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kurtreed

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For the record, this comment keeps getting flagged by cowards abusing the feature so I'll put this on profile for the record.

Wikipedia simps are unfortunately everywhere, which complicates any efforts to resolve the problem since they like to pretend that there's nothing wrong there. Some even managed to abuse the flag feature at HN to suppress Wikipedia-critical posts while trying to raise doubts about my character on the sole basis that I am using this account to post exclusively anti-Wikipedia content, which is for a good reason because those people and admins at Wikipedia tend to use severe harassment tactics against critics.

This will give you a great pause, which involves serious harassment scandals against women on Wikipedia committed by users and admins.

https://rdrama.net/post/215764/there-are-two-dozen-sexual-harassment

As a response to the following comment in quotes:

"Users have been flagging and downvoting your posts because you've been breaking the site guidelines. As you've been posting repetitively to the point that you've crossed over into abusing the site, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you won't do this again and will follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html."

I was originally responding to a user who had seemingly crossed over into personal attacks by implying me as a troll simply because I have been using this account exclusively to post anti-Wikipedia content due to safety reasons. If one people can simply filibuster any given contents by abusing the flag feature over the wishes of the many then I'm afraid that it is the paragon of virtue of minoritarianism. I suggest you to check the systems whether the so-called "vote brigading" has taken place as well.

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kurtreed··on [dead]
You could find some if you actually read the whole article instead of skimming it.
kurtreed··on Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia
The real shocker is that there are two dozen sexual harassment scandals against women on Wikipedia, involving editors, admins and even high-up stewards and sysops.

https://rdrama.net/post/215764/there-are-two-dozen-sexual-ha...

kurtreed··on Toxicity at Wikipedia
The real shocker is that there are two dozen sexual harassment scandals against women on Wikipedia, involving editors, admins and even high-up stewards and sysops.

https://rdrama.net/post/215764/there-are-two-dozen-sexual-ha...

kurtreed··on Is it possible to save Wikipedia?
Far from it. Last I checked the Holocaust distortions are still unfixed.
kurtreed··on Moderation strike
I hope Wikipedia suffers similar fate as well given that they had failed in addressing the Poland Holocaust distortions.
kurtreed··on Wikipedia bans editors but sidesteps broader action in Holocaust distortion row
Wikipediocracy and Wikipediasucks.co has so many documentations on Wikipedia shenanigans and occasionally, scandals.
kurtreed··on Anonymous hacks Russian site to honor Taiwanese soldier who died in Ukraine
Within the XSS hack contained the following popup messages:

> Anonymous says hi to Cocaine Polar Bear on behalf of NAFO fellas!

> How Wikipedia distorts Holocaust history! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2...

> Wikipedia sucks! James Forrester is the Aimee Challenor of Wikipedia! Long live Encycla and Justapedia!

> Support the Internet Archive the true heroes of the Internet! Lets oppose crazy copyright maximalism! https://www.sbstatesman.com/2023/04/04/if-we-lose-the-intern...

kurtreed··on Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to review Polish-Jewish history during WWII
It's a tip of a tongue, but I recall reading somewhere that anarchisistic-run models are prone to corruption in the respect that where the faction with the biggest power can rule it as a de-facto dictator. They suggest that acknowledging the existence of the cliques while turning it into a constitutional-republican model may help alleviate the problem by providing greater oversight or check and balances to their power.
kurtreed··on Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to review Polish-Jewish history during WWII
In principle, they should. However, it's been known that ArbCom and the rest lives in thought bubbles which insulate them from getting grasp on what the public opinion might hold against them.

Perhaps this is the silent part that not many people realize, but the one thing is that Jimbo Wales is a believer Ayn Rand's ideas and Wikipedia is founded with heavy inspiration of such an idea. I haven't really read Atlas Shrugged itself but apparently it promotes an idea of epicurean ego-centrism to the detriment of altruism.

This could buttress the argument that Wikipedia's model is flawed from the start because it's DNA is filled with this wrong stuff. The ideology promotes self-centered enjoyment and turn what should be a collegial sanctum with long-term endurance in mind, into a participatory based MMORPG.

kurtreed··on Encycla – a Git based Wikipedia alternative for everyting
I believe it is. Somewhere it's said that Y Combinator had plans to fund exactly such kind of project.
kurtreed··on Encycla – a Git based Wikipedia alternative for everyting
https://wikiindex.org/Encycla

> Encycla isn't quite a wiki, instead, it's sort of a 'next generation' wiki. Unlike a traditional wiki site, where everyone edits a single page, on Encycla, each user maintains their own personal copy of a page, and changes are suggested (pulled) between pages.

kurtreed··on Wikipedia is not so great, and is overrated
> So Wikipedia should stay, and iron out the crinkles instead. Let's just not expect it to be perfect.

They could, but the author is pessimistic that nothing will change at all because of inertia resisting such change. He used Fram as example and the sole McDonald's in a food desert as an analogy.

kurtreed··on Wikipedia is not so great, and is overrated
I think the GitHub-style wiki he talked about has existed already:

https://www.encycla.com

It's founded by those behind LocalWiki.

https://wikiindex.org/Encycla

> Encycla isn't quite a wiki, instead, it's sort of a 'next generation' wiki. Unlike a traditional wiki site, where everyone edits a single page, on Encycla, each user maintains their own personal copy of a page, and changes are suggested (pulled) between pages.

kurtreed··on Neovim Conf 2022
What did you find arrogant about the neovim developers?
kurtreed··on Writing a 3D Game in C (in 2022)

    bool are_equal = memcmp(&a, &b, sizeof(some_struct_t));
Isn't this a bug? Structs are allowed to have padding bytes between bytes occupied by fields, which will have unpredictable ("garbage") values. So a pair of structs with all fields pairwise same can have different padding bytes, so checking equality with this method will give a false negative.
kurtreed··on ChatGPT and Reasoning about Programs
Sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it's not. Unfortunately it always sounds fully confident.
kurtreed··on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
It wasn't framed as "find an approximate/heuristic solution".
kurtreed··on Tell HN: Tired of Hearing about ChatGPT
What have you made with it?
kurtreed··on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
Same here.
kurtreed··on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
In one Amazon interview the guy asked a coding challenge that he had apparently come up with himself. I realized later it was NP-complete.
kurtreed··on Ask HN: Has ChatGPT Passed the Turing Test?
No
kurtreed··on Ask HN: Does anyone use Vim/Neovim for serious Python development?
I gave up on using Vim as an IDE and now I use an IDE as an IDE.
kurtreed··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
> I think it's going to change whole industries.

Which industries?

kurtreed··on FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
Who's Sorkin?
kurtreed··on Life as a door-to-door salesman
I think the issue is that there's an externality: you go around annoying people.
kurtreed··on Life as a door-to-door salesman
Thankfully it's illegal now in some jurisdictions.
kurtreed··on Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year
Not everyone's paranoid about that kind of thing and not everyone actually values privacy that much
kurtreed··on Are you looking for high-quality Computer Vision tutorials?
Not particularly
kurtreed··on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
> Inclusion benefits society by making things run more smoothly

Big claim, little justification

kurtreed··on Launch HN: Kalshi (YC W19) – A regulated exchange for trading on events
Is this legal? If so, why are similar-sounding things illegal?
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