[–] 9 points 3 hours ago

Speaking as a nearly lifelong developer of one kind or another, with ASD and ADHD... there's a big ol' overlap. I'm not talking "the venn diagram is a circle" level overlap, but it is significant. Lots of people with these traits have personality quirks, differences in socioemotional processing from the "typical" stuff, experiences in early life, and other things, that can cause some pretty intense rabbit holing/spiraling when things get overwhelming.

To be clear though, this guy is obviously just a major dipshit. Nobody deserves being lumped in with that.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 hours ago

    Refactored their existing “enable toxicity mode” feature into a clearer, toggleable blocklist feature

    Not sure this would help in itself, even though more flexible blocking would ironically be nice. The value in such a list lies in how it's curated, and the guy is still certifiable and about 3yo mentally, tops.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    One can only assume that's exactly why that word was picked - highlighting the frankly creepy aspects of the whole verification thing.

    Pedantically though, it's not strictly a military/police term. It's been used for decades in "business" to cover all the drudgery involved in actually following laws etc.

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