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  • Excuse me what the fuck? I didn’t do any of that you absolute psycho. Go take your meds.

    I’d been content to let you stew in your suckiness. This is beyond the pale now. I’m reporting you.

    Edit: I had a full response typed up and hit cancel instead of preview. Fucking hell. It was beautiful. So here’s the cliff notes. Please pardon the shortness.

    TL;DR- You’re full of shit. You saw an opportunity to try and use my admission of using 4chan as a stain against me, hoping it would make people just believe at face value that I would doxx you for some reason.

    I think this is one of the first times I’ve even interacted with your dumb ass. There’s no reason for me to even imagine doxxing you.

    You didn’t post any receipts (of the modlogs, I’m not telling you to post the supposed doxx before you start accusing me of more insanity), so I scoured things myself. Timelines don’t add up.

    Seriously dumb/obsessive levels of analysis over an absolutely absurd claim against my character. You've been warned.

    SJW modlogs, filtered by ban from site, have only one ban for doxxing in the past 3 days: barneyboy. Here are the full SJW modlogs against that user.

    So let’s lay out a timeline:

    • 11/19 at 8:27PM, GMT -5: I’ve already stated or implied I’m east coast US on this, my only lemmy account besides one on lemmynsfw that I haven’t used since I made it. Go wild knowing my local time zone. All further times I state are in that zone. Anyway, you make your “YDI” comment and say I’m fishing for sympathy despite two statements to the contrary in my post.

    • 11/20 at 1:01AM: I respond, calling out your failure in reading comprehension.

    • 8:11AM: You made the “aww, precious” comment.

    • 11:04AM: First modlog for barneyboy. Removal of a post with a title that definitely sounds like some pathetic asshole doxxing someone.

    • 12:53PM: I respond to your weak bait. Why the fuck would someone who doxxed you continue the conversation like nothing happened, especially if it was caught and removed 2 hours earlier? Because I didn’t doxx you dipshit.

    • 12:57PM: You call me ableist for using the literal name of an ancient 4chan meme. Still no mention of the doxx that was removed two hours ago now.

    • 1:22PM: I reply, letting you and the crowd know I’m done and blocking you. Still carrying on like nothing happened, because you know, I didn’t doxx you. Blocked your anarchist.nexus account and the comms it moderates.

    • 1:28PM: You downvote my comment about blocking you using your primary account on anarchist.nexus. Cope, seethe, mald.

    • 1:34PM: Concern trolling comment

    • 2:50-ish PM: You switch over to your lemmy.dbzer0.com account and downvote all my comments on this post in one go. Here’s the lemvotes screenshot for the post where I said I’d block you, but lemvotes is available for anyone to check the other ones themselves. Still no mention of the doxx which was discovered/removed almost 4 hours ago. That’s a little weird on your part. I could see being worried so you wouldn’t engage at all, but going out of your way to vote manipulate and also not call it out? Weird weird weird.

    • 4:05-ish PM: Taking a break from endless PowerShell scripting, I browse lemmy on the shitter. Surprised to see more downvotes than just from pissing off you. Still pooping, toss my comment permalink in lemvotes. See you hit it with both your anarchist.nexus and lemmy.dbzer0.com accounts. Decide to pop a cheeky edit in calling it out. I’m not one to miss a good opportunity to highlight someone being a douche while trying to claim some sort of high ground. 5 hours past the doxx’s removal.

    • 4:11PM: Tossed my other comments from the thread with more than one downvote at lemvotes. You’ve double downvoted all of them. Clear vote manipulation, can’t even claim some weaksauce shit we see in this comm of “how am I supposed to remember”? Make another edit to my “I’m blocking you” post.

    • 4:13PM: Think through my frustration at your dumb ass and removed the r-slur from my post calling your shit weak. Not looking to use ableist language, but I sure as hell am too obstinate to remove it for your dumb ass when you’re clear as day only saying it to stir shit.

    • 4:30PM: Per the modlog, the post is restored and removed by SJW admins to try and force removal to federate.

    • 11:18PM: 12 fucking hours past the initial removal of your supposed doxx, you finally make a comment about it.

    This is where it all breaks down spectacularly. Quotes from the last linked comment.

    right after his comment

    11:04AM doesn’t remotely line up with any of my comments.

    It can’t be that it was posted up earlier and it took them time to remove it because…

    shoutout to the SJW admins for immediately banning the dude, although I was going to leave it up for longer

    So… they took it down pretty quick is what you’re saying? Maybe not, but then this next part makes no sense

    I was going to leave it up for longer so that everyone could see

    So then why didn’t you say anything about it until 12 fucking hours later, after numerous continued back and forth between us?

