Hello, I hope you remember my, I’m the fake poster. I did a full confession on Reddit, I compiled over 40 of my fake stories. I had chosen AmITheAngel because it is the most adequate place to talk about fake stories on Reddit....
After that, 4k support will vanish, enjoy the price increase! Also, Dolby Atmos audio will also go away after that 6 months, too. Streaming services truly are a race to the bottom now, aren’t they? I’ve already cancelled. Back to the high seas for me.
I'm not sure if it's the same boner...but I just clicked a 27-day old picture of one. They're doing something over there, but it's definitely not deleting all the porn.
“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
Yes, the article is about a specific instance of it happening.
I think this might be a case where the generic "scams generally work best if done low effort" doesn't apply, since to be successful, this sort of scam requires some specifics. The not-kidnapped daughter was away training for a ski race. Blasting "we kidnapped your daughter" to people whose daughter is sitting on the couch next to them or people without daughters doesn't work at all.
The article mentions people lose an average of $11k in these scams, which means they're probably working best when targeting people with some savings.
In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.
Why keep the 3 staff? They're not going to be working diligently to do all the human tasks while freshly aware of how little they're valued at this point. They're going to look for a better place to work.
That's expensive enough software they'd have to be damn careful about false positives that mess with actual productivity because it happened to include a lot of skintones. Seems like they'd either need an appeal process with a quick response time or deal with pissing off legitimate users with the occasional hiccup.
I admit to spending too much time on Reddit during my work day as a distraction. It’s a problem. What’s worse is that Reddit has become so full of uninteresting content that I spend most of my time downvoting things that aren’t at all relevant to the sub they’re posted in. And with a lot of the front page subs being...
I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010
It was an ongoing meme that "reddit was better a few years ago and kinda sucks now" but I really think it was accurately the case. Everyone remembers it being at its best when they first signed up because it had been on a slow, consistent downward slide from around 2010 on.
The last couple of years were so bad that I was already going to other sites for actual news and whatnot because anything outside of small, niche subs were overrun with bots (or trolls, since they were functionally the same).
Yeah, I vaguely remember it making the news in the 90s, and I stopped standing at that point. I had one teacher tell me once it was "required" that I stand. I just said "no thanks" and continued sitting, and he dropped it.
It wasn't a big protest in my case though. I normally had a CD player stuffed in my belt, and standing made it more likely to fall out and get noticed. I generally avoided standing as much as possible in those days.
Have to say it's the right call. It's common enough that software (jdownloader2 comes to mind) will do the conversion automatically. it'd be super trivial for a bot crawling for DMCA links to add that functionality at some point.
You can link to websites pages related to piracy. Linking to websites linking to your content (not with a 301 redirect, before you ask) is OK. In general try to keep one degree of separation between our collective groins and your links.
Why YSK: Because fandom's website is complete garbage, it's filled with ads, has a horrible UI and has auto playing videos for no reason. For some reason a lot of game wikis still use that website.
I haven't seen ads in years (thanks ublock origin), but the wiki fandom pages are by far the absolute worst when it comes to the cookie consent pop up
If you're already using uBlock Origin, you can add a list called EasyList Cookie under Filters > Annoyances and also not see most cookie consent popups for years.
I've tinkered with a Discord bot using the official gpt3.5 API. It's astonishingly cheap. Using the 3.5-turbo model, I've never cracked $1 in a month and usually am just a couple cents a week. Obviously this would be different if you're running a business with it or something, but for personal use like answering questions, writing short blurbs, and entertaining us while drunk...it's not bad at all in my experience.
I’ll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.
If you honestly would personally go to jail rather than comply with a warrant, that speaks pretty highly to your credit, but I don't think most people would find Facebook to be particularly culpable here.
This would be more compelling point if FB were a person capable of going to jail and/or did not have a history of taking the user-hostile side of privacy situations, regardless of whether the law agreed with them.
That isn't the default setting though, and it's unfortunate that the people involved here weren't aware of it.
This right here is why I personally believe FB deserves and flak they get from this situation. They could avoid the whole conversation about whether they should turn over the conversations if they made it so they couldn't. They've chosen their data mine over user privacy, and people are right to judge them accordingly.
When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy....
Tech/programming stuff is exactly why I did nuke mine. Going isn't as meaningful if you leave a bunch of value behind when you do. While I'm here for entertainment now, I'm often spending my reddit time during work hours on vendor-hosted support forums, stackexchange, etc. now.
Gradually, that library will be relocated to other places. Instead of just not going, I think it's better to take away others' reasons for going too, give them reason to seek out better libraries.
TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....
Is it possible the sub was private when you deleted the comments? This and known, since-fixed issues with PowerDeleteSuite explain nearly all of the "undeleted" comments I've looked into in-depth.
I'm not familiar with redact.dev and can't comment on its accuracy, but your comments from earlier in this thread make it seem like you only found out about how the limitations of reddit's profile page work about 11 hours ago. They probably weren't deleted to begin with.
