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mcc 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A "qualia" I do not like is when you search Google for something and your first result is a forum or Reddit thread on the exact subject asking your exact question and the top response is very abrasively going uhhhhh, why didn't you just Google for it??"

No, john

You are the Google

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demize 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

similarly my favorite is when “closed as duplicate” with fifteen comments saying “but this is the top result on google”

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Leah 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Reading all these articles about the high traffic from AI bots, here is my experience from a small German hoster: It's a huge problem, and it is getting worse very fast. There are bots like claudebot from Antrophic which are so aggressive that they block whole systems, outranking actual attacks for example against WordPress. And they change their AWS cloud IPs so often that blocking doesn't help for long and they also ignore robots.txt. Our on-call is regularly alerted for such issues.

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moved to @sneexy@booping.synth.download 10 months ago (Received 9 months ago) • sharkey (AP)

I HATE my computer how do I get my friends out of it

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Lennox 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

very proud fox

Lennox, an anthropomorphic silver fox, stands proudly with a ribbon on his chest. A close up of the ribbon reads "I can copy & paste in Vim without saying the word fuck."

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Augmentedrobot 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The best ad about depression awareness I've ever seen.

Photograph taken in a subway, text above a man not smiling at all : STEFFEN HAS DEPRESSION.
And another text above a man behind, laughing with a friend : THIS IS STEFFEN.

Depression isn't as obvious as it seems, Find out more here: deutsche-depressionshilfe.de

From German depression and suicide prevention

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ᴍʏᴛʜɪᴍᴏʀᴘʜ ʟᴀʙꜱ 🧬 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Happy #InternationalTigerDay from Mythimorph Labs 🐯

I've decided to let the latest experiment out of its cage... the upgraded Tiger has finally earned its STRIPES!

Helping celebrate is @QuietFire proudly modeling a custom shirt designed to be as unique as he is 🏳️‍🌈

Tiger shirt worn over a tiger costume. Shirt by Mythimorph. Flag by NONSTOPPUP. Mask by karinKariwanz

#internationaltigerday @QuietFire :verified:

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Quiflex 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

kickflip! // oc art

#art #furry #furryart #fursona #anthro #mastoart #digitalart #commission #commissionsopen #openforcommission

#furry #MastoArt #art #DigitalArt #fursona #furryart #anthro #commission #commissionsopen #openforcommission

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Wyatt (🏳️‍⚧️♀?) 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wow, an actually good linkedin post.
I'm shocked.
Edit: just don't look at the replies to that post

A positive work culture is not:

- Free fruit ❌
- Ping pong table ❌
- 2 slices of pizza every other Friday ❌
- Work hard/play hard with your team ❌

A positive work culture is:

- Doctor's appointment? See you in a couple hours. Don't need to ask my permission. ✔
- Burnt out and want some days off? Sure, no problem. ✔
- Family commitments later? All good, I'll make sure the meeting is recorded and there is a way you can still contribute towards the outcome. ✔
- Woke up unwell? We got you covered, rest up. ✔

A good leader in a positive work culture will not drive you to set hours, they work to set outcomes.

A good leader in a positive work culture will make sure you don't need to ask permission to be an adult.

If we need to have a tough conversation, it's not because you spent your morning at the dentist once in a while or were sick for a week.

The world of working has changed and for those who don't change with it, risk being left behind when it comes to hiring and retaining staff.

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Hyshaji Nightdragon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Got my #anthrocon #AC2024 photo album posted!
#fursuit #fursuiting

Full set: https://nightdragon0.smugmug.com/2024/Anthrocon-2024

Furtrack for tagging: https://www.furtrack.com/user/Nightdragon0/album-4418

Anthrocon 2024 - Hyshaji Nightdragon

My photos from Anthrocon 2024 / AC 2024! Feel free to repost photos of yourself with credit.

^{nightdragon0.smugmug.com}

#fursuit #fursuiting #anthrocon #ac2024

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Aatheus 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bloody hell. The Parks Fire is huge. Creating a big pyrocumulus cloud system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WET6EY0z_aU

Started because some dingus pushed a burning car into a ravine

Watching a Wildfire Big Enough To Make Its Own Weather - Park Fire, 2024, California

On Friday night I spent another few hours flying around and exploring northern California, but as soon as I took off it was clear that one thing was dominati...