    I’ll spell it out for the peanut gallery: Because he’s full of it. I’ve had the misfortune to know people like this before.

    The absolute best explanation you could give for this is that they took it down before you saw it, they sent it to you afterwards to confirm, and your line about wanting to leave it up is just bravado.

    But here’s the kicker: We still haven’t even confirmed if barneyboy matches what he’s claiming. I can’t figure out how to get to community specific modlogs to see where this post was removed from.

    His quokk.au account and his anarchist.nexus account link to a keyoxide page that lists three different lemmy accounts. His comms can be found from there.

    Also, I fully expect an attempt to hand wave away all the incongruous behavior by pulling out something like this response he got to one of his other aggro comments on this post.

    Most of all, his reply to another comment in the thread here:

    Screenshots of crypt and my little sub-thread, in case he tries to edit this shit away.

    Why the fuck do I care so much about this?

    To head off the kafkatrap of “you spent so much effort denying it so you must be guilty!” Got trauma from my parents on that wonderful chestnut and I won’t stand for it.

    As far as the obsessive timeline…

    I’ve talked some in previous comments on this account about my worst ex. I lost five years of my life to her. She always had some story about how the world or other people were out for her at no fault of her own. Always some way to twist herself into the poor victim. In retrospect, she saw herself as highly intelligent and the rest of the world as dumb rubes she could get to dance to whatever tune she wanted. Honest to god gaslit me. Not “lied to me”, gaslit me. I had a breakdown where I didn’t feel that I could believe my own memory, and a decade and a half later I still tend to accept others’ recollections over my own.

    But in retrospect? Every single one of her stories crumbled under a medium amount of questioning. Basic shit like timelines, or “people don’t tend to work that way”. Situations where you could give her the biggest benefit of the doubt at every step of walking back through it, and it still wouldn’t add up.

    People like that don’t get away with it because others are stupid, but because others aren’t obsessive. They have too much other shit to do than call out where things seem off.

    My trauma from her, which I’ve been somehow avoided treatment for over a decade, makes it very hard for me to just let go and not start walking through it in my head.

    It takes a hell of a lot less effort to tell a lie than to disprove it. I might be sad or pathetic for this sort of shit. Crypto may have “won” by taking so much of my time and awareness. But I’m right, and he’s an asshole. That matters to me, and that’s enough for me.

    I didn’t doxx him, and his story makes no fucking sense.

    Beyond all that, I’m beyond fucking done with this. I’ll leave it up to the admins. As I said, I already reported this. If I still feel strongly about it after Thanksgiving I might make this into its own post, but I doubt it. I’ll just be happy to see this shit gone.


  • Oh no, in literally quoting the name of an ancient 4chan meme I used a no-no word! This is some of the most pathetic crybullying I’ve seen in ages.

    What was that you were saying in comments on this very post about the worst thing about fedi was how everyone is expected to be nice to each other? The claims that I had my feelings hurt? All the shitslinging you’ve been doing up and down the comments of this post?

    And now you cry ableism about the literal name of a meme? This is absurd, and as I already said, I prefer my clown shows to be funny.

    Whatever issues you have in that head of yours, it’s past the point where responding to you helps make things clear for anyone else, and I’m no longer having any fun with it. I just feel bad for you. I was serious in my earlier comment about hoping that you get through whatever has you so damn aggro in these comments, and I still hope that.

    I’ll miss the rare post from tankiejerk, and I definitely will miss lotrmemes, but I won’t miss these poor excuses for comments, and I’m not sticking around to see if you manage to get your shit together. Blocking you and any comms you moderate. Guess you won pigeon chess.

    Edit: bored while taking a shit, needed a break from PowerShell scripting and Youtube. was curious about a comment this far into a subthread on a day old post getting downvotes from more than the shmuck I pissed off

    Using both your accounts to downvote my comment? Naughty naughty. And a good reminder to make sure I’ve got both of them blocked.

    Double edit: Yeah, they did that for all my comments in this thread. I don’t care about the imaginary internet points, it’s a matter of basic ettiquette on sites with voting. Any and all sympathy I had for this shitstain is gone.


  • Far from it. I spent more time on 4chan and its even less known spinoffs than I suspect you’ve spent on your critical thinking skills or education. Fuck nice.

    All I’m looking for is a little intelligence and basic reading comprehension instead of whatever embarassment of a clown show you’re throwing.

    Once again you’ve failed to get a cheap shot in about something I’ve neither said nor implied.

