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Until some legal entity decides to raid the servers. Pray they do not keep logs of IPs. Though usually this may be (to some extent) a gray zone in some countries.

Can you give an example? I don’t think accessing a file somebody makes available has ever been an issue with copyright prosecution. They go after uploaders and hosts.

Even if they did, an IP in a server log isn’t definitive proof of an individual accessing something. However, I’m less confident of worldwide legal systems understanding that. Still, I’d be curious if there’s a single example of somebody being charged over accessing publicly accessible copyrighted files on the web.

vSphere was never available in the free tier.

The reality is that nobody’s learning much useful from Free ESXi, as you need vCenter for any of the good stuff. They want you using the eval license for that, which gives you the full experience but only for 60 days.

Still, there’s a lot of folks running free ESXi in labs (home and otherwise) and other small environments that may need to expand at some point. They’re killing a lot of good will and entry-level market saturation for what appears (to me at least) literally zero benefit. The paid software is the same, so they’re not developing any less. And they weren’t offering support with the free license anyway, so they’re not saving anything there.

Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of the annoyances filters active and don’t know if I could browse most websites without them at this point.

Is the last one still useful if you enable the cookies filter under annoyances in uBlock?

PIA is about twice that if you pay for 3 years at a time. It’s more, but you continue to keep everything you torrent, which is a bonus over Hulu.

Depends a lot on where you were posting.

/r/nfl was notorious for deleting posts from unknown users when new broke to repost it from a mod’s account. Had nothing to do with ban evasion or bots, just leveraging the control they had to make sure they had all the biggest posts.

To be fair, his statement was also just an observation.

Yeah, a big part of the appeal of reddit was being anonymous. I signed up without even using an email address, and being able to do that was a most of why I was willing to create my account in the first place.

Wow, what shitty behavior and shitty response in that post. The more interaction with reddit admins I witness, the happier I am with my decision to stop using the site.

and for something dumb too

What something was that?

The version I heard was “everything in moderation, including moderation.”

But the Butthole Surfers said, “It’s better to regret something you did than something you didn’t do”

Tech/programming stuff is exactly why I did nuke mine. Going isn’t as meaningful if you leave a bunch of value behind when you do. While I’m here for entertainment now, I’m often spending my reddit time during work hours on vendor-hosted support forums, stackexchange, etc. now.

Gradually, that library will be relocated to other places. Instead of just not going, I think it’s better to take away others’ reasons for going too, give them reason to seek out better libraries.

Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?

I just got confused by your “user error” suggestion, because I don’t see how this qualifies as one.

Because you’re both claiming to understand the failing of reddit’s UI and claiming the same UI as a reliable indicator of all comments getting deleted. Rather, it seems some comments were likely missed because of the shitty UI. Relying on reddit’s UI for this is the specific user error to which I was referring. I hope that’s clearer.

First, the Reddit API is broken, because the select query sent by the deletion tool receives less than a full set (as if there was an implied LIMIT clause on the server side). This leads the deletion tool to erroneously announce it has processed all comments.

I don’t see anywhere that goes into what redact.dev does behind the scenes (closed source on something like this is a huge red flag to me, but more relevant here is that there’s no indication whether it was using an app-specific api key or just using a hidden browser under the hood), though I do see where the reddit service page states:

Reddit stores posts in comments in a weird way. If you’re trying to delete thousands at once, we may not be able to find all of them.

You also mentioned that’s how you confirmed all your comments were deleted. One could argue using a tool that admits it can’t see all your comments to confirm whether your comments are all deleted could be considered an error as well.

There is literally no mechanism to find leftover comments…

Best approach I’ve seen that’s still standing for a post-API reddit is using the GDPR request as input for one of the tools using it, so it’s not relying on the janky UI.

This comment (which you’ve replied to, so ostensibly have already seen) does a good job of articulating how this only shows the top thousand comments at a time and doesn’t update as you delete them.

Depending on which tool you deleted with, it may or may not have done a decent job of working around this reddit limitation to actually delete them all.

So it’s not necessarily pretty straightforward, especially if you commented a lot.

Can you show this indication? Otherwise, this looks like a pretty clearcut case of user error.

I’m not familiar with redact.dev and can’t comment on its accuracy, but your comments from earlier in this thread make it seem like you only found out about how the limitations of reddit’s profile page work about 11 hours ago. They probably weren’t deleted to begin with.

Is it possible the sub was private when you deleted the comments? This and known, since-fixed issues with PowerDeleteSuite explain nearly all of the “undeleted” comments I’ve looked into in-depth.