I've mentioned before that I lurk on Reddit to observe the absolute political cesspool that the aggregate site has been in the last ten years outside of this community and PDW's during the time it was still there. These days, though, I can't seem to wrap my head around how these people are even functioning in society. It's just... heartbreaking. They can't even see the truth for what it is when it's right in front of their faces. We're not completely at that point yet, but when the 4-6% who never see the light come out, I'm quite certain the non-bot individuals on Reddit are going to make a large portion of that group.
You mention bots. Well, DOGE just defunded a bunch of Bot-farms in Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia amongst others). I am surprised they haven't found the Serbian servers yet. Still waiting. (Those were the ones that did some coding for the 2020 election).
I wonder if botfarm-eradication, with the patented DOGE roach-kill, will uproot the prevalent, glowing, Reddit comments?
This is no surprise and I can confirm correlation. The Baltic States have a history of being in the business of cyber crime.
We have CS 1.3 videos playing on petrol pump screens. I'd guesstimate a quantifiable portion of males age 25 - 45 know more about networking, hardware, and coding than American counterparts.
This comes from after Soviet times. Everyone was pirating everything. Imagine late 90s teenagers literally running FTP servers and generator breaking into every media IP products available to consumer at the time. Not so much because everyone was dirt poor, but because global markets did not care about Baltic States as consumers. So, cause/effect: you won't make or sell product here? OK, we'll just figure out how to pirate everything and create our own hardware.
This is almost a tradition in some aspects. Look back to Soviet times for a plethora of underground music, film, and computer production studios!
Now if you'll excuse me, I must spin my bootleg Ritonis Stooges album while playing Diablo2 on a computer made out of an old Tandy running on a roomful of daisy-chained empty pint beer bottles filled with pickle juice and smelted scrap iron. /s
I can agree to the pirating angle with teenagers in the house. My young ones are fully conversant with the latest of dark ad-blockers that circumvent Youtube's stern warnings, they Torrent on the regular, and don't give a fig about hooom hooom on the news. Oh, and one of them 3-D prints gun attachments. One of them has a Lithuanian chat-friend. I won't go into detail, but it is quite amusing to see their grandparents ask them to fix their IT.
I've mentioned before that I lurk on Reddit to observe the absolute political cesspool that the aggregate site has been in the last ten years outside of this community and PDW's during the time it was still there. These days, though, I can't seem to wrap my head around how these people are even functioning in society. It's just... heartbreaking. They can't even see the truth for what it is when it's right in front of their faces. We're not completely at that point yet, but when the 4-6% who never see the light come out, I'm quite certain the non-bot individuals on Reddit are going to make a large portion of that group.
You mention bots. Well, DOGE just defunded a bunch of Bot-farms in Eastern Europe (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia amongst others). I am surprised they haven't found the Serbian servers yet. Still waiting. (Those were the ones that did some coding for the 2020 election).
I wonder if botfarm-eradication, with the patented DOGE roach-kill, will uproot the prevalent, glowing, Reddit comments?
This is no surprise and I can confirm correlation. The Baltic States have a history of being in the business of cyber crime.
We have CS 1.3 videos playing on petrol pump screens. I'd guesstimate a quantifiable portion of males age 25 - 45 know more about networking, hardware, and coding than American counterparts.
This comes from after Soviet times. Everyone was pirating everything. Imagine late 90s teenagers literally running FTP servers and generator breaking into every media IP products available to consumer at the time. Not so much because everyone was dirt poor, but because global markets did not care about Baltic States as consumers. So, cause/effect: you won't make or sell product here? OK, we'll just figure out how to pirate everything and create our own hardware.
This is almost a tradition in some aspects. Look back to Soviet times for a plethora of underground music, film, and computer production studios!
Now if you'll excuse me, I must spin my bootleg Ritonis Stooges album while playing Diablo2 on a computer made out of an old Tandy running on a roomful of daisy-chained empty pint beer bottles filled with pickle juice and smelted scrap iron. /s
I can agree to the pirating angle with teenagers in the house. My young ones are fully conversant with the latest of dark ad-blockers that circumvent Youtube's stern warnings, they Torrent on the regular, and don't give a fig about hooom hooom on the news. Oh, and one of them 3-D prints gun attachments. One of them has a Lithuanian chat-friend. I won't go into detail, but it is quite amusing to see their grandparents ask them to fix their IT.
Did I mention the hardware?
This is the way. I commend your parenting of the next generation of digital soldiers! o7