Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at nigh

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I think that it would be theoretically possible with a modified client. But in practice you'd filter a lot of genuinely active users out, and still let a lot of those suspicious accounts in. Sadly I think that blocking them individually is a better approach, even if a bit more laborious.

On a lighter note, this sort of user isn't a big deal here in Lemmy. It's simply more efficient to manipulate a larger userbase, like Twitter or Reddit.

To find new ways to obstruct the lives of the everyday citizens, while letting both local and international monetary elites to do what they want.

That's a great analogy. And a fair point - it got burrowed, but it's still there.

At least when we deal with individuals using the platform. The platform is still listening to you, and sharing it with advertisers; that's the whole model behind Meta (WhatsApp) and Snapchat. They're still hearing you, and want to talk with you (shhh, I've heard you bought [product]? Here are some offers for even more [product]!), regardless of what you want.

The whole "one individual talking to another" aspect of the internet of the 00s is gone. It feels more and more like an "everyone is talking to you and hearing you, like it or not". Facebook is only an example of that - and even if it didn't enshittify, I find unlikely that it would've kept that aspect.

I also wonder if my experiences with Orkut wouldn't be similar to the ones of the author with FB, if only Google didn't kill Orkut. (It was a big thing here.)

I added it to the comment - thank you!

it’s become more pertinent because the increase of tourism was accompanied by these scams (my source for this is word of mouth, take it with a grain of salt)

Yup, and the paper confirms it: "Esta atividade é regularmente realizada nas grandes cidades do nosso país, mormente nas zonas de grande afluência turística" (this activity is regularly conducted in the larger cities of our country, mainly in the zones with great touristic affluence).

What about the bean bags and snacks? Lust isn't the only deadly sin dammit, you got to think about sloth and gluttony!

It depends on the implementation, in both cases. I can somewhat tolerate:

• ads that are visually distinct from the actual content, not personalised or targetted, not obstrusive or obnoxious
• paywalls that apply to recent news, but don't get in your way while you're looking for older stuff

Go past that and I'm avoiding your ads with uBlock and your paywalls with archive links. And, more importantly: there are other financing methods, such as Patreon.

[Warning: I'm not a lawyer.] As people answered it mostly for USA, I gave it a check for other countries.

For both Italian law (article 640 of the Penal Code) and Brazilian law (the famous article 171 of the Penal Code), this behaviour falls neatly into fraud laws, and leads to a few years of reclusion. I couldn't find any law specifically for selling it as if it was a drug though.

For Portugal I actually found a paper about the topic. It claims that it isn't a crime per se, but it's usually filled under other crimes, and the paper proposes the creation of specific laws against it. [EDIT: as AdNecrias correctly highlights, this is a sci paper, not legislation.]

I kind of expect other countries and their legal systems to be the same in this regard. It's simply not a pressing issue.

I've eaten pigeons plenty times in my childhood. That my grandma "recovered". But to be fair back then my neighbourhood was suburban-ish.

That was my first bet too, but you could see it as "greed death" (justifying the /i:/) or "great death" (so /eɪ/). In fact that's a fun aspect of this word - you can see it as multiple alternative blends with the same rough meaning.

Got it - that explains it.

Did you learn or coin it?

Either way it's a nice concept. I'd recommend to transcribe it using IPA, instead of this... esoteric system that you're using. For example I got no clue on what that ⟨é⟩ is supposed to represent. If the ⟨ea⟩ is supposed to sound

• as in ⟨death⟩, it's /gɹɛθ/
• as in ⟨great⟩, it's /gɹeɪθ/
• as in ⟨grease⟩, it's /gɹiːθ/

Thank you.

And now, in a clearer way: I apologise for the suspicion. As someone else said here, since American elections are going on, there's a lot of misinformation surrounding China - both the population/the Chinese and the government/PCC.

Taste differences make cooking specially messy to communalise. Not impossible though.

You're right. And IMO they should be legally banned from doing so - because the people who signed up for this crap agreed with 23 and Me's ToS, not with someone else's.

But, well... as you said, capitalism going to capitalism. The "right thing to do" is often out of the table of options.

I have a relative who considered doing this test. I'm glad that the family talked him out of it. (Surprisingly enough, not just me.)

Anyway, my [hopefully not "hot"] take: for most part the data should be destroyed, as it involves private matters. If there's data that cannot be reasonably associated with an individual or well-defined group of individuals, perhaps it could be released into the public domain, but I'm not sure on that.

That's a better way, I agree.

Yeah. There's some good stuff there, like 8:32, but it's full of so much crap that... urgh.

"And you'll know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Give the whole chapter 5 a check, specially 5:14; crippling people is apparently their god's punishment for sinning. Or 3:36, someone gets really pissy if you don't believe him!

It depends on your tastes. It's effective for me as I enjoy quite a bit of the popular content here (like Linux stuff), but we need far more activity for other topics.

I don't think that there's a specific term for picking a religious figure solely as a behaviour standard, with no regards to the beliefs. But you could describe yourself as "morally Christian", I guess?