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quirzle
joined 2 years ago
I swear I see you trolling every single thread on here. Find a real hobby.
Must depend on the search. I just checked, and the links were still there same as always.
I've tinkered with a Discord bot using the official gpt3.5 API. It's astonishingly cheap. Using the 3.5-turbo model, I've never cracked $1 in a month and usually am just a couple cents a week. Obviously this would be different if you're running a business with it or something, but for personal use like answering questions, writing short blurbs, and entertaining us while drunk...it's not bad at all in my experience.
Now what is Google going to do with YouTube?
Run even more ads in the non-premium version, I'd wager.
If you honestly would personally go to jail rather than comply with a warrant, that speaks pretty highly to your credit, but I don't think most people would find Facebook to be particularly culpable here.
This would be more compelling point if FB were a person capable of going to jail and/or did not have a history of taking the user-hostile side of privacy situations, regardless of whether the law agreed with them.
That isn't the default setting though, and it's unfortunate that the people involved here weren't aware of it.
This right here is why I personally believe FB deserves and flak they get from this situation. They could avoid the whole conversation about whether they should turn over the conversations if they made it so they couldn't. They've chosen their data mine over user privacy, and people are right to judge them accordingly.
Tech/programming stuff is exactly why I did nuke mine. Going isn't as meaningful if you leave a bunch of value behind when you do. While I'm here for entertainment now, I'm often spending my reddit time during work hours on vendor-hosted support forums, stackexchange, etc. now.
Gradually, that library will be relocated to other places. Instead of just not going, I think it's better to take away others' reasons for going too, give them reason to seek out better libraries.
Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?
I just got confused by your “user error” suggestion, because I don’t see how this qualifies as one.
Because you're both claiming to understand the failing of reddit's UI and claiming the same UI as a reliable indicator of all comments getting deleted. Rather, it seems some comments were likely missed because of the shitty UI. Relying on reddit's UI for this is the specific user error to which I was referring. I hope that's clearer.
First, the Reddit API is broken, because the select query sent by the deletion tool receives less than a full set (as if there was an implied LIMIT clause on the server side). This leads the deletion tool to erroneously announce it has processed all comments.
I don't see anywhere that goes into what redact.dev does behind the scenes (closed source on something like this is a huge red flag to me, but more relevant here is that there's no indication whether it was using an app-specific api key or just using a hidden browser under the hood), though I do see where the reddit service page states:
Reddit stores posts in comments in a weird way. If you’re trying to delete thousands at once, we may not be able to find all of them.
You also mentioned that's how you confirmed all your comments were deleted. One could argue using a tool that admits it can't see all your comments to confirm whether your comments are all deleted could be considered an error as well.
There is literally no mechanism to find leftover comments...
Best approach I've seen that's still standing for a post-API reddit is using the GDPR request as input for one of the tools using it, so it's not relying on the janky UI.
Mr. Bringing-over Content
This comment (which you've replied to, so ostensibly have already seen) does a good job of articulating how this only shows the top thousand comments at a time and doesn't update as you delete them.
Depending on which tool you deleted with, it may or may not have done a decent job of working around this reddit limitation to actually delete them all.
So it's not necessarily pretty straightforward, especially if you commented a lot.
Replying just to echo this sentiment.