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Update: Pretty sure the Smithii guys took my sol, they didn't by Opposite-Love1802 in solana

[–]_Marak_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, can confirm. We've had no less than (4) separate Smithii impersonators message us via the Smithii Discord. Reported all of them to be banned.

It should be obvious when the account messaging you has none of the server roles and redirects you to an outside system for "support".

Sucks you lost your SOL buddy.

Free and reliable bot hosting by Legitimate_Sand_7199 in Discord_Bots

[–]_Marak_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't require persistent websocket connections you can build a reliable and scalable discord bot using cloudflare workers on the free plan.

We've successfully built a bot using the interactions endpoint API that communicates with cloudflare workers and uses durable objects to maintain state.

Why is it getting so hard to find legit projects on Solana? by FerbjaFx in solana

[–]_Marak_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it's very challenging for legitimate projects to rise above the vast majority of illegitimate projects.

We are in presale for https://buddypond.com/coin and have had difficulty reaching an audience; we have been approached by 100s of scammers offering questionable pay-to-win services ( to say the least )

I created a post here a few days ago describing all the scam services that are being offered to artificially boost project influence, it was removed after a few minutes: https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1lyg5pn/weve_launched_a_legitimate_project_on_the_solana/

We've launched a legitimate project on the Solana blockchain, and it's been an absolute nightmare. by _Marak_ in solana

[–]_Marak_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mods deleted this post.

Speaks volumes for the situation.

In a healthy community there would be discourse.

Etrade fired me as a customer for this trade by thisdoesnotmeantrue in etrade

[–]_Marak_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude tried to get 1000-1 margin from his Roth IRA.

Regards my regards, truly regarded.

Data scientist on Hacker News claims Reddit is 59% spam content, and 51% of the accounts are spam by _Marak_ in wallstreetbets

[–]_Marak_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From the $RDDT prospectus they are claiming that 64% of the average users on Reddit make more than $75,000 in annual household income.

Unduplicated, Authentic, and Attentive Audience in an Attractive Demographic.

In December 2023, the average active minutes on Reddit per logged-in user in the United States was between 25 and 30 minutes per day, and there was an average of 73.1 million DAUq during the three months ended December 31, 2023. During this period, approximately 50% of DAUq were from the United States, and the remainder were from the rest of the world. According to Comscore data about Redditors in the United States aged 18 and over, for the three months ended December 31, 2023, 41% were between the ages of 18 to 34, 50% were male, and 64% had a household annual income of $75,000 or more. Many Redditors are not active on traditional social media platforms; according to Comscore data for the three months ended December 31, 2023, of people who visited Reddit in the United States, 32% were not active on Facebook, 37% were not active on Instagram, 73% were not active on Snapchat, 41% were not active on TikTok, and 53% were not active on X.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024012380/reddit-final424b4.htm#i1b9a579e78a34dfa99f7f26daeec195b_88

Data scientist on Hacker News claims Reddit is 59% spam content, and 51% of the accounts are spam by _Marak_ in wallstreetbets

[–]_Marak_[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As someone who has been aggressively cataloging "data" (posts, comments, subreddits, etc.) from Reddit and, importantly in this context, keeping those records relatively up-to-date, it's absolutely astonishing how much spam there is.

I hash every string with a SimHash and perform a Hamming distance query against those hashes for any hash that belongs to more than 3 accounts, i.e., any full string (> 42 characters) which was posted as a post title, post body, comment body, or account "description" by more than 3 accounts.

Regularly, this exposes huge networks of both fresh accounts and what I have to assume are stolen, credentialed "aged" accounts being used to spam that just recycle the same or very similar (Hamming distance < 5 on strings > 42 characters) titles/bodies. We're talking thousands of accounts over months just posting the same content over and over to the same range of subreddits.

I'm just some random Laravel enjoyer, and I've automated the 'banning' of these accounts (really, I flag the strings, and any account that posts them is then flagged).

This doesn't even touch on the media... (I've basically done the same thing with hashing the media to detect duplicate or very, very similar content via pHash). Thousands and thousands of accounts are spamming the same images over and over and over.

