Ft. Knox

Did anyone ever go in there and show the gold? I thought someone campaigned with that as a promise.

abusive scraping

As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.

I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might’ve purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf’s personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that’s a lot of money to spend on such a thing.

Now, we’ve all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they’ve done. So one has the thought: if you’ve ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the “good old days” when you did it.

Abusive scraping, my ass.

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

If I had to pick just one.

I was never as good as I always thought I was

I know this is a shitpost, but here’s the explanation: you can’t force people to like you.

You may get off on power trips going to businesses where people aren’t allowed to deny you service or return bad attitude in kind, but everywhere else you’re a $1000/hour with a forty hour minimum payment in advance work starts after the check clears kind of guy.

RHEL9 and forward require v3, and the numpy in pip as of a few versions back uses either v2 or v3 instructions, so v1 is silently broke for certain workloads. FreeBSD works on it just fine as do Debian based distributions as long as you don’t need recent versions of numpy, but there’s no telling what else out there just tries to run and fails with an illegal instruction.

I ended up creating an account just to block communities/users. At the time there was a poster posting to his own instance that was federated with lemmy.world, and he was reposting nothing but reddit posts, and the volume was such that they had to go. With no algorithm there’s no way to just see subscribed stuff without losing out on discovering new things.

And just a tip, Lemmy will let you export (to JSON) your configuration options to include who you’ve blocked.