Jiggle_Physics

u/Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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There is a phenomenon going on right now where tiny sites are getting knocked offline due to sudden traffic, basically DDOSing them. It has been found that the automation of these bot farms sends out scrapers to find new places where you can post on the site. Like anything, anything hat allows you to post anything on the site. So it will find some tiny store's webfront, see it has a place for customer reviews, and then tell the bot farm it has found new land. The place then gets swarmed with bot traffic.

So literally everywhere you can post anything is getting bot traffic right now.

on Kid Names · c/whitepeopletwitter · 4 pts · 325d

There is a difference between addressing why mainstream taste may shift, vs the exact outcomes of that shift.

on Kid Names · c/whitepeopletwitter · 13 pts · 325d

That, or they grew up in a situation like me where I knew 14 people named Mike, 8 named Peter, 12 Jacobs, and 9 Anthonys.

I was always glad my parents chose an uncommon name for me.

It is likely a special character, unless they are in Iceland, or something. However, you can just map it to a key. Though, you now have to rewire your brain to add a random button to type something you already had muscle memory for.

It is the thorn. They aren't the only one who does it, though I see this person the most, here. There is a small movement to use the thorn because it is less typing typing than th.

Oh silencing Naomi Wu because, while her social media wasn't about anything that China would ban, engineering and making, she is gay, and her lesbian partner is Uighur. Complaining about the rapidly rising costs of housing, and the comparative stagnancy in pay, will get your social media shut down. Oh if you put a small image making fun of Xi, buried in the background of a densely textured scene, well we will threaten trade with your government to force them to stop the distribution of your game.

on Visually indistinguishable · c/funny · 6 pts · 327d

While it wasn't an "indistinguishable from real life" experience, my first really mind blowing experience with graphics was installing my new 3dfx Voodoo and turning on GL

on Anon is a movie critic · c/greentext · 4 pts · 328d

And remember Troll 1 where a dorky, bespectacled, young boy, with messy brown hair, is thrown into a parallel world of magic, who happens to be named Harry Potter

on True story · c/funny · 20 pts · 332d

The dumbest people I know have been being told a large portion of their dumbest thoughts, and ideas, are correct for 30-79 years now.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 1 pts · 334d

I was in my last year working as a loan underwriter. I was otherwise living in a way that excited me, and played into my antisocial tendencies. It was a fun time.