I got one from the same username 2h ago:

Notice the lack of crypto links. Is it possible we have copycat Nicoles?

Perhaps a meta-scammer?

Got Nicole’d twice, last time ~a hour ago.

My guess is that the scammer is simply hitting random Fediverse people, with no meaningful pattern besides “some post/comment activity”.

For further info, check here. But to keep it short: when instance A “guarantees” instance B, instance B becomes part of a whitelist of instances, that other instances can use to decide if they’ll federate or not with instance B. That only works if instance A is also a guaranteed instance, so it forms a full chain of trust, backtracking all the way into fediseer.com.

I’m impressed by the voice generation. They even gave rather thick accents to the voices (heavily rhotic, tapping, the female voice uses vocal fry)…

Reworded rules for clarity:

1. Min required length must be 8 chars (obligatory), but it should be 15 chars (recommended).
2. Max length should allow at least 64 chars.
3. You should accept all ASCII plus space.
4. You should accept Unicode; if doing so, you must count each code as one char.
5. Don’t demand composition rules (e.g. “u’re password requires a comma! lol lmao haha” tier idiocy)
6. Don’t bug users to change passwords periodically. Only do it if there’s evidence of compromise.
7. Don’t store password hints that others can guess.
8. Don’t prompt the user to use knowledge-based authentication.
9. Don’t truncate passwords for verification.

I was expecting idiotic rules screaming “bureaucratic muppets don’t know what they’re legislating on”, but instead what I’m seeing is surprisingly sane and sensible.

A country is solely a government controlling a territory and a population. It’s a tool and it should be seen as one.

It makes more sense to have a favourite screwdriver than a favourite country. At least it’s a physical tool.

As I mentioned in another post, about the same topic:

Slapping the words “artificial intelligence” onto your product makes you look like those shady used cars salesmen: in the best hypothesis it’s misleading, in the worst it’s actually true but poorly done.

The key to adquire vocab is to find a method that you’re comfortable with, and that you don’t mind repeating in a timely manner. Two that I personally like are:

semantic map

As you learn a new word, you write it down, with an explanation (translation, drawing, up to you), and then connect it to words that are conceptually related, that you already learned.

So for example. Let’s say that you were learning English instead of Korean. And you just learned the word “chicken”. You could do something like this:

You can extend those maps as big as you want, and also include other useful bits of info, like grammar - because you’ll need that info later on. Also note what I did there with “(ptak)”, leaving a blank for a word that you’d be planning to learn later on; when you do it, you simply write “bird” over it and done, another word in the map.

It’s important to review your old semantic maps; either to add new words or to review the old ones.

flashcards

Prepare a bunch of small pieces of paper. Harder paper is typically better. Add the following to each:

• a Korean word
• a translation in a language that you’re proficient with (it’s fine to mix)
• small usage details, as translations are almost never 100% accurate
• some grammatical tidbit (e.g. is this a verb or a noun? If a verb: stative, descriptive, active, or copulative?)
• a simple example sentence using that word
• [optional] some simple drawing

Then as you have some free time (just after lunch, in the metro, etc.), you review those cards.