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> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. I feel a bit the same, but why?
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I am absolutely certain people die hitting their head while at paid ice skating rinks. I'm amazed they haven't been sued into oblivion to where helmets are required to be worn. So it seems like we do have SOME semblance of understanding risk vs reward.
Business insurance is what prevents isolated disasters from killing off businesses. Insurance takes on many useful forms. For instance, you can hire a winter season snow removal service from companies that indemnify you from people slipping and falling on your property based on their having an insurance umbrella that covers all their customers. May not be relevant to Omegle. It takes a healthy income to be able to af…
The site was rife with perverts, Neo-Nazi propaganda, CSAM distribution, and honeypot operations. I think people are idealizing what it was in recent years, believing it was the same fun as in the early 2010s. It was an absolute shitshow. The owner acts like Omegle was about innocent curious internet explorers asking cute questions and spreading knowledge. Bull shit. I never met a professor on Omegle. The most common…
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Just today I was dreaming of how awesome it would be if you could just somehow filter "good sports" and just open a game up for online play without having to think about all the bad behavior. How amazing would that be? In my eyes during the golden age of the internet that I think of, you could still do that... bad actors now and then but not a huge % and we were all excited just to play together and enjoy how cool ev…
Try skiing or hiking. Basically anything with high enough effort bar or cost bar is a sufficient proxy for this filter.
> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery Have people always thought this (e.g. "the youth of today are lazy") or is it measurably true? I feel like it's obviously true.
So, I wouldn't say its like "we always thought that". Its more like we had a good short phase and now its back to normal. Or maybe the good phase is the normal and the pendulum swings back?
Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there. One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzHV9QD0Is (Harry Mack freestyling for random Omegle matches, it was a series of 90+ episodes and brought me and others so much joy during COVID)
This definitely may have destroyed the career of a large number of widely popular youtubers... It certainly destroyed their format anyway. Imagine they'll hop to a different platform.
The site was rife with perverts, Neo-Nazi propaganda, CSAM distribution, and honeypot operations. I think people are idealizing what it was in recent years, believing it was the same fun as in the early 2010s. It was an absolute shitshow. The owner acts like Omegle was about innocent curious internet explorers asking cute questions and spreading knowledge. Bull shit. I never met a professor on Omegle. The most common…
The internet's not great, but unless you live in an elite city with a well-paying job, you're not going to find better interactions outside.
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I looked around and found an AMA [1]. > Python, using the Twisted framework for networking. > Omegle runs on just one server: a Linode 2880. It used to be on a 720, which was very close to sufficient. No database at the moment, but if it never needs one, I'll most likely use PostgreSQL. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9vbd7/i_made_omegleco...
The link to the proof is dead :(
“ All that said, the fight against crime isn’t one that can ever truly be won.” This is something that most people don’t understand and fail to accept. The human species for millennia has been fighting, stealing, rapping, killing and kept doing bad things to each other. This is in our nature and will never change. No matter how much moderation, AI checks, safety measures and good “players” exist, there will always be…
Removing motivation is usually about economics, policy, removing access or ability, and whatever the word is for making it hard via structures (example: a company with a culture of 'look the other way' will make it easy to commit white collar crimes).
Combine that with a rule of law which treats all people equally and ensures that even small offenders get caught will make most people not consider it. The 'punishment' need not be harsh as long as the perpetrator is found. There is good evidence that it is the likelyhood of being being caught that deters crime much more than the sentence.
The first thing we could do is remove laws which make people criminals for doing things that are not viewed as criminal. One of the reasons prohibition was so terrible for American culture was that it make most adults into de facto criminals for doing something they viewed as normal. Once everyone is a criminal then many people are acclimated to it and see all laws as 'if I don't get caught, then who cares?'.
That said, if someone really wants to rape someone no law in the world is going to stop them from doing it, and someone who is in a jealous rage will not be pacified by laws either.