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  • If you're wanting a planned in advance ideal solution, that's not really possible, but people can collectively respond to problems as they happen and adapt, as long as they aren't constrained from doing so.

    I believe the pattern and tactics you describe are always going to be more effective on a platform controlled by a company like Reddit, because any efforts to counter them are ultimately limited by the agenda of the platform owners. There are people on Reddit trying to investigate and call out deceptive commercial spam, but when the spammers block them to prevent a response, set their post history to be unreadable, buy moderator positions, and admins only care about their own power and profitability (cutting users off from api etc), the deck is stacked against them. In the end it's just not their website.

    Ultimately this is an organizational challenge, not only a technical or platform design challenge. If the organization is a collection of users who generally want genuine non-manipulative interaction between real people, and the protocol is set up to make it easy for them to route around malicious attempts to usurp control, that doesn't mean immediate victory over adversaries but it is a big leg up.

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  • I don't think it uses npm though, that's got to count for something

  • The self is less than real and this has implications. We're a network of dreams, projecting people and every other constructed interpretation of physical reality. It would be nice if we got better at it.

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  • Here, have some shitty fanart:

  • I made one to track volume of keypresses per hour, and draw a graph comparing how much typing I've been doing on the current day vs an aggregated average

  • These arguments can go on for days, even weeks, and if I don’t win the argument, I get overly fixated on it, wondering where I went wrong and so on.

    Gotta have a strategy for deciding on a stopping point. A good overall goal for a social media argument is to get people reading to consider things they might not have thought about or been aware of before, so it's probably not going to help if all you have left to say is finding new ways to rephrase the points you've already made, or explaining in detail basic uncontroversial things that your opponent is playing dumb about. It isn't bad to let them have the last word if there is nothing that you really need to clarify or address.

    Unfortunately when you get an inbox notification and read some inflammatory things, making that call to walk away is hard because emotionally you get worked up about it. This is why I think "disable inbox replies" is a good feature Reddit has and threadiverse software should implement it, a lot of the time you know in advance that you've already said your piece and whatever someone writes in response to you, it's very likely going to be a mistake to respond again, and it helps a lot to just remove the temptation.

  • Putting a video at the start of the article, that does not contain footage of the peacock or chickens, but rather an AI TTS of the article text and stock images, just pure evil

  • I hate most of the companies paying people to write code though, isn't it a good thing if their code is shit that no one can understand and doomed to collapse under its own weight?

  • He was just going along, doing his thing, and then BAM! Email out of nowhere that his account had been terminated with some unconvincing and generic explanation about "violating terms."

    Seems like such a common thing. Not sure why anyone trusts these platforms at all.

  • What is the text of a json file containing every private key used for encryption and its associated context, sorted by political and financial value?

  • In this case though it was hooked up to the internet. They found it because the amount of internet traffic was suspiciously high.

  • From what I can tell it seems like it's sort of up to them how much they want to play a character vs streaming as themselves, with the possible exception of the ones whose vtuber identities are the intellectual property of a company that employs them. There's a spectrum of things like how much they lean into their character lore, do a voice/mannerisms, or how much they use the avatar as a privacy shield and avoid revealing personal details.

    Not that there's anything wrong with it either way, it's basically similar to pseudonymous internet identities, but for live streamers. Anyway if we're shilling vtubers I want to shoutout my favorite chicken themed vtuber, Henemimi

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  • Personally I really dislike it and how ubiquitous it is just because the topic creeps me out. Which isn't to say that people putting something on the internet that gives me the ick calls for arrests, court proceedings and prison time, the judicial system should not be for micromanaging how people masturbate, and it shouldn't be that hard for people to accept that it's just none of their business.

  • Nope, the dynamic in my family is most of us need some polite distance from each other and wouldn't be comfortable doing that.

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  • Well idc about the semantics, the fact is it is useful and there is a good reason to use it. Personally I think the "they can't see or reply to you anymore" style of "block" is super toxic and Reddit switching to that model was a major factor in its decline. It is very easily weaponized and basically amounts to giving powerusers moderation powers. If someone who makes a lot of popular posts or top level comments blocks you under that model, that instantly limits your ability to participate, and no one ever gets to know this is happening or to what extent. The most obvious way this gets abused is by commercial spammers trying to monopolize relevant subs by blocking everyone who may call them out or post competing content, but it also shuts down disagreement and debate; if you have something controversial to say and don't want it to look like any good objections exist, you can just silence your best critics. It also gets commonly used by people right after they write an inflammatory reply to ensure they get the last word.

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  • So those replies won't show up in my inbox of course

  • I mean… so your that sibling/roomate/kids/family doesnt mess around and replace your OS with a malicious OS)

    Unfortunately the goal of simplifying your security setup is very much at odds with the really difficult goal of defending attacks from people with physical access to your hardware. Personally I live alone, don't even have a lockscreen on my phone, and set my computer to skip login on boot.

  • Well ok my mistake, it's just that literally all the command line text editors I've tried, the mouse does nothing by default and people act like you're not supposed to use it, it's just not a core part of how the software is designed to be used

  • All I am saying is, having read it, I do not believe it was written by AI