In your OP, sure.

But this comment reads as a desired state, and in some situations thats a feature request (in this case it seems like there are architecture / system workarounds):

I don’t want email to be accessible to those services. I don’t want those services to use email at all.

Did you get an explanation you’re happy with?

I don’t think that assumption was inherent in the comment

If you want an unpopular feature that doesn’t exist on an open source platform sometimes your only options are to code it, or ask someone else to. The skillset of the feature requester doesn’t change that

And blocked

Thanks for the clarification. That’s craziness to me. I chose the wrong (or right) states to live in while I was there

What’s new:

• edit PDFs
• new privacy protections
• tab group previews
• dropped support for 32-bit linux

And honestly I’d stop there and say “and more”

Also, the summary of the release notes is not the release notes. You cared about every dot point in those release notes equally? There are no larger broad changes?

Why post it here? I personally don’t think every Firefox release is interesting enough to post to the !technology@lemmy.world channel so when a release is interesting enough to post here I figure there are reasons and that they are easy to note along with the URL.

I suspect most people have some feelings are the same because I suspect most people would be unimpressed if the channel included every minor release of everyone’s torch apps. The exact reasons something is interesting varies for people. For some people anything Firefox might be enough. For others it might only be interesting when they do something big like trying to come up with a new solution for tracking ads. Since its a community, I kind of think a good post needs to include the highlights of what is meant to be interesting to help out the others in the community, especially if they might not naturally see the same things as interesting

So no practical from learners to full license, or no practical at all for the whole process?

The Firefox browser itself tells me there is an update. An update could be interesting to read about here and if so I think it makes sense to make the case with the highlights. Like, why did you find it interesting enough to put here?

Personally, I’m pretty inclined to downvote any post that is a link without a short summary or context. I appreciate that’s not everyone.

And personally I think it’s important to say why you downvote. The poster can choose what to do with that information and I’ve got no expectations for them to change how they do things

The anecdote could also have some unfortunate causes, like one partner not being very fertile

Or one of them is sterile?

Downvoted for not giving any sort of summary of the larger features and fixes

Ha, it seems to be legit:

https://onwardtexas.org/trending/is-it-illegal-to-own-more-than-six-dildos-in-texas-yes-it-is/

Some reddit thread mentioned that it’s a good way to make it hard to run a sex store. Anyone know of any other rationale?

I’ve lived in a few countries and not heard of this. Do you care to share a few details?

I meant that maybe they remembered your username from those posts. Your username itself seems pretty normal for Lemmy

4.5-4.6 can be hit-or-miss

How is that not inflated? For my personal ratings, a three is something I’d be happy to eat every day. A five is close to unattainable. It’s basically centered on 2.5 with something like a tapered normal distribution. It’s tedious mapping out so I’m not lowering ratings for good places so I don’t rate anymore.

But getting past me being difficult, you can’t even rate 4.5 can you? Isn’t that information being lost when the way people rate is basically 5 for thumb up and every other number is a thumb down?

You’re right about it being useful to look at relative ratings, I just wouldn’t label that as really accurate.

It’s a separate issue but you brought up categories. I never loved rating in a situation like on Airbnb where one place might be a deliberately expensive penthouse and another might be deliberately a cheap shared room in the wilderness, especially with something like a “cleanliness” rating

Oooh. This is the guy that spammed multiple channels with multiple links for basically the same story. Maybe people are downvoting for that / the username

Oooh. I didn’t notice the downvotes here are 1/3 of the upvotes, about the same ratio as the original post

Thanks, I should have said at least five days old. Cheers

Agreed Google maps is the best review aggregator (and I wish it wasn’t) but “the star ratings are scarily accurate”? I think you mean “hugely inflated”. Like almost any review system a I’ve seen recently: if you like a place and you give less than a 5 then you’re hurting it.