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It's getting harder to believe this is accidental when it's 3 leftist situations in a row in such a short time.

> We didn't "lose" it, we never had it.

I think this is a silly claim of a very complicated topic. Our ability to trust various institutions (e.g. the newspaper, government, banks, markets, pollsters, academia, tv experts) in both their expertise and morality obviously has varied over time and by country. Some of it we obviously have lost (at least temporarily), e.g. trust in the US government, some other areas remain strong.

This situation of having entirely fabricated poll causing a candidate drop out of a race was not on our radar (obviously, or else McMorrow and her doners would have waited for more than 1 poll). Therefore it represents a reduction in public trust with negative externalities beyond just this one race.

Me too, I got one today, don't think I had anything in there though

Hard to say what the takeaway or lesson is here, other than having trustworthy professionals disseminating unbiased information is a public good and losing it creates paranoia and social distrust everywhere.

probably use tor and nothing tied to your identity

This doesn't seem like a full article without bothering to interview ANY of the arrested 130 people.

What I will say is that getting tiktoks in front of hundreds of thousands of people in a coordinated way isn't easy, and they won't come out if they weren't already passionate about something. If there are written records proving this was made to cause chaos specifically then they should subpoena tiktok for exact records.

Do you really consider Scuba as good as datadog? Or splunk?

The article's arguments "Look if you squint logs and traces kinda overlap" misses the point that if you want to use traces effectively you need to be able to graph them as flame-graphs and also query these relationships ("count average number of userLogin spans that failed that have a subsequent succeeding userLogin span with the same userId and same originatingIp")

To be fair even the more advanced products struggle with sophisticated queries, though splunk and sumo have usually met my needs just fine. Honestly even SQL has an order of magnitude more powerful querying than scuba.

Ludicrous take. I'm tired of people who aren't experts on observability having such strong opinions.

Having used scuba at meta, I can authoritatively say it's bottom-tier quality. Especially in the era of having competent LLMS able to write sophisticated queries.

Genuine expert level observability is being able to query things like "Of all the users who updated versions of the APP in the last week, what % of them had fewer errors after the update (per hour of usage) than before"

That will never happen in a "wide event."

I haven't looked into TCL at all, but everything I know on this topic I learned in one day, so if you have even a $20 a month AI subscription and you're passionate I'd say give it a go.

There was just a post yesterday about how to root your samsung. I rooted my samsung and removed ads, mics, and my agent is looking into this one as we speak [codex].

Happy to post to github if you'd like.

Yesterday's post (about rooting a samsung) was a $3,000 TV. I don't think it's about affordability.

There's another analysis there showing that they still send this even if you don't agree to it. I feel like this needs to go to court.

Just yesterday I hacked my Samsung Frame tv. The AI (codex) used an off-the-shelf root with Developer Console access (built in). Though root doesn't give you the signing keys to blow everything away and still boot (is my best understanding), but as a workaround you can still change anything you want after boot automatically.

I had it do:

- Stripping ads

- Disabling mics

- Turning off updates

- Leaving root SSH in place (protected) for future access

The key to getting codex to do this was that this is legal under DMCA, but after a certain point I had to get a new session to change all the "hacking" words into synonyms to not trigger false security alarms. Wouldn't be surprised or bothered if my chatgpt account gets banned though. I can write a blog post and publish the repo if you want

Could be. Another simple explanation is that there is a lot of bot activity messing with the algorithm.

I'm relatively sure I see bot activity on public facebook groups where I live in a blue county in a blue state and see hundreds of vitriolic angry comments that aren't aligned with voters current frustrations (i.e. economy)