DocMcStuffin @ DocMcStuffin @lemmy.world

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Should we put this company on the 2023 deathwatch list or the 2024 list?

When you're the CEO of a platform you don't care about anymore and just want to cash out, wrong decisions are a dime a dozen.

So, not just removing awards, but deleting most of the history of their use. Did spez buy a collection of foot shotguns he wanted to test out?

Wait why does this guy have a public defender? Is he that bad of a lawyer that he can't afford a lawyer?

Eh, I wouldn't call it an important feature. More like a perk.

Reddit's c-suite is in this pursuit-of-profit-at-any-cost mode even if it means destroying the platform. I'll go with a cynical yet general guess of they'll replace it with something they think will bring in more money, that it will be exploitive of the user base, that it will make the overall experience worse, andthey'll continue to ignore the actual problems that need addressing.

That's a sheep dog.

There's a term for that: greedflation. When a company raises their prices to improve their margins then blames the increase on inflation.

I don't think money laundering would be worth it. I would expect Reddit to end up with the majority due to the pay out rate.

I was thinking a mix of theft and fraud. Use stolen credit cards to buy gold for bot/puppet accounts then post on your main account. If a post starts to take off, throw the bots at it to gild and add extra upvotes.

If someone was doing this, I would expect it to be a side hustle. Use the stolen credit cards early like this to test if they're valid. Then use them for the main crime of buying goods to resell.

GTFO with some caveats.

1. You need a good group that can work together, coordinate, plan and work through challenging rooms.
2. You like stealth mixed with action. You're gonna spend most of the time sneaking up on the sleepers with bursts of action if they wake up or when you have to unlock an alarmed door.
3. You're gonna get your butt kicked. This is a difficult game that can end a run in under minute if you get too sloppy or cocky. But that's half the fun.
4. You can set aside a good chunk of time for each game. An easy map will take an hour. There aren't that many easy maps. We've gone 3 hours and failed a run multiple times. We also use the time to catch up with each other. We've spent 5 to 10 minutes in front of a door chit-chatting before clearing a room.

It's bloody good fun, but you need a good group for it.

I hope that's the case because one does not typically walk on to a military base without being challenged.

He's always been a maniac. People just started noticing after the Thailand cave incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DopFo1rjAr4

Correct. There is no karma factor. There is a time factor that causes a post's/comment's rank to decay. The devs have documented their algorithm.

The two women told detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk, Nebraska Police Division that they’d discussed the matter on Facebook Messenger, which prompted the state to issue Meta with a search warrant for their chat history and data including log-in timestamps and photos.

Don't talk to the police.

That and he could get $41 / bushel instead of the $17 that was in the contract.

Edit: let my flesh is this out a little more.

In my opinion, he was trying to back out of the contract and thought he could based on a technicality. That he didn't physically sign it. But he didn't physically sign the others and still accepted and delivered those.

Nearly 82% of home shoppers reported feeling “locked in” by their existing low-rate mortgage, according to Realtor.com, while around 1 in 7 homeowners without a selling plan cited their current low rate as their reason for remaining on the sidelines.

Isn't this one of the big problems right now? Most of the buying is coming from corporations who turn around and provide rentals at jacked up rates. Even if I wanted to sell now, I would have to settle for one of those rentals or put most of that money back into a new mortgage at an inflated cost and interest rate.

They're no longer adding accounts to the list since they can't get the data they need to determine if an account is a bot or not. They're still going to process unbans for false positives for the next 90 days.

There's no indication that they're going to "set the barn on fire". They're just going to walk away and let it collapse on its own.

I'm not associated with r/BotDefense, but I'm sure they appreciate your sentiment.

Imagine if your name was Justin Case. I don't know why but that makes my brain feel very uncomfortable.

We haven't learned anything new since June. The BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the hack. They didn't expect Reddit to pay the ransom. So, like trifictional said, sold on the dark web is the most likely outcome. But there's no public indication that's happened yet. My best guess is they're waiting for Reddit's IPO to get closer to try and get a bigger payout for the data.

Something something antitrust. Something something browser choice. Microsoft is just asking to be fined €1 billion. Really, someone needs to make a big stink about it in Europe because they'll act before the US does.