On multiple accounts(!) I have found every post I deleted within the last years to be visible again on my profile page (marked as deleted) to the public for everyone to see! It must have happened this week or so.

This is a known issue and has happened again and again for some users, especially in 2023 when they made up some BS explanation for it, which according to people on Ycombinator (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850) didn't even make sense and totally contradicted what everyone was reporting. Anyway ...

This means that if you ever accidentally doxxed yourself, pasted credit card information and other private things AND THEN INSTANTLY DELETED THAT POST within 5 seconds, so no big deal ... THIS WILL NOW ALL BE VISIBLE ON YOUR PROFILE PAGE TO THE PUBLIC.

EVEN WORSE IF YOU DELETED YOUR ACCOUNT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RE-DELETE YOUR UNDELETED POSTS (as reported and confirmed by many users on Ycombinator in 2023 incident - where also original posts only were restored but not any edits to them).

Thanks Reddit.

Lession learned in 2023 for Reddit's owners? ACTUALLY DELETE POSTS NOT JUST HIDE THEM FROM THE OWNER. But they did nothing of the sort, simply serving in self-interest to preserve their content offering. This is a blatant violation of basic data privacy laws.

Such an incident is unspeakable and remarkably worse than database leaks of user passwords.

TL;DR: You can't really replace a monitor wall with a single screen because it does not curve to create the right viewing angle, which makes text seriously unreadable at the edges, which forces you to seriously upscale the font size, which steals the largest amount of real estate possible. Of all the compromises to make, reducing the number of screens is one of the worst ones.

4k screens are already somewhat questionable for productivity for this reason alone. The only serious argument that can be made is 1440p vs 1080p (personally I would argue for 1080p, if using bitmap fonts and having perfect eyesight). A 4k monitor wall is a rather fringe setup, that only works out to an advantage for day traders and weird surveillance applications. And it requires that you constantly do very energetic body gymnastics to change your perspective's location and be able to see all the details. With a single 8k screen without upscaling font size (hence preserving all technical real-estate), the body gymnastics required would be so much worse than a 4k wall, it would be absolutely ridiculous and clown-alike and almost impossible to use while typing. Otherwise people mainly want big 4k/8k screens for dual use as a TV set. But this is just wrong in itself, it creates a paradox for no good reason, like using screwdrivers as chisels. Some things are not meant to be. The only arrangement where 4k makes some sense for common use cases, is maybe above a curved ultra widescreen.

Definitively the wrong approach. I wrote this on another board:

> Everyone has 100Mbit lines now, a lot of people have gigabit fiber internet at home.

> You can get a Cortex-A55 TV Box for $30, plug in your old SSD drive via USB 3.0 with

> a $3 adapter, install Linux and you are ready to go. It consumes virtually no power.

> The processing speed and disk speed is incredible. Often the ping is lower than in a

> datacenter. This is not even the future of hosting. It has been around for quite some

> time. It is totally superior to any mid-range server. There literally are only advantages.

Pair this with Yunohost (via Docker). Yunohost is like an appstore for Linux servers. Easy 1-click setups for Nginx, Xampp, Postfix, Dovecot etc. that average people can do and understand.

You can still use the TVbox as a media center, even run Libreoffice on it and Blender like a small mini PC that has "poor but good enough" performance for most everyday tasks. Also games via Retroarch.

Sounds too awesome to be true? Yes, it is not quite true yet. You can do all this, but you still need to be tech savvy to step through it. And the media-center part is still questionable, because video drivers (the ones that work with hardware video acceleration) are bugged on most SOCs. Games work though, just not HD videos.

You are asking for the holy grail of information quality. If such a thing existed, you could eventually eliminate all misinformation. In actuality however, the contrary happens: people develop bias and prejudice (aka "heuristics") based on incomplete or already misinformed provisional knowledge, which only steers them further away from the truth.

Of course there are fairly universal or simply just sound criteria by which you can judge the quality of someone's opinion, but they are not some gold standard and likely most people are already using them. I would say you can even distinguish multiple tiers here, with the higher tiers not being used by less intelligent people.

For the lowest tier, take for example good spelling: It can be a weak indicator of someone's intelligence, but then again people might not even speak the language natively, or they were typing on a phone, or they were attending a conference call while reading a paper on matrix factorization at the same time. The same way you could say that quoting reputable sources is only a matter of making the effort and attributing more attention to it. All the while someone who bases their opinion on very weak and unsound arguments might put a whole lot more effort and attention into supporting and solidifying it with such superficial means as spelling or citations. In the end having it or not having it really tells you not much of anything, other than that the author is not totally stupid.

Of course we can judge opinions a whole lot better than that, but this literally involves all that we have got and it just can't be pressed into some easy universal ruleset that would work in another person's mind.

Something I personally do watch out for a lot is fringe opinion and also someone's attitude speaking to you. You see, someone who is speaking to you on equal footing and who is mostly replicating and reiterating on what most people are already favoring to believe is not very likely to be exceptionally smart and hence unlikely to say anything of substantial value that has not already been said many times over elsewhere (be that for good or bad reasons). People who are really smart have a certain disturbed attitude when communicating about things that are not trivial to us, that stems from the fact that they can't build reciprocal relationships to people who are vastly inferior to them. On the other hand, precisely for that reason very intelligent people can voice opinions that are extremely purposefully engineered to change people's behavior and not to speak out open and honestly on a subject matter. This does of course not apply to fringe opinions that average people discard anyway, which is why I pointed this out.

Motive and honesty are very important to consider, but VERY tricky to interpret and most often and easily interpreted wrong or even more often wrong than well by less intelligent people.

In the end nothing really saves you from your own stupidity and educating yourself with all the details on the subject.

I almost thought it was an April fools joke.