#removal of duplicate emails

[gacha-incels]

editorial from the english version of the Hankyoreh

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Before focusing on my master’s thesis, I worked for a brief period for an organization supporting victims of cyber sex crimes. My job was to put each and every case of illegally filmed footage assigned to me through a search engine and if I found that the images had been uploaded to certain sites, I would beg the operator of that site to take those images down. 

The process of searching and subsequently scrubbing illegally filmed footage probably isn’t what most people would expect. There is no advanced AI that categorizes footage based on the faces of victims, lists the sites the footage is uploaded to, and sends automated requests for the deletion of such posts. Instead, employees and volunteers divide each reported video frame by frame, put each fragmented frame through search engines, organize each site the footage is posted to on a spreadsheet, collate the sites for verification, find the site operator’s email or contact channel, and write a message that read, “This video is illegally filmed footage so we ask that you remove it from your site. If it is not removed, the South Korean government may take action against the site pursuant to relevant laws,” translate it from Korean into English and then send it to the operator.

This happened daily. Sometimes, you would have to go through 100 or 200 cases a day. I’ve assigned a nickname to this procedure: “The Illegally Filmed Footage Removal Protocol that Seems Absurdly Advanced, But Basically Follows the Same Grueling Procedures as a Sweatshop.”

The biggest challenge when fighting digital sex crimes is their overwhelming breadth and scale. It was impossible for us, as we sat in front of our computer screens, to estimate which far-out depths of the internet any of the footage had reached. 

Even if we painstakingly found 20 posts using a particular photo and saw that every post was erased, the next day we would see the photo spring up in 40 different posts. Websites distributing illegally filmed footage make various backup sites with different domains to make sure that sites are up and running even if the main site is taken down. 

Many of the sites in question have servers based abroad, so even if you sent a beseeching email citing South Korean laws, they simply could just pretend that they never saw the email.

The terror of that vast scope goes beyond distribution and duplication. While deepfake pornography has been in the news recently, photoshopping a real person’s face onto a pornographic image has been a crime for some time now.

The difference is that producing such images used to be time-consuming and technically challenging, requiring the “manual” manipulation of images. But the new tool of AI has made it easy for anyone to instantaneously create deepfakes in a dizzying variety of formats.

Another frightening aspect is that anyone with access to photographs on social media can choose victims at random. And since the images are “fakes” created by AI, the perpetrator can deliberately duck the guilt of harming a real person.

Deepfake creation has spread so rapidly because it gives perpetrators a perverse sense of power over their victims — the ability to create dozens of humiliating images of someone from photographs scraped off Instagram — while also enabling them to ignore victims’ suffering because the images aren’t technically “real.” In short, deepfakes represent a game-changing acceleration of the production cycle of sexually exploitative media.

Those images spread far too fast for the handful of employees at nonprofits to keep up with. Facing such a vast challenge, permanent employees began to drift away, and their positions were once again filled by people on short-term contracts.

Lee Jun-seok, a lawmaker with the Reform Party, said during a meeting of the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee that the 220,000 members of a deepfake channel on Telegram was an “overblown threat” and estimated that, given the percentage of Korean users on Telegram, only about 726 of the channel members are actually Koreans.

But what does it matter whether there are 220,000 Koreans on the channel or just 726?

Let’s suppose there aren’t even 726, but just 10 people in the group — they could still produce 220,000 deepfakes if they set their mind to it. Those images would then be copied and circulated beyond their point of origin and around the world, perhaps remaining permanently in some dark corners of the Internet without ever being deleted.

That’s the nature of sex crimes in the digital age.

So assuming that the criminal potential of this technology remains the same regardless of whether the channel has 220,000 members, 726 members or even just 10, I can’t help wondering what Lee thinks would be an acceptable number of deepfake purveyors that would not constitute an “overblown threat.”

[bleach-your-panties]

First of all, I just want to say THANK YOU to all of my mutuals, readers, and followers.

I write what makes me happy first and foremost, but it makes me so excited to see that others enjoy and look forward to my work! ✨️

So for that, I'd like to celebrate with a lil contest.

