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That took a while… enough to have double/triple/quadruple checked and "removed" most high profile names with any modicum of power and/or financial backing 🤔

Well I reserve my judgment until the names are published. We already know some of the entourage from previous journalists and reports.

If most names published are of unknown, foreign or already passed away individuals it would be quite suspicious indeed.

Unfortunately, due to the constant willful or untested shenanigans of various website I have set up all my system's Firefox profiles to spoof by default its user agent (and other JavaScript properties) as Windows 11, x86_64, Firefox LTS (even if I use latest, Aurora or beta). Some blantant recent example: YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix

Doing so has helped me and many friends/family I switched to a flavor of Linux (mostly Mint, but sometimes LMDE or Ubuntu or specific requirements/demands) avoid numerous dumb problems.

Even on mobile sometimes UX breaking issues creep up.

Okay, somewhat alive and on crutches. 😓

There are still some rare yet ephemeral sparks of good insights left dwelling and lurking over there.

During the reddit blackout I almost automatically/unconsciously went back there to see what's up like I used to back then.

Forums/Slashdot(still alive 😃)/digg/newground »» Reddit/facebook/twitter (all dead) »» fediverse »» [the cycle continues] »» ∞

Most of the time, I have been a lurker without an account and only bothered to make an account or even log in with said account whenever I had to ask a question or answer something I knew about well.

I like forums and sites where you don't have to have an account to post/reply. However, with the growing issues with bots/sockpuppets/trolls and general troublemaker those beautiful vestige of an old trusting era are getting rarer and rarer (still lively, vibrant and growing as they and new services transitions to local networks/intranet though).

In any case, the internet has always been in constant flux. Nevertheless, I have always adapted myself with the changes and try not to put too many eggs in a single or few services. I usually prefer systems and services I can run/host myself for family, friends and myself.

Awesome! It’s great to see thing become snappier and better since I joined Lemmy.

Reddit would almost never update unless it was a pants on fire situation or they would force feed features that no one wanted or even was tested properly.

A big thank you to everyone involved, FROM those taking the time to submit bug descriptions in a reproducible manner and those making feature requests or those simply upvoting and pointing out the most needed patch/updates TO simultaneously amateur, newly minted coders and veteran developpers pushing small and big patches to fix anything from typos, reformatting old code, cleaning almost unnoticeable UI object, transition less performing backend modules or secure/harden of all these moving parts.

I am glad to witness and be a part of the perpetual progress of the fediverse.

I have always used a realistic but totally fake name with Amazon (and other country specific tld) and any other online merchants. However, I always use my full name on my credit card (or family member credit card if I purchase on their behalf). Moreover, for delivery I use another real name (only her first name) to be sure they deliver to the right person who is always available.

This is probably a new security thing for new accounts, my Amazon accounts are from 2009~2011 and I regularly use them (daily even).

This is so that if there is a breach/hack at the merchants system my own exposure is as limited as possible or as messy as possible (i have multiple different addresses and multiple different names in each account, some not valid anymore because someone or I moved or changed cards).

Thus, our human brain are incapable of grasping or begin to comprehend the scale and severity of the climate crisis with just soundbites, anecdotes, news-rants and tiktok videos.

Understanding complex systems is hard and requires continuous concentration over months and years. Even more so for the Hyperobject that is ephemerally understood as Climate Change.

We can barely begin to collectively acknowledge that perhaps something is indeed wrong with :

• all the burning forests just because of the smoke/smog "inconveniently" smothers our cities (occasionally burning them for being too close)
• atmospheric rivers drowning towns and cities in flash floods
• high altitude glaciers irreversibly melting and disappearing
• Greenland and Antarctic have only accelerated their ice loss from sustained glacier retreat
• the thermohaline circulation slowing down due to all that melted water (less dense due to higher temperature and less salt) staying on the surface of the water column
• the migration of millions of humans mostly from regions with latitude between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn due to drought, crops loss, famine, extreme storms, natural disasters and violence or wars
• the increase in frequency and length of heatwaves

Unfortunately, we will probably sooner or later go to war over made-up fantasies or leftovers of a ruined planet before finally collectively understanding and tackling the complex thing that is currently (for now) known as Climate Change.

Thanks 😊

An automated transcription bot for linked audio or video content (longer content, interviews, etc.) would be incredibly useful.

It might be important to point out how pervasive clickbait content has become.

Even reputable journalists have to let their work become Clickbaity by their editors (title and headline mostly).

Despite all their efforts and super "AI" tools, YouTube is full of irrelevant clickbait whenever searching for something.

All that just to get a pinch from the advertising money pit.

Paying moderators and redditors will likely kill whatever vestiges are left of reddit.

Moreover, altruistic behavior tend to shun/shy away from paid work (it's a totally different mindset).

It is rather interesting to note that this Corpus of data may not be as valuable if it cannot be used without always being legally in several grey areas (perhaps even red areas in some jurisdictions).

Currently, an increasingly large pool of artist/writters/singers and other people (even corporations such as studios and large right holders) are exercising their rights to not have their creations and derived works be used or slurped into AI models without their express consent.

Corporations making use of those AI models may find themselves in expensive legal limbo now and the foreseeable future.

Considering no redditor imagined nor consented to have their post and comment history be comprehensively abused (as in "improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom").

We may enter a period where lawlessness pervades AI models (just like any gold rush, for example the current crypto craze). Eventually, the legal framework will catch up and will probably make any dubious Corpus of data untouchable.

How long this takes is anyone's guess. I surmise several large profile lawsuits would suffice.

Oh wow, I remember that book at my library. I think I was hand copying urls for interesting sites (games maybe?? bonus.com still exists??) and my parents just got 56k internet (the cheapest option at the time I think). 5Mbps or 10Mbps was the highest option but expensive.

Neat little memory. Thanks 😊

Been mostly a reddit lurker since the collapse of digg. I generally don't make accounts after a series of website shutdowns, it's annoying to put energy/time/upkeep into someone else's platform (anybody still remember Microsoft Spaces? -- a MySpace knockoff).

Eversince those experiences, I have essentially used RSS/Atom and XML feeds for all my news and various forum of interest whenever available. Otherwise I run my own scrapping tools with a mix of cURL, xmlstarlet, jq, etc... and whatever new fancy tools are Du Jour.

Even price watching for deals on different online stores; I almost always guest checkout (exception for stores I purchase from multiple times monthly, keeping track of orders and return can be annoying).

Hopefully, this fediverse-thing will be more resilient. Nevertheless, I'm ready to jump ship whenever I see the usual Iceberg...