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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that Twitter would become the new Somethingawful forums, and that Musk would take the role of Lowtax.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

aoh man. So apt and too soon.

Is SA still around?

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and it still kicks ass. Come home, goon.

If you do your browsing on mobile, check out the Awful app.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ngl I'm cautious about even looking. Has it devolved into a rw shithole or is it still funny?

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The blowtax shock-site days are long gone. With occasional exceptions in containment areas like the pink forum and the debate forum, SA’s culture is acceptable-to-laudable these days. Effortposts on the leftist board are a life-changing force for personal betterment, and goons remain some of the most charitable nerds anywhere.

And despite all of that, it is still funny.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

I do miss the culture and spirit of photoshop contests between SA and Fark.

God I'm old.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, stop, please, don't kill your platform, no, stop. Eh, nevermind.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

This is still my opinion. I hated shitter before boy wonder musk took over. It sucked before and it sucks worse now. Just kill it.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like "well, I don't support him, but I've had this Twitter account forever, so I'm not leaving." This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 months ago

Perhaps when his name/companies will stop being on the headlines every single day multiple times. Unless it's something really big that could actually harm his reputation people should restrain from posting and upvoting news about him. This article is about shit that hasn't happened yet, this guy is tricking you all around.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I work in bot protection and it's a sound idea but doesn't really work in practice. As long as there's more than 1$ of value to be gained it's worth it for the bot makers.

This also makes it so that botting is only accesible to select few actors that have the required resources i.e. russian troll farms or large bot networks from china, in turn this increases their value. This is very good for them.

Reality is that the only way to stop bots is to constantly change up the detection system. This is called a "cat and mouse" sort of problem and it really is the only way to do it. The attacker always has to catch up and it can be trivial that takes them couple of hours to do but it also reveals behavior patterns for marking bot accounts. This actually works really well in practice but requires a lot of dev resources and many companies low-key like bots which is another thread entirely.

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes only Russia and China do bad things with technology!

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Never had to deal with attacks originating from US or Europe so thats kinda true actually :)

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

Go to r/worldnews and r/europe on reddit

The amount of bots is….

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Didn't he say this like 5 times already