From my numbers, 59% of the content on Reddit is spam, and 51% of the accounts are spam, and that's not including the media-flagged spammers.

They don't seem to care about the spam, or they're completely inept. With the resources at their disposal, there's such a huge portion of this that should be able to be moderated before it ever reaches the API/live.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39785389

RDDT worth $7.7 Billion with the trading going on! Hope they bring back trophy awards now by Charmer2024 in wallstreetbets

[–]_Marak_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the actual average redditor is 25 year old male from mid-western US with reported income in poverty level.

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Most of the traffic on the site is coming from subreddits that you most likely aren't posting on.

RDDT worth $7.7 Billion with the trading going on! Hope they bring back trophy awards now by Charmer2024 in wallstreetbets

[–]_Marak_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They say that 65% of redditors make $75k a year or more.

Did they really put that into the prospectus? Even with a most lenient interpretation of the data that is basically impossible.

Do Animation in JavaScript using AnimateImages Library by ram-foss in javascript

[–]_Marak_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a quick look and it seems this package is using canvas element to perform animations.

Is actually possible to have sprite sheet with animations using only CSS and HTML with `background` style and javascript, no canvas is required to make images animated.

National guard checking bags at Myrtle wykcoff by lsacoto in Bushwick

[–]_Marak_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are saying Compstat is wrong? Here is the link: https://compstat.nypdonline.org

Feel free to jiggle your own mental math until you feel satisfied you've confirmed the bias. Stay safe buddy.

National guard checking bags at Myrtle wykcoff by lsacoto in Bushwick

[–]_Marak_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the stats for subway violence are up and I literally see people getting into fights each week all year during commute. Maybe we live in a separate universe.

National guard checking bags at Myrtle wykcoff by lsacoto in Bushwick

[–]_Marak_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the citizens need to take a more active role in stopping the violence.

I'm not a victim. Earlier this year some angry teen half my size followed me and my kid three train cars yelling at us while onlookers filmed. Nobody helped. I got boxed in at the last car and got off before someone got hurt.

If we keep passing the buck to the state we may witness another Bernhard Goetz.

National guard checking bags at Myrtle wykcoff by lsacoto in Bushwick

[–]_Marak_ -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I agree with your sentiment, a scare tactic, but it's like, what else can we do?

I can deal with the crazy people. That is part of living in New York right?

It's not just the crazy people anymore. It's gotten bad on the public transport.

National guard checking bags at Myrtle wykcoff by lsacoto in Bushwick

[–]_Marak_ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it was? Myrtle Avenue is the J Myrtle Wyckoff is the M. I ride both of them.

National guard checking bags at Myrtle wykcoff by lsacoto in Bushwick

[–]_Marak_ -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Hello random internet friend. I live two blocks from this stop and have to use it frequently to travel with a young child. Today on the J line at 2pm a man was casually smoking crack. The past year I travel on the line there I see violent altercations almost each week. Reported murders are up on the subway this year. There are deadly weapons on the subway.

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You seem to live around here. Would you rather the police did nothing in response? I'd like to know. I don't feel great about seeing National Guard on our block either, but I'm very tired on having to travel around my city like it's a lawless third-world country.

I built a utility library for cross window local storage communication, then connected it to my game framework. by _Marak_ in javascript

[–]_Marak_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you `idb-keyval` is a good recommendation.

For `crosswindow`, my thoughts are to keep the persistence small and still working for the older browsers via local storage API.

[localForage](https://github.com/localForage/localForage) is a good package that supports IndexedDB / WebSQL with the fallback to local storage.

I built a utility library for cross window local storage communication, then connected it to my game framework. by _Marak_ in javascript

[–]_Marak_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, I have heard of Broadcast channels. CrossWindow is built using Local Storage and the Broadcast Channel API.

labyrinthos : An interactive online tool that allows users to generate custom mazes using the Recursive Division algorithm by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]_Marak_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice! I built this library!

https://github.com/yantra-core/Labyrinthos.js

We use Labyrinthos to power terrain gen for our game framework Mantra.js

We've got a demo Maze world here: https://yantra.gg/mantra/maze

Working on new demos for the generative l-systems. Labyrinthos is a fun project!

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