🎀𝒞ℴ𝓃𝓉ℯ𝓈𝓉 ℛ𝓊𝓁ℯ𝓈🎀

1. This contest is for my MUTUALS and FOLLOWERS only.

����Mutuals: Meaning I am following you and you are following me. It will look like this when we interact:

🎀Followers: Meaning you are following me, but I am not following you. It will look like this when I post or interact with you:

DO NOT SUBMIT DUPLICATE ENTRIES. THIS WILL VOID YOU FROM THE ENTIRE CONTEST. I will be checking for duplicates.

Only enter as either a mutual or as a follower.

2. Fill out my commission form here. The winning entries will be treated as if they were paid commissions, so please read the original commission post here and read all guidelines on the form carefully before submitting it.

3. There will be 4 winners in total. 2 mutuals and 2 followers.

4. Yes, you can still enter as a follower even if you started following me as soon as you saw this post. I will do two drawings for followers, one for new followers and one for the OG's.

♡Keep in mind!! I will only be including followers that have interacted with me or my posts. Ghost followers are fine to have, but it is not fair to others who actively engage if you get chosen over them.

5. MINORS, AGELESS, BLANK, SPAM/MEME BLOGS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO JOIN THIS CONTEST.

6. If I check your blog and the first thing I see is a meme, you're getting blocked. If your blog looks inactive, block. No pinned post or visible, BELIEVABLE age anywhere, blocked. Do not fill my entries up with spam, you will not be counted.

🎀Directions for Completing Commission Form for Contest Entry:

1. On question #1, type your preferred name/alias, pronouns, age, blog name with @ symbol, and whether you're entering as a moot or a follower.

2. Fill out the rest of the form as usual.

3. When you reach the payment question, select 'other' and type in 'contest entry'.

4. Submit.

5. I WILL delete any incomplete entry forms, duplicates, or entries that did not adhere to the guidelines.

6. You may submit an anonymous entry, but you still have to list your actual blog URL (it will not be tagged if you win) and I MUST have a valid form of contact for you as well as an age verification. See the commission form for complete details.

🎀Winner Selection Process:

1. On Saturday, March 16th, 2024 at 16:00 US CST (4:00 pm US CST), I will live screen record from my phone or laptop as I put all of the names into the random name generator.

The recording will be removed from my page after I have contacted the winners, but the video will be kept as evidence that I indeed did not choose favorites.

2. Once I contact you, if you've won, please respond promptly so we can hash out any fine details and I can begin working on the piece.

🎀Final Notes:

Alongside the contest, I will be running a 10% off promo on my writing commissions during the entire RSVP period (2.29-3.15)!!🎂🥳🎊

Discount code is ' SWEET1600 ' (do not include quotations)

♡kofi-page for commission ordering

♡make sure you've filled out the commission form first!

♡thanks again for helping me to hit this special milestone!💞

♡i will be sharing this post periodically over the next 2 weeks.

(*I've been having issues with my PayPal, so please bear with me while I get that handled!*)

*please direct any questions about the contest to @bleach-your-panties or @1zurusprinc3ss DM's. questions about commissions/ordering will go to my email (ask)*

-byp🌹

[timeflow]

could just be me, but it feels like the way that the staff account clarified that the dashboard wasn't going back after making it sound like it was was done intentionally so that we would feel less bad about the other features in the post that actively clash with what people currently want. yes yes it's all well and good that the chronological dashboard isn't going anywhere, but what about the part about sending emails when push notifications are turned off? or the part about potentially removing duplicate reblogs from your dashboard? (actually, depending on implementation, the entire section about reblogs/replies sounds concerning to me.) the way that everyone immediately decided everything was fine feels almost like a planned thing to distract us from the rest of the post is what I'm saying

[bonesandblood-sunandmoon]

Tumblr has been working on implementing a Communities feature here, and they've gotten to a Closed Beta stage. There's more details in this post, but basically, some people will be getting emails with information about filling out a form if they're interested in a community and ideas will be selectively approved and created. There will be a community member cap while in Closed Beta, and taking part in feedback will probably be inevitable.

I'm honestly not sure if there's an underlying reason for who gets sent emails or if I was randomly chosen, but I have the opportunity to fill out a potential community form. Someone would have to approve it, and at this stage, allowing duplicates or communities that are very nearly duplicated with minor differences will probably be unlikely. Considering the tag spamming in Jumblr, I thought it might be a good idea to suggest some sort of Jewish themed Community.

If anyone else has gotten an email about creating a Community and has had this idea, I would absolutely like a response about it. (I have no idea if this is a 'first come, first serve' sort of thing, but I'd rather not make a duplicate suggestion.)

