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It's even easier to give people a refund when it's open source


In-case you haven't updated: FSRS 5.0 was released in Anki 24.11


Thank you, I hadn't noticed!


> I don’t know what to do about how toxicity has become so normalised in online spaces that people don’t even bother to flag it.

You find a new moderator who won't stand for it. They start escalating moderation action, and the wider moderation team follows their example

If you're at the point where your community is so toxic that you can't find a moderator... you need a ban wave. Good luck


Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to other online spaces like Twitter and Reddit where the discourse today is so toxic that it has desensitised people into accepting or even encouraging abusive behaviour. Name-calling is a typical example. It’s something that should register as abusive but doesn’t for most people any more, because in these very high-profile online spaces it’s not just normative, it’s actively rewarded with likes and upvotes. It’s probably impossible to not have that seep into most people’s baseline expectations for online conduct.

An army of dictatorial tone-policing moderators won’t create a safe space free from abuse, just a different kind of toxic space. So it is a very hard problem, not solvable by just kicking out a couple of bad apples. We are all swimming in a sea that causes the apples to rot.


... or you just finally realize that interaction beyond your own bubble is more complicated, harder, and more tiring, but not toxic. People are very very sensitive plants nowadays. It doesn't help. Don't try to hide people even more from reality. You did that for long enough, obviously. Don't make them even more stupid by declaring everything as toxic harassment which challenges their simple, tiktok-driven minds. We already have enough of those zombies around, who in a few decades are planned to acquire my pension.


And yet it still hurts significantly less that Patreon


Any reliable sources on this?


There's a Czech source that some seems to refer to: https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protecte...


This is a much better article, thanks!


> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

Be the change you wish to see in the world



Doesn't really make a great case. I obviously recognise both the union jack and American flag as "English", and nobody would expect it to mean Welsh. Also there are approximately no people that speak Welsh and not English.

It's one of those "yes technically you're right, but actually it still works really well in practice so sod off" things. It's like saying tomatoes should be in the fruit aisle. No thanks. Sometimes utility is more important than anal correctness.


On the Anki side: if you document it, I'll answer questions.


Thanks for your work. My issues were exclusively stuff like this page here: https://open-spaced-repetition.github.io/ts-fsrs/interfaces/...

It is great to have the docs well organized like this, what is missing is just a short explanation of what all those mean. The information is available, e.g. in the README or in the source code. So honestly it is just a minor annoyance, rather than a major issue. I was able to use ts-fsrs just fine actually.


It's fine for MIT work.

The Anki database format is still pretty opaque, despite a few efforts over the years, and it would be great to open some of this this up to allow apps to export apkgs

It doesn't help that our wiki is noindexed by GitHub: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...


hey David :D


Hey stranger :D


> Anki’s Flexable Spaced Repetition (FSRS)

Sorry to nitpick: Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/


> The redundant nature of mass scale internet content operates on spaced repetition I think

Not really. Depends on the definition of spaced repetition, but you typically want increasing intervals (normally exponentially) for it to be effective.

See 9.1: https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi... [PDF]


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