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If we're being pedantic, that's still being hacked. Social engineering is, like, the #1 source of hacking.

Or the audible sound that'll make every house and bit of land around it an absolutely miserable place to live, because you'll feel it in your bones at all time :)

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful.

Just because it's where all the users already are. You couldn't start Reddit today, it'd immediately get spammed by AI bots and no one would stick around.

Hell, Reddit's API changes had a noticeable impact on most text-only subreddits I was a part of, and then the AI content just made a lot of the remaining ones die off. No one's rushing to Lemmy to fill those niches. They're just not participating in them online, instead.

Some things are preventative. There's plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.

I think it's fair to call out reviews that say:

"This works out of the box, and requires no tinkering at all. Anyways, here's what you'll need to do to get it to work."

Having to tinker with settings and commands is literally not what "requires no tinkering" means.

The real problem with these videos is that Linus decides to try and emulate the average user, but then refuses to do even the smallest amount of troubleshooting "because the average user wouldn't do it". So it leads to a lot of moments where something doesn't work out of the box, there's a trivially simple solution that comes up as the first Google search result (if you ignore Gemini's output), but he doesn't bother and just throws his hands up (like the average user would, I guess).

It just gets frustrating, because their Linux videos end up being entertainment first, and educational... fifth, maybe?

Yeah. There's been reports of silicon wafers being hoarded too...

According to a Stack Overflow survey from 2025, 84 percent of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, up from 76 percent a year earlier. This rapid adoption partly explains the decline in forum activity.

As someone who participated in the survey, I'd recommend everyone take anything regarding SO's recent surveys with a truckfull of salt. The recent surveys have been unbelievably biased with tons of leading questions that force you to answer in specific ways. They're basically completely worthless in terms of statistics.

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab's features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It's why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.

Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:

• Bot spam
• Dead

Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn't cared about people's privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.

"Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!" is about as big a deal, honestly.