There is a note in the email that not every suggestion will be approved, and they're looking for a spread of different types of Communities. However, it also can't hurt to at least put forward the suggestion.

I haven't looked at the form in great detail yet, but it will probably ask for a name, description, community guidelines, and if the Community will be public or private.

Name: I'm not 100% sold on using 'Jumblr', 'Jewish', or 'Judaism' since those are so broad and general. However, if enough people like using 'Jumblr' or something that does seem personally broad, it's still on the table for consideration.

Description: A space for Jewish Tumblrites...? (Jews of Tumblr?) To be determined, really. (Should it be a space also open to gentile allies? Probably see the private vs public section.)

Community guidelines: Some will be the usual matters of what posts will not be allowed, how to tag for certain topics, and what conduct could lead to being removed from the comm. Specific guidelines to this comm are definitely where I'd appreciate some degree of input, though.

For example, it's entirely possible that someone interested in joining this potential Jewish themed Community will want to avoid examples of antisemitism. Does this look like a guideline about not posting antisemitic anon hate or reblogging conversations with antisemitic responses in the reblog chain into the Community? Does this look like needing to use a specific tag so other community members can blacklist or use Tumblr's filtering feature? What if someone wants to talk about antisemitism they've recently faced?

The Israel-Hamas war. Do the community members want a space free from news updates? Or would a guideline about not showing gory imagery or videos, but allowing text only updates, be alright? (Do community members want a space free from larger I/P discussions? Or as long it's tagged for filtering purposes, do they want to be able to talk about I/P without having trolls and random antisemites wander into the replies/reblogs?)

Zionism. I don't want this to be another space where people face the 'are you a Good Jew or a Bad Jew' sort of questioning. However, does this look like a statement in the description welcoming everyone including Zionists, or does there need to be a guideline about talking about anti-/non-/Zionism within the Community?

Other: I don't know what the community member cap will be in the beginning, so I have no idea whether there'll be a need for mods immediately or not. The only language I'm comfortable doing any modding in is English, so at the very least, I'd probably need someone who knows Hebrew at some point.

Public or private: I like the idea of a public community that's not dissimilar to the Jumblr tag, but you know, I'm not sure about how comfortable community members will be with a public community given the compilation of blocklists based on interacting with a particular post/user.

From the Communities Help page:

Public communities can be seen and visited by non-members, logged in or logged out. However, only the feed of posts in each community tab, and the About page, are accessible. Non-members cannot view the member list, see who reacted with what, or see community comments. Non-members with an invite can see everything a member can see, but cannot interact with anything until they accept the invitation. Private communities cannot be seen or visited by non-members at all. The existence of a private community is not hidden, however, if someone has the URL (they’ll see a message like “this is a private community”). Non-members with an invite can see everything a member can see, but cannot interact with anything until they accept the invitation.

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Not directly related but notable enough to mention: I can easily imagine that some people will not be enthusiastic that I'm volunteering for this effort. This is the main associated with a conversion sideblog, but I have not felt comfortable with revealing my sideblog, especially after October 7th. However, I don't think a Tumblr Community can be associated with a secondary account, so I can't really change that my not-really-Jewish-looking account is the one associated with this idea. If someone likes this idea but still would rather have someone else try to implement it, I guess we'll cross that bridge if we get there in the response to this.

[mariacallous]

"Your account was suspended for containing content that we consider to be spam. We define this as content created with the primary purpose of mass solicitation, directing traffic to third-party sites, or excessive automated posting or replying.   Content that falls into these categories includes, but is not limited to, advertising and promotional content, duplicate content, and content written primarily for gaming search engines. This is a violation of our Terms of Service or our Community Guidelines.    While this type of content is still prohibited on Tumblr, we want to give you another chance to rejoin the community.