^YouTube

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yagokoro 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Dear modern web """developers""",
If your 2 factor authentication entry control is anything other than a single text input then you have failed. This trend of "we want a single text box per character" needs to die because it fucks with copy/paste and password managers.
Bonus points if it auto-validates instead of making the user submit so I get locked out of my account because of a typo on my phone. Thanks idiots.

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Sharkie 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Much of frontend security design is hostile in a way that reduces security.

Most people doing security design are bad at what they do.

Techwolf12 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

How to approve and merge a pull request professionally? With two developers and their yubikey as authentication, using the briefcase of launching.

A screen showing "Type in PR number and press enter"

A "nuclear football" style briefcase, with two USB ports, a screen, keypad and launch button

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Croc (formerly @microdile) 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Got my dude from Wolfberry Crafts! He’s ready to rock your little world!

A posable figurine of Croc, wearing black headphones and standing with his claws on a DJ controller

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Dragonhead 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

What a good DJ!

Nidonemo 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I love this lil guy!

Gallen 🔜 EF 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I found this extremely hilarious XD

#furry

#furry

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libramoon 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I recently ran into an old pro-planet t-shirt from
the early '80s – over 40 years ago we knew,
we even yelled and screamed and signed petitions
and tried to get that difference made

What is wrong with people?

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Juggling With Eggs 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s depressing that when I was a child in the 80’s we were aware of the Greenhouse Effect, because we were taught it in school…and yet here we are 40 years later and the fossil fuel barons are able to cause carnage with impunity while protestors are locked up and made to serve long prison sentences. It’s a Mad World.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️ 9 months ago • hometown (AP)

One of the downstream effects of the AI boom that I hadn't really thought about is that sites are starting to introduce anti-crawling tech as standard, because they don't want all their bandwidth going to training chatgpt7.

This is going to make life harder for people who run benevolent scrapers. How many sites are going to be blocking the wayback machine now, just because it looks too much like an AI scraperbot?

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️ 9 months ago • hometown (AP)

And there's plenty of sites I've written my own scrapers for, in other to ensure the site doesn't just die. Doing that is going to become a lot harder if they're already worried about scrapers

𝚝𝚓𝚠 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

this is just going to accelerate websites turning into client-side webapps that are useless until the js is loaded and manually interacted with.

Growlph Ibex 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Fuck. Of course. I never even thought about this.

Ivor Hewitt 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

and similarly how many sites are going to be butchered for accessibility/screen reader support as a side effect of anti-scraping techniques and client side generation. ☹️
(albeit even more so that the current dismal state of sites - have you tried navigating any websites with a keyboard recently, or screenreading a page that's just images and content that doesn't even exist until you scroll)

gudenau 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I think the CF one is designed to only block the AI ones and leave the others alone.

Chartreuse 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I feel benevolent scrapers have already been targeted and squeezed out by large CDN and anti-ddos providers like Cloudflare. Unless you're big enough to deal with it's just likely they'll send your bot to capcha hell and kill it that well.

Thomas Wodarek 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I've scrapped random fanfics off forums to convert into epub, just because it's easier on my eyes than a forum's weird color scheme (looking at you spacebattles[dot]net with your neon green text on black)

@foone

@Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Max Lee :blobcatverified: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Scraping already "died" when everyone and their mother started using the mess that is Cloudflare's proxy and their anti-"bot" services.

("Died" because people just developed tools to bypass that. Scraping ant counter measures to it hale always been in an arms race)

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100% genuine moss [Viridi Vix] 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: data collection, capitalism

Florian Lohoff 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

the issue with the ermerging scrapers is that the partially ignoren robots.txt and get lost in the dungeons of API endpoints gobbling up CPU and io.

The only way to get rid of them is blocking via useragent which we tried to avoid by establishing robots.txt

Its so back to the stone ages.

The Good, Mad and Ugly 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In an ideal world there would be a file like robots.txt, in other words a fixed path, that contains all the content the website owner has surrendered for ai to be used as training data. Maybe that will eventually be the case.

Albin Larsson 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

NYT, NPR, Reuters, etc has recently been found to block Wikipedia's citation bot:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362379

⚓ T362379 Several major news websites (NYT, NPR, Reuters...) block citoid

^{phabricator.wikimedia.org}

Falcon Darkstar 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

generative AI has done this, and it has also made finding real information to archive very difficult. It's kind of depressing and I haven't been able to do much of it lately.

vxo 9 months ago • hometown (AP)

yeah I gave this some thought-- like there's a Wordpress plugin I use on my site that adds a bunch of specific "User-agent: ai-hooverbot-v69
Disallow: /"
to robots.txt, which at least keeps the well behaved training crawlers from beating it to death.

