Are there any users, big or small who make videos on any platform? I'd like to get into video creation in the future, currently I only make half-assed videos. I'd do more if others were making videos. In 2006 I recall YouTube had a feature called video reply, and people would reply with their real face and voice. But I was only 15 and didn't have broadband so I barely knew of YouTube when it was actually good.

I find it hard to believe that peddit needs you to have a certain amount of karma to post or have an account that is X days old. The CEO of Gab says he blocked pretty much all spam, simply by blocking ip addresses of third world countries. Then he blocked Israel and all the porn bots stopped attacking.

Users of the Peddit website will argue that we need ai moderation and strict rules - but if you just block India, Bangladesh and a few other countries it stops 99% of spam. Of course peddit will never do this because "muh rassisms" and Big Peddit won't do it either because "muh profits" but the evidence speaks for itself.

Next time somebody tells you that you can't block pornography, tell them that Gab has achieved that already. A website where you can sign up, post right away, with no restrictions, yet I never see spam or pornography on gab. I only notice accounts that like and repost which appear inauthentic, but at least they aren't flooding groups.

Peddit exaggerates the amount of bots and intelligence operations as an excuse to crack down on anyone with a new account. There's really no reason to limit new accounts. It's kind of control freaky.

Diaclaimer: article from last month.

Power is included but not Internet and there's a laundry that's shared between this unit and the neighbouring unit. On the downside, there is no kitchen sink and only a "mini oven". If this place had a real oven and a kitchen sink then I'd sign up immediately.

Why are we skimping on basic things, like kitchens? I want to cook my own food and eat healthy, not buy takeaways every second day while living off bowls of weetbix and crackers and cheese.

Is there any proof that there's still an earthquake rebuild happening here in Christchurch? It's been 15 years, you'd think we could move on from blaming the earthquake.

Real unemployment is probably even worse.

In many cases, young people are going into jobs without knowing their rights and without knowing what's unsafe. Companies still don't care even after $300,000 fines.

Last Wednesday, Sean Plunket - founder and boss of alternative streaming service the Platform - read aloud a letter he'd had from the BSA telling him someone had objected to Plunket describing Māori tikanga as "mumbo jumbo" earlier this year.

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Jack Daniels and iced coffee. Living off the grid - with added benefits! I had hoped this was fake. Now I'm stuck with the image of him getting drunk on rainy days while his children pick crap from under their fingernails. Tom Phillips' campsite is about as inspiring as Brenton Tarrant's Dunedin bedroom with basically no furnishing besides a broken computer chair.

No foreign government was involved in this. Okay, so the guy had been conned into traveling to Russia in Christmas of 2020. That doesn't mean Russian SVR had recruited him.

If you want to see how SVR works then you need to watch Breaking Bad Wolf on Rumble. That was an actual true spy story where it's highly credible that U.S. citizen John Mark Dougan was in fact working for Russian intelligence. Last week he announced that he received a state award "order of merit for serving the fatherland". He even posted about this publicly and said that the medal was soaked in vodka and he had to drink the vodka at the ceremony and read a long speech in Russian. Originally, he planned to keep this a secret, but even now he won't say why he was given this award. Something to do with information warfare he said.

In comparison, the guy at the Linton base is a total ass. I met him once, before he was arrested. There's nothing clever or witty about this guy. He seemed pretty indifferent and aloof if you asked me. Nothing really impressed me or stood out about him.

Russia's foreign intelligence service, called the SVR, wouldn't bother to recruit an asshat like this guy, especially when he's already under surveillance right after the mosque shooting. Just think and use your brains people - the way that SVR works is that they need a secure line to connect with sources. They also do a lot of stuff electronically, so the fact that this guy at Linton was going to physically fly to Russia, supposedly to deliver military secrets, is just a huge red flag. SVR can use a secure channel from a burner laptop if they needed info.

Why would Russia even care about maps of New Zealand's pathetic little bases anyway? Russia has whatever you call it, geo-spatial intelligence. They have satellites and drones to take photos. They don't need a low ranking idiot to do the work for them. In intelligence work you never work with someone who you know is already compromised and under surveillance.

The whole thing about the espionage case is a fake. NZSIS set this guy up to take away his guns, ruin his career and put him in prison. The problem that I have is seeing the media make a false claim that this guy was handing intelligence to Russia, which obviously isn't the case. But if you go on Reddit they have swallowed this lie.

"Of course Putin is funding far-right groups in New Zealand, and of course Russia's foreign intelligence service is directing Action Zealandia members in 2019-2020".

I'm sorry but this is delusional. SVR does not work with dropkicks who're under 24 hour surveillance and I call on people to use basic reasoning to conclude that there's no espionage here. The information was merely handed over to a police informant who was somehow pretending to pose as a Russian spy, despite not being Russian. And no doubt the police operation was handled by NZSIS. The New Zealand Police usually don't pretend to by Russian spies.

Imagine how effing stupid you'd have to be, to think that Russian intelligence was having in-person meetings with nazis to uncover minor details about some shitty backwater military "camp". It isn't even an "installation" just a god damned "camp". You could probably go on Google Earth and find aerial photographs. It's not like it's a secret.

Or maybe I'm the one who's an idiot, and Russia was going to use the mould from our damp barracks in Linton to manufacture a bio-weapon. I wish that Russia really was infiltrating NZ bases with some huge nefarious plot but the evidence suggests an NZSIS sting operation. If that's too hard to folks to believe then I'll just say it's a police sting operation. People have no clue how intelligence agencies work or don't work but you can learn if you read books about the Anna Chapman case, for example.