The following content has been removed from Tumblr for violating our Community Guidelines regarding Spam.

https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747558790833012736 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747558852270194688 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747559089171808256 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747558992703897600 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747558927702622208 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747559293719560192 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747559508394573824 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573124916248576 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573192281014272 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573230338981888 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573308773580800 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573160956821504 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573668534763520 https://mariacallous.tumblr.com/post/747573851678031873

We can’t restore your original content, but we’ve reactivated your blog with the original URL and you should be able to log in with your usual email address and password. Please note that subsequent violations of our Community Guidelines may result in account termination. This action was taken as the result of a internally-generated report. Automated means may have been used to make this decision or identify the content at issue.  If you believe we removed this content in error and wish to learn more about our appeals process, please visit the following page: https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/21170201450647-Appeals-on-Tumblr"

[whumpster-fire]

25 Exciting Phrases to Spice Up Your Next Business e-Mail

1: "Dear Motherfucker,"

2: "To whom it may concern, as well as the entire company directory who I am cc'ing because none of you care about my time so I don't care about yours,"

3: If you'd like to know why I am sending this e-mail, please consider reading it for fucking once."

4: "If I do not see conclusive evidence of your head being out of your ass in the next 3-5 business days, I will remove it from your shoulders."

5: "Please attach a current headshot and resume: the latter so I can laugh at your alleged qualifications, the former so I can print it out and put it on a dartboard as advised by HR's Anger Management Seminar"

6: "Due to the considerable destructive forces at my command,"

7: "Cc'ing The Pope on this one to keep him in the loop since the magnitude of this clusterfuck is nothing short of Biblical,"

8: "This is the fourth e-mail I have sent asking you to do your goddamn job. The fifth will be attached to a brick hurled through your office window. You do not want to know what the sixth will be, so get your shit together ASAP please."

9: "Please keep in mind that refraining from inappropriate use of the Reply All button is the only thing separating us from descending into complete Lord Of the Flies anarchy."

10: "All, please review the selection of Dilbert cartoons attached below and reflect on how they might be relevant to the current situation and your role in it."

11: "The Carpool Committee has unanimously voted to play exclusively Alvin And the Chipmunks songs in any vehicle you are a passenger in for a month the next time you schedule a mandatory meeting before 8 AM."

12: "The potted Ficus tree by the 4th Floor break room will be taking the lead on this project from this point on since it is more qualified than any of you."

13: "I didn't think I needed to inform everyone that 'accidentally' stapling your balls to get out of Company Spirit Meetings early is against company policy. However,"

14: "Due to recent events, any personal office supplies brought from home, e.g. paperweights, must now be checked with a Geiger counter."

15: "Please be advised that if you reply with a question that indicates you have not read and understood the list of action items below in its entirety, I will kick you in the teeth so hard you will chew with your appendix in the future."

16: "We regret to announce that Sean is now an outlaw and no longer protected by our Workplace Violence Policy. This decision was not made lightly, but the current situation re: the break room microwaves has forced our hand. Cc'ing Sean to keep him in the loop."

17: "Please keep in mind that you are neither the most profitable nor the most important of our clients, and your disproportionate share of billable hours is due primarily to your whininess, entitled attitude, and inability to give a straight answer."

18: "If you feel the need to contact me outside my scheduled hours, please write your issue on a piece of letter sized paper, then roll it up, seal it inside a glass bottle, and cast it into the ocean. This will get a faster response than emailing, calling, or texting me at 1 in the fucking morning."

19: "Team, As a result of employees being bombarded with hundreds of e-mails after inadvertently hitting reply all, we are now instituting the following change to our e-mail communication policy: to help prevent duplicate corrections, when admonishing a coworker who you feel has used Reply All inappropriately, please make sure to use Reply All as well so the other recipients can see that the responsible party has already been notified of their mistake."

20: "Cc'ing you on every e-mail about this issue due to your record of not giving a shit about a problem unless your time is being wasted."

21: "Please do not disturb the protective circle of salt around the 2nd fridge from the left in the break room, and do not under any circumstances open it without appropriate PPE and an escort from an old priest and a young priest."

22: "After consulting with Legal and HR, we have determined that the ficus tree by the 4th floor break room dispersing pollen into the office environment does not constitute a violation of our sexual harassment policy. Also, please be advised that the ficus tree is female and is not the source of your pollen allergies. No disciplinary action will be taken against it. However, your repeated complaints targeted at the ficus tree based on its status as a plant may constitute a hostile work environment. Please meet with HR ASAP to discuss this further."

23: "Team, Placing an 'Elf On the Shelf' in any location on company premises or within your home office where it may be able to see, overhear, or access proprietary information will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. Company proprietary data may not be divulged to any unauthorized third parties, and that includes Santa Claus."

24: "Cc'ing Santa Claus to keep him in the loop on this one."

