It would probably be something that fediverse instance admins ought to put in place, considering the dark turn that the Nicole thing has taken. Dual purpose: prevent spam/scam/bot accounts, offset hosting and administration costs for a platform that should remain otherwise unmonetizable.
I’d pay it.
SA charges $10, and their forums are notoriously “human.” A barrier to entry that is small enough for a single real human to leap, but very costly for a bot army to avoid, is not a bad thing on its face.
This dosn’t mean that I think this Digg reboot is good, just that the $5 part isn’t bad.
This isn’t that. This isn’t “let us collect data on you so we can aggregate it and monetize it, it’s buried in the EULA.”
This is state-sponsored actual malware being used to identify, target, track specific individuals.
Reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation.
That math process for adding the two numbers - there’s nothing wrong with it at all. Estimate the total and come up with a range. Determine exactly what the last digit is. In the example, there’s only one number in the range with 5 as the last digit. That must be the answer. Hell, I might even use that same method in my own head.
The poetry example, people use that one often enough, too. Come up with a couple of words you would have fun rhyming, and build the lines around those words. Nothing wrong with that, either.
These two processes are closer to “thought” than I previously imagined.
He must have spent hours on that circuit diagram.
I recall hearing that professional poker players hate playing against novices, because novices are so unpredictable. It’s really hard to plan a defense against someone(s) who are so incompetent that you have no idea what’s going to happen.
Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of “buyer’s remorse” for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it’s very locked down. That’s been Apple’s thing forever, you kind of can’t blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.
For most people, the hardware and operating system are “one thing,” inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are “locked in”? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought “the thing,” and “the thing” either works for them or it doesn’t.
So we have this author lamenting that “the thing” he bought doesn’t work for him the way he’d like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from “the thing” that it doesn’t provide, he failed to sufficiently research “the thing” before purchasing it.
Wow, they don’t even tell you what they decided your “violating actions” were.
But Musk and Bannon and Trump are my Nazis! /s
The question stands.
You can turn this into a kind of shaggy dog story by starting with something about a shepherd having such a large flock - he keep careful track of how many sheep he’s supposed to have, and he knows there are 789 (never mention this again) - that sheep kept getting loose and wandering off, so he decided it was time to get a dog to help him.
Fill out the middle with various adventures of acquiring different dogs from different places, each one ultimately standing on a ridge overlooking the flock, and being commanded to “round up those sheep.” Of course, each dog fails in some spectacular or ridiculous way, leading into the next dog acquisition adventure. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This can go on for as long as you can manage. Finally, some “unexpected” dog (or cat? fish?) is gotten and commanded to “round up those sheep,” the animal pauses, crouches as though ready to run, and says “800.”
It is the first way to differentiate between decent people and ambulatory piles of garbage.
Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.
“Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!”
And every fair shuffle of a deck of cards produces a card order which has never been seen before, and will never be seen again. Ooooo scary!
Jeep Renegade is a rebadged Fiat 500L.
Very recently, some people started receiving images that allegedly show a grisly murder. (I have not seen such an image myself. I can’t speak to whether the image(s) are “real.”) Bad enough that the main Nicole comm got locked down, and people are wondering whether law enforcement should be involved.