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  • Once I was at the train station as a young college freshman (maybe 1000$ to my name) there was this old guy looked like a grandpa and he told me that he didn’t have any money he lost his wallet and he needs to get some money to take the train and then take a cab back home. He looked so genuine and he really looked like he needed help. But of course the amount he needed was a bit much for me, he asked for 50$. He said that he will pay me back so I gave him my information for a transfer and he promised that he’ll pay me back and he was so thankful and I gave him cash. And of course he never paid me back and later I realized that it’s like a common scam in train stations that some people say they really need money to get somewhere but it’s just a scam.

    A few days later at the same train station some lady told me that she had no money and she needed to Take a train to go see her children and this time I was smarter and I told her “no problem Come with me, and I’ll buy you a ticket” and then she was like “no no I need money I need money” so I told her I can’t help her. And then I saw her again the next day and a few more times and apparently she’s like a very common scammer in that area.

    50$ for an important life lesson is a good bargain I think.






  • MTK@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz'vegetative electron microscopy'
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    2 months ago

    You are not wrong that AI is a whole new level of misinformation. But trusting the science never was a “trust any published paper” it is about trusting scientific consensus. And yeah, if there is a scientific consensus based on multiple papers and peer reviews, it is almost certainly going to be more trustworthy than your opinion/online search/intuition

    Trust the science is still true, even in the face of AI, you just need to differentiate between trust scientists and trust scientific consensus.




  • IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough or providing service to users is critical.

    For example, if you are providing some critical service such as health care, you cannot have a situation where a user cannot access health care info without hard proof that they are causing an issue and that you did your best to not block the user.

    Let’s say you have a household of 5 people with 20 devices in the LAN, one can be infected and running some bot, you do not want to block 5 people and 20 devices.

    Another example, double NAT, you could have literally hundreds or even thousands of people behind one IP.






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