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Daily Bard Digest 2024-08-15

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02/08/17 18:35:07 with a score of -3: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5swi9a/til_that_out_of_the_top500_super_computers_none/ddiemgs/?context=8

The truth is that Linux is for engineers, who know exactly what they need and can configure for maximum efficiency.

Windows is for people who don't know what they need, but can get by with what's offered, and can occasionally add something kludgey.

OSX / iOS is for people who just want to read the fricking webpage and videocall their spouse, write the term paper, listen to music and watch movies without having to kludge something, and without having to deal with some engineer's idea of how to do some menu from forty years ago.

Microsoft spent somewhere north of one billion dollars on just the ergonomics and usability of just Office, and it's still an unusable and kludgey hack. Internet Explorer as a brand had to be quietly retired.

With a few button presses, my iPad reads my input text to me through a wireless earpiece as I type on a wireless keyboard, so I don't even have to be looking at the screen. If I were completely blind it could be connected to a braille input/display device.

I didn't pay for "half the hardware". I paid for the fact that after a career in CompSci, I've spent five years never having to once frick around in the guts of this machine, and it's always provided reliable service.

Wait, no — it did crash once. During a system update. Three years ago. It took two hours to get back up and running.

That's what I paid for.

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At 08/15/24 18:00:02 in redditsecurity with a score of 1 point:

There's certainly some content that's now automated removal at the sitewide level.

The Transparency Reports show that the vast majority of admin-performed content removal actions are for unsolicited marketing & inauthentic engagement - spam.

Until just recently, outside of 1) obvious spam & automated unsolicited marketing accounts, and 2) specific categories of Sitewide Rule Violation which are also tangent to or involved in felonies, I saw no evidence of Reddit sitewide automating enforcement of i.e. the hate speech & violent threat rules. Recently I've seen a very, very small amount of content removals that are unambiguously Sitewide Rule Violations removed in an automated fashion. As in, I can count them on one hand.

But, like, outside of spam & the aforementioned felonious activity, all the way to 2023 I was reasonably under the belief that unless a user reports a violation, reddit inc is agnostic about and therefore had no duty to act on most potential Sitewide Rule Violations. Which is still effectively true; there's only so many ways a harasser can demand that their target unalive themself in three words, which can be handled by a very small fallthru matrix, no agency needed.

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