Nope, most traffic on the web is protected by HTTPS, your connection to their server is protected from snooping.

There are some caveats (MitM attacks), but realistically AI scrapers arent doing anything like that.

Your request to https://reddit.com/ is wrapped in encryption. Only reddit can decrypt it, as they have the key. If a bot were to intercept your request, it would have to crack the key, which is near impossible.

It has definitely worked for me in the past, maybe it broke recently :(

Everyone can see votes: https://lemvotes.org/

Torso is a little to the left of the camera, and the notepad is tilted, but not to the extent that I would call it writing columns.

I do see your point though.

(I am semi-super immortal, I write left handed, but do everything else right. Can switch most things easily enough)

I have been a leftie my entire life as well, and none of that matches my experience. I certainly don’t wear out my pens and rip up pages.

My hand position puts my hand below the line, so I am not smudging my fingers across the text anyway, and other than being mirrored, is exactly how gripping the pen was taught to all of us at school. The wrist is relatively neutral, and the pen is angled down from the line.

This is my handwriting, forgive the camera angle, and the poor cursive, I don’t handwrite much beyond scribbling notes:

https://streamable.com/v7l92z

Lol wut? Are you serious? Have you met a leftie?

Do you think lefties write backwards? :D

Cursive handwriting/fonts, and ligatures certainly encourage left to right text. Otherwise its just convention?

Just because something is possible, doesn’t mean that its in widespread use. TEMPEST has been around for decades, but that doesn’t mean its actually practical to do so, especially when it comes to widespread implementation.

There are more important things to worry about.

It doesn’t fully deanonymise you, but any activity from that VPN endpoint can be linked to your physical location (at least temporarily).

Its just another data point. If your VPN endpoint is shared it does mitigate this somewhat, but it depends how not careful everyone else is.

Activating a CC over a VPN and then using it in person deanonymises your VPN. You’d be better off activating on a maccas WiFi.

I’d rather see MS paint illustrations than GenAI images.

University prestige doesn’t matter at all in my experience. Unless you go to a pay-to-get-degree uni, your grades matter more. And all of that is worthless after you get your first job, because then its experience from there onwards.

It may actually end up stronger, I fixed a friends glasses with superglue, next time she sat on them it broke in a different place.

Superglue is pretty strong stuff.

100%. They have no idea how their app works, which is especially disturbing when they are pitching it as secure…

Sure, their bots on their own likely dwarf us as well, but even taking them out reddit is dramatically bigger than us.

Lemmy MAUs is in the thousands.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances (35k active users)

Reddit has a dramatically larger userbase.

Did you have the modules loaded before running the exploit?

Its a kernel exploit, so probably. But I just checked my arch installs,and I don’t have any of the kernel modules loaded. Loading requires root anyway, so I think this may be fairly limited in reality?

Edit: seems the modules get loaded automatically :(