If you define “user” to be a set that excludes anyone capable of modifying the weights, then by definition, no user can modify the weights.

Any criticism about users being unable to modify weights becomes vacuous, so it’s not an interpretation that makes sense.

It often is based in reality, but my experience with talking to people that most of them never really consciously think about what aspects of this reality irks them. Any attempt to get people to think a bit will just anger them.

A reminder to everyone that “I don’t know” is a valid answer, and that your feelings are valid. If you feel a certain way about a piece of work, then that’s how you feel. You don’t need to make shit up to explain it. If you do want to explain it, then actually take the time to think about it before you do.

Ah, so that’s their monetization plan

Sounds like a challenge

Most people would understand “profit” to mean the net flow of money, not value. If you redefine it this way, then you can no longer look at the “profit” line of a company’s sheets and say that they’re stealing because the number is positive.

Profit can also be the value of the labour you put into something. If you buy wood, build a table, then sell it for more than the value of the wood, then that profit is the value of your labour.

The bar for a lot of us is also at “about to lose a limb from infection”. The only difference is that we don’t get a hospital bill to go with that visit.

Handguns also kill cancer cells in vivo.

To make the difference you’d have to peddle thousands or hundreds of thousands of individualized discounts

That’s what they do here in Canada.

I’ll add that things should also fail gracefully. If something breaks, they should all revert back to working like the dumb equivalent. Dumb switches, dumb thermostat, etc.

We seem to be talking about different things here. Validation vs engagement. When the only metric you have of visibility is the number of likes, then that’s what you use. If you want engagement, your content needs visibility.

and not just ignored by algorithm that boosts content that will ensure longer engagement?

Isn’t that exactly what the OP is complaining about? The exact mechanism doesn’t matter. The point is that it’s not getting visibility.

Isn’t the entire point of social media to interact with other people? I.e. engagement. Why even bother posting on social media if that’s not what you’re looking for?

But why Israeli women and Palestinian men specifically?

https://amiunique.org/ shows you many of the things they can check for

That’s easy to do. You just check that the username exists. If someone enters a wrong username/password pair, you can still check that the username exists, but how do you know that the user intended to log in with that username? You would also have to check every other username to see if the password matches, and that can’t be done with a simple search because you need to compute a different hash for each user you check. Then if the username exists and the password also happens to match someone else’s password, then what do you report? Should you even report it? Because doing so reveals that someone had that specific password, and if the list of usernames is publicly available (which they often are, or could become public through a leak of some sort), then you can brute force over a small set of usernames to match them up.

Then you can buy the art nobody is stopping you

Says the person trying to make it harder for me to find the artist that I should be buying from.

Getting a job doing what? We already have way more than enough people for just about everything. What I want to see more of is art.

People need food, shelter, and healthcare to live. Many artists are denied these things because they choose to provide us with entertainment instead of feeding the capitalist machinery. That is in fact very serious.

You could say the same about humans working exploitative jobs. You can be unhappy and still stay because the cost of quitting is too high. It’s only when it gets really bad that it becomes worthwhile.

Edit: I just learned from another comment that they sometimes clip the queen’s wings so they can’t leave.