Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 1 week ago:
It was a subreddit where redditors would post pictures of underage girls. The images weren’t outright pornographic, they were images some of the members took of unsuspecting girls in public or other locations(I remember there was a teacher posting pictures of his students) or images the girls posted themselves on various social media. Some were suggestive some weren’t but all of them were leered over and discussed by creeps with language that should never used towards minors.
At some point the subreddit came into the attention of Anderson Cooper which run a segment on CNN about it. Even then Reddit refused to ban the subreddit citing “free speech”. Eventually one of the people on the subreddit posted a picture of a minor and said he had naked pictures of her which created a feeding frenzy of creeps asking him for those pictures. This finally made Reddit ban the subreddit.
The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out. Before all that Reddit gave him an award and various redditors voted him as the best moderator or some shit like that. Besides /r/jailbait he was running a lot of other questionable subreddits.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 weeks ago:
It was a process. They started by forbidding Jews from holding certain jobs like doctors, judges, lawyers and and also public jobs. They then pass the Nuremberg Laws that restricted citizenship to Germans and made it mandatory for Jews to wear specific marks on their clothes that marked them as Jewish (the yellow Star of David was one but there were others). Then they required Jews to live only in specific parts of cities, the ghettos. The last step just consisted of them coming and grabbing everyone from the ghettos and everyone that was wearing the marks, the groundwork had been already set.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
If OpenAI goes down then it will start a domino effect as people lose confidence in AI and AI companies. That’s how the bubble pops.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
The difference between 100 million and 11.5 billion is about 11 billion. If you own a bank 11 billion that’s not only that bank’s problem, it’s the economy’s problem.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 2 weeks ago:
Who could have seen this coming?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Please make a report. Even if he had a previous case that was closed it will still show up and can help establish a pattern of behaviour which can make it easier to obtain stuff like restraining orders.
And make sure to talk to a lawyer, they can advise you much better than any answer you can get online. You can also ask the lawyer to make sure that any photos he may have uploaded to porn sites or watever are taken down.
Stay safe and make sure to tell the kid that she did the right thing speaking out. Hope it works out for you both.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 4 weeks ago:
Damn, I didn’t realize our comments on a random lemmy instance have the same power as Elon Musk’s billions.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 5 weeks ago:
So I guess it was only UK ones. For some reason I thought they were asking pictures in the US too.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 5 weeks ago:
UK ones too.
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 1 month ago:
They did. It said so in the Bible.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 1 month ago:
So are they going to ban Tylenol? Isn’t it one of the most common OTC painkillers?
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
You can just bypass those hardware requirements fairly easily. There are a bunch of guides out there.
Here’s one from Tom’s Hardware. tomshardware.com/…/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirem…
It even shows how to make a install media that doesn’t require the checks so you can just install it no issue.
Though fair warning that some of those requirements they have are good for security purposes so your installs may not be as secure.
Win 11 is still pretty ass though and bloated to hell. I instead got myself a LTSC version of Win10 instead which will get updates until 2032 or something like that. That gives me enough time to figure out if I want to install Linux or IDK I’ll just die before that, either one is fine.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 2 months ago:
But have you thought about all those CEOs and bilionaires of the world?
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 months ago:
Not anymore. They turned it into it’s own social media. They have comments and stuff and apparently a lot of them really hate reddit lol.
- Comment on I can see the confusion tbh 2 months ago:
Those are ROMAN numerals.
- Comment on Are you winning? 2 months ago:
Having actual people read your chats is so 2015. They probably have some shitty LLM doing it now, Grok probably.
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 2 months ago:
Fruits? Wood? Oxygen? Soil Fixation? Spices? Truffles? Shade?
Ok, but besides fruits, wood, oxygen, soil fixation, spice truffles and shade, what have the trees ever did for us?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Some traditions also hold that a vampire cannot enter a house unless invited by the owner; after the first invitation they can come and go as they please.
Depends who you ask.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Eminent Domain can’t be declared by some random police officer, it’s a complex process that takes years and it needs a specific valid public purpose. Some countries require the government to publish a declaration that specifies what public utility the project that will be built on that land will bring.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When you have a mortgage you still are the owner of the house. You just owe the bank money and the house is just a collateral for that money. If you default on your loan then the bank can take possession of the house to cover the loan and then would become the owners, but only in that case.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It wouldn’t work. The vampire needs the permission of the owner to enter the house. The person who issued the warrant is not the owner of the house.
- Comment on Billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple and escalating his feud with Sam Altman 2 months ago:
Elon’s mom said he’s sick and he can’t fight. No, seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No? He set up a date for him, he can just not go if it bothers him.
- Comment on OP cleans his fridge 3 months ago:
I thought it was a teratoma at first but pickle is much more likely.
- Comment on Dirt Man 3 months ago:
Arktos means bear in Ancient Greek and the name Arctic comes from Arktikos which could be translated as near the bear. One theory is that it was named because of the Ursa constellations (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor). Antarctica just means opposite of the Arctic.
The scientific name for Brown Bears is Ursus Arctos. Ursus means bear in Latin while Arctos means bear in Ancient Greek so their name translated is Bear Bear.
- Comment on Hand cranked and twisted 3 months ago:
You’re not the boss of me.
- Comment on And so it was 3 months ago:
Cockroach is not the scientific name for them. It’s the common name. Most roaches are part of the Blattodea order together with termites. The common name came about in the early 17th century (as cacaroch ): from Spanish cucaracha . The spelling change was due to association with cock and roach.(according to Wikipedia).
Depending on where you live there are different species of what is considered the common/house cockroach: The most common are: Blatella Germanica (German Cockroach), Periplaneta Americana (American Cockroach), Periplaneta Australasiae (Australian cockroach) and Blatta orientalis (Oriental Cockroach).
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 3 months ago:
It’s exactly what I was thinking. They should let the AI build a spaceship and all get into it. Would be the greatest achievement in humans history… when it blows up and kills all of them.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 4 months ago:
I did it like 10 or so years back? It was pretty easy to be completely honest and didn’t require too many resources, at least not if you’re the only one using the server. You just run the server locally and then use the client to connect to that server. That’s basically it.
And no, the game comes with all the quests and everything, you don’t need to really do anything else. The downsides is that you’ll be locked out of a bunch of content like dungeons and raids since those require groups of 5 or more players.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The North Sentinel people are not actually fully isolated. They had contact with colonial authorities in the past (the British went on the island and even kidnapped some of the locals they found, an elderly couple and 4 kids. The couple died not soon after and the kids were sent back) and there was some peaceful contact with Indian anthropologists up until 1997. The 2004 earthquake and tsunami affected the island pretty badly and disturbed their fishing grounds but aerial survey of the island confirmed they survived and adapted to their new conditions. Most contact after that has been met with aggression most theories I heard about why assume it’s because of contact people fishing illegally in the area or an epidemic on the island after one such contact.
The Indian government considers it illegal to contact them and will punish anyone who does it. That one American preacher that landed on the a while back was eventually killed by the locals and his death was ruled a murder but the Indian government didn’t push for anyone to be prosecuted. The US government also didn’t push for prosecution. So yea the Indian government wants them to be left alone.
My personal take on this is that if the North Sentinel Islanders wanted to be in contact with the rest of the world they could. They are not very far from other Andaman islands and they could build a raft or a canoe that could reach them. The fact they haven’t done so means they don’t wish to be in contact with other people. It’s their choice to be isolated and it should be respected.