TWeaK

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Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sales and ad revenue. (kbin.social)

most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...

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r/subredditsimulator takes over reddit.

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Right, where's the seagull.

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That doesn't remove your content, it just makes your profile on new reddit blank. You can still see your profile on old reddit if you're logged in (for now).

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reddit limits your profile menus (New, Top, Hot & Controversial) to 1,000 comments each. If you have older comments that aren't popular nor controversial, then these won't appear on your profile. In particular, if you have an old Top comment, you might find it deleted but low but positive karma replies left in.

You need to do a GDPR request and feed that into shreddit (the github version, the website charges for the feature). Alternatively, you can get the Pushshift backup of all of reddit from 2022 and run a script to filter out your comments, then feed that into another script. However, shreddit uses the API, so time is limited for that option, and I've also found it panics a lot so you have to keep cutting out the comments and running it again.

Hopefully someone will make a new version that works post 1 July.

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I just tried it for myself, it only made 63 requests to delete 12 comments. These were in my profile, they're ones that have reappeared after being deleted previously.

Meanwhile, if I look in my GDPR files up to where I've got so far with shreddit, the comments are still there, completely untouched.

Maybe you don't have too many comments, so you're within the 1,000 comment limit across your different lists? It's impossible to be sure without having the direct links, either from a GDPR request or the Pushshift backup.

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I doubt it, they're still looking at the same comment lists.

You could always do a GDPR or CCPA request anyway. Then you should be able to check, even if it comes through after 1 July.

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Across the Spider-Verse of course (respect the hyphen), however I also just watched Submarine (written and directed by Richard Ayoade) and thought that was really good.

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Also tipping at bars is generally expected.

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I get that it's unnecessary, but why did you dislike it?

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He knows how to run a social media site into the ground…

Which is probably the whole point. Make it seem like the site is failing because of mismanagement, and not that its failure was intended right from the start with a leveraged buyout saddling the business with an untenable $13bn of debt.

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Shares in private businesses are private business, even when said shares have discounts that are only available under certain conditions. It's all a out what they initially declare, and the assumption is that they're honest.

You didn't think the plebs could get <20% interest rates, did you?

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Their explanation for restored content will likely be something about the nature of how their CDN works.

Granted, this excuse won't hold up much, but it's probably true and will limit their liability in the sense that it isn't intentional.

I've deleted my comments multiple times with PowerDeleteSuite and had things come back, a couple times over. However now I'm going through with shreddit (github version) using my GDPR files. It's taking a long time because things panic every so many comments (I'm backing up everything, on file 75 so far but still 46,000 lines left from a 75,000 line file, however it's panicking less now that the comments are more recent) and I haven't had it restore any of the links I've checked from that process.

Reddit changed the way they display comments in the profile a few months back. Now, you only see a limited number of comments under New, Hot, Top & Controversial. These are the lists that most deletion services access. So, if you use PowerDeleteSuite or any other service it will likely miss things. In particular, I opened up links to my older Top comments, ran the script, then found it had completely ignored replies underneath my comment that had low but positive karma - these wouldn't have appeared on the lists. My new list only went back about 3 months (although I think it's about number of comments rather than time).

You really need to use the GDPR files to get everything. These contain CSV files with links to every single post and comment you have. However, it seems that reddit are delaying following through with most requests until after 1 July, when API requests (such as those that shreddit uses) will be blocked.

Also PSA don't use the shreddit website, they charge you $15. The github version is free and will take CSV files with the appropriate tag. But, again, in my experience it panics and hangs fairly often, so it will take a lot of work to use. I've had to run it, back up the terminal output, use the last link and delete everything in posts.csv and comments.csv before the one it stuck on, then resume with ammended files.

Reddit really isn't making it easy to follow through with your rights. Make records of this, then this can be used to convince local Data Protection Authorities to collectively throw down a bigger hammer than Huffman ever wielded, or even imagined.

Also another PSA, reddit's terms do not deny you ownership of your content. So even if they try to claim ownership themselves (as Steve Huffman has frequently publicly stated) they cannot deny you the right to edit your content and restrict what they do with it. It's your information, and reddit hasn't even paid for it.

You can't sell a microwave without paying for the nuts and bolts.

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You can still use the GDPR files to get at all your comments, you just won't be able to use existing API methods to automate it. However, perhaps it would be possible to use the links to automate via a scraping method or something - maybe the PowerDeleteSuite method could be expanded upon.

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TL;DR get the 1.6GB Pushshift torrent, then edit a script to extract your data, then edit another script to use that data to overwrite your comments.

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Yeah I'm expecting old reddit to die on 1 July.

OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)

New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...

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Fresh from the factory might have got away with it, they tried to reuse a vessel that was barely useable for 1 journey and had known material flaws that would have limited the number of pressurisation cycles the craft could have taken.

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That's really not in proper keeping. Everyone knows that poop is at least 30& corn.

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Rush said: "While there's obviously risk it's way safer than flying in a helicopter or even scuba diving. There hasn't been even an injury in 35 years in a non-military subs."

He also apparently said something like "almost all sub accidents are the result of pilot error".

These are both because almost all subs are certified for safety. A certification he specifically chose not to get, because of his belief about pilot error. The risk of mechanical faults is all but eliminated, leaving pilot error as the only likely risk - without the certification, mechanical faults are much more likely and, in this case in particular, almost inevitable.