25: "Sincerely, The Only Guy Who Does His Goddamn Job Around Here."

[half-or-nothing]

ok quick question for the people still awake that are browsing tumblr. someone accidently reported my steam account for illegal purchases and item duplications when they meant to report someone else. I've been in contact with a Discord account who I was told to appeal to with the display name Kelly Thornton. so far I had to log out of steam on my compute and my account's email, phone number have been removed and my password have been changed. so far I had to buy a "$50 Razer Gold" and send the receipt and product key for the "Item Buying Process Data" on my steam account. I was told that I would be refunded twice (and $50 HAS been added to my steam wallet). unfortunately there was an error due to late compiling of the procedure. now, the database has already revoked the reports but I can't do any transactions like trading and buying in the market and in games. in order to get access to that I have to basically do the whole Razer Gold thing again. is this a scam? I can provide more details if needed

[rewordthis]

Right, so I just deleted the entire app for my writing and everything including all my 13 Free!, 22 Jujutsu Kaisen, 3 Blue Lock, 3 Aoyama-kun, 3 Kichiku Megane, 1 Chainsaw Man, 1 Whitchblade and some uncategorised other works…

EVERYTHING GOT DELETED!!! GONE!!! KAPUT!!!

God, I’m going to kms. I can’t do this anymore. If I had managed to get a computer all this time I wouldn’t be in this situation. What’s absolutely killing me is that half of these works were in the editing process aka I would be starting posting them by the first Saturday of August. I can’t write these things again. It was a slow process that took me months and years in the free! and Kichiku cases. What I’m mostly crying my eyeballs out rn are the long nearly 7k words, half an hour ago edited Gonana which I was so proud of for how it had turned out and the multi chaptered steamy SukuIta. I had poured all my love, attention to detail and beautifully crafted imagery in those two works. I feel like dying. Or more like. I just died inside. I’m… 🪦

Why the fuck hadn’t I kept duplicates? WHY?! I used to send my works to my email but after my pc burned I got lazy doing that. FUCK!!!🧿

And why on earth was that the only app that asked me if I wanted it deleted but had no option to remove from the operating screen like all other apps??? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!?!

And the biggest irony? I still have the prompt I wrote for a Toji story. Well fuck you, Toji! I’m not in the mood to write anything anymore._(:3 」∠)_

[soggywarmpockets]

The store I tried to order BUCK-TICK's last 2 albums (and other items) from emailed me that they don't have them in stock and asked if I want to wait or remove those items. I placed an order with another shop and told them to remove them, but got an automated email this morning that Abracadabra will be shipping on the 7th. So now I may end up with duplicates. Might hold a giveaway if that happens.

[waterspoutskies]

If my blog dies or is shadowbanned let it be known that I died fighting to explain to staff that the hellsite doesn't have to become instagram

Re: Today's staff announcement (And what I sent staff in feedback under the cut)

Staff's latest announcement at: https://www.tumblr.com/staff/722477242948747264/tumblrs-core-product-strategy

Aside from the obvious concerns about the following tab being removed and the chronological feed being removed (let me tell you how annoying it is on my newer blog having to change over to the Following tab instead of the For You tab each time I log in because there's not a way to permanently enforce that change), there are a few major issues.

1) Absolutely NO notification emails if push notifications are turned off. I turned them off. I don't want emails if I turned off notifications. This is the dumbest thing I've seen proposed in quite a while. Not even Instagram and Twitter send emails when you have notifications turned off for the site.

2) Bring back picking blogs to follow in the introduction steps, not just tags. This should be a no brainer. This site is unbelievably easy to use if you know that following blogs = content on your dash.

3) Don't collapse reblog threads. We make reblog chains for the humor of it. And if you must, you better make that toggleable the way collapsing long posts currently is. I want to see my reblog threads. There's a whole culture around this, which you might take the time to dive into if you wish to understand how things are being used by the userbase.

4) The same goes for hiding duplicate reblogs. First of all, doing it multiple times can be for the humor of it. But also? People use that as a timed post system to reach different parts of their audience based on the time of day. And it's much easier to promote an old post about your commissions than make up a brand new one each time. Your "creators" function much better the way things are than they do on sites that don't allow this- And you can ask them about it. Once again, if you must, make that toggleable.