Of course I have seen evidence of non well behaving ones still coming through as well as desirable things like search spiders and archive bots. I don't want to block those inadvertently or create any user annoyance

Eaton 8 months ago • hometown (AP)

it’s already as huge PITA and people *pay me to run my scraper on THEIR sites*

依云🦊 8 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm blocking those AI bots but intentionally exempt the wayback machine.

To me, the issue is not the crawlers themselves, nor bandwidth nor content. The issue I have with GPTBot and Facebook's bots is they come as a flock, to the extent that my server can't handle. They are rude and never care to learn how search bots behave.

Church of Jeff 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#lgbtq #trans #StopProject2025

Found out my dad takes testosterone today, and let me tell you, he did not find it as funny as me when I told him that’s gender affirming healthcare

#trans #LGBTQ #stopproject2025

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Kim Scheinberg 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

We bring up the Atwood quote all the time to explain why women are careful when rejecting men, but we seem to have forgotten the first part

*This* is why the right aren't bothered when we use adjectives that suggest we fear them, but are melting down over being called 'weird'

The thought of being laughed it is a fascist's kryptonite

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Paco Panda 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Memories from a very bouncy evening in Reno, Nevada, at the beginning of November 2023

Tigon Kitty, Mikey, Lucky, Mokie Mutt, Jayke and Yoru (nop, that's not me, probably a distant relative)

Partyin', partyin', yeah. Fun, fun, fun, fun.

Digital. Procreate

You can see the short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
You can see the full time-lapse video at supporting me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco

Get more from Paco Panda on Patreon

Creating Comics, Drawings and illustrations

^{Paco Panda (Patreon)}

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Thumper ➡️❄️? 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The view from the DJ booth was pretty awesome too ;)

Quite a memorable night!

ponytoons 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This is really cute.

Dairishgoat 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Random fursuit photos from the archives.

Sauna & rooftop furs, NordicFuzzcon 2017.

7 fursuits gathered close together in a wooden sauna.

6 fursuits standing together against a metal barrier on a hotel rooftop.

8 fursuits gathered together on a hotel rooftop, a snowy urban landscape visible in the background.

A shit from high above of 8 fursuits gathered together under a flag on a hotel rooftop, a snowy urban landscape visible in the background.

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Yag Fox 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The convention I could only have been allowed to attend under a strict set of rules they gave me. Not a very inclusive event.

Dairishgoat 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@yagfox
What were said rules? The ‘no heads off’ thing? I don’t think that was ever actually enforced. Not sure, though.

@Yag Fox

Dr. bird🌻🐦‍⬛🌞💛| TikTok, YT, IG 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I cannot believe I’m still having to say this five years into this pandemic, but COVID doesn’t make an exception when you take a mask off inside to eat or drink.

Like what exactly do people think this is?

There isn’t like a hydration / nourishment transmission exception field.

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Truffles 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Hello Britishers; remember to wear sunscreen!

I saw lots of people going bright pink yesterday. Even if our weather is nice and mild, it’s still the sun, and burning is no fun.

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AutomataDog 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Chap at FWA24!

🐕: @chaparralcoyote
📌: FurryWeekend

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA24

#furry #fursuit #photography #fursuitfriday #furries #furryart #anthro #furryartist #fwa #fwa24 @chaparralcoyote

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just realised that on Mastodon, boosting *is* the algorithm.

There's no code trying to cleverly show me stuff it reckons I'd be into, based on what my contacts are into, instead my contacts are saying "I like this, I bet my contacts would like it too" and that is way smarter than any algorithm.

Thank you, boosters!

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AstraLuma 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Tech culture

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Phil M0OFX 9 months ago • hometown (AP)

It's jarring to think that we've only had homosexuality be fully legal in most of the UK since about 2003, and the first gay marriage in 2014.

To underscore that, it's only been about 10 years since you could say gay people have had comparable rights to straight couples.

And we're still fighting for the right to be who we are, and for our trans friends to do the same.

#LGBT #LGBTQ

#lgbt #LGBTQ

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Arakin 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@DeltaWye the DSM entry features in the intro to the early recording of Glad To Be Gay by Tom Robinson Band (a group on everyone's 80s and driving compilation album thanks to 2-4-6-8 Motorway).
It was interesting seeing how the song changes through the years. Later versions would reference other events in the UK, the AIDS crisis and I think the Spanner case, as well as Tom's own journey

@Delta Wye

Snapai :verified_dragon: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

My pc-keyboard-oriented brain finally figured out that "eepy" as "sleepy" makes sense it you realize that for the mobile generation(s), "L" is right next to backspace.

