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How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

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Re: How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

#21
How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse.

The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too.

It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.

Re: How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

#22

> Large grocery stores and apartment buildings use big generators, they are the size of a car and way quieter than small generators. Many industrial generators are enclosed in a box that absorbs most of the noise, unlike the smaller ones.

The big ones are also diesel, run at different RPM. ~3500 RPM For the smalle gas ones and around 1800 RPM for the big diesel ones. The noise characteristcs are also different. The big diesels produce more low frequency noise, whereas the small gas generators are literally lawn mower / leaf blower engines and sound the same.

The enclosures of the big generators remove mainly lower frequency sound, making them perceptually even quieter.

Re: How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

#25

How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse. The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too. It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.

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Re: How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

#26

How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse. The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too. It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.

hate the game not the player

Re: How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

#28
post #2

"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?

At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketing? And thus freeing competent but money-driven software engineers to work on something else?

That's one of opening points of Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson.

Re: How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones

#30
post #9
post #2

"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?

Click farms effectively function as janitors, mopping up spam someone else paid to throw so that no real user stumbles upon it, so they are beneficial.

It’s computer fraud by the operator and wire fraud by the client…
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