5) Speaking of reblog issues. You want to clean up reblogs and make post chains easier to follow? Bring back our ability to click on usernames to track back through reblogged additions to posts. Don't take me to their blog. Don't take me to their frontpage. I want to see what they said on the post, and THEN I'll consider following them, not the other way around.

6) Y'all seem to be under the impression that the majority of us "create content." If content is us musing our random thoughts aloud and shitposting, then you'd be correct. Not everyone coming on here is coming to gain a mass following and monetize themselves-- I would bet, if you used one of your polls on a staff post, you'd discover that a majority of us are not doing that. We're here to socialize using a form of online media.

7) Since we're bringing up feedback issues, toggles should be permanent. If you make something toggleable, I do not want to go back in once a week and have to change it back. This applies to 3 and 4. And certain other issues.

8) Staff, I know y'all are getting a fair bit of hate for this, since y'all just make the announcements, not so much the upper level decisions. Especially not the corporate drivel lingo in today's. So let me address this one directly to the corporate overlords: If you want to make money off of users and improve the traffic of the site, you might try asking the userbase at large what keeps them on the website. Not what they want to see improved, what keeps them there. Tumblr succeeds because it isn't going the way of other social media websites. Don't be just like everyone else. That's why we're here in the first place.

[repostedpoliticalarts]

So I was out shopping with my partner at one of our favorite little queer-friendly shops when I saw this extremely fucked up magnet.

You’ve probably seen these magnets before with the 50’s artwork and snarky quips obviously pulled without permission from Tumblr and Twitter half the time.

But this one crossed a line. It features a vintage photo of a drag queen and the caption “of course you can be anything you want to be. That’s how delusions work.”

When I pulled the magnet and brought it to the cashier, I pointed out the obvious implication that trans/GNC people are delusional. She immediately pulled all the duplicate copies off the display.

The company that makes the magnet Ephemera.com has a lot of anti-trump, pro-LGBTQIA+ products so I don’t think this was malicious on the part of the designer, but it WAS thoughtless and harmful.

The company is a wholesale manufacturer so they sell in bulk to multiple re-sellers. I already emailed them using their “contact us” link on the website and asked them to remove this design from their product line. If you’d like to do the same it would really help.

[mushroom-for-art]

Thinky thoughters cause I'm not immune to propaganda

Dammit fuck I want to make Mirage ocs cause I've been seeing a lot of computer boys and girls and I am just 👀👀 and I know it's just copying I know it's just seeing something doing well and going me wan do that too and I know it'll crash and flop but God dammit I'm getting attached to two little idiots in my head. As of yet not canon I just need to scream about them, they might only be canon due to like obviously that Mirage pokemon episode but that's it.

A. L. F. I. E - Articifically. Learning. Functional. Intelligence. Equipment. Probably the mewtwo identifying and looking program (tho likely mewtwo but wrong due to subpar images downloaded and used for referencing appearance because dang that be blurry as fuck(idk probably won't commit to this as I am had at that kinda thing)). Obviously ai but with extra letters and steps, due to the use of equipment I'm inclined to believe A.L.F.I.E's entire program consciousness is stored in some type of device thing that can be removed from systems and moved about as necessary. Likely goes by She/it's, Alfie is a boys name but A.L.F.I.E is an acronym stop being gendered about names. <her words not mine XD. Probably in charge of scheduled appointments information management and traffic, eg emails and stuff, overglorified underutilised program assistant basically. But she's probably very clever knew everybody's schedules preferences and such to a T amongst other things

A. L. I. C. E - Articifically. Learning. Intelligence. Computer. Equipment. The mew looking program of the two, (now I know they're very similar shush I've stolen the acronyms from an old oc who would just flip flop between them depending on gender) A.L.I.C.E is actually just a straight up huge computer, hence the C. Going by They/It's, they are just a huge ass computer system of wires and monitors and a screen that is their physical body and their screen manifestation sprite is that of a mew as they feel they are so powerful and capable of so very much that it only makes sense they would be a mew. Probably a little egotistical because they're the most complicated fast intelligent program to date. Very oh I know I know I'm excellent brilliant a marvel.

The A.L.F.I.E device is currently connected to A.L.I.C.E's physical form meaning they are both physically connected in their metallic physical forms but they also are both existing inside of A.L.I.C.E's systems so they both appear on A.L.I.C.E's display screen. Yes there is a lot of intimacy involved with the fact they are connected and with A.L.F.I.E currently being side of A.L.I.C.E. Yes they make jokes about it, A.L.F.I.E is flustered cause plz don't be vulgar.

