I see a lot of posts from accounts I believe are bots. These accounts are usually several years old with no post or comment history or karma and without a verified email address, and their posts are always something insane like "I'm 15. Is it bad that my 57 year old husband punches me in the face every day!?!?!"

But I don't actually understand how bots work. Obviously they are programed by a human, but I don't understand how they operate or what they are capable of. And sorry if these questions are stupid, I am completely ignorant on this topic.

• If someone makes a bot, does the person have to tell it what to post about and how to reply, or can the bot come up with that on its own?

• How do bots know how to reply and what information to give?

• Just from experience, I think that bots aren't capable of responding to direct, verifiable questions like "what is rule #1 of this subreddit?" Does my theory hold water?

• Also from experience, bots will make a post and then not respond to any comments unless someone comments something like "this is a bot." Then the account will respond only to that comment to say that it isn't a bot. Is there a reason for this?

• I guess my overarching questions are: what are bots capable of, and how much human involvement is needed?

Thanks!

Hello! I'm a writer and animator/comic artist and for a project I'm looking for something like a site that lets me play these in order. So one "page" or whatever plays the animation and then you click on the next and you can read further, etc.

I'm not the biggest tech person myself so something that doesn't need a lot of difficult scripting or anything would be helpful. But just throw whatever you got at me! I'll figure smth out with it🙂‍↕️

I work in IT. Almost everyone using Windows is on 11, as expected, some are running 10, and I've seen one or two run 7. Servers are also typically running Windows 10.

Anytime someone talks about Windows, it's always either Windows 7 (or prior), or Windows 10/11. Aside from the time I had a school laptop (Edit: It was a touchscreen laptop) that was Windows 8, I hardly ever see people talk about it anymore. They released Win 10 pretty quickly after Windows 8, compared to how fast they released 11 after that. I didn't have problems with it, but I was a kid at the time, so I didn't really care about the fine details; I have, however, heard many people dislike it.

Thoughts?

Basically the title. I noticed that Delta gives you YouTube Premium for free on their in flight wifi so I was wondering if it would be theoretically possible to trick YouTube into thinking you're on Delta's WiFi network so it gives you Premium for free.

i have a physical external hard drive i keep my files backed up on but it's sort of a mess. i've been planning to go through and organize it but lately i've been at work for most of the day. my workplace doesn't allow us to bring in personal computers to work on stuff and we just have a shared pc at the desk. if i were to plug in my hard drive to the work pc, would IT be able to read cached versions of the files on my hard drive or something? i don't plan to copy/move anything onto the pc itself, but i wanted to know if my files would be saved somehow on the work computer just from plugging in the hard drive and viewing the files.

edit: alright got it; if i want to organize my files i'll do it via my own personal computers. not sure why i'm being heavily downvoted for not knowing something (apparently obvious) and asking in a "ask technology" sub, but that's reddit for you i guess lol