Key barrier to online fraud can be bypassed for pennies, say researchers
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Key barrier to online fraud can be bypassed for pennies, say researchers
> A central barrier to the creation of bogus social media accounts can be bypassed for as little as a few cents at a time, researchers at the University of Cambridge determined, a sign of just how low the barriers are to online disinformation efforts. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/key-barrier-online-fraud-can-be-bypassed-pennies-say-researchers-5577236 #socialmedia
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@soatok I want them to federate, though.
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The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page
(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…
http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/
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I went to the Museum of Science and Industry, before riding around Jackson Park. Then I took the Lakefront Trail all the way to the north end of the trail. #chicago #dusk #skyline #darktable #photography
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Detail of Robie House near UChicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. #chicago #architecture #photography #darktable
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@anton @thezerobit this project has taken up the majority of my free time and spare thought this year. I have no regrets. It is magic. It has been very rewarding and I highly recommend making visual programming languages.
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@bryan but, I have a severely negative reaction to companies requiring me to talk to people (or worse, an AI) on the phone. And T-Mobile got to the point where literally everything required a phone call, even things the "T-Life" app or website is supposed to be able to do, that never actually worked.
Even once I was talking to a real person, getting a transfer PIN sucked. Just a miserable support experience.
Not because the people are bad, but because the systems are designed to be hostile.
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@anton @thezerobit my recommendation is to find a 2D drawing API that you like, and experiment with drawing the basic primitives of your language, and seeing if it scales up acceptably. Once you have that, you can work out how to make those experiments parametric, and how to connect them to the underlying runtime of your language. Pick interaction semantics that are easy to implement. Every button in mollytime triggers on mouse down instead of up for example.
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@Gina I think the worst part about that is not the (stupid) effect; but the fact some humans in fragile state of mind can start empathize with bots actually start believing they are having a real conversation. There is absolutely no reason to try and make a chatbot look like a human, yet they are still doing it.
And it (literally) kills people. I will never understand how they can keep up with that crap.