Current status? I'm not sure, originally it was just gonna be a little mew computer program with jobs like A.L.F.I.E and also being a personal alarm ect just another glorified personal help ai tasked with obeying and helping a human master but now it's become both of them because they need friend dammit. I don't know if they're in use in a facility somewhere or if they're abandoned. I'm thinking the facility is currently in use but after the Mirage episode events where probably a duplicated A.L.F.I.E coding becomes corrupted and goes berserk upon getting a semi solid holograph form the facility is abandoned and they're both left to rot because the humans just figured turning off the machine was enough. Leaving them really at the mercy of whoever found them.

[b2bitmedia]

Control Structured Data with Intelligent Archiving

Control Structured Data with Intelligent Archiving

You thought you had your data under control. Spreadsheets, databases, documents all neatly organized in folders and subfolders on the company server. Then the calls started coming in. Where are the 2015 sales figures for the Western region? Do we have the specs for the prototype from two years ago? What was the exact wording of that contract with the supplier who went out of business? Your neatly organized data has turned into a chaotic mess of fragmented information strewn across shared drives, email, file cabinets and the cloud. Before you drown in a sea of unstructured data, it’s time to consider an intelligent archiving solution. A system that can automatically organize, classify and retain your information so you can find what you need when you need it. Say goodbye to frantic searches and inefficiency and hello to the control and confidence of structured data.

The Need for Intelligent Archiving of Structured Data

You’ve got customer info, sales data, HR records – basically anything that can be neatly filed away into rows and columns. At first, it seemed so organized. Now, your databases are overloaded, queries are slow, and finding anything is like searching for a needle in a haystack. An intelligent archiving system can help you regain control of your structured data sprawl. It works by automatically analyzing your data to determine what’s most important to keep active and what can be safely archived. Say goodbye to rigid retention policies and manual data management. This smart system learns your data access patterns and adapts archiving plans accordingly. With less active data clogging up your production systems, queries will run faster, costs will decrease, and your data analysts can actually get work done without waiting hours for results. You’ll also reduce infrastructure demands and risks associated with oversized databases. Compliance and governance are also made easier. An intelligent archiving solution tracks all data movement, providing a clear chain of custody for any information that needs to be retained or deleted to meet regulations. Maybe it’s time to stop treading water and start sailing your data seas with an intelligent archiving solution. Your databases, data analysts and CFO will thank you. Smooth seas ahead, captain!

How Intelligent Archiving Improves Data Management

Intelligent archiving is like a meticulous assistant that helps tame your data chaos. How, you ask? Let’s explore:

Automated file organization

Intelligent archiving software automatically organizes your files into a logical folder structure so you don’t have to spend hours sorting through documents. It’s like having your own personal librarian categorize everything for easy retrieval later.

Efficient storage

This software compresses and deduplicates your data to free up storage space. Duplicate files hog valuable storage, so deduplication removes redundant copies and replaces them with pointers to a single master copy. Your storage costs decrease while data accessibility remains the same.

Compliance made simple

For companies in regulated industries, intelligent archiving simplifies compliance by automatically applying retention policies as data is ingested. There’s no danger of mistakenly deleting information subject to “legal hold” and avoiding potential fines or sanctions. Let the software handle the rules so you can avoid data jail.

Searchability

With intelligent archiving, your data is indexed and searchable, even archived data. You can quickly find that invoice from five years ago or the contract you signed last month. No more digging through piles of folders and boxes. Search and find — it’s that easy. In summary, intelligent archiving brings order to the chaos of your data through automated organization, optimization, compliance enforcement, and searchability. Tame the data beast once and for all!

Implementing an Effective Data Archiving Strategy

So you have a mind-boggling amount of data accumulating and you’re starting to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of unstructured information. Before you decide to throw in the towel, take a deep breath and consider implementing an intelligent archiving strategy.

Get Ruthless

Go through your data and purge anything that’s obsolete or irrelevant. Be brutally honest—if it’s not useful now or in the foreseeable future, delete it. Free up storage space and clear your mind by ditching the digital detritus.

Establish a Filing System

Come up with a logical taxonomy to categorize your data. Group similar types of info together for easy searching and access later on. If you have trouble classifying certain data points, you probably don’t need them. Toss ‘em!