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Non-Google AMP link: https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

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This isn't a secret browser, it's Android System Webview - the system browser apps use when they aren't a browser.

What they've found here is a route to google.com from a webview page accessed from within the settings.

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ASW isn't locked down to any domains though, it's just a basic browser, one that typically doesn't let you type in a url to go to any other domains. It's not locked down, you're just limited in how you can navigate.

What happened here is someone managed to navigate from one page to another page and then another, in order to ultimately get to google.com and search for whatever page they wanted. The initial web pages presented linked outside of what it maybe should have.

Whether ASW should be under parental controls is another matter. Apparently it isn't (at least not parental controls that affect only installed browser apps) but that could have valid functional reasons behind it.

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They'd lose points on physical appearance with all the pixellation though.

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Got places to go, gotta FOLLOW MY RAINBOW

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Not to mention the fact that Wagner rolled through with zero resistance up to the point they turned around. They even had police vehicles in their convoy.

I noticed lemmygrad.ml was pretty quiet yesterday lol.

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Not just ads, but trackers and whatever else they can use to wrangle data from your phone.

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Apparently some organisations block Sumatra now, which is screwy as hell.

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Sumatra is so lightweight though, you literally don't have to wait. IMO it's the best viewer.

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Lol don't go to lemmygrad.ml is all I can say.

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So this is just about getting saved comments and posts?

Edit: It's nice that it can parse the links out of the csv file, rather than having to copy and delete the ID at the start of each row.

Also, make sure to click "Decline" during the JDownloader install, as it's for marketing, not regalar Ts&Cs.

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Not mine and I wouldn't recommend it, but in Barcelona once I had a pizza with octopuss and potato.

To this day it remains the only pizza I did not want to finish.

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I've had (sweet) potato work on a pizza before, the pieces need to be pretty thin to cook properly. The octopus was overcooked on that one and the potato were large chunks and undercooked.

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I really appreciate an Italian who isn't prescious over pizza! Of course, traditional Italian pizzas are great, but that doesn't mean alternatives can't be awesome too!

IMO, so long as the toppings go well with the sauce (eg a fajita pizza should have a spicier sauce) then you can make something great.

Putin vows to crush 'armed mutiny' after Russian mercenary boss tries to oust top brass (www.reuters.com)

June 24 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush what he called an armed mutiny after rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday he had taken control of a southern city as part of an attempt to oust the military leadership....

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What are the chances that the attack on Russia wasn't authorised by the Russian military, but instead was something done by Russian saboteurs? Successfully turning Russia's PMC against them.

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There was a post on asklemmy where someone asked how to go poopless for 3 days. No one knows why, but history has been made.

Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)

Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of...

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Moderators are just users of reddit. Reddit keeps trying to drive a wedge between users and mods, but really the problem mods were always the powermods that reddit supported and often installed on major subreddits.

As usual, the problem is class. Mods are middle class, users are working class. These two groups can easily get along just fine. It's the rulers (admin) and upper class (mods) who cause all the problems in reddit society.

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They really should be paying, all of these data companies should. No other business gets away with not paying for the materials they use to make their product. You can't build and sell a car without paying for the nuts and bolts.

Data companies like Facebook and Google keep telling us the data we give them has no value, yet they use that data they collect for free and sell for pure profit to become some of the wealthiest businesses in the world.

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See I think that "landed gentry" bollocks really refers to reddit's installed powermods. Most mods are not landed gentry, they're regular farmers who have cultivated the community.

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Shamelessly stolen comment: this is like watching COBRA attack the Decepticons.

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Deleting you account removes your authority over it. The best course is to delete all the content from your profile, then supervise the empty space so you can lay the hammer down when they restore everyone's data saying "your thoughts are ours, the terms and conditions say so" then you report them to an ICO and let the GDPR hammer come down on them.

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We're on v0.17.4. Apparently v0.18 is just around the corner.

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It also doesn't get everything. Reddit limits how much it shows in the lists PDS uses.

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PowerDeleteSuite is pretty easy, however it doesn't get everything - reddit limits the number of comments you can see on your profile. For example, if you look at one of your older top comments, after PDS does its stuff it will get rid of the top comment, but it will leave behind any low karma replies underneath.

Shreddit can take the GDPR csv files as an input, then it will go through and delete everything. You should use the github version rather than the website. However, you need the GDPR files to begin with, and it uses the API so it won't work after 1 July. Reddit seem to have been stalling on delivering GDPR files for exactly this reason.

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Blacklist domain filters are fine, it’s whitelist domain filters that get small personal domains.

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You only have to look at Microsoft's squandered purchase of Rare to really understand where their motives lie.

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Users don't own subreddits unless they make them. The user who makes the subreddit owns and moderates the sub, and has the authority to delegate moderation to others. If you don't like how a subreddit is run, you're supposed to make your own, not take it over.

Reddit's admins are making up the rules as they go along.

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Exactly! This is how reddit has always worked. If you don't like a sub, make your own.

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Can't wait for the 2nd hand free exclusive meme trading scene!

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It's not even true though. Subreddits belong to the user who creates it, they become the top mod and delegate to other mods. If users don't like how a subreddit is moderated, they are free to make their own subreddit - they aren't supposed to take over someone else's subreddit.

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