firefax

cool project!

also does everyone have to enable js to vote, or did i troll too hard? (sorry!)

Two books I read after 9/11 shaped my path greatly:

1.) Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

ISBN #: 0813337445

2.) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

ISBN #: 9780671728694

Both should be available in most public libraries, but with the ISBN you can usually get almost anything via inter-library loan.

there's less breakups than people entering the market and most normal people don't wanna scoop them up the second they graduate -- at least not if you're gunning for marriage

that sounds horrible

I had a female friend ask me how she could get less lewd messages -- showed me her inbox.

Perfectly normal photos, kind of thing you'd have as a stock photo on your lab group's page.

Had to tell her sorry but it's just how it is and felt really sad for her.

(Sadly, that one is anonymized because it happened more than once.)

I research deanonymization techniques and, in the broad sense "disinformation" -- but more in the sense how do I plant the seed of an idea and let it grow rather than the crass and short term operations folks like "The Russians" do.

So uh... basically looking into ways to de-anonymize Tor users and shitposting?

Honestly, it's hard to summon they joy I used to have for anything tech related when I look out at the news.

I'm ugly and I had a lot of dates. Not a lot went beyond one, but people were perfectly willing to chance a beer if you can actually string together a sentence.

Maybe ranking people like that is why you struggle, and not your looks?

Sadly I think a lot of men have untreated eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

>OkCupid's algo wasn't any good.

It was good until they tried to game it like it was the SAT

I've been using Libreoffice to store my diary for years -- IIRC they use blowfish on the crypto side of things? I had a weird issue a while back where I'm not sure if I forgot my diary's password, or the file got corrupted.

I've had that happen a few times, each with a long space in between I keep things on paper.

It's a great project that doesn't get enough love.

>absolutely massive amount of moderation that it would require.

Wow, this thread blew up -- I think you hit on the core issue, and one that I hadn't thought enough about. Moderation doesn't scale and is very difficult.

>You have age verification laws, payment gateways that will stop processing if they get even a whiff that sex workers might be using your site to advertise, and bigots who will DDOS you

I don't believe you on the sex worker part -- I think I went on a few "dates" where folks were being polite because I didn't understand some of the language and phrasing used in their profiles. (Also sex worker is a broad term, and dancers camgirls etc want to find true love too.)

It can be hard, dating in a big city like SF. And I probably had a "garbage in, garbage out" experience with the site since I lied and said I was straight and some people filter "the straights" out.

The twenty aughts were incredibly homophobic, and if you're a 2 on the kinsey scale -- someone who only wants to hook up and not date the same sex -- it was a lot simpler to just not bring it up because a lot of people will drop ten twenty match points if you admit you've had sex with a man while fronting as progressive.

Finally, since some of the language and phrasing I see you using reminds me of internal Google mailing lists folks have given me a peek at, I'd like to say here, in public, that I went on a lot of dates in the Bay Area with extremely privileged people who don't seem to get that on a long enough timeline if you're scared shitless of my hacking skills on a date but doubt me in the interview room, that's going to be radicalizing... a persistent pattern of being told if I won't slam a baby into someone they won't accurately attest to my skills, a persistent pattern of being gatekept into precarity that did not make me feel like I had any allies or friends in the technology space and I was grateful SF had a thriving arts scene to keep me sane.

Anyways, the world is darker -- I got trolled at one point when I reactivated OKC. Like, legit "I'm not even sure if this is a real person" level troll, something I never used to encounter online dating. (Woman said she wants a man who loves her like she loves Bibi, splits her time between Israel, and... has no idea what the black flag movement is? Felt like I was being baited into going off on someone who might not really exist.)

>bigots who will DDOS you if you dare to cater to the needs of minorities.

I've had the sites hosting essays about my childhood DDoSed as I was shopping around a sequel -- there's a war going on out there to shape our media landscape that the normies don't see or sense.

Yeah, I'm surprised no one has spun up a competitor that combines evidence based match questions with the rich profiles okc was famous for -- OKC's only failing was you might find out you have someone you're a big match with who does NOT return that sentiment.

I also think we've lost the ability to do things like man up and ask out the barista knowing full well you're switching coffee shops for at least six months if you read that one wrong... when I was like, 20, I used apps because I didn't feel capable of just... talking to people. The MRA stuff is insane, but there's something to be said for being able to ask for what you want.

>Because people were less cynical in the 2010s and there's no way to bring that back.

We were only one year out of the Bush administration. I got a lot of lectures on third way neoliberalism from women who in the same age bracket who today are all stone cold socialists.

What is Reddit?

i like noscript

What job interviews? The market is trash dude

And an AR-15 can't take out an Apache, we take too much shit off these militia types.

>Iran has nothing on Israel when it comes to interfering with other nations. This is simply propaganda and missing the elephant in the room (on purpose of course).

I'm so tired of this geopolitical whataboutism.

Once at tech policy happy hour, someone got in my face and demanded I affirm that Israel has a right to exist.

They recoiled as if they'd been physically struck when I shot back "Israel has a right to exist and not do war crimes... just like Saudi Arabia".

(I don't give a fuck if you have dip-lo-mat-ic imm-un-itt-y. I've slapped the soul out of someone in Farragut Square before, and as I sit here looking at the data, I've concluded I'll probably do it again, don't you ever put your fucking hands on me.)

There is no reason to treat the leaders of Israel any different than the leaders of countries like UAE, Qatar, etc.

(And if it was up to me, we'd send all these fascist motherfuckers on a free trip to The Hague.)

Can you give me the original link? I know all about archive dot ph.

I know we're not supposed to comment on voting, but you're not fixing anything with a ten day old account that's already in the negative IMO.

edited title for length

I don't understand enough about coding to speak on Debian as anything but a longtime user.

I find AI useful for small shell scripts that you can visually inspect.

I want to make a GIF later, so I'll probably ask Duck.AI how to write the command if the file path to the MKV is X and the timestamps are Y and Z.

Then, I can create my own little tool without downloading some shady binary that slaps a UI on Imagemagik(sp?) or whatever.

I've only played with AI a little bit, with a focus on local LLMs, but even simple things like an anonymous FTP scanner I wrote took a lot longer than someone slightly more skilled than me could have done them in.

Anyways, I always respected how Debian gatekeeps access to the code -- some kinds of gatekeeping are cool and good, and a lot of young folks fight with devs trying to show how smart they are -- I've been guilty of that myself in my youth.

I still had Facebook when this happened, and was thinking the other day how much the world has changed since I deleted it.

thanks

this is why dropboxes at local election offices are of vital importance

(and possibly, a militia, if things get bad enough.)

live stream working over tor.

>going on for 1+ hour

i thought twitter was the one that had to invent some kind of folksy "shit, the website went down" image?

ew paywall

Thanks!

Any other faves?

I'm hoping that any aliens that may or may not exist respect my contextual integrity and don't dox my Twitter.

But to be more serious: it is absolutely embarrassing we've gone from a world where a Russian and an American sit down at the science center to talk about their work and take questions to... this.

Keep in mind WHY collaborating on space was so big -- because the same technology that can put a man on the moon can put a missile anywhere on earth.