Lith

“I’ll upload a patch later this week” 12 years ago

Well there’s also things like fraud, perjury, false statements, and lying to hinder an investigation.

I’ve never heard of this referred to as brigading, but it’s definitely in the same spirit. Brigading usually means getting an external group of people to visit a post/comment solely to vote. It’s effectively crowdsourcing vote manipulation.

I don’t think voting down somebody’s profile counts as vote manipulation because you still only have one voice, but it’s still incredibly petty and I’ve heard Reddit even had a feature such that profile votes don’t affect karma, despite not being banworthy to my knowledge. As a rule of thumb I don’t check post history or even notice usernames because it doesn’t really matter to me, unless a profile is genuinely entertaining to go through.

This headline makes a ton of assumptions, namely that the ability to feel boredom means that you hate being alone with your thoughts. Of course people who are stuck in a boring ass experimentation room with no stimuli are willing to try out a minor shock. I wouldn’t be surprised if most people would even consider it a fun experience. I know I’ve thought about playing with tasers before.

Something like “think about your past and explain how you feel, or press this button when you want to end the experiment early at the cost of a shock” would at least be a relevant premise. This is just another benign experiment turned into doomer clickbait, and I wouldn’t let it paint my worldview.

The benefit is that you don’t need to wait for verification from the user that they got the packet before you can send the next group of packets. If you’re, say, watching a stream, it’s not important that you received the packets because that’s just a few skipped frames or a second of lag, whereas the tradeoff on overhead is pretty big.

TCP is more important with like file downloads where it’s okay if it takes a couple hours to get a really big file as long as that file isn’t corrupted or missing any data.

Get out of bed

Reddit also had this exact same issue. For every r/flashlight you’d have a r/flashlights, r/realflashlight, r/flashlight2, r/torches, r/handbright, etc. Then you’d even have niche subsubreddits like r/flashlightslightingupdarkrooms. I never really considered this a problem because I like having different options available to me. I never really see the same thing posted enough times for it to be a problem, so usually it’s just twice as much content to subscribe to both, which I’m happy with. I wouldn’t really consider communities to be competing with each other, and the redundancy is actually really nice as a user. You’re free to only subscribe to the community you like more if you really want to limit your subscriptions for some reason.