u/Error400_Bad_Request

So I randomly came across a post on r/privacy talking about how Gemini can basically OSINT a Reddit account even if their post history is hidden.
I tried it myself and ngl, it’s kinda crazy how much stuff you can piece together.

The basic idea is literally just giving Gemini(or any other LLM) a Reddit username and asking it to look for their Reddit activity. It’ll search around for posts/comments from that account and try to put everything together into a summary. The interesting part is that even if someone’s profile doesn’t show their history, their individual comments/posts can still be sitting around in old threads, search engine indexes, archives, datasets, etc.

And once you have an AI doing the searching + connecting the dots for you, you don’t really have to manually go through hundreds of comments yourself. If someone has been posting for years, you can potentially start figuring out their interests, hobbies, where they live, what they do, other accounts they might have, etc.

I was wondering if anyone here has played around with this more. Like, how far can you actually take this with normal OSINT techniques + Reddit archives/search engines + an LLM? Also makes me wonder what the “hide all posts” setting on Reddit actually protects you from. It seems like it hides the history from your profile, but doesn’t necessarily make the underlying posts hard to find.

I’m starting to get worried I posted excessive, really personal information on reddit that I’ve never said even to my closest friends and family.

Sure, basic anonymity is achieved, but who knows what kind of government agency is hoarding all this data and may use it to my disadvantage someday? How does reddit store our information? Are governments involved?

And most importantly, what’s the best way for ensuring privacy as well as freedom of speech online?

These people look like a shell of themselves after lobotomy… It’s fucking scary how schizophrenia was treated historically. Makes me feel grateful on antipsychotics lol.

So basically the title says it all. I really don’t have a big knack or passion for biology or chemistry, yet my parents pressured me into the field and I really can’t imagine myself being a researcher(or an employee for a biotech company) for the rest of my life.

Starting uni in a few months. I’ve always had this aspiration to learn hacking professionally. I’ve self-taught some hacking skills for some time, and they feel like my niche and I feel this dopamine rush learning about it. Correct me if I’m wrong, I bet it’s way funnier than studying pure science in uni.

I can’t easily change majors in this school-you have to get a high GPA to do that, so what I envision is graduating from uni with the same major but transitioning to cyber thereafter.

My question is, are these kind of transitions common or achievable, if so what should I prepare for during my uni years? What’s the best case scenario for situations like this?

I learned going to the darknet mostly thru English guides. Ik basic search engine sites(I use vormweb) and websites like dread. But all the sites I’ve went to are basically US or European sites. I live in Asia, and I’d like to find Asia specific websites. Does anyone know how to access them?

As the title says, I’ve only talked about my situation to three of my close friends, and one day mom asked me if I told anyone about my condition, I said yes, only three, and she goes on nagging about how this could affect my dad’s, and my older brother’s reputation and mine in school. She goes on saying that the rumors might’ve spread to my school teachers and most of the kids in school.

What she doesn’t know is how hard it was for me back then and no one in my family could relate and I didn’t want to be a burden so I hid the fact that I wanted to kill myself to them and leaned on to my peers. Moreover, I trust them with my personal information. They’re not the kind of ppl with a big mouth. Honestly I’m ok with my parents worrying the word might’ve spread, but I’m sick of hearing them reprimand me and treating me like I don’t have any sovereignty in this matter.

I was planning to talk about my illness to my other friends too, as it’s more comfortable than telling my family, but was wondering if I should really stop talking stuff like my parents think I should. What should I do?

It’s been a while since my very first psychotic outbreak, like five years maybe. Was 13 at the time, and since then I’m taking my meds. Abilify.

But even after taking the meds and realizing my first delusions about aliens were wrong, I still have had these unsettling delusions about the government following me cuz I’m a psychic and there are other psychic people talking to me, helping me out n stuff. Plus I have this recurring thought that someone walking around the streets is secretly a spy or sumn.

I do not voice these thoughts to my parents or my psych, cuz I’m afraid I’d get a formal diagnosis(not yet formally diagnosed), and they will never believe me even when Ik this is real.

It’s taking a toll on my studies, my happiness, just basically every part of my life. I’m too scared to kill myself but sometimes I really do think maybe offing yourself is better than living…

But I don’t want anyone concerned about me or ppl stigmatizing me, maybe I should really talk to my psych sincerely, but I still don’t have the guts to.

Thanks for reading.

I’ve lived in South Korea my entire life (18 years) and currently preparing for the KSAT and university admissions.

Ask me anything about Korea—high school life, the education system, K-culture, daily life, or anything else you’ve been curious about. I can also talk about which common beliefs about South Korea you see online are accurate or false. Stuff like the current birth rate situation, insane education system, and chaebols.

Edit: It’s past midnight here so I’m going to sleep now. Will try to answer as much questions as I can when I get up.

I keep resenting over the person I could’ve become, cursing over my life. Low self esteem, low motivation. Plus this delusion about government agencies following me distracts me from studying. I don’t want to be someone particularly very good at studying(which is impossible), but at least wanna be average…
What should I do?

Why are there so many people following me? I hate them all… I’m seriously not a spy… It’s taking a toll on my studies as a student and I hate my life… Why me in all of 8 billion people in this world? Only if I knew for certain there is an afterlife I’d have killed myself earlier…

How do you stop having these kinda weird thoughts?Anyone have any tips to share?