This comment (which you've replied to, so ostensibly have already seen) does a good job of articulating how this only shows the top thousand comments at a time and doesn't update as you delete them.
Depending on which tool you deleted with, it may or may not have done a decent job of working around this reddit limitation to actually delete them all.
So it's not necessarily pretty straightforward, especially if you commented a lot.
I just got confused by your “user error” suggestion, because I don’t see how this qualifies as one.
Because you're both claiming to understand the failing of reddit's UI and claiming the same UI as a reliable indicator of all comments getting deleted. Rather, it seems some comments were likely missed because of the shitty UI. Relying on reddit's UI for this is the specific user error to which I was referring. I hope that's clearer.
First, the Reddit API is broken, because the select query sent by the deletion tool receives less than a full set (as if there was an implied LIMIT clause on the server side). This leads the deletion tool to erroneously announce it has processed all comments.
I don't see anywhere that goes into what redact.dev does behind the scenes (closed source on something like this is a huge red flag to me, but more relevant here is that there's no indication whether it was using an app-specific api key or just using a hidden browser under the hood), though I do see where the reddit service page states:
Reddit stores posts in comments in a weird way. If you’re trying to delete thousands at once, we may not be able to find all of them.
You also mentioned that's how you confirmed all your comments were deleted. One could argue using a tool that admits it can't see all your comments to confirm whether your comments are all deleted could be considered an error as well.
There is literally no mechanism to find leftover comments...
Best approach I've seen that's still standing for a post-API reddit is using the GDPR request as input for one of the tools using it, so it's not relying on the janky UI.
I've been exploring the Fediverse for a bit, and I really like that different instances can interact with each other. But that also leads to some oddities, like how the culture on each instance treats anonymity....
On reddit only reddit knew who you voted for (so long as your preferences were set so that votes weren't public).
At the same time, the could sell or otherwise share that on a whim if they so choose. Given reddit's history of dishonesty, do you trust them to never do that? Do you trust them to be forthright if they did?
Can you guys help me cancel my Reddit Premium? I can’t seem to be able to find the feature on my profile, and the help pages of Reddit point me to a page where I can’t can’t see an option to manage subscriptions
Curious. I'm reasonably sure the option should be either in the settings right where you took that screen shot or under the subscriptions section in the Google Play app store.
What are users of old school forums called? Or myspace? Facebook? 4chan? I'm actually struggling to come up with a single similar forum or social media site that insisted on using a stupid cutesy nickname like reddit did; can you help me out here?
I wrote a short goodbye post on Reddit as we enter the last hours of Apollo. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support over the years, it’s truly been the journey and dream of a lifetime building this app and meeting so many people. 🥰💙...
The bad, although expected news is that according to Similarweb via Gizmodo Reddit traffic is back to pre-protest levels. The caveat is that some of the traffic might still indicate protests, (i.e. John Oliver pics). Most interesting:...
There's probably some number of those users that 'll stop posting in a week when their apps stop working. I can only speak for me, but I probably won't be bored of Mr. Oliver yet will definitely stop contributing to traffic.
I'm on Android using Sync, so I'm afraid I have no idea.
so aren't high value users for reddit
I'm going to have to disagree with that point. I don't see ads, but I have disposable income and am willing to pay for a good experience. Unfortunately, reddit's official app is miserable to use, and if I'm dealing with a buggy experience, I'd rather be here.
We toggled to 18+ and sort of let nature take its course by only enforcing TOS. I say "we" but in reality I was the only active mod on either sub, so I do feel bad for getting awkwardtheturtle banned by association (lol). After the fact got the "It’s not ok to show people NSFW content when they don’t want to see it....
Is there actually a particular rule against turning SFW subs into NSFW subs?
No, and historically it's been the admins' stance that it's up to the mods to determine what is an acceptable level within the sub. They're absolutely just making up the shit as they go and trying to retroactively justify their impulsive actions after the fact.
Yeah, the angry irrational reactions show that all the talk about the protests just being noise was a bluff. It might have blown over, but it hasn't exactly because it got a reaction.
At this point with this whole Kbin/Lemmy/Threadiverse-era on the horizon, I'm actually excited.
Same. People always opine about how reddit was better X years ago, but it really was. Over the past dozen years, I've gradually unsubscribed from every default sub and most larger ones. They always turn into meme-factory shitholes full of puns, recycled one-liners, and totally irrational explanations why you're wrong (many of these seem to come from intentional contrarian accounts/bots). There's a demand for that stuff, sure, but it's gotten harder and harder to find sincere, thoughtful comments.
I'm planning to delete my reddit account next week, but already finding myself coming here more frequently because the quality of the interactions is better. I can't recall the last time I received a comment there with as much time/effort as the one I'm replying to right now.
My list of 40+ fake reddit posts.
Hello, I hope you remember my, I’m the fake poster. I did a full confession on Reddit, I compiled over 40 of my fake stories. I had chosen AmITheAngel because it is the most adequate place to talk about fake stories on Reddit....
