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  • gwilikers@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    14 days ago

    Got it. Its worth mentioning that the people behind these leaks seem to be Soyjacks, who basically left 4Chan because they felt it was too PC. They are a bunch of racist, omniphobic shitbirds.

    Edit: Also, there’s no .gov emails.





  • I’d like to add that Wikipedia itself, while an amazing resource, can be full of propaganda. I came across a page for an international organisation against chemical warfare and went to the edit history. Sourced additions regarding complaints by scientists on the ground in Syria that their findings were being completely misrepresented to show Assad was using chemical warfare were consistently scrubbed without any reason given.

    It’s funny that I was actually looking at that page randomly while considering how to code a tool that would highlight the most recent (and therefore unreviewed) edits on wiki. I got the idea from a Defcon talk on how to counter and deal with misinformation. It’s ironic that in this instance, it was the more established editors that were propagating misnformation.




  • Really? I had an app that would autogenarate time sheets for work in Google Sheets. I decided to minimise API calls by doing a single call to Google Drive then parse the HTML and reupload. Not a big Python project but ChatGPT hit a wall pretty fast on that one. Though, tbf the documentation was suprisingly opaque so I suppose that goes back to your point.

    That project also produced my finest pile of spaghetti code since I had to account for stretched cells in the HTML parsing. I still have a piece of paper with my innumerate math scribbles. The paper makes sense to me. The code does not.




  • This video genuinely came off as satire to me. Like ‘If you spend, $20 more you can reduce the sum total suffering of this animal (before we kill it) while still giving money to us (the very corporations that engage in those practices). That is, if any of these labels even mean anything (which they don’t).’

    Like, the premise of, ‘I don’t like it when animals suffer so how can we make them suffer less (while still suffering cuz I like to eat meat)’ is such an morally bankrupt starting point for an argument.

    I appreciate that they highlighted the insane cruelty of factory farms on a popular channel but ffs if your going to mention the importance of individual purchasing power in determining market trends and not say ‘You could also, y’know, just not fucking eat animal products,’ then I feel like the arguments you’re making are a bit spineless.