Take my upvote! That's a really novel approach to the misinformation crisis and I love the product idea. It would be pretty awesome with a plugin system so that you can integrate it with other websites, too.
Wish you the best for it!
PS: the website is _really_ slow on Android Firefox. I had to use my Desktop system to try it out.
It seems as the "spotlight effect" causes most of the performance issues. The mousemove event seems to trigger a reflow when you hover some of the sections and/or scroll down. There's also a constantly running CSS animation that uses a lot of CPU time.
I have no idea why you're setting the style property of those elements every time you move the mouse, but I suppose that's what the Astro component you're using does.
Also as a hint: Never use subpixel values in CSS, they'll make everything slow. You could've used the JS "value | 0" or "value.toFixed(0)" trick to make it an integer and to prevent the floating precision from messing up the stylesheets. Some browsers (like Safari) will ignore values when they have more than 4 digits after the dot.
I'm writing this because you're setting the style property to something like this (copied out of the Inspector):
> radial-gradient(500px circle at 325.25px 188.38333129882812px, var(--spotlight-color, rgba(139, 92, 246, 0.18)), transparent 50%)
The person this thread is about publicly outspoke and critized Watkins, 8chan and other forums that promote hate speech. Multiple times, in newspapers and documentaries about the topic(s).
He went in business with the wrong people, and they followed him years after that, with bogus lawsuits, showing up at his door step to intimidate him, threats etc.
Personally, I wanted to say that he was a person that strongly believed in the idea of open debate and cultural exchange. So much so that it was too late for him to see what the Watkins family and their qanon/pol/whatever movement were planning to do with his boards.
> How many of those are bots and how many of those are "fuck you, clankers" humans—like me?
Maybe the em dash is the self censorship/deletion mechanism that we've all been waiting for. Better than having to write pill subscription ads, I suppose.
I wanted to point out that em dashes are autocompleted by the iOS keyboard. So the false positives and true negatives might have some overlaps without more details. I think a better indicator would be to only detect em dashes with preceding and following whitespace characters, and general unicode usage of that user.
Additionally, lots of Chinese and Russian keyboard tools use the em dash as well, when they're switching to the alternative (en-US) layout overlay.
There's also the Chinese idiom symbol in UTF8 which gets used as a dot by those users a lot, so that could be a nice indicator for legit human users.
edit: lol @ downvotes. Must have hit a vulnerable spot, huh?
I think there is a baseline number of human users that for one reason or another uses em-dashes, but this doesn't explain why they 10x more prevalent in green accounts.
> I think there is a baseline number of human users that for one reason or another uses em-dashes, but this doesn't explain why they 10x more prevalent in green accounts.
I'm not trying to negate the fact. I'm just pointing out that a correlation without another indicator is not evidence enough that someone is a bot user, especially in the golden age of rebranded DDoS botnets as residential proxy services that everyone seems to start using since ~Q4 2024.
> Nobody who understands the scale of the internet could possibly believe this is true.
Neither would anybody have believed that 8 out of 10 hard drive chips can contain any rootkits. Yet, here we are, and the insanity of it is that we've found lots of malware attributed to EQGRP, and the Snowden leaks (from the perspective of Booz Allen) have confirmed it.
You should read up on quantum routing.
They don't have to route through any specific location if they can just infiltrate the routers of your neighbors. Any data packet from the originating server will arrive slower at your location than the data packet of your neighbor. In that scenario TLS becomes pretty useless if the CA itself is also exchangeable, because you can't rely on TCP or UDP. Ironically the push for UDP makes it much easier to implement in the underlying token ring architectures and their virtual routing protocols like VC4 and later.
That's how the internet and a star topology (or token ring topology on city level) was designed.
Wish you the best for it!
PS: the website is _really_ slow on Android Firefox. I had to use my Desktop system to try it out.
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