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  • Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address

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  • As much as I like this approach, I want to hear if the author has at any time successfully sued anyone with it because I seriously doubt it.

  • Birthday dragon [Safely Endangered]

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  • Yes I know that's what one approach. I was trying to consider the case where they can't help have their breath be superheated

  • Birthday dragon [Safely Endangered]

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  • NGL, I'm low-key goading the science dweebs among us to find the most efficient/plausible scientific explanation for all this fantasy nonsense. We have to find the dragon diet that would support the version of dragons that routinely exhales superheated air (as opposed to having an extra chamber of chemicals they ignite on demand), while still maintaining other dragon tropes.

  • Birthday dragon [Safely Endangered]

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  • Yes which is why I don't think eating a lot of "normal" food would cause this. The amount of having to eat to cause this amount of heat would probably be 100x more than required for their body size, which means that they would never stop eating. I think it's more likely they consume something itself highly combustible like oil. Or maybe they're doing internal fission :D

  • Birthday dragon [Safely Endangered]

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  • Thoughts: If the dragon's normal breath is fire, is means that their internal temperature is not low enough to cool down candlewicks. This is not much different than how human breath is warmer from the envionment. Form the perspective of, say, a lichen, a human's breath might as well be fire. Dragons are just run 10x as hot as humans. The question is, what material are they consuming in order to maintain this temperature constantly. Are they consuming coal as food?

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  • Because polygamy inside an unequal society like capitalism and monarchies is a form of control and power and most people inherently reject allowing others to have such power if they can help it.

  • Unciv, an open-source 4X game inspired by the Civilization series

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  • How is the ai? I always lose patience with civ games because the ai is braindead and at higher difficulties just cheats insanely to make up for it

  • YouTube Music wants me to verify my age.

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  • Mastodon Exit Interview

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  • If it quacks like a duck, and it walks like a duck...

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  • Wait, not only are you misinterpreting what I said (I used alien.top as a case of for "admins will want to defederate because of resource abuse even when their own users find it useful" and less about "admins will ban any bot-only instance") but your interpretation directly contradicts your first point.

    And I bring up botsin.space as a bot-heavy instance which wasn't widely defederated which obviuously proves you wrong on what constitures "resource abuse" enough to be defederated. I.e. you're cherry-picking your example to prove your point. There's a difference between an instance trying to duplicate all of fucking reddit, and 24 bots posting 2xday. FFS.

    Yeah, you can add the "reasonable output" qualifier all you want. This would be a subjective point.

    With botsin.space, we have a good example of what is reasonable to not be defederated.

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  • And I am not arguing "everyone will defederate from instances running bots".

    This is exactly what you were arguing. There's no reason to bring up alien.top otherwise.

    This is not an hypothetical scenario. It happened with alien.top.

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  • I am not going to argue this point. My only point in this discussion is that one can safely self-host bots with a reasonable output and have little chance of being widely defederated. I merely wanted to debunk your argument that self-hosting such bots would be de-federated by everyone.

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  • You're arguing with a right-libertarian, FYI. This should explain some of their positions and arguments better.

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  • plenty of instances have mastodon.art and tech.lgbt defederated. So what? Your point was that it would be widespread, which was factually not the case. It was nowhere widespread and I know this because I was using it for my bots and could see their reach.

  • Conduwuit is dead, long live Tuwunnel!

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  • It seems the dev just wanted to run it as a personal fork and never understood the reason for the pr standards in a collaborative environment

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  • I wasn't supporting an alternative. I was merely pointing the lie in your statement that having bots in one's instance is grounds for massive defederation. Don't try to divert.

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  • Botsin.space existed for a long while and wasn't widely defederated. Just saying...

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  • Third one should be called "A Bot"

  • [Solved] What just happened to 4 million posts?

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  • While this seems better than a lot of others, these types of systems are very easily manipulated by mass media, so functioning inside capitalism is already a massive problem. In any case it's difficult to judge the efficacy, only with one rich protected nation as an example. The biggest thing is that labour is pacified a lot by a high standard of living, which is supported by the imperialism of the other nations supporting them.