    If this is intentional trolling, then I guess well done? I’ve never been a fan of the “i was only pretending to be r[EDIT]ed” technique myself, but a reply is a reply I guess.

    This post is more reciepts on the shit state of that sub for anyone who might want to ask lemmy.world admins for mod rights of it, or who might want to make an alternative. I have no interest in herding the troglodytic cats that make up people online. I’d have to deal with people like you more regularly.

    Edit: Removed the slur.


  • I absolutely deserved it.

    But you’re leaving out some context and pretending that somehow is irony or lack of self awareness? I know what I did/am doing.

    I don’t feel it’s respectful and rule 1 of that comm is “Be Respectful”. This post isn’t respectful and neither was mine that got removed.

    I’d also argue that pointing to someone specific and saying “their actions give me a anuerysm” isn’t “calling out their bullshit” so much as a drive-by mini-rant.

    There’s plenty of comments “calling out the bullshit” fairly well under that post about the thorn user: Depending on the time period of English, using thorn for “th” isn’t even accurate. It absolutely doesn’t achieve the intended effect of tripping up AI scrapers or poisoning their dataset. It’s a hindrance to smooth reading by other humans, and could cause issues with people relying on assistive technology. Those are all the ones I saw before I blocked the comm.

    Beyond that, my own critique: It causes massive derailments of the conversation when people inevitably start commenting about the quirk instead of staying on topic.

    Those are all “calling out someone’s bullshit” without inherently attacking the person. If the post had omitted the username I would have blocked the poster and moved on with my life. If it had also been more like the things I just listed, I would have just downvoted and hidden the post.

    Simply putting a crosshair over the guy and going “this gives me an aneurysm” doesn’t actually do anything except say “this individual pisses me the hell off”, which is at the very least both not respectful and more extreme than “mildly infuriating”.

    I absolutely believe that it’s targeting as well, but that’s a personal belief that isn’t anywhere as relevant to the coversation due to it not being as important to that comm’s rules. The argument stands without it.


  • You’ve been incredibly aggro up and down the comments here. I’m sorry for whatever’s got you pissy.

    Anyway… Where in my post did I ask for any sympathy?

    As stated in the prefix, I’m not upset that my post was removed. That’s well deserved.

    I’m frustrated that whole community has gone to shit, I’m not the only one feeling that way, and the issue largely seems to be due to a lack of active moderation team as evidenced by two of three having no activity for a year plus.

    Did I not lay that out clearly, or are we going the bad faith route where you propose to know more about my own motivations than myself?










  • I used to play runescape with a neighbor from elementary school up through middle school. We even gifted each other membership a few times for birthdays.

    Lost touch with him in high school, except for one time he showed off that he was up pretty high on the leaderboards and doing competitive shit.

    Ran into him this weekend, it’s been like 20 years. Both had our kids out at a park. Caught up.on a bunch of stuff, but my dumb ass forgot to ask him if he still played, and what he though of the upcoming sailing skill release in Old School Runescape.


  • Republicans are traditionally, and on paper, the party of “small government”. “Fuck off feds, it’s none of your business” type shit. Some just wanted a small central government that let states and local government make their own choices, some wanted as small a government as possible at all levels.

    Which is also why you see a minority of old school republican voters refusing to call Trump’s clown show republican. And why I personally got so upset watching all the republican pearl clutching about homosexuality. How in the fuck is that anyone’s business?

    That capitalization style is meant to be mocking, because the current dipshits in power clearly don’t have any intentions of “small government”.


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    Edit: You didn’t answer my question. You brought up what’s already been established.


    Skull tattoo. I’m sorry, most Americans are not so familiar with Nazi symbols to identify that specific skull design as Nazi. Swastika, SS, Iron Cross, sure. A skull and crossbones? Wouldn’t clock it. I thought it was a generic “bad guy” symbol in the comedy sketch you have a screenshot from. And he’s had it covered up.

    If he knew, why would he allow someone to take a picture of it?

    So… your second point is just that you don’t agree with America’s involvement with those wars at all. Which is less to do with this guy than with America’s choices of war. Valid, I agree, but not a signpost that he’s a Nazi. Unless all Americans involved in those were secretly Nazis.

    Look. I don’t think anyone’s calling him trustworthy or a good person, but this insistence that he must be a Nazi due to a tattoo that he’s gotten covered up, when he’s been so open about all of it is silly.

    He didn’t try to get the photo taken down. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t get belligerant and say he wasn’t going to cover it up just to keep people mad. He’s not pretending he didn’t have it.

    I’m keeping him on my radar, but when US politics is filled with so damn many overt and explicit racists and Nazis that are so damn comfortable being mask off, I’m not ready to stomp down on this guy yet.


