created 'profiles' on Americans 
kept in a 'secret 
portal' shared with 650 companies 
to track 'extremists' 
who searched 'MAGA,' 'guns,' and 'Biden' 
say Republicans 
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@lain
@LinuxShill idk who else to ping but I'm starting to learn these things and she'd absolutely wipe the floor with me. She even mentions bloat, at this rate I wonder if she shitposts on /g/ in between making tutorials
- CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : Can you un-exile me from slackernews please
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Article is too long 
to copy & paste, so here's the link https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/.
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Microsoft just open-sourced DOS 4 https://t.co/iOeLUVfVok (as well a release of beta binaries, disk images, and PDFs from @rozzie's archives!) (but who did the PR?!) pic.twitter.com/g3VyOCsT40
— Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@shanselman) April 25, 2024
I hope no one here is a groomercord user 
The admin of this archive is a kiwicel 
, NixOS fanboys go wild when an Archlinux maintainer kicks the bees nest. 
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^ Yeah this thing
Truely unsurprising.
{Its basically just a VNC connection to an android VM with Playwright automation scripts for the 5 services it does. Oh and that VM connection is also how you put in your logins to those services, probably scraping your password}
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The change
SO are going to let any registered user vote on content. Until now that "privilege" has required 100 points, a near-impossible task for a new user these days because no one ever upvotes questions and powerusers rush to answer all easy questions before anyone else can get to them (and will flag/close any other question as being off-topic).
The reasoning behind this change makes sense:
It's been a while since we last talked about the one-reputation voting change. We are still pursuing this because stagnating participation on the network is a concern for all of us, and we want to think about ways to grow the active community on the network. We have, by design, utilized rep as a threshold to award privileges and prevent bad behavior. While this has been effective in creating the current status quo, it has made participating on the network in some of the most basic ways difficult.
The response
But the post is on -143. Let's see what SO's (unpaid) jannies have to say.
Zoe (before you ask, yes she is):
The company has already been made aware of the many ways this can be abused, and the significant workload increase this will lead to when people notice, and that the tooling we have is nowhere close to capable of dealing with the kinds and volume of abuse this will cause. They have not responded to our concerns, and many mods (including multiple SO mods) have objected to the change from allowing sites to volunteer for the test to shoving it on SO. They did not care about the objections.
This response is ridiculous because:
Jannies are always welcome to not do it for free and let SO pay someone to do it. No one is giving you more work - you're unpaid, you don't have to do anything.
Oh and did I mention that Zoe's username is "Zoe is on strike"? That's right, a striking janny is still actually doing it for free and even giving feedback on new features. Good strike!
Someone else (who used to work for SO, left and yet still comments says:
Fraud: your approach is "disable association bonus and hope for the best?" Seriously? Im an r-slur but you've never done fraud before. Go out and sin, and come back when you know how to recognize it.
And a current non-striking mod says:
We did not volunteer for this experiment. It has been opposed by the SO moderators and other sites did step up to volunteer.
You're literally all volunteers lmao
Tooling does not scale for the concerns we have. It's mentioned that this is launching with new tooling, but they aren't being shared "at this junction". For moderators, that means the tooling does not exist at this point then.
Maybe if you were a paid employee then you'd be able to see this tooling.
CM [community manager] time is limited, and with focus split on new initiatives, AI content, and now this, the time they have to allocate to investigate vote fraud will decrease.
Maybe leave fraud investigations up to paid employees, like every other company.
By the way the three users who I've quoted here - all powerusers - haven't answered a single SO question between them in three years.
Stuff like this infuriates me because SO's powerusers and jannies are completely detached from the core purpose of the site yet they spend all their time stinking the place up and squabbling about meta shit. Stack Overflow is almost entirely self-moderating, these people aren't needed. If I worked for SO and had to interact with these idiots every day then I'd 
. SO needs to start just doing things and stop cucking themselves to the jannies.
Let's end with an r-slurred Jeff Atwood tweet:
Nope, the goal of SO is to answer my question.
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fun fact: SQLite is the most deployed and most used database. There are over one trillion (1e12) SQLite databases in active use.
— v (@iavins) March 31, 2024
It is maintained by three people. They don't allow outside contributions.
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Current and former Google employees held sit-ins this week at company offices to protest the tech giant's work with the Israeli military, part of the @NoTechApartheid campaign.
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 17, 2024
We speak with three workers speaking out against Big Tech's "complicity with the Israeli occupation." pic.twitter.com/ObwCBrbgGM
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“Our societies have not previously tolerated spaces that are beyond the reach of law enforcement [mass surveillance]” seems like a more complete statement. But can you imagine the Orwellian dystopia we’d live in if the statement was true?
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) April 21, 2024
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AIs are now capable of hypnotizing humans
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) April 20, 2024
Why this matters: soon, AGIs may be able to mind control us
This isn’t sci-fi, this already happens!
EXAMPLE #1: Did you know chicken brains have an “off button“? We hypnotize them… because we’re smarter!
And it’s not just chickens… https://t.co/YzWYEP8kbz pic.twitter.com/HEx8nls101
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