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Pikesville principal Eric Eiswert was caught on tape going on a racist rant.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 25, 2024
People called for his life to be destroyed.
Turns out, the entire recording was fake and generated (using AI) by Dazhon Darien, the school's former athletic director. pic.twitter.com/Qw6J1LPnxD
Network mines it's 840,000th block and reaches its 4th halving 
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is now allegedly starting to require users 
show ID to login
to factcheck chuds, upsneeds to the left 
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It stopped working many months ago, when Reddit started redirecting image links to their www.reddit.com/media links. The image viewer thing is kind of helpful in that it tells you which post the image came from, but this is overshadowed by the fact that it prevents you from viewing the image directly. Thus, the Wayback Machine cannot archive the image.
I sent a wordswordswords email to the Internet Archive about it, and they unfortunately said they couldn't change it.
Hi,
No... I am very sorry but Reddit is much harder to archive now than it was in the past.
We are doing the best we can.
- Mark Graham, Director, the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive
ArchiveTeam also had difficulty archiving Reddit due to bans and paused their project. (Does anyone here know if there are logs of their IRC channel #shreddit?) At least PullPush works (for now), but it doesn't archive images. Luckily, archive.today and ghostarchive.org are still able to save Reddit images. 
If you are annoyed by Reddit not letting you view images directly, here are some extensions I have not tried at all. They work by modifying the Accept header sent by your browser.
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THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 
(1hr 
but 100% worth the watch if you have 
)
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orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235114
i have lived in exclusively red counties my entire life
alaska is not as red as i would expect
also lol @ wisconsin
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In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU accession" but I didn't realize how insane this was -- they are apparently going to rewrite old laws wholesale with GPT-4 to align with EU rules https://t.co/7RZLwBYosK
— sophia (the deuteronomist) (@cis_female) March 6, 2024
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tl;dr: some leftoid bullied Truth Social into releasing their source code as per the AGPL which requires derivative source to be published, naturally he's very proud of himself
He also implies the code is shit and people should look for vulnerabilities (to report them responsibly, I'm sure)
Flagged comments:
(make an account and enable "show dead")
Could have done without all the left-wing whining.
The dispersal from left-leaning social media sites wasn't about needing a place to tell lies, moderation on them was ideologically driven and biased, much like the author of this piece.
Nobody likes to be censored, the left has just been doing the censoring for so long they've forgotten how it feels.
This comment and any others critiquing the author or supporting Truth Social will be flagged, effectively deleting them for anyone who doesn't toggle the flag on in settings. What a great site this is. Actually worse than reddit in this regard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028696
The tone of this article reads like the author expected this company to be evil incarnate, because they're Republican, and then they just...aren't.
Seems like there is some cognitive distortion going on where people are being vilified, and then that ends up not matching reality.
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https://www.engadget.com/fcc-votes-to-restore-net-neutrality-protections-161350168.html
Here's some dude saying that's horrible
https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1783559014950854704
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TELEGRAM FOUNDER: THE U.S. TRIED TO HIRE MY EMPLOYEE TO HELP THEM SPY ON USERS
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 17, 2024
Tucker:
"The US government tried to secretly hire your engineer?"
Doruv:
"That's what he told me. They wanted him to code open-source tools into the app that would serve as backdoors."
Tucker:… https://t.co/ClERJeTG7R pic.twitter.com/6WWCcmZsd3
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BWC
: This is a very 2018 /r/Drama title, congrats!
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This whole thread is so peak HN, it even has a couple of idiots arguing "Bayesian priors" over whether another HNcel is a genuine chomo or not 
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Torn because he would be like omg ai
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For my last post on this see "You turned Stack Overflow into a nuclear test site" - StackOverflow opens up voting to all registered users; jannies revolt (again).
Basically the SO staff announced that they were going to let all users be able to vote, in order to reverse the site's participation issues and problems with engaging new users. The jannies (many of whom are still on strike) hated this and downvoted the shit out of the announcement.
Today the staff announced that the decision has been reversed and the trial won't be rolled out.
I acknowledge the feedback shared by community members and by moderators. We felt that this experiment was important because it allowed users to participate and engage in a low-effort core action on the site. We believe a healthy community involves encouraging participation from new and existing users, among other aspects. We understand there are ways to engage with new users and to further de-risk the experiment other than how it is currently designed.
also
we would like to apologize for the concern, stress, and tension caused by this experiment
lol
The SO powerusers and jannies still shit on the wagies anyway:
However, I am a bit disappointed that it has been paused only after the general disagreement from the community on Meta, and not after all the moderators told you how terrible of an idea this is.
and a particularly enormous post from Catija who used to work as an employeed SO employee and has hung around just to shit on her former colleagues. I'll not even paste 10% of her screed but it includes subtitles and subsubtitles.
It's unclear to me (and to many others, it seems) what you actually want from SO—and SE. What are the goals of this or any other change?
Subtitles include:
Content Quality as a KPI
Step 2—Review and reward curation of old content
Voting as the key activity metric
Activity as a KPI
Someone makes the mistake of saying they wished that the trial would go ahead, and they end up on -4:
I support having experiments like this, even I don't like them. I share the gratitude shown on comments by some people so far. I'm glad to know that what I thought will happen regarding the user experience when the experiment was shared privately with Stack Exchange Network moderators and when volunteer sites were required, was right.
walks back their statements of continuing FreeBSD 
support….in a random Reddit post, 
to the chagrin of many. 
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