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yeah, but this approach can be generalized to any service that you are logged in to really. VPN helps but really you just can't open signed-in tabs of links from untrusted sources

Yeah... I'm with you, people are not taking the risks of a lot of things seriously. Rule changes aren't a bad idea, especially since they don't require dev effort that we don't have, but as much as possible we should probably automate enforcement, it will make it more effective/consistent.

Its all wasted effort, until it's not, and then it'll be too late.

Automod tools do exist now but we would have to put in some dev effort to get the features we want, and it may not scale super well to our large instance size. And its hard to keep up with all the major sites let alone small obscure sites or straight up honeypots. You can't really beat careless user behavior, but you can certainly improve things.

its gonna be really tough to balance usability and sufficient safety/paranoia here IMO. I think the current approach is mostly "people can choose their own risk level" and giving people tools like invidious links, etc.

click the link icon in the OP (they aren't super obvious ik)

But here's the gist:

In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of buying bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting. In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times.

The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. The government also wanted the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the videos. The cops argued, “There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators.”

based and pilled

they're resting

'cashless' bullshit is annoying as fuck

it causes some bank or politician to crash and burn

what browser/OS? I don't recall ever seeing it

I think this is normal tbh (in the liberal society we live in anyhow). There are always waves of this, decades ago maybe it was race and iq stuff, before that early eugenics/phrenology. It's always presented as capital T Truth as discovered by our infallible Science, which then turns out to be obviously flawed and very motivated in its reasoning

the ipad babies have been on that "pregnant elsa + spiderman" algorithmically generated content grind for years

The difference I guess is the older kids getting into what you describe

Ughhhh why is this so common? What possesses people to think "well I didn't beat you or starve you or leave you out in the cold therefore I'm a saint"?

Honestly I almost don't think the word ally has any productive uses left. Even if you were going to use it with other queer people it'd require so much "well not that kind of """ally""""" caveating that it'd be easier to just not invoke it at all.

I know others who've described very similar experiences.

Its basically the same as people that describe themselves as "progressive" (years ago), or "leftist" (nowadays), or as an "activist", because they want to feel better than other people, not because they give a shit about any of it.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

this should apply 10,000% to canarymission ngl

what is it with incredibly racist JAQoffs and having Pug in their name. Is this like an epic bacon narwhal thing?