@endorama It certainly was not intended to add more burden to anyone.

I would not call it a cultural problem. It's purely lack of decent and respectful behaviour. And it shouldn't be needed to call out such behaviours at all.

And that was what I was thinking of with my reply ... A "simple" approach to tackle such behaviour is to quickly disable the possibility for further interaction. Reporting and blocking can be tedious and with limited reach. More like, "Would you have used a button to stop this person from troubling you and your followers?" And "From your experience, what action could such a button provide which would have a chance to improve your situation?"

I have not experienced other users behaving that badly towards me, so I wouldn't know what could possibly make a real difference.

Such behaviours won't go away ignoring it, nor just blocking individual users. Blocking domains won't be a good solution either in many cases.

If we can't discuss these things, nothing will improve in the end.

@vkc

@vkc

First of all, I'm getting quite p**sed off that so many people can't behave decently when stiing behind a keyboard. I get an urge to pull such people out of their bedrooms and drag them through the city, in a proper mediaeval punishment style. .... unfortunately, I also realise that it probably won't have the wanted effect or being appropriate in so many other levels.

That said ...

Which feature do YOU feel Mastodon is missing to properly contain, imprison and block such douchebags from making your and our lives here so poor?

Maybe the amount of efforts required to handle the classifications of users and instances will still be way too much. But maybe that could be a real use case for AI?

@Landsil @tony @ben @bloor

The more you pay, the more you need to convince others it's better ... Otherwise you admit to being fooled and tricked to give away lots if money for no valid reasons ... Basically to not look like an idiot ... except ........

@ben @tony @bloor

The difference in the ProTools checks might have been the cable, but can just as well have been some other related things. Signals can be affected by magnetic interference (audio is AC voltage), so if there are other power cables laying closer or further away from the speaker or signal cables may just be enough to make a slight difference. Or if the cable was too long and curled up vs being straight. In some cases with power cables, other equipments plugged in at the same power outlet may cause a slight difference - due to the power drawn, which impacts the magnetic aspects.

In regards to the magnetism aspects ... you know the amp measurement devices you just clamp over the cable, not actually connecting to wires ... that's just a coil "wrapped around" the cable measuring the magnetic field and from that calculates the amps passing through.

But yeah, for digital signal paths .... it's all in the DAC at that point. Of course, disrupted bits in the transfer can cause noise. But not clarity details. And the digital signal paths certainly has enough error correction to not bit-flip data hitting the DAC in the end. Gee, that's just hilarious.

@tony @ben @bloor

Audio Grade Ethernet Switch

@ingram @tony @bloor

If it would have been me, I would have accepted as well - but sold the cables afterwards 🤪

I see Kimble twists the pairs. The physics behind the twisting does have an effect. That can be calculated and there will be scientific evidence of the effect. There are no doubts here.

But it will not be noticeable on shorter lengths for home hifi equipment use, as well as the current and voltage in home hifi systems. You probably need to go at least 20-30m, probably even higher like closer to 100m and above to have a noticeable effect. Which is why the Electronics Australia findings are accurate and valid.

And if your home hifi loudspeaker and amp are 20-100m or more apart ... then you have a setup which would require some rethinking for a lot of other reasons.

Of course, such details like this stings a lot if you've cashed out a lot of money for 5m of speaker cables. Then you "need" to claim you hear the difference to feel less like an, well, idiot.

@drwho @tony @bloor

Oh, there are plenty of possibilities to "improve" this design further - or coming up with something else being even more absurd, shifting the revenue stream in your direction. There are always room for "improving" cables and it will always sell.

But you need to be quite cynical playing on the psychology aspects related to making people believe they hear a difference - and have some quasi research papers supporting what they "hear". The rest is plain marketing and marketing strategies.

And don't forget: In this user segment - the sound always gets better the more expensive the cables or equipment is.

Good luck!

@tony @bloor Oh, I believe you're slightly wrong here.

The designer behind these cables knows a thing or two about psychology and how business economy works ....