wizardbeard

Reminder: Their database has been shown to keep the last version of a comment as well as the current version, and they have repeatedly used this to restore deleted and edited comments.

It would also be trivial for them to keep more previous revisions than that, and to just flag "deleted" comments to not show to users while still keeping them for use in AI training.

The best option is to stop using Reddit entirely.

This is a foundational restriction with how federation works and was discussed back during the exodus from reddit when they cut off their API. Votes can't be federated without identity attached, or you'd end up with a single vote multiplied by however many instances federated it to yours.

This is the price of the fediverse being uncensorable. Everything you do on it is oublic, and norhing can be reliably deleted from the entire fediverse.

There was some efforts to obsfucate voting by one of the m/kbin lemmy alternatives, to have each account have an associated hidden account with a randomly generated name that would technically be the account used for voting, so only the admin of your own instance could connect between your public account identity and your voting identity, but that could also just be defeated by basic pattern identification.

As far as instance admins are concerned, this has been known from the start, and is completely outside of their control. That said, it could definitely use some more signposting for awareness. It's shocking how often this entire discussion gets repeated by people who apparently never thought to look into how federation actually works.

That whole 4 hours of sleep sure isn't gonna help with all that mess.

If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.

So... in more readable English, they patented how you can send a Pokemon out to run around with you, and if you throw it directly at an enemy it can start a standard battle where you control your Pokemon, otherwise it automatically paths to the enemy for an autobattle.

That's a little more specific than just summoning characters, but still absolutely bullshit to be able to patent. I'm sure there's prior work that should disqualify this, they just couched it in such overly technical terms they can act like it's novel.

I get the idea, but you gotta get one big enough to stretch out in. Back and muscle stiffness from having to curl up to fit aren't fun. Definitely isn't helpful for any sort of sexy time, pet play, or even just general day to day existence.

I've slept in small spaces before without much between me and the floor, and plenty of awkward "just grab the space you can and make the best of it". No cage, but a pile of pillows and blankets on the floor in a hotel room when I missed the last train back to my accomodations at a convention, another time at a con when the hotel let us book a room with a pull out couch but then didn't actually have one in our room (and was booked solid so there wasn't anywhere to put me), many nights crashing on friends' couches or the floor when the couch was already taken, one night in a beanbag chair when about 20 people crammed into a 2 bed apartment before a huge camping trip, air matresses, crappy 20 year old pull out couches, cots, cramped overfilled tents... you get the picture.

The biggest and most consistent thing for comfort I've found was getting enough space that I didn't have to crunch myself tight and keep myself in a specific position the whole night.

Space > temperature > surface for your head > whatever is under your body, at least imo.

Whatever you were going to do, don't.

Arguably if the speed was increased it might get results, but I think it'd just be more likely that they'd burn some of their stupid amounts of money on more security and stuff like popemobile booths.

At the end of the day the US populace can't provide meaningful resistance to the full might of our military industrial complex, if things were to ever get that far. And I don't think that our currenr administration would have any issues misusing our military for protection of these assholes.

So we have to organize. If we truly want to overwhelm the military, we'd need to overwhelm them with literal piles of bodies.

If we want to attempt less bloodshed and lives lost, which I would hope most people would want, than we still need to organize and put up a strong front while turning their "allies on the ground" to our side. That means that yes, we need to start doing more concentrated effort to turn our asshole republican neighbors instead of just shunning them. Start sharing techniques and talking points for slowly turning folks, build up your tolerance so you can spend time in their presence slowly dropping the seeds because changing people's minds takes time.

On the other end, start pulling normal people currently just voting Democrat into more action like showing up to city council votes, into community service and support organizations, and make sure that we're broadcasting these public goods well and with good branding. Increase engagement across the board.

Do like the "best" Christian groups do and just do unimpeachable good loudly while quietly wearing the affiliation on your sleeve to draw people in, then turn them when they already see you as a good person doing good things.

None of these techniques are new, especially in the Christian church. We just need to fight the feelings of hopelessness, isolation, and the "well your idea of better isn't my exact idea of better" purity test bullshit you see from people online who for example won't be satisfied until the end of capitalism entirely... so that we present a united front as a force for general good.

You think the issues with your health insurance is Obamacare? Whatever brother we're here to help. Eventually down the line we'll start steering you right once we've built that relationship. You're homeschooling your kids to avoid the woke, but need assistance in a subject you can't teach them? We're here to help. Eventually we'll start steering you right.

It's exhausting, time consuming work. But it does work for changing hearts and minds.

Organize. Lone vigilantes carrying out incredibly sporadic assassinations against poor target choices isn't going to make things better.

The Nepalese didn't overthrow their government by a couple of folks shooting a couple of folks spread out over months.

He cancelled one event? Holy shit the world is healed!

You aren't wrong that these people are cowards.

But Luigi didn't change health insurance. It pushed one bad move from a former United Healthcare exec back but didn't stop it, and now there's proposed kickbacks for AI companies whenever their AI denies medicare or medicaid coverage.

There is so damn much broken and I understand the sheer desperation, but lone vigilantes carrying out sporadic and infrequent assassinations with poor target choices are not going to cause long term positive change.

I significantly doubt killing Charlie Kirk of all people is going to effect change. At least, it's not going to be positive change.

The right is emboldened greatly by every situation like this. Yes, they've just been looking for an excuse and would be horrible anyway, but this accelerates things by giving them more definitive cover.

They're already making shit up about evidence of "trans and leftist stuff" carved into the bullets or casings (tabloids and the WSJ have run with this) when there's no actual proof.

Turning Point USA will stumble for a bit while they find a new talking head capable of carrying their bullshit platform, but there's a glut of right wing influencers (and people willing to play one for money) that will fill the gap.

Also, he was shot in front of his kids. They're already fucked up enough having him as a dad without seeing him catch a bullet in front of them and die.

Look, I've got no tears to shed for this balloon headed ass. But this is not a victory. Even if you support the idea of using violence to achieve change, this was a piss poor target.

This company has illegally installed their cameras in more than one town, then tried to sell the local police force on them.

They have lawyers on staff that they use to coach local politicians on how to hold the votes to establish contracts with them in ways that aren't technically illegal, but ensure that no community opposition has a way to have their voices heard.

You can find a lot of these sprts of stories by searching online. In local subreddits, ones dedicated to talking about flock, and local news.

Benn Jordan has a good 40 minute video giving an overview of these systems, how they work, what they track, and why they are a problem. He highlights some cases where families were held at gunpoint by police due to failures of these systems. He also experiments with defeating the AI that reads plates.

Louis Rossman is currently leading a campaign against their installation where he lives in Austin, Texas right now. Has a number of videos on it.

Overview before the Austin City Council vote: https://youtu.be/4RM09nKczVs

Call for people to show up at the Austin City Council session to discuss the potential contract with Flock, and showing how difficult it is to find this sort of stuff and be involved with your local government: https://youtu.be/g4vL1ERdZ9Y

Call to action 2: https://youtu.be/hDOmYqlwxD4

Austin City Council reschedules the vote (in a questionably illegal fashion) with less than 24 hours notice when they realize they kicked the hornet's nest: https://youtu.be/iscDYp6dtl8

Minor followup during the wait for the revised time, at two of the three parks with 90% of reported car break ins these cameras are meant to deter: https://youtu.be/2QbtDWrlPpc