It sounds like baby talk, but it's a typo:
"S⌫eepy"

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Like, Y'know, Gneech 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“@whee” became a personal meme for me because I kept missing the shift key to type “Whee!”

Sharkie 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

... wat, really?

Owlor 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: fiction, fantasy wedding, alcohol

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Liv 🐝 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A meme showing a cycle of events where each step has an arrow pointing to the next, and the last one starts the cycle again. The steps are "I haven't made anything cool in a while", "It makes me sad", "I don't feel like doing anything ", and "I don't make anything".

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Ellie The Yeen Deer ΘΔ 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It is important that you teach your cat the PHP programming language

A stuffed cat looking ad a screen with PHP code and a finger pointing at the screen

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

⚠️ This OS is not a place of honor

Warning sign that says:
DANGER
Do not connect this machine to Microsoft account no matter how much it asks.

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Yag Fox 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh deer oh deer. #fantasyforestfestival #yearofthestag #chucklebrothers

#fantasyforestfestival #yearofthestag #chucklebrothers

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Aki Shadowpaw 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Time for a new profile picture on this #FursuitFriday
I fell in love with this picture 🥰
Anyone wanna join me here? It’s comfy

#furry #fursuiteveryday #furryfandom #fursona #furries #fursuit #furrycommunity #oc #artist #cute #furryoc #anthro #husky #fursuiter #furrypride #originalcharacter #fursuiting #furrys

📸 by @DuskPanda
🪡 by @/nightless.creations
📅 13.07.2024
🌍 Stuttgart

⛓️ linktr.ee/akithepup

#furry #fursuit #cute #fursuitfriday #fursuiter #OriginalCharacter #oc #furries #fursona #anthro #fursuiting #furryfandom #fursuiteveryday #artist #furryoc #furrycommunity #furrys #furrypride #husky @Fairlight / Dusk

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Sustainable us 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

We are 2 months away from having coal free (UK based generation sources) electricity in the UK. Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station closes on 30 September, the last train load of coal has already been delivered.

#coal #energy #UK #climatechange

(edited)

#UK #climatechange #energy #coal

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Sustainable us 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh and I don't know about anyone else in the UK, but power cuts are extremely rare here. Even during the Russian gas crisis we only had a 15 to 20 minute cut in power. I have only experienced about 3 tiny power cuts in over 15 years.
Major cuts were more common when we used more coal!

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Tryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 :ms_asexual_flag: :ms_cat_grin: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

True! But that's not going to stop the chuds from complaining

Avon DeRussate 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/28/wealth-taxes-britain-10bn-tory-budget-hole-economists

Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

Reforms to inheritance and capital gains taxes could reduce £20bn shortfall and combat UK’s widening wealth gap

^{Toby Helm (The Guardian)}

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Avon DeRussate 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/29/uk-desperately-exposed-to-cyber-threats-and-pandemics-says-minister

UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister

Science secretary Peter Kyle says national resilience suffered ‘catastrophically’ under Tories

^{Ian Sample (The Guardian)}

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tape” coming for your power grid.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar-power-is-going-to-be-huge
from The Economist

Sun Machines

Solar, an energy source that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge

^{The Economist}

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RevK :verified_r: 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

also solves the time shifting needs for solar.

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🐾 Jordan 🐾 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

My paws are sore; why don't you rub them? 🐾💜

🧵 Fursuit made by Lupe Suits

#furry #furries #fursona #furryfandom #fursuit #paws #paw #LupeSuits

Jordan the Chihuahua laying back on a hotel bed and showing off their toe beans

#furry #fursuit #furries #fursona #furryfandom #lupesuits #paws #paw

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Kitt / Basil 🌻 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

purple beans!!

David August 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

📬

Screenshot of post by Nate Solon • @natesolon:

Mail is crazy because it's like 99 pieces of straight up garbage and 1 that if you don't reply to you're going to jail.

4:18 PM • 7/26/24 From Earth

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Root 9 months ago • mastodon (AP)

someone on cohost said "i literally still think vrchat should implement a feature where someone's nameplate actively tells you when they can't see your avatar for performance reasons" and man I agree with this so hard.

like the implicit social pressure created by realizing just how many people have your avatar disabled and consequently aren't seeing you for YOU would actually cause people to care about optimization

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