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Cake day: August 12th, 2025

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  • Pay for the highest tier plan of Claude and ask it to make it look more like a human wrote it.

    Real answer: Your university is being ridiculous. They should be using a digital proctoring service while you guys do your papers if they’re that serious about it. Detectors will never work. We aren’t allowed to make flat accusations of AI use, but a high result would make us look at the paper and see if there were any other irregularities or talk to the student to make sure that can explain the paper. It’s not a free chance to just toss the paper into a cheating bin.






  • I was never banned but a few things led up to it

    • I received a warning from their AI moderation because I wrote I wanted to shoot annoying children (who were playing reddead redemption online). I was in the red dead subreddit too when I wrote this. Any level of context literacy would not have let that go through. This also happened after I made a very contentious post about being sexually harassed in a video game which made the nerds very mad and I guess mass reported my history
    • the punishment of mods protesting the API shit. I’ve moderated a community for 12 years, for those years it was implied it’s my community and I make the rules so I’m invested in it, but then suddenly you can have it taken from you if you set it to private? I now just sit on my subreddits and ignore them. I will remake them here.
    • a beloved subreddit of mine (I didn’t own it just visited it daily) was attacked by a spam network for 2 weeks. Mod was inactive. I spent hours mass reporting every account but reddit did absolutely nothing and just shut the subreddit down instead of blocking suspicious accounts trying to post the same keywords there, like 3 seconds in automod would have saved it. I could have taken it over, but I’m done doing free labor for Spez after the API fiasco showed we have no control over our own subreddits
    • people getting banned just for upvoting comments reddit doesn’t like
    • everyone on reddit has become a lot more hostile and toxic, only wanting to shoot ‘hot takes’ and insults instead of having a discussion. It feels a lot more like Facebook now than Reddit
    • final straw was the hiding of post history. There is no point in interacting with anyone on reddit if I don’t know they’re a real person or not

    Pre 2021 I had none if these issues and it was a great place that I learned a lot from, but corporate enshittification is going to enshittify everything it touches so I’m only going to donate my passion to open source things now.





  • I’m running 10 with no security features as my main gaming system. I turned off as much of Windows defender as I could because it was slowing down texture downloads in Second Life + was trying to say my fan control software was malware.

    I hope I get a virus because it’ll be the final tug I need to fully cover to linux. I just converted a 10 year old laptop to linux mint to run as a server since everything is getting enshittified and requiring monthly fees, like Mint the budgeting app, so I’m dipping my toe into self-hosting.

    I have nothing to lose.

    I’m also still running Android 9 on my phone because I refuse to buy a new one due to planned obsolescence.


  • There are more Mary Sues than Gary Stus in fiction because women aren’t written as people I’m a lot of media, so they aren’t allowed to have the realistic flaws that keep them from being Mary Sues.

    Light is a power fantasy, but I wouldn’t call him a Stu because he’s a megalomaniac and has an actual personality. He also fails at the end.

    Stark has his own personality issues, but some of the TV shows fail to highlight those so he does come off as a Stu.

    The biggest Mary Sue and Fary Stu genres are romance where you’re supposed to self insert, so the MC has to be very plain and boring and just like the reader or viewer. Romance novels for women and harem anime for men.