Sexual assault allegations not being a big deal to you is already a huge yikes. But you’re also blatantly ignoring all of the other issues over the years:

• Stealing and auctioning prototype hardware from startups
• Underpaying employees and turning their termination details into content
• Making his employees renovate his mansion
• Buying a private jet for private family use (already bad) and then trying to pass it off as a business expense
• Repeatedly claiming Linux is garbage because he’s actually too dumb (or paid off) to follow basic instructions as a “tech expert” despite his basement gremlin assistant figuring it out fine
• Been shown with hard facts to regularly misrepresent products and their specs due to poor reviewing and testing standards by actual professionals in the space (and claims its too expensive to do so anyways. Remember that jet?)
• In response to all of this has acted like a whiny toddler caught at the cookie jar and cries that everyone else is worse (source needed). As far as I understand it, the podcast nowadays is essentially Linus claiming he’s a tech God among plebs while previously mentioned basement gremlin cackles and calls him a good master

Wasn’t the point being made, but go off king 👍

Correct, I don’t surround myself with Enlightened Centrists© who think a little fascism is okay as a treat.

If you think being left of Newsom and supporting marginalized communities is extremism, you don’t belong here, simple as. None of us will miss you when you go back to reddit and twitter.

Just use tesseract and have us all automatically blocked then if we’re all scary radicals. I see you were defending admiral patrick a few weeks ago, surprised you aren’t hiding behind it still. It’s right there for anyone who needs everything sanitized and corporate approved for them.

Leftism and pro LGBTQIA comms are not radical, violent, or terroristic, and trying to suggest they are is going to get you shit on here. It’s by design to keep the fash out. Lemmy is overwhelmingly a leftist space, and most leftists have no problem with telling it how it is, especially during the largest global resurgence in fascism since WWII.

At a certain point, if everyone around you is a problem, maybe you should consider the possibility that the source of your discomfort is much more localized.

Astroturfing, trolling, testing whether the average commentor can gauge whether they’re arguing with a bot someone has been tweaking, who knows. It’s really not something I expend a lot of effort or thought on, I’ve just found a lot of accounts that I question the authenticity of based on odd activity, personally.

I have to disagree with many of the comments in this thread saying there are no / minimal bots here. I started tagging users pretty frequently instead of blocking over a year ago, and it’s pretty eye opening to see those accounts pop up in the wild posting completely opposing content or opinions from week to week. Sometimes even from thread to thread. Especially when it comes to politics or AI, for example. It doesn’t help that ban evading and making alts is dead simple.

Of course, this is just my opinion based on my own experiment and observations. I’ve been convinced many times I was arguing with some fash chud only to then see them completely agreeing with my position in another thread two days later. Normal people don’t flip flop that easily. I think LLM controlled bots are a totally different beast than what many of us are used to, and its much harder to see past the facade in the moment.

If your fedi client has a tagging feature, you might be surprised what you see when you start paying attention over time.

Edit: Just for clarity, this isn’t some extensive project I devote time and effort to, I don’t have solid answers for you regarding the rigor of my method or why people decide to make or use bots on a niche corner of the internet. I’ve personally noticed a lot of odd account activity in my few years here that has gotten more common with the ubiquity of LLMs. I’m not claiming bots outnumber real users, either. It’s completely fine to disagree! Enjoy the fediverse as it is as you see fit.

You came to this thread to be a racist chud and made a complete fool of yourself. If you don’t want to be mocked and judged, I don’t know what to tell you other than be better.

Bruh doesn’t realize everyone can see he’s posting from his gooner account 😭

Real debrid is currently complying with a legal crackdown and is applying a filter that prevents access to their cached torrents if the title includes a bunch of different common piracy phrases, such as Web, WebDL, the names of common trackers, etc.

Might eventually ease up, might not. Worth it to ride it out for a bit and see what happens if you’re already subbed as some results still play, but for anyone new looking into stremio/kodi/jellyfin you should probably consider something like an easynews + torbox combo

I’m not saying I’m a sec expert and impervious to tracking. I don’t need to try multiple sites until one gives me more correct hits, I understand the basics of fingerprinting and how it can be used maliciously. I do more than the average user to safeguard my information.

My point is, real sec professionals attempting to educate and make the general public more knowledgeable about privacy don’t have to rely on scare tactics and vague implications that they live in the matrix and are coming for you to accomplish that. It makes them look like ding-dongs who need to take the trenchcoats and sunglasses off and open the blinds. This thankfully seems to be a common sentiment in this thread.

Using a slightly less popular browser with a single privacy addon almost completely circumvented their fingerprinting. Changing the user agent to mask the few pieces of almost useless info it did get, would have totally circumvented their fingerprinting.

I understand the average user would have more correct indicators. The point is, if they’re going to run a service like this, pretending to be hackers and making entirely toothless threats to scare people with info they likely don’t even know how to interpret themselves, shows how incompetent they are and that they don’t actually want to educate. Hence why most legit groups that do education like this choose to present themselves as professionals and adults instead.

