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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by bbor »

stavros wrote: post #150
bbor wrote: post #52

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It's shockingly frustrating and disheartening. I recently (like, yesterday) got permanently banned from Reddit for "report abuse", for some random semi-nonsense comment I reported a month ago on a meme subreddit. Regardless of how justified that is or isn't -- I only have one side of the story to share of course, and I think I just got caught in some labor-saving measures for their underpaid+overworked admin staff --…

Can you not just create another account?

As discussed above, yes you can try to get around their IP blocks using a VPN — I’m guessing they have some basic ML models watching new account creation from banned IPs. It just seems… idk, pitiful? Embarrassing?

Also the subs I was creating are now locked forever behind a banned account, which is more funny than anything

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by zahlman »

junon wrote: post #51
zahlman wrote: post #42

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YouTube refused to let me create an account (after some trial and error) with the word "angry" in the channel name.

I have "angry" in my channel name, anecdotally. So it could have been something else.

All I know is that when I took that word out it let me create the account. This was somewhere around the same time as your account creation. It might be more complicated than that, but I'm not about to try and reverse-engineer it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by chmod775 »

zero-sharp wrote: post #202
chmod775 wrote: post #138

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> What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? I think most people would be... just fine? Personally I'm from a culture that is very distrusting of those big platforms anyways, so people are even less likely to rely on them. If my mom lost access to her google account she would be fine, my dad wouldn't notice (he has been using his own e-mail domain forever), neither would my…

>If losing access to any one account is a big deal for you, that's more than a major technological literacy failure - it's a basic life planning failure. Do not overly rely on a single thing controlled by people you cannot trust. Even my grandmother would know better. uhhuh. While it's a good idea to have backup plans and to exercise independence, people usually aren't accustomed to losing substantial parts of their…

Backup plan? You are missing the point. If you need a backup you already messed up. The only entities that should need backups of anything but treasured photos are businesses.

If you don't bank on the assumption that you will always have access to some random mail account and instead treat it like a discardable glove, you don't need a backup plan.

Lost access to your mail account and forgot your PW to to some random other account? Whatever. Make a new account, tell your friends. Happens all the time.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by aussieguy1234 »

hypercube33 wrote: post #72
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #58

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I have an esim on my phone which has its own number. I only turn it on if some services asks for a phone number so I don't have to give my main number. Its on a cheap yearly plan, very low data and calls included but I won't be using these.

I'd like to know more. My partner and I were discussing how online bans are unjust and permanent now everywhere. Just feels weird when the Internet we grew up with basically anything went and bans were maybe hours. I get the motivation for it but also feels like the world didn't learn lessons thousands of years old as well.

Its with a different partner to my main one, one of the cheapest phone providers in Australia.

I simply signed up and scanned the QR code they gave me to set up the esim. In settings I have it turned off all the time to save battery and its only turned on if its needed to sign up for services.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by p-e-w »

emsixteen wrote: post #139
p-e-w wrote: post #114

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> To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media. Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity. You can see this every time you read the news, but you can also hear it when you just talk to random people. The trend towards that cult…

> I can't even imagine having a conversation with a friend anymore the way I used to in the 1990s and early 2000s. I do wonder what you actually mean by this. > Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree. There is clear, evidenced research around social media's negative effect on society. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-020-01906-9 https://scholarcommons.scu.ed…

> I do wonder what you actually mean by this.

Spoke to an old friend on the phone recently, for the first time in 10 years or so. Within a few minutes of the conversation, he had used phrases like "As a father..." and "I cannot stand by while..."

It was as if he were speaking to an audience, rather than to me. I was glad when the call ended.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by junon »

zahlman wrote: post #212
junon wrote: post #51

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I have "angry" in my channel name, anecdotally. So it could have been something else.

All I know is that when I took that word out it let me create the account. This was somewhere around the same time as your account creation. It might be more complicated than that, but I'm not about to try and reverse-engineer it.

Oh I believe you, was more commenting on the uncertainty of all of it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by olivermuty »

codetrotter wrote: post #129
olivermuty wrote: post #91

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I don’t get why you get downvoted on this comment. Anyone buying from Amazon should realize they are buying from Temu in a trenchcoat, filling the pockets of an immoral man who treats his warehouse workers like chattel. I have bought from amazon exactly once in four years now, because a vendor (a chinese one!) has Amazon as the only outlet where they provide warranty because they are plagued with counterfeits and boo…

I don’t find any Playdigi Apex, but I find Flydigi Apex. Is that the one? https://www.amazon.com/PC-Controller-Feedback-Force-Adjustab... And how different is it from for example this one, which under half the price and looks like it has a better rating? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY83CL2D

There you are at the crux of the issue. You can’t trust amazon ratings at all :(

But you are completely right btw, it was indeed flydigi and not playdigi. And the one you linked is unknown to me.

I bought the Flydigi one after a very in depth review by this guy: https://youtu.be/WwQ4Q1mgyik?si=knLgDsqsyELq0B_t

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Post by waihtis »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #200
waihtis wrote: post #156

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I'd get this sentiment if it was some super critical piece of living a fulfilling life, but amazon is a junk store which makes the whole situation absurd to begin with

There are only so many places you can order stuff on-line locally, to save on non-food products more expensive or downright unavailable locally. Interfacing with individual vendor and their bespoke system for each purchase gets cognitively exhausting quickly - a major reason why people prefer those large marketplaces. And then, it's not just Amazon. Adopting such policies is becoming a trend parallel to centralizatio…

> Interfacing with individual vendor and their bespoke system for each purchase gets cognitively exhausting quickly

If using a web shop is cognitively exhausting to you, there likely are bigger problems underneath.

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Post by rlayton2 »

smcin wrote: post #64
junon wrote: post #51

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I have "angry" in my channel name, anecdotally. So it could have been something else.

Depends, what date did you create that channel, they may have changed rules since.

The problem is the rules aren't specified, if you fall afoul of a rule you do not get told which rule it is, and the rules are AI-based decisions that are hard to even understand. If the process was transparent, it would be a lot easier to deal with.

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Post by BlueTemplar »

mandmandam wrote: post #81
rnts08 wrote: post #75

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

God it really is heinous. However, I don't think it's a consequence of the platform, but of work culture. People are like that because it works , and it works because we're deep, deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit. The people profiting from destroying every public good - peace, pollution-free air and water and soil, housing, healthcare, etc etc - own basically everything. Our politici…

It wouldn't, it will get enshittified too (see GP's issues with GitHub too), you have to go look beyound platforms.

(Well, I guess Hacker News remains an exception for now, due to a very specific model and circumstances I guess ?)

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