Break your system down with a block diagram. Define the minimum functions and properties for each block. Then create an inventory from that.

In short, break down your problem into smaller bits. No one knows your requirements and vision better than you. You can do it.

I use a laptop connected to some external drives managed by a Sabrent 5-Bay Hard Drive Docking Station. The laptop runs Ubuntu Server and hosts media via Jellyfin on raid5 logical volumes shared between disks (to increase read speed).

I learn by writing documentation. Learn how you learn, that information will be priceless in value to you.

I agree with your sentiment regarding confusing syntax, however I think that confusion simply requires a calculated approach to dispell it.

It’s a prime example of why I use scripts as reminders as much as I use them functionally. I work out the syntax once… save it to an example script, then save myself 20 minutes of remembering by just $ cat ./path/to/script.sh and copying said syntax.

So if you can change your workflow such that learned things stay around as examples, I feel that you will pick it up much more quickly :)

awk

…for parsing the output of other commands quickly and simply. Then that parsed output can be used to create simple log messages or be passed as args to other scripts. Powerful.

You make a good point… In general, no one cares enough to track all this down. That is true. So that makes me wonder… who does/would care? So in a capitalist system, until the day the flow of money is impacted, generally nothing changes.

So if Reddit really is all (or vastly) bots, then aren’t advertisers paying to advertise to bots? And if that is true, at a certain point some metrics will show the yield on their investments is bunk.

Maybe that is how it collapses. I can hope.

I suppose the spirit of the question was “volume of content” vs “volume of accounts”. But there is a problem with loading a lot of content onto a singular account (from a bot detection PoV), and that is that it is easy to detect if an account is a bot if their post history is :

1. Metronomic (or)
2. Relentless in volume

To solve that problem (aka bot camouflage), the maintainers of said bots would use volume of accounts as a disguise mechanism. For that reason I assume that the volume of bot accounts has to scale with the volume of “pushed content” as, in my assessment… if I were running a bot network I’d want to be sure that my most-active bots were only 50-80% as prolific as known-human accounts… then simply distribute your content across those “strategically-limited-spam-bots”.

So as a TLDR I guess what I’m saying is that the volume of accounts has to scale with the volume of influence assuming you’d want your influence to appear organic.

The meta above this would be what, account creation monitoring? It’s an interesting conflict. Influence peddlers vs bot detectors.

What is gross to me is that platforms like Reddit appear to be catering to the influence peddlers. (or in the case of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica… allying with and giving birth to said influence peddlers to the political gain of Zuckerberg’s personal views on politics.)

Should one person have such power? Probably not. Explains a lot of “unexplainable” occurrences happening… back to back to back to back to…

This is the modern incarnation of “billionaires buying newspapers” to maintain control of the narrative.

Just an opinion from someone who has been around the internet for a long while. It wouldn’t surprise me if most of the comments are bots. I remember what it was like to interact with humans, even dumb humans, and they aren’t nearly as blatantly agenda-driven as commenters on what I’d call “visible social media”.

There are plenty of people who have a vested interest in disrupting means of communication and organization and they are investing a great deal in “false idea proliferation”.

My 0.02¢.

Oh, you asked for a percentage, in the popular subs? 80+%. In niche subs that don’t affect the Overton Window? 5-30%. And yes, these numbers are favricated outward from my butt hole.

A few ways I’ve used it.

Odd, a site seems to be non-functional. (Enable VPN). Site begins to work. Oh, my ISP was fucking with me.

A site is stuttering. (Enable VPN). Magically works. Oh, my ISP was fucking with me.

The most annoying, my family’s Internet over the holidays was blocking my laptop from updating Ubuntu, enabled VPN, udpate went just fine.

In general, it stops ISPs from dictating if they approve or disapprove of your behavior. Hide what you’re doing and all traffic is just anonymous bits and bobs.

As it fucking should be by law… but in the US the conservative party continually repeals the law that enforces non-interference. So for now, we need VPNs.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, more than 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been killed by Israel Defense Forces while 1,139 Israelis have been killed by Hamas.

Nearly 70% of Palestinians killed have been women and children.

I understand the assignment boss.

I agree with some of these things.

Left vs Right is a distraction.
The fight for a better life is Top vs Bottom.

Next time you take a break from licking the boot, read a history book. Do you know how many corpses are in the ground today because a few folks said, “We shouldn’t have to work seven days a week.” A fucking lot.

Thanks to them, we have the concept of “weekends”.

Change is written in blood.

This is not a one-off example, there are thousands.

That is reality. Welcome to it.

To be fair, a c level assassination is news, whereas a murder in a big city is not.

You state this as a norm, to me your perspective of this as an acceptable norm is the problem itself.

My thoughts :
Your post states authoritatively what the norm is. No challenge here, that is the norm. True.

but…
Why is that the accepted norm?

and…
What causes that to be the accepted norm?

so…
So if net worth affects the public services you receive in the form of police assistance, bounties, etc… isn’t that an indicator of a larger problem?

so…
Who benefits from the stated norms?

and…
Should we change those “norms”, kinda seems unfair huh?

Yes.

Not perfectly written, but I think you get my jist. I’m so tired of people stating the norms of society as if they are immutable truths and not symptoms of a broken system.

Have a nice day.

Yea dummy… that is the “reality” we want changed.
To you it’s immutable, to us it’s not.

The economy isn’t driven by the laws of the universe, it’s people, we can change it any time and have chosen not to. So now CEOs are dying.

Wanna change it now? No?
Alright cool. Maybe this is the new normal then.
People have a limit.

They’re being intentionally dense. But we understand your point. Some people were born to lick the boot. Let them stay dumb.

They indicate how much of an ass you come across as.

There are tons of people in this world who are right, yet everyone dislikes and doesn’t interact with. Something to think about some day, when you calm down.

You’re right. “Clearly” is relative to the effectiveness of your brain cells, I understand your particular frustration given what your brain cells have produced in this conversation.

It’s not even accurate, that’s what gets me. It’s just propaganda.
We have gynecologists. You just can’t kill unborn children. Gynecologists do a lot more than just abortions. Hell, only 14% of them performed abortions back in 2011, well before Roe vs Wade. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3170127/

(I sigh to myself, knowing that nothing I am about to write is going to get through, nonetheless…)

The joke is referencing the women who are presently dying to sepsis and other pregnancy related maladies in Texas, a red state.

When doctors are questioned about why they allowed it to happen, they cite the laws which impose $100,000 fines and 99 years in prison as reason for their inaction.

So yes, in theory you have doctors who service women, but in practice they are required by law to risk life in prison to do their job.

The obvious effect of this is a skill-drain where qualified members of that profession stop practicing in Texas and newly trained doctors practice elsewhere. This trend will become more visible as time goes on and more data is collected, not that data matters to this commenter…

So yes, you are correct that they can no longer kill unborn children, however if those unborn children grow up to be a woman it is perfectly legal to allow them to die while observing.

With the above information, even a below-averaged intelligence person could piece together the context you seem to be lacking, so I suppose that gives us some insight into your intelligence. (Just kidding, I’m just shitting on you because you are a callous non-empathetic asshole).

Your take is so dumb that I assume ChatGPT gave it to you and you re-posted it thinking to yourself, “Yeah, I showed those people!”, while not understanding anything you shared, the new age moron.

The neat thing about your statement is that it works both ways, canceling itself out with its own “logic”.

One random Christian says yes.
One random Christian says no.

“Patriarch” is a social construct, everyone is “just a guy”. I do not revere a Christian more or less because they dress up like a wizard.

No.