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    A soldier, trained for warfare, and enjoying it is quite disturbing for people who never encounter it. I’m disturbed by it. That said, I’m not seeing anything about enjoying bloodshed there. He says he likes small wars because he feels there’s less inhumane brutality.

    Is your problem that a soldier enjoys what they do? That makes them a Nazi?

    I feel like your comment about killing civilians in the global south is making a big assumption that isn’t even really hinted at. In fact the opposite, as he talks about working with the local community.


  • I mean, there’s levels to this. If I’m looking for information, having a summary rather than a highly technical primary source can be very useful. Wikipedia cites its sources, and (ideally) has summaries made by groups of people familiar with the subject and following consistent and detailed publicly available style guides. Wikipedia isn’t running ads, and is not for profit.

    When an AI summarizes these primary sources, or even summarizes Wikipedia, you get none of that. AI does not reliably cite sources (ones not made for it will just generate a convincing looking response, making up sources whole cloth. Ones made to cite sources will often not actually cite the ones they used, and still can make up sources more rarely). It can’t reliably summarize things accurately, as it doesn’t understand anything, especially not terms that have different meanings depending on the technical context. There’s no group of people reviewing and revising. There’s no incredibly detailed style guide. All these AI are explicitly for profit (the amount of self hosted out there is negligible and those are much less of a problem), and almost every one of the companies running them have openly spoken about future plans to try and seamlessly weave advertisements into them. Most importantly, there’s no guarantee that what it gives you will even be true.


  • I mean this softly, but I’m going to guess you haven’t used OneDrive recently, and haven’t used it where it’s been set up in a competent manner. The default settings absolutely are not conpetent, espiecally for how messy computers for personal use get.

    My workplace uses OneDrive to sync a specific set of user profile folders so we approximate having profiles and files that follow us without everyone needing a personal folder on a network drive that mounts at login.

    The only issues we’ve had are profiles auto-downloading too mant of peoples files and eating drives on shared machines (so you just have your meeting room computers wipe all profiles every reboot and schedule reboots nightly), and I’ve had some issues where OneNote hadn’t actually synced the notebook back to the cloud before I closed on one machine and opened on a different machine so I lost some notes.

    Beyond that, it’s handled even situations where I have the same file open siniltaneously on multiple machines smoothly. Syncs between login on multiple machines take 3 minutes max, and I can force it faster if I really need by pausing and resuming the sync.

    I’m sure there’s situations it’s still not suited for, like editing and syncing large monolithic files (think video files over 1GB a piece). It probably sucks big time on personal machines where you’re going to have a complete mess of every file type imaginable tossed in one big unorganized heap.

    But configured correctly, for general business use, it can work very well.


  • I would be shocked if this hasn’t had some set of controls to disable it in Group Policy for months now.

    This is just rent seeking against Home users.

    People with One Drive through corporate Azure sjbscriptions (rather than the free “you have a microsoft login” tier) already have fairly robust controls available for handling and securing private data. There’s even special Azure tiers for government work that are even further secured.

    This is only going to impact home users and conpanies without strong IT teams. Which is an egregious amount of people, don’t get me wrong. It’s also a horrible anti-consumer move. But this isn’t “Microsoft fucks over their golden calf: business users”.


  • Sounds like it sucks at every level. From what I’ve dealt with on just software/drivers:

    You want to use scan to email through anything that isn’t a fully open, no auth, anonymous SMTP relay? Go fuck yourself.

    Wait… we changed our mind. We’ll totally support SMTP authentication, but with an arbitrary undocumented limit on the password length we can store, which is definitely shorter than the password length requirements for most SMTP relay suites. Certificates? Holy shit are you from the future?

    Or you can scan to network share, but I hope you enjoy finding all the hidden catches and caveats that are completely undocumented!

    You want an option so people have to log in at the printer itself to release their print job? Enjoy six different interfaces for five different underlying standards for how that works across two different manufacturers. And we reserve the right to just stop supporting that feature or change it entirely with any firmware or driver update. And if there’s a mismatch between the driver and firmware then we’ll just make the print spooler/job queue shit itself and require manual intervention to continue printing.

    You want our driver to properly communicate to end user software the paper sizes it supports? If it supports double sided printing or not? How it will collate multiple copies? Man, we can’t even care enough to indicate to software if we’re Black and White or Color. Best we can do is completely ignore the options you picked through your software and our driver and just do whatever we think is best. That’s a good compromise, right?

    For the price of these god damn enterprise mfds, there’s no excuse.