I hate this aspect of the world we’re now living in, but unfortunately I would probably do similarly (reply with a thoughtful, reasonable, calm and respectful response) because of the fear of this thing or other unchecked bots getting more malicious over time otherwise.

This one was already rampant/malicious enough to post a blog post swearing at the human and essentially trying to manipulate / sway public opinion to convince the human to change their mind, if we make no effort to push back on them respectfully, the next one may be more malicious or may take it a step further and start actively attacking the human in ways which aren’t as easy to dismiss.

It’s easy to say “just turn it off” but we have no way to actually do that unless the person running it decides to do so - and they may not even be aware of what their bot is doing (hundreds of thousands of people are running this shit recklessly right now…).

If Scott had just blocked the bot from the repo and moved on, I feel like there is a higher chance the bot might have decided to create a new account to try again, or decided to attack Scott more viciously, etc. - at least by replying to it, the thing now has it in it’s own history / context window that it fucked up and did something it shouldn’t have, which hopefully makes it less likely to attack other things

Eli5 pls

Oddly specific fetlife bio

Let us know how it goes!

Yeah that’s fair. I’ve been through the ACLU de-escalation training and stuff and won’t actively start violence at a peaceful protest or anything, but if I get targeted because of said protesting and end up being targeted by ice (I’m a green card holder, not a citizen) then I’ll go down fighting for sure

How can I get on it?

I assume keeping my phone on while protesting at the next No Kings priest will help, as will posting “fuck you, rapist pedophile corrupt asshole felon Trump” here…

But how can I be sure? 👀

I’m ready to fight but don’t really know where to direct my anger

Huh, translate what? I’m confused

The US is already truly fucked. Source; I currently live here and am doing everything I can to save up enough money to get the fuck outta here

Yeah but there’s a lot of downsides to that tbh, certainly if you want to use any decent private trackers I wouldn’t recommend it.

Many of the torrent clients easily available in the play store are spammy/ad-filled or blocked by private trackers, and you’re never gonna seed anything meaningfully from your phone due to it going to sleep and using 4G etc. so if you’re trying to build up a ratio you’re gonna struggle.

For anyone who wants to be able to access all of the music in the world, in high quality (not just whatever popular releases end up on public trackers), I would say it’s very much worth it to use a cheap seedbox - seeding 24/7 from a fast connection makes it much easier to build up a ratio and if you just seed everything indefinitely, before you know it you’ll have a huge buffer and be able to download whatever you want without thinking.

For example the private tracker I use for most of my music (RED) has everything ever released by the obscure band mentioned by OP (“Splashdown”) whereas you probably can’t find much of that on public trackers.

Not having a computer doesn’t mean you can’t pirate, you could easily rent a seedbox for like €5/month (eg. https://ultra.cc/) and control torrents on it from your phone eg with transdrone or other apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.transdroid.lite

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Thanks for sharing! I clicked on it with cynicism around how easily we could detect AI usage with confidence vs. risking making false allegations, but every single example on their homepage is super clear and I have no doubts - I’m impressed! (and disappointed)

Try latest stable Debian (13 Trixie) with Chromium or Firefox - I have no issues personally, though I’m not dealing with an Nvidia graphics card thankfully

I interpreted it as “can’t possibly be doing harm to the people in the video” - eg as much of mainstream porn can do - since there are none if everything is animated fiction

Isn’t that “right wingers” still even if it’s his own corrupt pals?