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- Comment on Truly 14 hours ago:
It gets boring because it’s a game of human interaction that requires actual stakes.
- Comment on Truly 14 hours ago:
I legitimately do not get why people find casinos entertaining. Like even from the perspective of “I am willing to pay xyz dollars for the entertainment.”
It’s not fucking entertaining. It’s boring as hell, even in fancy vegas casinos. Even if you are just trying to scam the casino for drinks, you are just sitting there pretending to gamble in exchange for some watered down cocktails. I can do that at home. Hell I can spend $100 on a nice fucking bottle of whiskey and drink the whole thing while watching reruns of “That 70s show” and it will be more entertaining than feeding slots.
- Comment on Truly 14 hours ago:
This is out of date. Now casinos all have apps you can actually gamble on while the slot machine resets.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 15 hours ago:
A source for my lived experience? Or do you mean an example?
I have been banned from .ml twice for stating that Russia shot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine - a matter of incontrovertible fact which has absolutely nothing to do with any leftist theory, as far as my masters degree in political science can discern.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 15 hours ago:
He basically only makes “why everyone except me is wrong about X” content now, and it’s super smug and obnoxious.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 1 day ago:
Tankies have literally adopted the same rhetoric as MAGA. It could not be more obvious that leftist spaces are absolutely infested with this.
- Comment on 💩. 2 days ago:
You mean the chart which tells you to try “green banana flour” and “raw potato starch” might be sus?
- Comment on Simpler times? 3 days ago:
The correct answer is to get good at math, go to college and study engineering, land a six figure job, and then circle back around and fuck her dad.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 4 days ago:
It turns out I also cannot sleep with things strapped to my face.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 4 days ago:
I legit cannot sleep on my back these days because I will wake myself snoring.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 1 week ago:
All the people tied to the track will die after a few days anyway.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 1 week ago:
It’s honestly grown on me. It’s a way better smart TV experience than what the TV offers. And it lets me ban the TV from the WIFI so it can’t update and show random ads.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 1 week ago:
Fwiw, I have four generations of Chromecast and they all still work. The only real difference between “Chromecast with Google TV” and the new “Streamer” is that it doesn’t have the attached HDMI cable, but has an Ethernet port on it, so I consider it a push. It’s about twice as big but still pretty small.
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 week ago:
Has gen z jumped the shark?
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 1 week ago:
Yes you literally need to bring wipes around with you. Things are slowly changing but for a long time there was no TP in any bathroom stall outside of fancy hotels and maybe high end restaurants.
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 1 week ago:
I’ve been to China many times, and this is arguably the least offensive TP situation.
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 2 weeks ago:
The implication is that it’s operating as a general purpose mobile botnet of sorts, and there is likely someone out there selling services on it. It seems like someone was using it for swatting (which is how they found it), and others may have been using it for spam and forum bots. The narrative that it was specifically a tool for attacking cellular infrastructure is a bit misleading. It might have been useful for that but as far as well know it was never used that way.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 2 weeks ago:
How many times do I need to ask you to stop posting my grindr profile on social media?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
D is the obvious correct choice because the western food in Asia is superior to the Asian food in the west.
- Comment on Very important update: it's up to 14 poptarts! 2 weeks ago:
Is the Borzoi named Abbey?
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
With a moderately careful user and a slightly more robust implementation it would have done exactly what it was meant to do, and what my ultimate goal is - which is to enable (but not guarantee) a longer term, archival level of privacy. The concept is not perfect, but it is a massive improvement, which could lay the groundwork for a future framework where user privacy and community management are both handled in more elegant ways. Without going into too many details, I am extremely well aware of how data gets linked to users in this way, which is why I am so adamant and vocal about this particular threat. I am not just sounding an alarm to keep my skin smooth.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
The way it was implemented was that a user was basically two accounts - one voted, one commented. You could ban either one without knowing the other. The point being that if the issue was vote manipulation, you could ban the voting agent and be done with it. If the issue was as content violation then you could ban the other account and be done with it. It was literally just like having an app where you can log in with two accounts at once and choose which one to use to vote vs comment.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that is exactly how the original piefed implementation worked, which was a fantastic compromise between true anonymous voting and the need for community management. But this wasn't enough for a small subset of admins and mods who did not actually thing the issue through, and took offense under the guise of "vote brigading."
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
Having a single voting agent per user doesn't change that though. If you've got downvote trolls you can just ban the voting agent just like you could otherwise ban the sockpuppet. All it does it allow actual users to have a small bit important layer of privacy which allowed them to vote on content they might not otherwise choose to comment on. The Charlie Kirk thing is an absolutely perfect example of a scenario where one might want to upvote a meme without taking the risk of joining the conversation. Having that vote registered as xxyyttrreedd instead of "socsa" makes it a lot harder for someone to come back a month or a year later and say "wow, I saw my coworker's account name over their shoulder and I can't believe they voted on this meme."
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
The voting agents can still be identified and banned. As with all of these imagined issues, a single permanent voting agent introduces no actual vulnerability above normal sockpuppets without voting agents. Misbehave in the votes, ban the voting agent. Misbehave in the comments, ban the user. In terms of just vote manipulation, it literally does not reduce the effort of the troll or increase the work of the mod.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
What debate? This was discussed mostly in a discord stovepipe. There was one open thread about it in the piefed meta community which never showed up in my feed.
The frustrating thing is that the problems were entirely imagined. Having a voting agent is literally no different from me having a voting alt, except it's only one instead of unlimited. I could write a browser plugin which restores the functionality that could do far more damage, so if a single voting agent is truly a game breaking issue, then the alleged problems are far more fundamental. But they aren't. There was never any actual problem and this whole thing was just shitty forum politics.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
We've been over this before. I believe my ability to explicitly control how my information and privacy is handled on the fediverse is far more important than fake Internet points, especially when you can eliminate the impact of vote brigading by just reducing the impact of downvotes, or let a mod selectively wipe downvotes, or selectively make a post immune to downvotes. There's absolutely no reason why every action I make on the fediverse ahould be saved in plaintext in a thousand different places so that a person can be protected from seeing a largely inconsequential negative number on a UI. It's absolutely insane that so many people who are otherwise so concerned with privacy and cyber security even attempt to defend this.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 3 weeks ago:
They don't actually give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just want a catalyst for their enabling acts.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
You know you want to
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
It was absolutely the reason why I switched. I know several other people who made accounts for the same reason.