YouTube Premium individual plan now costs $2 more for all subscribers in the US | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
YouTube has increased the prices of its Premium plan for individuals in the U.S. from $11.99 per month to $13.99 per month.
How about participating in /r/Place and promoting the fediverse? (kbin.social)
Could we get all the former subreddit mods who migrated to lemmy/kbin to unite and make some promo for lemmy/kbin on /r/place?
YSK: HBO Max's "Legacy Ad-Free" tier only supports 4k for 6 months
After that, 4k support will vanish, enjoy the price increase! Also, Dolby Atmos audio will also go away after that 6 months, too. Streaming services truly are a race to the bottom now, aren’t they? I’ve already cancelled. Back to the high seas for me.
The developer of Skyblivion, which remakes Oblivion in Skyrim, says they have received death threats (www.pcgamesn.com)
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/r/interestingasfuck is now moderated by /u/ModCodeofConduct, and all the pornography has been removed. (www.reddit.com)
Guy Banned by Midjourney for Generating Images of Politicians Cheating (futurism.com)
Someone used Midjourney to AI-generate images of politicians cheating on their spouses — though claims that it was well-intentioned.
Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos (www.theverge.com)
It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.
Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams (www.cnn.com)
“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
CEO lays off 23 of 26 of support staff in favor of AI (www.businessinsider.com)
In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.
Adobe Forbids Using Photoshop’s New AI Features for Nudity (futurism.com)
Adobe's new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn't want you to use them to make porn, okay?
I'm so thankful for this alternative.
I admit to spending too much time on Reddit during my work day as a distraction. It’s a problem. What’s worse is that Reddit has become so full of uninteresting content that I spend most of my time downvoting things that aren’t at all relevant to the sub they’re posted in. And with a lot of the front page subs being...
did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school? (kbin.social)
im 20 for reference. ever since i was a kid, up until hs, we were forced every morning to stand, look at the flag and hold our hearts and say:...
What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too...
are we allowed to post link using base64 here?
I know we can’t post direct link to software here but what about using base64?
TV Show Recommendations
I like watching good comedies, any suggestions down in the comments would be wonderful....
theft enjoyers (lemmynsfw.com)
YSK: You can use BreezeWiki to view fandom wikis without all of the bloat (breezewiki.com)
Why YSK: Because fandom's website is complete garbage, it's filled with ads, has a horrible UI and has auto playing videos for no reason. For some reason a lot of game wikis still use that website.
GPT for All: Hacked! No signups, logging in. (technomagnus.vercel.app)
My best list of free ChatGPT and other models. Required - no signups.
Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know?
I’ll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
A stark example of how digital footprints will be utilized in a post-Roe America...
Does anyone regret deleting their Reddit account?
When the whole Reddit fiasco started happening, I saw a lot of people wiping and deleting their Reddit accounts and moving elsewhere, like here on Lemmy....
I just found out that not all of my Reddit comments had been deleted despite my profile page showing otherwise. (kbin.social)
TL;DR: even if your delete script confirms a full wipe and your Reddit profile page shows zero comment, there may still be comments left over (that you can find through a search engine and delete manually on Reddit)....
Instagram's Threads: 'Almost every influencer will be hopping on it' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Some of the people using Threads on its first day tell the BBC what they think about the app and its future.
preach (lemmy.world)
How do you personally feel about anonymity in the Fediverse? (kbin.social)
I've been exploring the Fediverse for a bit, and I really like that different instances can interact with each other. But that also leads to some oddities, like how the culture on each instance treats anonymity....
I can't cancel Reddit Premium (i.imgur.com)
Can you guys help me cancel my Reddit Premium? I can’t seem to be able to find the feature on my profile, and the help pages of Reddit point me to a page where I can’t can’t see an option to manage subscriptions
So are we Fedditors, Lemmites, Kbinites? (kbin.social)
kbinners?...
Christian Selig’s Goodbye to Apollo (mastodon.social)
I wrote a short goodbye post on Reddit as we enter the last hours of Apollo. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support over the years, it’s truly been the journey and dream of a lifetime building this app and meeting so many people. 🥰💙...
Reddit traffic returning normal, sort of. (gizmodo.com)
The bad, although expected news is that according to Similarweb via Gizmodo Reddit traffic is back to pre-protest levels. The caveat is that some of the traffic might still indicate protests, (i.e. John Oliver pics). Most interesting:...
spidey (feddit.it)
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All mods of /r/self and /r/shittylifeprotips were removed and suspended for 7 days without any warning first. (kbin.social)
We toggled to 18+ and sort of let nature take its course by only enforcing TOS. I say "we" but in reality I was the only active mod on either sub, so I do feel bad for getting awkwardtheturtle banned by association (lol). After the fact got the "It’s not ok to show people NSFW content when they don’t want to see it....
Reddit's response about the actions they took against the subreddits (note: r/mildly interesting DID NOT encourage nsfw content and their suspensions and removal have been revoked by a diff admin) (media.kbin.social)