• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Who would have thought that Twitter would become the new Somethingawful forums, and that Musk would take the role of Lowtax.

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            7 months ago

            The blowtax shock-site days are long gone. With occasional exceptions in containment areas like the pink forum and the debate forum, SA’s culture is acceptable-to-laudable these days. Effortposts on the leftist board are a life-changing force for personal betterment, and goons remain some of the most charitable nerds anywhere.

            And despite all of that, it is still funny.

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      7 months ago

      This is still my opinion. I hated shitter before boy wonder musk took over. It sucked before and it sucks worse now. Just kill it.

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    7 months ago

    When will people stop supporting this clown?

    Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

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      7 months ago

      Perhaps when his name/companies will stop being on the headlines every single day multiple times. Unless it’s something really big that could actually harm his reputation people should restrain from posting and upvoting news about him. This article is about shit that hasn’t happened yet, this guy is tricking you all around.

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    7 months ago

    I work in bot protection and it’s a sound idea but doesn’t really work in practice. As long as there’s more than 1$ of value to be gained it’s worth it for the bot makers.

    This also makes it so that botting is only accesible to select few actors that have the required resources i.e. russian troll farms or large bot networks from china, in turn this increases their value. This is very good for them.

    Reality is that the only way to stop bots is to constantly change up the detection system. This is called a “cat and mouse” sort of problem and it really is the only way to do it. The attacker always has to catch up and it can be trivial that takes them couple of hours to do but it also reveals behavior patterns for marking bot accounts. This actually works really well in practice but requires a lot of dev resources and many companies low-key like bots which is another thread entirely.