“I think this is the part where he kills us.”

Still don’t understand why they cut the fleeb.

Anti-intellectualism as a defence. Nice. Abandon grammar and take language where an LLM can’t follow. Surely we’ll be able to tell a text written by a human from one written by a machine if the human writes it like a dumbass, I can’t see anything wrong with that. i mean why even use proper punctuation and capitalization an ai wouldnt write sumthin like dis isnnnt it better you can tell a human wrote dis

Have I made my point?

You’re not getting downvoted for the LLM thing. You’re getting downvoted for doubling down on a stupid argument. Em dashes – and en dashes for that matter – have legitimate uses in the English language. One symptom does not make a diagnosis. English is barely a respectable language in the first place. Dumbing it down even further to satisfy your preconceptions is, simply, stupid.

I don’t think you fully comprehend just how many footprints people leave behind on the internet. Users would have to practice perfect opsec – and I mean completely, absolutely perfect. One mistake, like using an e-mail address or an alias off-site, will link a person to the account. If that person cracks under legal threats, the entire operation is fucked. It’s happened before.

Thinking you can solve the issue of privacy with a single idea is simply delusional.

Have you heard of surveillance cameras and facial recognition? If a hostile actor knows in advance that members of a targeted online community will be physically present at a location at a given time, those people will be linked to the community. It doesn’t take a lot from then to link specific persons to accounts.

Besides, libraries are having a hard enough time just existing in America. They don’t need the burden of protecting the identities of dozens of people and fighting off lawyers and enforcers.

“When a gift horse is munching on one’s carrot, one must be very careful not to look it in the mouth.” - Albert Confucius, 1969-04-20

I can’t believe that guy is still active. Or alive.

You should look up reviews for the Haribo sugar-free gummy bears.

Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.

I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.