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Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by sitkack »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #95
sitkack wrote: post #75

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I really think that people need to have an AI shield or body guard that monitors and controls ones access to media, to protect them from harmful concepts and behaviors. This might sound fantastical, and I understand the vastness of implications, but it will be viewed as no different than wearing sunglasses or mittens. We wear clothing and protect ourselves from the environment, the mental environment out there is unl…

I forsee some problems with people being able to literally lock themselves in different realities in real life depending on their personal views

We have that already, and we also have people that don't participate because it is too dangerous psychologically.

At the lowest level, I am talking about even being able to watch a movie on Netflix and not be exposed to the most grotesque violence. Just black out the 36 frames of someone taking a hook through the eye. Or doing sentiment analysis on a thread and recommending that you not partake.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by rtchau »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #13

I haven't looked, but I'm guessing that it will be filled with ethnic slurs and bitcoin spam soon, if it isn't already.

Yeah, you definitely called that one. It's like a smouldering cornucopia of antisemitism, "Buy GME", penises, "Death to America", more penises, more GME... if an alien race were using this as a tool to profile us and decide our fate, we'd be toast. Props to the author for creating something entertaining, but it just goes to show you can't control what people post.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by gxnxcxcx »

Tepix wrote: post #50
HDMI_Cable wrote: post #46

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A machine learning algorithm then uses that stuff to recommend content which is similar. If one engages with opinionated stuff, then they'll only get recommended stuff that conforms to their original opinion, forming an echo chamber.

You need to change the viewing setting to "latest first"

And, as far as I can understand, it will disengage itself from "latest first" as soon as it detects you are not addicted enough to not miss every new update with it engaged, thus having zero echo-cancelling powers.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by Mapsmithy »

some_random wrote: post #126
madhato wrote: post #121

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Doesn't the regex sanitize it before display?

Yes but it's pretty easily bypassed

I asked earlier because I'm genuinely curious, but do you have a payload that would bypass this particular regex?

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by EarthLaunch »

DoofusOfDeath wrote: post #96
EarthLaunch wrote: post #27

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It's mined by the same agencies that monitor everything. So your venting is deleted for yourself, but preserved eternally for the people with power over you. I rather like it.

> So your venting is deleted for yourself, but preserved eternally for the people with power over you. I rather like it. I love the phrasing. It instantly made me imagine those words being spoken by Lord Demiurge [0] (as voiced by Jeff Johnson [1]). [0] https://overlordmaruyama.fandom.com/wiki/Demiurge [1] https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Overlord/Demiu... .

Thanks! I was going to say 'preserved forever for' but the double-'for' was awkward. Phrasing credit goes to fantasy author David Eddings, attitude to a C.S. Friedman character, Tarrant. Lord Demiurge has some interesting similarities!

Searches show interesting Gnostic ideas about Demiurge being a lion-faced-serpent. How appropriate. I have trouble finding a sample of Jeff Johnson as Demiurge, though.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by vfinn »

SwiftyBug wrote: post #130
vfinn wrote: post #112

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Yeah, go ahead and down vote without explaining yourself. It's so educational!

My guess is that you were downvoted because you sound like you are talking about a very important system with a huge number of users that could have catastrophic consequences if the vulnerability is not fixed. It's just a project from a novice programmer having fun. Hence, no need to take the site down.

So it's not a principled decision? How many users does the site have? 10000, 100000? To me, that's a lot. Thanks for answering.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by 867-5309 »

PhillyG wrote: post #12
typhonius wrote: post #10

Looks like you can query the database directly via their REST API: https://api.ventspace.life/api/v1/ventpost?sort=id,desc&size...

I wonder what the most common word will be? I'd guess between "covid" and "Maddie"

over the last ~20hrs, the most common words and their frequencies are "the": 12263, "i": 12212, "fuck": 9015, "you": 8940. with stopwords removed, these become "fuck": 9015, "guess": 4084, "nums": 4062, "cunny": 3728. out of interest "maddie": 857, "covid": 231

I wondered too

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by Tepix »

gxnxcxcx wrote: post #134
Tepix wrote: post #50

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You need to change the viewing setting to "latest first"

And, as far as I can understand, it will disengage itself from "latest first" as soon as it detects you are not addicted enough to not miss every new update with it engaged, thus having zero echo-cancelling powers.

It did that for a while, but in the last months it stopped doing that. I'm not even using it very frequently but it remains at "sort by date"

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by simply_sam »

VentScape wrote: post #41
szhu wrote: post #40

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The safe, proper way to do this is both shorter and more readable! Both with jQuery: const $newdiv = $(' ') .addClass(messageDivClass) .text(inputTextBox.value) .css({'opacity': '0.95'}); and without: const newdiv = document.createElement('div'); newdiv.classList.add(messageDivClass); newdiv.innerText = inputTextBox.value; newdiv.style.opacity = '0.95';

Hey, creator of the site here, thank you so much for the tip! Unfortunately I'm quite new to full stack. ~1.5 months ago I didn't know a lick of HTML (let alone CSS, JS, any backend framework, AWS, etc), and I'm making lots of mistakes along the way. Currently trying to figure out how to improve my DB performance as Spring's default pagination seems to be quite slow and my site is getting hugged to death at the momen…

Hi, is there any way to contact you privately?

I would like to use this idea on a project of mine.

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