mspencer712

joined 2 years ago
[–] mspencer712 1 points 1 month ago

I feel like innovations that improve moderation should be celebrated. (And then immediately cloned from new-Digg into new Fediverse features.)

[–] mspencer712 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I, too, think humans become incapable of learning from their mistakes when they become wealthy. That’s what keeps them wealthy of course.

More seriously, it makes sense that this could become a good thing. If it’s true that Kevin failed the first time by lacking the confidence to stand up for his ideals, why are we judging what we haven’t seen yet? Give him a chance.

(Is that true? I’m open to being wrong.)

If they ran ads asking Reddit moderators to catalogue their frustrations, it feels reasonable that he could be bankrolling solutions to address those weaknesses and problems.

I’m excited to see what amazing new Fediverse features will be inspired by what he pays his teams to build for Digg.

(I need some hope for the future, damnit. Do NOT take this away from me.)

[–] mspencer712 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you still just print and mail a 1040?

2024 was my first year married, and my wife tells me I will be filing this year.

[–] mspencer712 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

In the US? You have to pay taxes. Don’t need to file. See Substitute For Return (SFR). I’ve done this ever since the Bush administration.

Intuit are quick to point out the massive deductions you’re missing out on. Until you pay for their services, and those theoretical deductions evaporate.

[–] mspencer712 -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is moderation difficult? What makes it difficult?

What happens to the “spirit of discovery and genuine community” when moderation fails?

[–] mspencer712 24 points 1 month ago

Companies share info about their customers sometimes. That shared info gets added to data products for marketing. Sometimes spammers buy or steal those data products.

[–] mspencer712 1 points 1 month ago

I was assuming a long delay between event capture and event logging, when brainstorming use cases.

[–] mspencer712 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes you will make it easier for kiwifarms to create an ALPR network if you GPL it. Also social change activists, news stations, “news” stations, nosy neighbors, overseas companies interested in obtaining intelligence on US citizens, people who hate racing on public roads, neighborhood watch, people who want to make ALPR bans functionally impossible by making them indistinguishable from dashcams, people who want to make rich people sweat by tracking their movements.

If you don’t GPL it, you’ll demonstrate that a small team can create an ALPR system, so, they might think, why not give it a try?

[–] mspencer712 1 points 1 month ago

No worries. You did the right thing looking for details, and when my complaint was about sexual images, it’s reasonable to see the clearly sexual descriptions in the higher tiers and assume that was it.

[–] mspencer712 5 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. If there was a set of tiers that had NSFW drawn comics and absolutely zero mention of any risqué photos, I’d subscribe again. “Character Cosplays” is in every tier and really shouldn’t be. (And should really be clearer that this includes like hand-bra photos and such. “Note: contains sexually suggestive photos of the artist” or something.)

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