Laughing my ass off reading through this. The sanctimonious and passive aggressive threatening tone is perfect for how much info it got wrong just because I use Firefox and an adblock. YOUR BROWSER DIDN’T TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, LIKELY BECAUSE ITS FIREFOX. BUT THAT MEANS WE KNOW YOU USE FIREFOX AND WE ARE CHOOSING TO BE SAFE WITH THAT INFO, YOURE WELCOME, PWNED!!!11!1111!1

Teaching people about fingerprinting and how important understanding it is for personal privacy is good, but acting like a 4chan script kiddy group and making bizarre empty threats like you’re mr robot ain’t it, dawg.

From other comments this is likely some AI slop to sell a product, but if they’re serious they come off like they just slept through sec+ and think they’re shadow brokers now lmao

I have no dog in this fight, but you’ve literally been arguing for three hours that you definitely didn’t mean to get upset at nazis being called out, after clearly getting upset about nazis being called out.

Maybe you should put the phone down and do some self reflection rather than parroting right wing talking points and having a meltdown over something that should be easy to agree with (fuck nazis).

The fact that you sling leftist around like an insult despite it being the most common political identifier in the world makes me think you’ll likely just spew angry word vomit at me to make yourself feel justified that I’m an evil socialist, despite not knowing anything about me 🤷

Aww, someone is grumpy that their weak attempt to make me seem like a violent racist backfired

Go back to reddit if you want to get mountains of upvotes for saying Kirk was a champion of the people. We don’t do fascism here.

I don’t need to, as we aren’t disagreeing. Same spirit, difference in phrasing. Everything is good, no need to infight

I’m not going to presume to know what a black man assassinated by white supremacists would think about his people still being murdered and treated as second class citizens for the color of their skin, and resurgence of racism in America just shy of 60 years after his tragic killing. Though I’d have to think he’d be appalled at how controversial it is to call for a swift end to those perpetrating it.

What I do know is Kirk is quoted saying that black people had unsufficent brain power to hold positions of leadership in society and that the civil rights movement was a mistake.

The fact that you think both of these people and their viewpoints deserve equal defense and respect says a lot more about you than it does me.

Prominent leftist ideology and writers don’t glorify gun ownership or turn them into identity pieces, but they absolutely do see their value for attaining and protecting rights. A lot more leftists own guns than people realize, they just don’t advertise it to threaten and intimidate like fascists do. Many of our rights and freedoms only came about because people were willing to actually fight for them. This is a famous Marx quote: Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

There’s no putting the cat back in the bag, so we may as well regulate their access and provide education and training for their use before they can be owned, as well as how to effectively avoid their use in the case of defense, and mitigate the damage in the aftermath of their use.

“I’m a staunch ally of Kirk’s abuse victims. I just also happen to believe that Kirk deserved a long safe life without violence so that he could effectively develop the propaganda justifying their genocide!”

At worst, you’re a fascist agitator trying to stir the pot in a leftist space for entertainment. At best, you’re a whiny limp-dick centrist who will throw anyone under the bus to make yourself look like some holier than thou moralist. Either way you’re enabling the regime and I’d mourn your death about as much as I do Kirk’s

Guarantee you don’t spend anywhere near as much effort defending minorities, LGBTQ, or gun violence victims as you do white christo-nationalist terrorism advocates. Wonder why that might be.

Fuck off, you nazi defending piece of human garbage. Charlie Kirk deserved what he got and the only unfortunate parts about his death are how fast and painless it was, and that he isn’t around to see how quickly his nazi wife took his money and ran off to start fucking a dude with a fetish for duvet covers

I was in the CJ field for 10 years, which opened my eyes to a lot. I know you think “they’re fascists who ignore the law” is reductionist or untrue, but that is literally it. It is that simple. It is also not new, regular law enforcement in the US has been exactly like this for pretty much our entire history.

When you break the law, and you have powerful deeply ingrained cultures and institutions backing you that will look away or refuse to apply the law to you, then the law effectively does not exist. Laws are social contracts that are invented entirely by us, and literally do not exist if not enforced. The universe does not care. There is no karmic balance that steps in to even things out.

I think many are just ignoring this or trying to rationalize it some other way, because it is terrifying to come to terms with when you are told your entire life that these institutions, police and courts and laws and checks and balances, are in place to protect you. Law enforcement in the US has fascism and nationalism baked into its core, and most of them are actively wanting what ICE is doing. Many law enforcement are in their ranks or are assisting in ways that most people don’t even realize. And beyond that, the rest of our judicial and political systems are also being manipulated or just blatantly ignored to pave the way for this.

Ultimately the question being posed to the US at this point is, what happens when the people in power do not care or feel empathy, except for their own goals, and there is no sufficient opposition. There are no easy answers to this. When two opposing forces collide, one or the other has to give in some way. ICE has had basically zero consequences for their actions, despite how blatantly illegal and wrong they are. So far, their side is applying more force and it shows.