How does this get around Twitter's limits on retrieving older tweets? Last time I built a script to bulk delete tweets I had to manually export my data to get all the tweet ids for older tweets.
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#22If there are any Redact devs here: Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said. Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit/discord let you do. Additionally, there should be a '…
Hm any competent ops team would have backups if they really cared to find your original data
Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
#23If there are any Redact devs here: Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said. Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit/discord let you do. Additionally, there should be a '…
> Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said.
This is a good point. Reddit is frequently uploaded to BigQuery [0]
0. https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=fh-bigquer...
Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
#24If there are any Redact devs here: Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said. Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit/discord let you do. Additionally, there should be a '…
Maybe I am alone on this, but it seems pretty unethical and selfish to "abuse" these systems and intentionally upload large amounts of garbage data in order to improve your own personal privacy. It is the equivalent of polluting. Feel free to overwrite and delete your comments to protect privacy, but users uploading "multi GB files full of random data" is putting a real burden on other people and is going to lead to a worse service for everyone.
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#25How come HN doesn't have to follow delete laws allowing users to delete their messages?
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#26Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big sites out there (we are adding more every day). Meaning, you could say something like "Delete all posts I made on instagram with less than 15 likes in 2019" or (very soon) "Delete all my tweets that are political" We have been working on this for a little over…
>Meaning, you could say something like... "Delete all my tweets that are political"
Are you open to sharing how this will be done? Are you doing analysis of the body of the posts, where they were posted, who or what they are replying to, etc? I imagine this is more difficult on some social media sites. Twitter for example is highly time sensitive. A tweet in reaction to some political news event might not have any political language in it and only reveals itself to be political when viewed in the proper context.
Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
#27If there are any Redact devs here: Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said. Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit/discord let you do. Additionally, there should be a '…
Maybe I am alone on this, but it seems pretty unethical and selfish to "abuse" these systems and intentionally upload large amounts of garbage data in order to improve your own personal privacy. It is the equivalent of polluting. Feel free to overwrite and delete your comments to protect privacy, but users uploading "multi GB files full of random data" is putting a real burden on other people and is going to lead to…
Unethical, maybe. Though, how ethical should one be in war when the enemy is a tyrant?
The signals to rebellion start slow: you pester and annoy the enemy to let them know they have tread on the wrong turf. You try to inform them, then you try to concede points for shared ground. Once the enemy has decided that your advancements and ground meeting are to their advantage, and continue to gain ground is what we identify as skirmishes and battle starts. You ambush, you destroy logistical routes, you make it difficult for the enemy perceive that this ground is worthwhile.
At what point do you fire the cannons? At what point does the normally docile rest of society join you to arm your rebellious battlements?
I think you are witnessing the populous arming their cannons. You can object, but you can't object that the enemy is closer than ever.
Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
#28If there are any Redact devs here: Please add a feature to 'edit' messages with random data rather than redact. This has the advantage of not only updating the 'live' database but also if it's backed up in the future they'll only have the garbage data and not what you actually said. Being able to overwrite history (where possible) is extremely valuable that reddit/discord let you do. Additionally, there should be a '…
Just a heads up, Reddit now rate limits edits. Many redact tools out there have not adapted yet unfortunately.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/mg077m/not_even_...
Re: Show HN: Redact – Automated deletion for your content on social networks
#29Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big sites out there (we are adding more every day). Meaning, you could say something like "Delete all posts I made on instagram with less than 15 likes in 2019" or (very soon) "Delete all my tweets that are political" We have been working on this for a little over…
Any ideas why your app is so big? macOS Redact is 433MB. Firefox is 370MB. Is this an artifact of electron?
This is the new normal for Electron-based apps on macOS. The Electron framework itself is ~350 MB when targeting both Intel- and M1-based Macs.
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#30I would like to have this for Hacker News! Then again as far as I know there’s no way to delete old posts other than to email a mod, so I suppose I could just schedule a regular automatic email.