Automate and Delegate

Use tools that can automatically archive data for you based on your taxonomy. Many solutions employ machine learning to categorize and file data accurately without human input. Let technology shoulder the burden so you can focus on more important tasks, like figuring out what to have for lunch.

Review and Refine

Revisit your archiving strategy regularly to make sure it’s still working for your needs. Make adjustments as required to optimize how data is organized and accessed. Get feedback from other users and incorporate their suggestions. An effective archiving approach is always a work in progress. With an intelligent data archiving solution in place, you’ll gain control over your information overload and find the freedom that comes from a decluttered digital space. Tame the data deluge and reclaim your sanity!

Conclusion

So there you have it. The future of data management and control through intelligent archiving is here. No longer do you have to grapple with endless spreadsheets, documents, files and manually track the relationships between them.With AI-powered archiving tools, your data is automatically organized, categorized and connected for you. All that structured data chaos becomes a thing of the past. Your time is freed up to focus on more meaningful work. The possibilities for data-driven insights and optimization seem endless. What are you waiting for? Take back control of your data and unleash its potential with intelligent archiving. The future is now, so hop to it! There’s a whole new world of data-driven opportunity out there waiting for you.    

[aeide-thea]

my feelings abt the latest @​staff post, point by point:

their efforts to convert visitors into new users mostly don't affect our experience, although they do make our blogs less accessible to the public which like. i don't love on principle but ultimately can shrug off, bc really i'm here for my mutuals'/followers' reactions to the things i post, not for the consumption of strangers who don't provide any feedback?

the bit about wanting to make sure they're "presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session" is concerning to me, because (while the language there is so vague that it requires some interpretive guesswork, which of course might be wrong) i can't help thinking, does that mean that if they run out of content to serve me which was posted by users i actually follow, they'll start supplementing with content recommended by the "algorithmic ranking capabilities" they're looking to improve, like a bad netflix search? very yikes if so.

i actually do agree with them that "the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing." the point about "[e]xplor[ing] the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed" does concern me a little, but i'm hoping they realize that reblogs of the same post with eg different tag commentary aren't in fact duplicates. and frankly the idea of reply sections that aren't just one giant undifferentiated bin, such that someone @​s you in the notes of a popular post and you then literally can't find their message because it's gotten buried, sounds potentially good to me!

the creator-related points seem—maybe okay, maybe less okay? like, "[g]et[ting] creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it" seems potentially positive, depending on how they define 'interested'—i'm open to finding out what they mean by that. but if it's an algorithm thing you can't opt out of, which the comment about "the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed ('Following')" would rather seem to suggest… that definitely concerns me.

the bit about "patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr" is totally fine, imo. all they're actually talking about in that section is (1) push notifications and (2) emails, and (1) while i personally like getting notified when mutuals post, you can turn notifications off if you don't like that, and (2) emails can always be filtered on the receiving end, if nothing else. so that's ignorable.

ultimately i think like. i definitely get the sense that they're looking to move towards a more algorithmic approach, which does concern me, but i feel like whether that's bearable depends on (1) whether they let existing users, at least, opt out, and (2) how intrusive it is? like, i've periodically looked at the 'for you' tab on purpose! it's just that ime it isn't very good! but like, a 'for you' tab that was more successfully interesting to me, and still cordoned-off rather than integrated into the main feed necessarily, could be a positive, potentially. on the other hand, if they want to go full-twitter? that would probably be unlivable. so we'll see, i guess! trying not to borrow trouble too far in advance.

[ao3-ghost]

Misconception: Every time you hit "kudos", the creator gets a notification.

I've seen people claim that if you smash kudos really fast, that you can give creators bonus kudos notification.

The notification email for kudos isn't sent each the button is pressed or every time a kudos is recorded. A task runs regularly that sends one notification email that collects all the kudos left since the last time the task ran. The task runs regularly but it's not immediate.

It used to be possible to get the Archive to glitch and show that you've left a kudos more than once. Sometimes you can still cause one to show up, but that doesn't cause an email to be sent and likely the creator won't see it. AO3 added a clean up task in 2020 that removes any duplicate kudos to help them migrate databases (AO3 Newspost). Even if it the page shows an extra kudos, that gets removed before emails are sent.

Plus people only get kudos notifications, if they enable that setting. There's probably plenty of creators who have the setting turned off.