Preventer79

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This memory has been brought to you from the summer of 2000 in c/funny
[–] Preventer79 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The picture is on my phone. Twelve boys have set up two televisions and Xboxes in a 10x12 room. Halo: Combat Evolved is paused.

Whenever I see old LAN Party photos like that, all I can think about is how awful those rooms must have smelt like, and the electricity bill.

This memory has been brought to you from the summer of 2000 in c/funny
[–] Preventer79 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sad that so many nostalgia posts on the internet are based around consuming.

Anon hates smartphones in c/greentext
[–] Preventer79 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

More importantly why would you even need a screen in the bathroom? Literally ruins the most basic act of our existence.

What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] Preventer79 10 points 10 months ago

closely followed by the period right before it you didn't experience, but everyone around you is nostalgiajacking to...

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What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why? (self.asklemmy)
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One thing I don't miss about Reddit is how dependence on automod made it literally unusable for new accounts (self.redditwasfun)
 

On Reddit if you have a new account that wasn't five years old and had over 9,000 upvotes you'd be de-facto banned from 90% of all subreddits by AutoModerator removing everything you posted. Even then if you didn't use proper bracketing or whatever you'd get removed as well.

Part of me thinks this was intentional to get people attached to their accounts that conveniently had their life stories, writing styles, beliefs, likes and dislikes all in one place.

Never forget your roots in c/[email protected]
[–] Preventer79 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

a CGI cartoon character people put in those "when the autistic kid does x" memes from the mid 2010's

Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO | Ars Technica in c/[email protected]
[–] Preventer79 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am not a language model training on reddit would be more accurate than chatGPT.

ChatGPT and most other AI apps are trained on Reddit and have been since they've been publicly released. I remember TalkToTransformer in 2019 would say Redditisms like "fellow redditor" or talk about being in a sub to every other prompt.

Wasn't exclusivity for AI access the reason for the API change in the first place?

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Never forget your roots (sh.itjust.works)
 
Nazi supporters march through downtown Nashville in c/[email protected]
[–] Preventer79 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For anyone wondering, the group is the "Blood Tribe" led by Christopher Pohlhaus.

https://www.adl.org/glossary/christopher-pohlhaus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Tribe_(neo-Nazi_group)