Point of clarification: I said that you can’t use a VPN, and that’s because those IPs are blocked. As noted, you need to ask for a special exception, which for most people isn’t navigable and may not even be granted without a good stated reason and/or trust built up through good edits.
I’ll note too that even absent Heritage Foundation threats, this can be useful to spur development of the project (i.e. for people who don’t want a permanent account but don’t feel comfortable having their IP permanently, publicly attached to edits). Probably the reason it hasn’t been done in the past is it’s almost certainly going to make it easier for bad actors to fly under the radar. Before, you either had to show your IP address (which can reveal your location and will usually uniquely identify who edited something for at least a little bit; you also can’t use a VPN without special permission) or you had to register a single account (where if you created multiple, a sockpuppet investigation would often find out).
So there’s an inherent trade-off, but I think right-wing threats of stochastic terrorism really tipped the scales.
Misattributed to Socrates. Mis/disinformation spreads quickly over the Internet, so it’s up to all of us not to be vectors for it.
We have increasingly extensive bodies of scientific evidence indicating the harms of giving young kids the sort of near-unrestricted access to smart devices and social media that are common in society today.
That one person said “something similar bad” but it wasn’t actually that bad in the past (or even that this is a pattern) doesn’t invalidate scientific evidence. If kids started smoking cigarettes en masse, you could pull up this exact same quote, and it would be just as strong an argument as it is here.
Nah, this was totally drawn by a human. I mean look at how the leftmost woman’s four-fingered right hand is in a superposition of every angle at the same time. An AI could never.
You don’t. You’re asking how to do free labor for a multitrillion-dollar company. Google chooses to be lax enough to constantly let this garbage through in their ads etc. and makes gargantuan profits from it; they brought this on themselves and don’t deserve a bailout. Migrate to a platform that hasn’t enshittified like Google has if you’re still using them (I know that won’t let you escape websites they host), tell your friends and family about it, and let Google wallow in the shithole they’ve created for themselves.
“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f—ing hotels full of the b-----ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.”
Yup, fuck her. Rot, you racist, insurrectionist sack of useless Tory shit. Of course The Telegraph puts this spin on it.
Not only that, but we make it goddamn trivial for not just Wikipedia but for other Wikimedia projects. Doing this is just stealing without attribution and share-alike like the CC BY-SA 4.0 license demands and then on top of that kicking down the ladder for people who actually want to use Wikimedia and not the hallucinatory slop they’re trying to supplant it with. LLM companies have caused incalculable damage to critical thinking, the open web, the copyleft movement, and the climate.
so you dont have to manually manage memory
Not sure how this got upvoted with this glaring mistake. You have to manage memory. The point is that the compiler catches it if you make a memory management mistake, making things like data races, uses after frees, etc. literally impossible (short of intentionally using the unsafe tag).
What OP forgot to add: https://gizmodo.com/new-birth-control-shot-transforms-into-a-long-lasting-implant-no-clinic-required-2000580306
The open-access study to avoid taking Gizmodo’s word about anything related to medicine: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00194-x
Oh shit, the tone police are here. I’m not under the impression the person I’m responding to is going to change their behavior after this has already been widely talked about to death for years, and so I really don’t care what tone I use. This person is helping make the lives of real, actual, perfectly innocent trans people (and especially the lives of trans women) hell because they a) don’t care about those people or somehow more pathetically b) do care but can’t restrain themselves from buying themselves a children’s toy to that end.
Is someone upset they can’t fork over more money to the rabidly transphobic piece of shit and the media conglomerate megacorp?
I really don’t think this is true. It might push some politically engaged users to Firefox, but unlike Musk, most people don’t know who Thiel is, and as long as he keeps it that way, nobody will care.
Justice Department is 100% lobbing this over to JD Vance’s buddy Peter Thiel who’s going to enshittify it even further and turn it with its massive install base into a tool for techno-fascism.
Until they do that, their PM shouldn’t be getting up in front of cameras and crying like a whiny little bitch about how a video game portrays their history.
Apologize for Nanjing and maybe there’s a snowball’s chance in hell you have a leg to stand on.
Edit: he said “It is an insult to the nation.” It’s a nation which is broadly too cowardly to recognize and apologize for the senseless and solely perpetrated murders of hundreds of thousands and rapes of tens of thousands. Your nation’s government has no honor for this, and no microscopic “insult” in a game can sink you lower.
Or you know… it just means no updates and we’ll all probably be fine.
Dude, I would be hesitant to use an OS more than a month after EOL. I hope you realize that your OS no longer receiving security updates is a really, really, really bad thing. People staying on Win10 instead of upgrading to Linux or macOS or downgrading to Win11 is going to be zero day heaven.
bruh NSFW tag
Hey, OP, do you have any thoughts about putting your app on F-Droid?
So basically anything that makes it more useful than just doing it yourself.
There are only 846 administrators on the English Wikipedia. This is across 7 million articles, 118,000 active registered users, about two edits per second, about a million files just on Wikipedia (most of them are hosted on Wikipedia’s sister project, Wikimedia Commons), and over 60 million total pages (articles, talk pages, user pages, redirects, help pages, templates, etc.). So although they have this data, it’s not useful if somebody doesn’t notice and investigate it. Administrators are stretched thin with administrative functions, and that’s not even accounting for many of them participating as normal editors too (tangent: besides obvious violations of policies, administrators have no more say over Wikipedia’s content than any other editor).
Contrary to the idea that new editors sometimes get of Wikipedia as a suffocating police state run by the administrators, usually when edits get reverted it’s because regular editors notice this and revert it citing policies or guidelines without any administrator involvement (every editor has this power). If an administrator intervenes, it’s usually because a non-admin noticed and reported (what they perceive as) bad behavior to an admin, two editors are locked in a stalemate, or there’s some routine clerical issue to be resolved.
Sockpuppeting, copyright violations, etc. are often (even usually) found by regular editors who notice something amiss and decide to dig a bit deeper. Even with automated tools that will flag an edit that replaces the article with the n-word 500 times in a row, and even given that some non-admin editors have tools which let them detect some issues, there’s just only so much that 850-ish people can find on a website that massive. For example, one time a few years back, I just randomly stumbled across an editor who was changing articles about obscure historic battles between India and Pakistan to have wildly pro-Pakistan slants – where treacherous India was the aggressor, but brilliant, strong, and courageous Pakistan stood their ground and sent pathetic India home crying with shit in their diapers. The bias was oozing from the page (with poor, if any, citations to match), and I can imagine this would fly under the radar for a while on a handful of articles that collectively get maybe 30 pageviews a day.
TL;DR: Too few admins.