Welcome to real life: advertisement is seen as filth. People might tolerate it in exchange for something else, but being “targetted” doesn’t make them less filthy; on the contrary, once you get how it’s being targetted at the expense of your privacy, comparing it with dog shit becomes unfair - because dog shit is less worse.

As such I want to see Perplexity bankrupt.

Hexbear started in Reddit, as r/chapotraphouse.

“Personal information fuels much of AI innovation so people need to trust that organisations are using their information responsibly,” it said.

*sigh* Please make me forget that “trusting” is just an euphemism for “gullible”.

Anyway. It’ll get worse over time; for now they claim that your messages aren’t being fed into Meta AI, but that’s bound to change later on.

Perfect analogy. I still used /vg/ and very rarely /a/, but nowhere as much as I did before. Methheads moved in, I moved out, and now the house burned.

Fair point. And frankly, he should’ve done this.

moot sold the site to hiro in 2015, but I think your reasoning is valid - it’s possible hiro is not too eager to defend the fascists who infested 4chan, and simply won’t bother to put the site up again.

NO U

Can you even triforce? NO YOU CAN’T BECAUSE YOU’RE A NEWBIE, THE CANCER KILLING /b/! FUCKING SUMMER

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…fuck, I can’t triforce either!

(About the -fag suffix: sorry to be “that guy” but let’s avoid using it, OK? It’s 2025, and we aren’t in 4chan, that implicit “-fag means nothing” context is gone.)

(Caveat lector: IDK/DC who are Roy Moore or Doug Jones.)

…this sort of power-tripping bastard, desperate to enforce their opinions, was really common in 4chan. However Fubarberry is talking about structure; structurally speaking 4chan highlighted divisive opinions, while e.g. Lemmy, Lebbit etc. do the opposite.

/ck/ (cooking - mentioned by the article), /vg/ (where people discussed video games; /v/ aka /b corta/ was a shithole), /sci/ (science) were also decent. /tr/ /vp/ (Pokemon) was also really fun, at least when I still enjoyed the franchise. /a/ (anime) was a bit of hit-or-miss.

/b/ was only the main pipeline of cancer until /pol/ was created and took over the crown - instead of cancer mixed with dumb trolls and memes, /pol/ was pure and distilled cancer.

probably a hangover from too much Robot Unicorn Attack

Fuck, I miss that Flash game. Catchy song, simple but addictive mechanic, weird and awesome.

I remember when /b/ was good. But then that “moot” newbie came in, and ruined things forever.

…jokes aside I’m going to miss 4chan. Or at least the 4chan from the late 00s ~ early 10s, that I used periodically; it was already problematic, but as other users here said it was a unique experience.

See ya, space cowboys.

Be careful with this sort of comment. You don’t want to piss off Musk by mocking his property, do you?

Delicious.

I feel like those tech companies will do this “let’s set up a façade in Vietnam, until Vietnam gets tariffed and we do it elsewhere” silly dance for now. But eventually they’ll stop caring - as USA’s customer market becomes increasingly impoverished, it becomes less of an issue to appease its whimsy kinglet.

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)…

Mine be like:

Hat? OK. No glasses? OK. Shaved beard, cut hair? OK. New shoes? I DON’T RECOGNISE YOU, SHHH! SHHH!

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.