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Comment · 8 years ago
It can, but you can also find some that sell the accounts themselves, allowing you to falsify a network. Think taking accounts and re-purposing them from being a modern, pop-culture following network to one that is tech-oriented, or more obscure. If you're planning on inserting yourself in this method, you really need to be in control of it all yourself. Follow the major people in your industry, with added randomness to remove following some, while adding randomness to extend the network further.

Keeping the network healthy is one of the more interesting topics. Simulating a real network is the biggest thing. It's very easy to embed yourself, unless it is that closed of a network.

Comment · 8 years ago
Better yet, use the victim's phone if possible.
Comment · 8 years ago
On the Xbox 360 you mean? I recall it there, not on the original Xbox.
Comment · 8 years ago
Oh dear! I've just realized that she was sustained by her religion, I thought her religion was creating the poverty!
Comment · 8 years ago
I presume it's the logic that goes along with the pulse oximeter that is making the test important.
Comment · 8 years ago
I wouldn't so much say a happy ending. The article about her returning speaks about her desire to not burden anyone in her life with her physical pain and instead suffered through poverty.

"Unable to work because of it and subsequent injuries, she had long lived in poverty, sustained largely by the religion she had come to early in the decade."

I wonder what religion this is. One is quick to think Scientology, but to make such an assumption is too quick and heavy-handed I fear. It seems to be the best outcome, but not one that is pleasant at all.

Comment · 8 years ago
Towards endless stars, bound to be pulled in by another
Comment · 8 years ago
Do we know this?

It is not possible truly to know one way or another at a complete level, although it is unlikely. Saying they are not this powerful is, well, simply not true. It is not possible without creating a huge skunk-works internal project binding people to secrecy.

Google doesn't have the power to bind people to secrecy in the same way that say, the CIA, FBI, or NSA do. It does not mean that they do not have the capability of doing these things.

Comment · 8 years ago
What if we're flying up and not down?
Comment · 8 years ago
I've had Spotify show me an indie label artist with <1000 listens on Spotify, and <1000 views on Youtube. It was the absolute best thing I've ever seen.

And yes, if content isn't on Spotify for me, it basically doesn't exist. If it's on Bandcamp maybe I will download it.

Spotify allows you to see songs that you have added that have been removed from availability as greyed-out names.

Comment · 8 years ago
I love what VICE was ~2005-2010. VICE and what it has become today (see: VICELAND) is... nothing what it used to be. I love their documentary style from the 2010 range. The NK documentaries on YouTube were my favorite. They've turned into like you said a buzzfeed-tier garbage.
Comment · 8 years ago
It would, I wanted to do emotion analysis on them but the way my friends and I speak within discord is representative of a conversation, with convenience and spelling variances to declare the dialect something is supposed to be read in so it didn't really work out.

  [5:35 PM] zsh: sopranos in a bit?
  [5:38 PM] Adam: probably
  [5:57 PM] zsh: when
  [6:00 PM] zsh: ?
  [6:04 PM] Adam: whenever tuhe f8uclo i FEDEL LIKE
  [6:04 PM] zsh: im ready
  [6:04 PM] zsh: whenever
  [6:04 PM] Adam: ye thats cool
  [6:04 PM] zsh: im actually going to kill u
  [6:04 PM] Adam: gimme 5 i guess
  [6:04 PM] Adam: idk i just dont feel that hyped to watch it rn
  [6:05 PM] zsh: we can play bf1 idc
  [6:05 PM] Adam: ye i think play bf1 for a bit
  [7:45 PM] zsh: too much effort to get up
  [7:45 PM] zsh: no

  [7:56 PM] Adam: fucking mullinyan kids
  [8:24 PM] zsh: varsity athlete won
  [8:24 PM] Adam: rip bobby
  [8:26 PM] zsh: the bacala man stands true
  [8:27 PM] Adam: bacala vs a gun
  [8:27 PM] Adam: 
  [8:38 PM] zsh: yes
  [8:45 PM] zsh: my estimation of John sacrimoni as a man had plummeted
  [8:45 PM] Adam: what sort of don gets cancer
  [8:46 PM] zsh: the same one that cries
these are surprisingly common examples, being of lesser extremes. Varying capitalization and new lines are used as ways of carrying on a dialogue, instead of writing entire bubbles of text at once, producing the feeling of a conversation instead of reading e-mails. The second being an example of 'soprano-posting,' in which you use references to The Sopranos in an ironic manner. The first being a common conversation. Looking into the idea of trying to extract emotion from this accurately seems... impossible. Most of our writings are extremely foreign to those that aren't 'in the know' and seem almost hostile to one another, while in reality they aren't.

I'm curious if there has been analysis on this type of writing in general. It feels so much more efficient than 'traditional' writing styles.

Comment · 8 years ago
Are people not logging Discord servers as well? If you can read message history you can use a fake client to export a couple hundred thousand messages in 5 minutes. This is how I got old messages. Now I just run it daily. CSV output.
Comment · 8 years ago
I feel extremely lucky. I'm a part of gen Z, but I am from a very rural area (town pop 300, county 5000.) One day in 6th grade I was in math club and we needed to get to this fantasy football site that was blocked by our webfilter iPrism. Being curious enough, I just strip off the generated bit at the end to get to the admin sign-in page for the webmin. Being a curious kid, I just type in my network login credentials and boom it logs me right in. Couldn't fuckin' believe it, full admin privileges and all.

I never used it for anything evil per se, but I did unblock the football site we were told would be unblocked, and other sites that teachers were told would be unblocked but weren't. Problem was, when you signed in there was a nice box that said "Users Online" and showed their names. One day the DTC signed in as I was online and promptly the phone rang and I was told to take my hands away from the computer and walk to the office. I had to show her what I had done, and ended up being suspended from school computers for two weeks. I couldn't imagine the things I would be accused of if it happened today. Thank god I was a straight A student and favored by everyone in the community. I also had my Starcraft 2 collectors edition USB confiscated because I had the portable onion browser on it, and my friends called it the 'stick of freedom.' Imagine if the term darkweb was as highly villainized then as it is today.

I was lucky enough to start working with the school when I was 16 (now 20.) I remember the description of the look on the regional contact from the state when the DTC told him that the district had given me a key to the school and the equivalent of domain admin in our environment. Rightfully so, but I proved myself and my worth.

Bit long of a response for something so simple, and full of nostalgia as well. It's just a shame to see that curiosity and investigation is so heavily frowned upon.

Comment · 8 years ago
Somebody wanted it to be.

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