DevDave

~20 years ago I saw someone doxed under a false accusation. Wasn’t about racism, sexism, or really anything equal to the amount of abuse this person and everyone around them received.

Another incident, I almost sat down next to these fuckwits but I am thankfully out of frame https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/

The thing is that a lot of people are stressed the fuck out and are aimlessly angry. The goal with managing what you show and tell the internet is to have enough time to run. That’s the best you can do.

just need to hang on for a bit longer and when AMOC fails the heat waves will be a much lower priority! \s

Identity management and security.

So this username is DevDave but hilariously there are about five (down from seven) different David’s fighting over this handle. It’s hilarious because as soon as one of us signs up with this handle to a new service, we send a friend invite to the others as a not to subtle “First!” with both middle fingers. Yes it does narrow things down from ~8 billion to five, but since we are all in tech and are interweaving its hard to know who is actually who and it creates an interesting level of chaos. Otherwise this my random bullshit account and I don’t type anything here I wouldn’t say out loud in public.

The others are more isolated/specific due to reasons.

This is my third account in the piefed/lemmy universe and the experience feels a lot like the years immediately after Digg imploded but before the incident with the first censorship revolt (I forget what that was even about). That’s when the first big change to the “Hot” algorithm was made that made it easier to moderate but also made the site more stale.

Thinking about what that website was like then vs now is more than a bit depressing actually. I knew a handful of the original reddit dev’s at a professional level after meeting them at a couple PyCon’s. Still have a couple of the Reddit stickers they would randomly hand out to people. I don’t think I ever met Aaron in person but I talked shop with him a lot about the python framework he had made. Bleh.

I often wonder if that is the reason Reddit dropped it, to make controlling and influencing the user base easier? A joke example, seeing +100 to -99 votes regarding the sacrilege or glory of pineapple on pizza is a lot different then just +1 or -1

Reddit’s shadow ban system is another part of why I don’t trust them. Plenty of times I’ve seen posts where metadata says there are multiple comments but instead its empty without even the [deleted by reddit] trail. Could be just their distributed database taking its sweet ass time to become consistent or maybe those people are on some sort of shit list?

For myself I know I keep saying something that results in me getting some extra attention from an LLM because I keep getting sub 30 second instant bans and warnings for ambiguous comments that sound threatening but aren’t. I lost a 20 year old account because of the comment “We should never have killed that fucking bear” being determined as advocating violence.

Indeed this is an overly solved problem. Personally I prefer ReplayGain for music and some video-audio productions while compression is great for making voices clearer. Thinking about adverts, compression would likely be the winner for making it less jarring decibel wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayGain - works fairly well for audio. I imagine some sort of mean average would be good enough for balancing a movie’s loudness to the adverts.

I remember Reddit used to have the ability to show both upvote and downvotes. I miss that feature.

Can you elaborate? Just curious what you are referring to.

I had written SG1 off as silly for so long until getting hooked on season 2. Definitely a “don’t judge a book by its cover”.

Also the variety of stories worked so well. That said, nothing will top “How far is Alaris anyway?” /Several billion miles O’Neill/ “That’s gotta be a record.”

Or the free tickets to the “Virginia Dialogs or something like that”

You left out the horror of how the machine balanced the books of citizens vs available resources.

Reminds of the SG1 episode where the super advanced aliens turn to humanity for help against a constantly adapting AI scourge because humans are skilled at solving problems in unpredictably stupid but effective ways.

The modern take of a disturbed idiom is “There is more than one way to microwave a cat!” (disclaimer please don’t actually do this).

At or near the bottom of complexity you would think it hard to fuck up “compress this directory and verify they are backed up before deleting the originals” but apparently some of these models have a RNG triggered Uno reverse card so “delete the originals, verify they are backed up, and compress this directory”. Also that wasn’t a mistake, maybe Claude will infer “they” is a specific set of files, but another model might decide you meant all the dot files at ~/?

Joking aside, the devil is in the details which makes me think even more time will be sunk finding out the RC Cola bottom shelf AI model does things just a bit too differently than Claude.

cue the scene from Airplane 2 where the Steward explains they have been knocked of course by just a “tad”

it’s weird who gets reported for this stuff.

There was a game that released not too long ago that was spamming the same message to it’s log file in 500 millisecond intervals doing a constant stream of write and flush to disk the entire time the game ran.

silence.

Wow, that’s some brilliant vendor lock in on Anthropic’s side.

Doesn’t the mob and other syndicates do something like that as well? Gotta do some time and not snitch to move up in the ranks.

Oh wow, reading the wiki you linked, looks like that one exec really learned their lesson \s

On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy.[5] Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000.[6] Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal#2002–2005

edit/update: Oh, wow so Sun Woo Lee actually really lucked out as Korea focused more on making an example of the Samsung heir apparent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong

8 months in prison sucks, I totally concede that. Yet literally the deal they made looks like they were asked “Would you take the fall and go to prison for 8 months and then get paid millions per year afterward?”

Unfortunately a lot of channels have resorted to that because of the changes to algorithm and focus on shorts versus longer format. Youtube’s short video audience is huge, the shorts are cheaper due to size, and I guess they don’t pay the short video creators comparatively the same?

At this point if I see “It’s over!”, “I am done” or “Some other dramatic but not relevant text” I often just unsub.

Watching Veritasium’s staff swapping titles and thumbnails for the same video trying to find an audience is a bit sad as that company has put a lot of effort into making great videos.

B1M knows their target audience very well and I haven’t seen many if not any clickbait titles for their stuff.

One bummer is that I unsubbed from a channel (not naming him, dude’s just trying to get by) I had been following for years because they had a very poorly disguised infomercial about a giant UPS for appliances. This was the third time they have done something like this so I called it.

Sleep works great until you are the unfortunate winner of the computer randomly deciding to wake up and your GPU power cable deciding 4am is the best time to shit itself.

Also fun boring dystopia problem, my “smart” TV for some reason kept triggering one of my workstations to come back online through wake on LAN. Moved the TV over to its own vlan and of course that problem is partially solved.