I feel the exact same way about Amazon lists and that's what I use them for. I wonder if that's why the "Add to List" button is somewhat hard to find, and if they regret the feature.
Slope's Game Room is a popular Youtube channel and he makes video game history documentaries and other content.
It appears he ran afoul of Google and is danger of losing his account because of content he is not responsible for.
He copied the chat logs of a scammer who had doxxed him. They are written in a language he does not speak or read. He intended to share them with a Spanish-speaking friend who can translate them properly for him. These were uploaded to his google drive account.
That text, which he did not write and cannot read, contained what Google considers against their content policy as hate speech, and has flagged DJ Slope for deletion and cut him off.
He is pleading for help from anyone who can get in contact with Google to help him in this matter.
If anyone from there reads the parent, they should know they have created an atmosphere where the worry of possible prosecution over responsible disclosure has the potential to scare away the best minds in our country from picking at these systems.
That just means the best minds from other, potentially less friendly countries, will do the picking. I doubt they will responsibly disclose.
I personally don't comprehend how these people are taking such a huge risks. Once bureaucrat wakes one morning in the wrong mood and your life is ruined at least for the next decade, maybe forever. Why would anyone do it - just for the thrill of it? I don't think they even got paid for it?
I’m not sure any country’s bureaucracy really appreciates responsible disclosures that make the government’s systems look very poorly designed. There is always the risk of being classified as an enemy agent/criminal depending on who’s reading the report and their own biases.
I also have experienced various delays related to my cpap machine. I wonder how much of this debacle is because people in the know knew that this was coming, and therefore intentionally delayed anything to do with cpaps.
I guess I date myself, but cell phones were banned in my high school because of a strong association at the time with drug dealers. A teacher seeing one was equivalent to seeing contraband.
in the mid-90s, i was branded a drug dealer because i bought a pager. this was essentially when i finally succumbed to the realization that people are idiots.
Wow. When someone is so well versed in a topic that everyone else has to use the world's most popular and advanced artificial intelligence to understand what they have just said. Bravo.
Haha I tossed together that sentance before running to a meeting. I simply know the topic to such detail and intimately that I didn't think to make it simpler. If I had known it was going to be tossed at ChatGPT I would have fleshed it out more. The key thing that ChatGPT missed in its summary was that the entire PVN is often downregulated in Alzheimer's. This is where you get all of the other comorbidities that don't make sense and are red herrings such as thyroid issues and leads to a direct pathway to the reduction of myelin sheaths which is a crucial requirement before dementia.
I mean, I understood most of it from just hobbyist-level interest in anabolic steroids. Many of those (testosterone, nandrolone, masteron, trenbolone, trestolone) also interact with prolactin and there’s occasional discussion about pregnenolone as well.
So I was able to validate at a surface level that ChatGPT at least didn't completely mangle the meaning, intention, and facts.
But the truth is that the GP shouldnt be viewed as being “so well versed in the topic”. Most of these hormones (even pregnenolone) havent been studied well enough to understand the full effects of manipulating them in otherwise “healthy-ish” people. We know their most powerful effects in niche, extreme situations - so if someone has a true medical issue/emergency related to them we know to raise/lower them to get certain desired effects.
But we really don’t know the vast majority of the effects that subtle changes in these hormones might have. Supplementing pregnenolone seems to cause temporary depression in many of the folks I’ve talked with in the bodybuilding community - myself included (until supplementation is ceased). For me that effect greatly outweighs its potential contribution to Alzheimer’s later in life.
I think one should be careful using the term "click fraud" in this context. Someone who installs this extension doesn't in my mind qualify to be defrauding anyone. There is no contract in place, it isn't against the law to express interest in a product, and there's no technical controls being breached illegally as the browser is just sending a request to a server.
And this is why Google is speculating to integrate WEI on Google Chrome and business owners and advertisers are going to gladly welcomeand implement it and pressure web developers to do the same on their websites. Just because there's no direct defrauding going on, doesn't mean ad networks aren't noticing and accounting for it.
> Someone who installs this extension doesn't in my mind qualify to be defrauding anyone.
Bluntly, it doesn't matter what you or I think -- what matters is what politicians, police, prosecutors and judges think.
I don't see anything on the main github page that says the extension is intended to cause harm to the advertisers or the website, but IME governments have often not cared.
And when 1M people in a country install the extension, are they acting independently or as a group? One person protesting may be legal, 1M organizing may not be protected.
The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Resource Manual Section 941.18 U.S.C. 1343 cites these as the key elements of wire fraud: “1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another out of money; 2) that the defendant did so with the intent to defraud; 3) that it was reasonably foreseeable that interstate wire communications would be used; and 4) that interstate wire communications were in fact used.”
Since the ad agencies are the ones benefiting monetarily from this alleged fraud, would that not mean that they would be bringing about a case against themselves?
