Because I wasn't trying to get the best deal
then why are you mad that you didn't get the best deal?
hypnicjerk
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indoors, i hope
this is not an opinion that should be shared by anyone who has opened a frontpage comment section in the last 3 months. bot spam has only gotten significantly worse since july.
the API changes had no effect on bot accounts, anyway. reddit corp specifically made an exception for them and other "low volume" API users - which is why you can still use your own API key to activate defunct 3rd party apps.
(yes, the implication is that normal users can go to hell if they don't want to use the app - but by imitating a bot, reddit gives you preferential treatment. they want bots juicing their activity metrics.)
my guess is that subredditstats.com is itself impacted by the API changes, or this is a consequence of frontpage posts cycling MUCH more slowly than they did before the protests. fewer individual posts reaching r/all means less traffic and fewer comments as a result.
if an end user can serve as an entry point to the entire domain for ransomware, the end user hasn't failed, IT has.
"there are too many elephants" was not on my 2024 bingo
“Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”
"project" is right!
as a consumer product, yeah. but teams is ubiquitous in business and govt.
sure would be weird if the attorney general in control of the US prison system had connections through his own father to Epstein, right?
MKULTRA was the result of Allen Dulles's hypno kink.
bad bot
proximity to polar regions? seriously?
this seems interesting, but how does it actually work? "invisible changes to the pixels" is vague and the article does not go into more detail of the actual method of manipulation or the ways that an invisible input can affect visible changes in the output.
yes it's always easier to NOT fuck up a fully functional product and drive your userbase off a cliff, but that's not good enough for the huge IPO that huffman is courting. he wants to be able to say "look, we're monetizing 80% more MAUs than before and earning 45% more per person".
frankly i doubt they'll be able to go public at all at this rate. if i were the Newhouses (reddit's owners through Advance Publications) i would certainly be looking for someone to unload this hot potato onto.
i don't think this is how the meme format is meant to be used
you mean crosswalks don't usually end diagonally in the middle of the street?
the short answer is that only a few apps were willing to play ball, and reddit corp was able to walk back their initial (untenable) terms to a point where they could keep those apps afloat.
the long answer is that during the course of these 'negotiations', huffman publicly libeled the shit out of christian which forced christian to defend himself against the accusations by releasing recordings, and none of this is conducive to a healthy working relationship. neither christian nor huffman have any desire to work with one another at this point, so they don't.
da ba dee da ba die
i don't know what he had to say about/toward voyager, personally. 'the record' as far as anyone who's paid attention is concerned is pretty clear about who's in the right and who's a libelous, manipulative fuckwad.
generally, duh. what's that got to do with OP's question? it's just word count filler fluff.
steve huffman is one of his loudest simps
we're still a minute away
just a minute tho
not only did they gut the API for actual people, they carved out exceptions for "low volume users" to keep the bots inflating activity
now they've literally stolen from the people who paid to support the site in the first place. absolutely shameless
Zhao’s team also developed Glaze,
from the article, so it's likely they run on similar principles.
Terracotta
naturephotography too wordy for you?
all that star citizen has ever promised
not before the heat death of the universe
i'm holding out for an Index 2 but Valve really doesn't seem to be in any rush
it can't really be evaluated in a vacuum. the front page moves so much more slowly that maybe it's the same number of bots concentrated on a smaller number of posts, i dunno. i just know that it's inescapable on popular posts and the bots have hardly needed to adapt because reddit corp doesn't give a fuck.
i mostly browse via old.lemmy.world and i am badly missing RES and its filters.
yes to me it read like it was manipulating metadata somehow, not the images themselves, but the article directly contradicts that. and that would be useless as soon as someone saves it as a flat image file or screenshots and cuts it out. i'm assuming for this tool to work it needs to be changing the image directly through some sort of watermark-like system.
(super smash bros announcer voice)
IMMINENT LAYOFFS!
good bot
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