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  • Oof. I had a hard time listening to this.

    I wanna give a genuine thank you to the person who made this content and shared it. It's just that every sentence sounded like it was abruptly cut off mid word to start the next, and that started making my anxiety flare up. Brains are weird.

    Anyway, I'll give it another try with subtitles and mute. Looks like great content. Never heard of the grid maps before, so excited to learn more.

  • Oh, very cool! Thank you!

  • I would love to reply to this, but alas, I only have an hour before I need to go do something. There's simply not enough time for me to draft my first version of the response.

  • That's good advice. I had to learn that the hard way.

    Just because something seems obvious or clear to me, doesn't mean it does to others. It gets exhausting having to explain everything though. It's also equally exhausting to ask others to explain what the hell they're talking about constantly, because they also assume you can read their mind and have the exact same thoughts and reactions that they do.

    And then you run into the issue with family or coworkers completely ignoring the things you directly do or say, and throwing their own bizarre interpretations and assumed motivations on top of it, and getting upset when you react.

    I've had people do and say things that are insulting and combative out of the blue on first time I've interacted with them all day, demand I reply, and then get upset of me for starting a fight when I ask why they are being rude, or when I reply in kind.

    Maybe I just keep bad company, but it feels like being gaslit 24/7.

  • Basically small deliberate changes to the brightness or hue of chunks or even individual pixels scattered across the frame. Netflix would have the original, and would know where to look for the changes that embed the user ID data, or whatever.

    They just get a copy of the leaked video, locate the ID, and take the user to court or ban them.

    I'm not great at explaining it, so look up image stenography to get an idea of what I mean.

    Anyway, I don't have any proof they do that, but I guess I always assumed they did, because... why not?

  • Embrace the lesbian stereotype. Adopt a dozen cats or dogs and start a wholesome small business. Bam, no more free time

  • For years I've assumed there was some kind of invisible image manipulation that effectively encrypts the Netflix user ID in the video feed itself, so they can use leaked video to pinpoint users that share recordings.

    Same type of thing paper printers do, and AI giants are trying to push now.

  • So...sex on an SSRI.

    Pro: I can effortlessly last over an hour. Basically edging without trying.

    Con: It's simply impossible to finish sometimes and I just have to say it was good enough and stop. Or the mix of chemicals in my brain just don't let me start for whatever reason. The times I can finish, I have to take over and go extra intense on myself to peak the mountain. If my partner tries, they can't get me there.

  • I know, right? It was like a steady stream of assholes, habitual doom scrolling, and occasionally a few good topics or people chatting.

    I made a pact to stop using Reddit as soon as Infinity stopped working for me. It worked for months, but when it stopped, I held myself to it. Not only did I deactivate my account, I used a service to overwrite all of my content, and also then delete it beforehand. My mental health has been recovering steadily ever since.

    Even if I did get something positive out of it, I refuse to be part of an ecosystem run that treats it's users and volunteers with such open hostility. The whole saga with Spez lying and bullshitting to make other people look bad, and the pro-corporate bots that popped up from time to time turned me off it entirely. I miss it sometimes, but what's the point of having a sense of ethics or personal conviction if you shrug your shoulders and do what you want regardless of whether you know you should?

    It's like someone claiming to be a vegetarian, but they eat meat whenever they feel like it because it tastes good.

  • To be fair, Infinity worked for me for months after the API bullshit went into effect; NSFW and everything. The dev seemed pretty cool in the one or two times I messaged them. It must suck they have to charge now.

    Still, screw Reddit. Dropped it like a bad habit... Because it honestly was for me.

  • And I found my new wallpaper. It's adorable.