cyberpunk007
@cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 2 hours ago:
I picked this up on gog a bit ago. I have yet to start it.
Shakes fists violently at >400 hours into elden ring
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 1 day ago:
In my experience, security people are not very good lol. Last 2 teams I interacted with blew my mind on what they deemed ok and not. Like contradictory kind of things.
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 1 day ago:
TIL, thanks!
- Comment on Study: 83% of Americans will have to work into their 70s in order to afford to retire 3 days ago:
I kind of assumed it was till we all died at this point. Whether that’s before or after 70…
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 3 days ago:
I’m guessing you audit all the network traffic out of your machine too, to ensure things are not being exfiltrated? I assume you’ve also never had settings turned back on after an update? I sure as shit have.
- Comment on EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules 3 days ago:
Ugh. The browser then!
"Hey, you should try using Microsoft edge! CLICK THERE TO TRY and here to not. Are you sure? Really? Last chance. Ok, for now. "
- Comment on EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules 3 days ago:
The EU is awesome.
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 3 days ago:
I’ve been using next loud with my Nas for years. I sync things to it. Linux Windows Mac, doesn’t matter. Even my phone.
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 3 days ago:
It will sneak back on. Linux is the only answer.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 3 days ago:
But there are lots of shortcuts now. Asset packs and coding environments that come bundled with all kinds of things you don’t need. People import packages that consume a lot of space to use one tiny piece of it.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 days ago:
I chalk it up to lazy rushed development. Good code is art.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Duh. Sheeple.
- Comment on Finally playing with POWER. 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t your hands be all wrinkly or something?
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
But ads do not, so don’t worry!
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
How do you do that? Do you narrow it down to a timeframe?
When a user edits a comment, they submit a response. When they submit a response, they trigger an action. An action can do validation steps and call methods, just like I said above, for example. When the edit action is triggered, check the timestamp against the previously edited comment’s timestamp. If the previous - or previous 5 are less than a given timeframe, flag it. “Shadowban” the user. Make it look like they’ve updated their comments to them, but in reality they’re the same.
We’ve had detection methods for this sort of thing for a long time. Thing about how spam filtering works. If you’re using some tool to scramble your data, they likely have patterns. To think reddit doesn’t have some means to protect itself against this is naive. It’s their whole business. All these user submitted comments are worth money.
Now you need to parse billions upon billions upon billions of records. And yes, it’s billions because you need the system to search through all the records to know which record fits the parameters. And you need to do that across multiple backups for each deleted profile/comment.
This makes me thing you don’t understand my meaning. I think you’re talking about one day reddit decides to search for an restore obfuscated and deleted comments. Yes, that would be a large undertaking. This is not what I’m suggesting at all. Stop it while it’s happening, not later. Patterns and trends can easily identify when a user is doing something like shreddit or the like, then the code can act on it.
It’s a lot of work. And what’s the payoff? A few good comments and a ton of “yes this ^” comments.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
The words of every junior dev right before I have to spend a weekend undoing their crap.
There are so many ways this can be done that I think you are not thinking of. Say a user goes to “shreddit” (or some other similar app) their comments. They likely have thousands. On every comment edit, it’s quite easy to check the last time the users edited one of their comments. All they need is some check like checking if the last 10 consecutive comments were edited in hours or milliseconds/seconds. After that, reddit could easily just tell the user it’s editing their comments but it’s not. Like a shadowban kind of method. Another way would be at the data structure level. We don’t know what their databases and hardware are like, but I can speculate. What if each user edited comment is not an update query on a database, but an add/insert. Then all you need to do is update the live comments where the date is before the malicious date where the username=$username. Not to mention when you start talking Nimble storage and stuff like that, the storage is extremely quick to respond. Hell I would wager it didn’t even hit storage yet, probably still on some all flash cache or in memory. Another way could be at the filesystem level. Ever heard of zfs? What if each user had their own dataset or something, it’s extremely easy and quick to roll back a snapshot, or to clone the previous snapshot. There are so many ways.
At the end of the day a user is triggering this action, so we don’t necessarily need to parse “billions” of records. Just the records for a single user.
- Comment on ‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet 1 month ago:
Ah, finally. Now we will stop talking about, hearing about, and shoving “AI” in everything and the next new thing will be “quantum internet enabled” things.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
This is it exactly. Edits to use are “changed”. To the back end it’s just an iteration while the rest still exist.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
It’s a piece of cake. Some code along the lines of:
If ($user.modifyCommentRecentlyCount > 50){
Print “user is nuking comments” $comment = $previousComment }
Or some shit. It can be done quite easily, trust me.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
If only snapshots and backups were a thing…
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 1 month ago:
My dude, I’m the same as you and I just keep radioing shit on Spotify and shazaming shit I hear and doing the same for TV shows and movies and tapping into the Spotify premade playlists from time to time. Works aight enough.
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 1 month ago:
Truenas core/scale, custom built (easy) but the disks will be the main costs… I think ik 2015 mine cost me 450$. Disks were 1200 :/
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 1 month ago:
Burnout paradise city. Which also was one of my fav games of all time. No ads would be cool.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 month ago:
What? What type of integration? I just wanna watch Plex and Netflix on there.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
I mean, they could just do what reddit does and restore from backup automatically lol
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Citation on the first paragraph 😂. Both are definitely weak points. Personally I just yolo torrents on my own IP. The only thing that happens here is an angry letter in the mail anyway. Only time I ever got one was when I redeployed Medusa and I oopsed and had public trackers enabled from the default config.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
What if the Usenet provider is compromised?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Same mine just ended last week I think. Meh. Lately I’ve been noticing the quality issues and tricks of the junk sold on there where I am always cautious when I buy random stuff. Prime video was just a bonus, and I hardly used it anyways. This was the final nail in the coffin. I also do not want to endorse this sort of behavior so others do it.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
It is for me.
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 1 month ago:
I mean, it’s a remix but here you go: