Mobile phones have caused a dark age of UI design

I don’t want to move on from Reddit, I want to contribute to its destruction and/or replacement.

The way to do it is block communities you don’t want to see content from, which is kind of like unsubscribing if you browse All

Not really, I always strongly disliked Twitter and the idea of something that’s basically like Twitter never appealed to me. Might try that stuff eventually though.

i hate to break it to you but Discord the company is sending everything that goes through all servers and all private DMs through LLMs: this is done as a part of their trust and safety system. it’s right in the privacy policy that they use OpenAI

This is a good argument, but more for not using Discord than it not mattering if they put in a chatbot nobody wants.

Public mod log is a big accountability improvement over the absence of information Reddit has

Shadowremoval or shadowdeletion would make sense

Kind of but no one really uses those words and you’d have to explain what you mean by them. Also, the distinction isn’t very important; the main thing is that this particular style of web moderation abuse was inflicted on someone, and using different terms for minor variations in the practice gives the people using it too much credit, especially when they aren’t above using all of them anyway.

You’re right that the part of the word that says ‘ban’ is potentially misleading if it’s used this way, but it still seems like the best option. To me the ideal term here would be something that clearly conveys a more expansive definition, but that also still conveys that it is something being inflicted on a person, as opposed to a more conciliatory verb that describes an action towards a piece of content.

It’s still visible to you, it shows up as [Removed] to others

I still call this shadowbanning if it’s just the comment and not the whole account, because intentionally hiding from someone that nobody is seeing what they write is what shadowbanning is all about.

Yes, since not liking or disagreeing with someone isn’t the same thing as likelihood they are pushing malicious code. If something is open source that’s a really good sign, because they could also push closed source code and be more likely to get away with it that way. More points if it clearly has other eyes on it; even if I am not checking over the code myself, someone probably is for a lot of projects.

It’s like “separate art from artist” except even more so because software tends to be even more quantifiable as its own independent thing than art is.

The biggest thing I feel that I should have bought sooner is the full set of materials needed to do caulking correctly: caulk gun, 100% silicone caulk (infinitely better for stopping leaks, don’t try the other stuff on your roof it’s useless), wire brush, microfiber cloth, alcohol (cleaning the surface turns out to be not optional and it also can’t be wet, alcohol cleans well and dries fast), applicator.

It would maybe be safer on a custom OS because less malware would target it, but exploits can still exist, at this point I’d say you also should really be using a dedicated device for crypto wallet stuff if you have more than small amounts, whether that’s a purpose built hardware wallet, an old phone you reset and have only the wallet app on, etc.

That’s just the remote control part.

promises of a free TradingView Premium app for Android. Instead of delivering legitimate software, the ads drop a highly advanced crypto-stealing trojan — an evolved version of the Brokewell malware.

From another source, that works in part by exploiting “accessibility service permissions”:

Like other recent Android malware families of its kind, Brokewell is capable of getting around restrictions imposed by Google that prevent sideloaded apps from requesting accessibility service permissions.

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This includes displaying overlay screens on top of targeted apps to pilfer user credentials. It can also steal cookies by launching a WebView and loading the legitimate website, after which the session cookies are intercepted and transmitted to an actor-controlled server.

I really don’t understand why they just put LLMs in direct control of stuff and also reading the public internet without any kind of sandboxing, you’d think this concern would be the main design problem that needs to be worked around.

That’s honestly fucked up and bizarre, why would they even do that? I can’t imagine it saves them any resources or bandwidth, and it doesn’t make sense that people would be more interested in watching videos with weird AI glitches the video creators didn’t intend.

• Ending of Link’s Awakening
• Ending of Rain World
• Various incidents of save files becoming permanently corrupted halfway through the game and similar

Yeah, I estimated the number of websites on that list and it’s around 100k

I have had problems with the drain plumbing downstream of my kitchen sink, because the heat causes the pipes to expand slightly and be longer. My theory is there is some loose wiring in the walls, and your drain pipes press on the loose wiring until they cool down again.

Yeah, but it wouldn’t be realistic to say “we accept crypto now and also are refusing to comply with credit card content policies” right away anyways, because that would just lose them all their business. The better plan would be to do what they seem to be doing; comply in the short term as best they can, while simultaneously looking to branch out with the payment options they accept, so that at some point in the future credit card companies might have less leverage.

since Mastercard and Visa would absolutely block them if they tried it.

They didn’t block Steam back when it accepted Bitcoin, or even complain afaik

Any ideas for that? My main thought is to further develop technology for the anonymous web and get people using it, although probably some form of overtly political activism is also needed