All good points.

That’s a fair point. Actively disabling it at the last minute, after everything had been underway, is significant.

Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why this narrative even needs to be played out.

I don’t know what angle there is by making Musk a scapegoat beyond, maybe, Ukraine trying to strengthen its supporting relationship with the US population, but it already has most of the US support anyway.

Musk has his issues, there’s no doubt about that, but not wanting to be involved is an ethical stance to take on his part.

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Be patient. It takes time to “get going”.

If you know how to program, you’re in a good spot. If you don’t know how to program, start with fundamentals.

SICP is good. It’s Lisp. You’ll probably never write a line of Lisp professionally, but it will help shape how you reason about solving problems.

Develop some solid fundamentals.

Not only that, but with Dems it’s all morphine.

The cancer is terminal.

Yeap. It’s a sad thing. And it only contributes to more polarization, which is fucking terrible.

That’s not a bad thing. I wouldn’t consider watchpeopledie healthy for anyone.

That was then; this is now. A lot has changed in the last few years.

We on Lemmy

No shit. Didn’t you get the memo that Lemmy was filled with Reddit transplants over a month ago?

center leaning uninformed average Joes

That’s quite a generalization

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Sure. Not sure how that’s relevant though?

In general, finding an exploit requires looking for little tiny details that could exist in, really, any area of a given system; looking for a bug, and then exploiting that bug by understanding how input data can be used to create a deterministic chain of events.

This almost always requires thinking outside of the box.

There are people who are also paid to find these before malicious actors do.

It’s always going to be creative in some way, at least in the beginning.

It’s like when people first discover Quake’s fast inverse square root. Sure, the first time around it seems genius. In reality, code like that is actually everywhere, and there is a somewhat trivial aspect to optimizing those kinds of problems.

The way the hack was utilized is honest very creative and interesting;

That’s often the case with exploits.

but “fuck Meta/Google because they’re evil” is subjective as hell and gets us nowhere except back to Reddit culture.

That’s true. A lot of Reddit culture is cringe as well

Thanks

companies and hiring agencies putting up fake job offers in order to harvest personal data?

oooof

By justifing Spez’s actions as smart.

Where am I justifying what he’s done, though.

I’m not saying his actions are smart. I’m saying they’re not “dumb”. I’m saying they’re practically expected.

That’s the environment we’re working with at the moment.

He made a play that got him what he wanted at the expense of the interests of Reddit’s users.

So did Zuckerberg with Facebook. So did Tim Cook with Apple.

This is nothing new - it’s the same old, battered story of a CEO fucking over its users for their own gain as well as the gain of their shareholders.

They do not care about long term outcomes. They can afford to not care. They do not give a fuck about anything that you give a fuck about, and they definitely don’t play by the rules you play by.

Calling them “dumb” is like throwing a rock at a killer robot who’s out to destroy you: not only does it do absolutely fucking nothing, you just spent energy and time that went nowhere.

And then you have the people telling the rock throwers not to do that, but then the rock throwers flip out and throw rocks at them.

The idea that forcing subs to go “dark” is going to reverse anything is also ludicrous.

They can do whatever the fuck they want with Reddit, and they have their reasons (good or bad, for better or worse).

They also don’t care what you have to say about it, because at this point, your interests are fundamentally at odds with theirs.