouldn't immediately imply that it's unethical to buy essentially any large company.

No link or explanation for what it does?

Edit:

hyphenate-limit-chars: 10 3 4;

In the CSS rule above, the last declaration indicates to the browser that it should hyphenate only words of 10 characters or more and, when it does, three is the minimum number of characters before the hyphen and four is the minimum after the hyphen.

The owner is retiring and seems to want to shut down the business. Their latest power supplies are only given 3 years warranty despite the standard being 10 years.

These news doesn't come as no surprise unfortunately.