It’s interesting that you put the blame on the FDA. I’m not in the USA, but the effectiveness of a body like the FDA, the FCC, the EPA, FAA and all the others is directly related to how much money they have available and who is running the department; these are determined by politicians.

In other words, medical oversight depends entirely on whom you vote for and why voting is important. It’s the “little” things like this, not the defence or education budgets capturing the headlines that make the difference.

I’m guessing it’s because of concerns about quality control.

Yeah, in the unedited version of my reply, the asterisk wasn’t detected as part of the URL which lands you at Sag A, not Sag A*.

This.

If you’re wondering why, this is the centre of our Galaxy. Of course if you’re planning on intergalactic travel, you might have some issues, but before you get too worried about it, exploring the current galaxy is going to take a while.

Wikipedia

Edit: The link to the super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy wasn’t working.

I remove the sticker, wash it under the tap and one bite at a time, eat it whole.

I read that you’re manually tagging them, so your process can be whatever you want to do.

For example, you can leave the images in their current folder structure and create a separate folder structure with symbolic links to an image, so in the character folder would be symbolic links to all the images like that. They also don’t have to be unique, an image can be in multiple categories.

Alternatively you can use a spreadsheet and generate lists there.

Finally there are plenty of photo album applications that allow you to tag images.

As an end user, ie. not someone who either hosts an instance or has extra permissions, can we in anyway see who voted on a post or comment?

I’m asking because over the time I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that many, but not all, posts or comments attract a solitary down vote.

I see this type of thing all over the place. Sometimes it’s two down votes, indicating that it happens more than once.

I note that human behaviour might explain this to some extent, but the voting happens almost immediately, in the face of either no response, or positive interactions.

Feels a lot like the Reddit down vote bots.

You could use a cron job to grep through the file and reformat the output into a webpage, markdown, or plain-text file.

It’s really simple to use, and markdown is essentially plain text.

My go-to for this is pandoc, it takes markdown and can generate html, pdf, word, OpenOffice and other formats.

Because it uses markdown, you can use version control and grep on your documentation and include it with your source code.

Bruce Perens is currently working on a new licensing model called Post Open requiring that business with sufficient revenue to pay up.

https://postopen.org/

In my opinion it’s criminal just how often this happens. Big business making obscene profit off the back of volunteer work like yours and many others across the OSS community.

Be the change you want to see…

There is nothing stopping you from gathering that data and publishing it every week.

I will point out that the absence of any messages from a community is not an indication of the end of that community, nor am I aware of any process to “scrub” a community, unless you’re referring to the act of an instance administrator deleting a community on their own instance.

A female adult mosquito can live for a month or two, laying eggs every two to three days, between 100 and 300 eggs each time.

Also, they travel several kilometres for food - blood, so, I’m going out on a limb, but you might need to scale up your efforts if you’re attempting to reduce the local population.

My first recommendation is to become familiar with one flavour of Linux. Debian is a solid choice and it will give you a good understanding of how a great many derivatives operate.

The command line is a tool to get things done, it’s not an end to itself. Some things are easier to do with a GUI, many things are easier to do with the command line interface or CLI.

Many Linux tools are tiny things that take an input, process it and produce an output. You can string these commands together to achieve things that are complex with a GUI.

Manipulation of text is a big part of this. Converting things, extracting or filtering data, counting words

For example, how many times do you use the words “just” and “simply” in the articles you write?

grep -oiwE "just|simple" *.txt | sort | uniq -c

That checks all the text files in a directory for the occurrence of either word and shows you how many occurred and what capitalisation they used.

In other words, learning to use the CLI is about solving problems, one by one, until you don’t have to look things up before you understand why or how it works.

You have been well trained by your cat.

Given your “updoot”, I figured that you’d get it, seems that others were not so lucky…

This precious token was gifted to me and I pass it to you…

Thank you for the links, never heard this, much appreciated.

Unfortunately, with that comes no assistance to your query.

Ask your instance administrator.