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Comment on GitHub shocks top developer: Access to five years' work inexplicably blocked in ~tech
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Comment on GitHub shocks top developer: Access to five years' work inexplicably blocked in ~tech
etc Link Parentthe irony of integrating a VCS with a service you cannot restore data from...the irony of integrating a VCS with a service you cannot restore data from...
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Comment on Poll: Most Texas voters believe business owners shouldn't be allowed to refuse service to LGBT people in ~lgbt
etc Link ParentParaphrasing that line makes it a lot clearer.Most Texas voters believe business owners shouldn't be allowed to refuse service to LGBT people
Paraphrasing that line makes it a lot clearer.
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Comment on Against advertising: Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us. in ~design
etc Link ParentI'm pretty anti-advertising at the best of times but to play DA for a moment - you assume that just because you don't act on ads directly (or get convinced of the 'brand permanence'/soft...I'm pretty anti-advertising at the best of times but to play DA for a moment - you assume that just because you don't act on ads directly (or get convinced of the 'brand permanence'/soft appeals/etc) that they don't affect you, but the avenues you do act on for most of your purchases - word of mouth/recommendations, community feedback, etc - are all indirectly and significantly impacted by ad spend as well.
Most brands you probably use wouldn't exist if they cut off their ad spending and their competitors did not. It's an arms race without end.
Can we evolve harder, plz?
I don't think there's any more 'evolving' to do in that direction - ads represent the pinnacle of capitalistic greed - money rules, 'the market will decide who wins' and so on, then 'merica breaks up the monopolies (assuming we're ever going to get around to doing that again) and we briefly unclog the pipes and pretend the machine's running fine. Nothing short of a new direction (e.g. regulating away ads, because corporate greed would otherwise always ensure they exist) and as with everything, doing away with money indirectly buying politicians, currently through campaign finance (and IMO, removal of the current bought-in politicians) would affect any sort of change.
Whew, that got more political than I was intending.
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Comment on YouTube decides that homophobic harassment does not violate its policies in ~tech
etc Link ParentReddit comments at this point can be assumed to be just as bad as comments anywhere, there are sufficient wannabe trolls that any comment that wouldn't be overtly removed due to a site or sub rule...(I’ve actually seen that last bit on a handful of reddit comments. Like the fuck?)
Reddit comments at this point can be assumed to be just as bad as comments anywhere, there are sufficient wannabe trolls that any comment that wouldn't be overtly removed due to a site or sub rule (and even those being ones which would be too conspicuous to fly under the radar) can be assumed to be made.
I wouldn't hold my breath hoping for a reversal in quality. It's well past critical mass and the site owners are too busy worrying about profits to care.
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Comment on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down, owner citing burnout and disillusionment with Reddit as a platform in ~comp
etc LinkAlright but - why was it posted as an issue thoAlright but - why was it posted as an issue tho
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Comment on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down, owner citing burnout and disillusionment with Reddit as a platform in ~comp
etc Link ParentI mean... Just hitting the API endpoints with basically any language or platform?That's something that I haven't yet found a suitable method for.
I mean... Just hitting the API endpoints with basically any language or platform?
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Comment on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down, owner citing burnout and disillusionment with Reddit as a platform in ~comp
etc Link ParentEnabling users to self-moderate, then using that data to nominate users as mods, seems like the best option imo. In such a scenario you should have been able to mod the sub, but the whole...Enabling users to self-moderate, then using that data to nominate users as mods, seems like the best option imo. In such a scenario you should have been able to mod the sub, but the whole current-mods-as-ego-tripping potential is too great for a 'just add more mods' solution to scale.
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Comment on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down, owner citing burnout and disillusionment with Reddit as a platform in ~comp
etc Link ParentWhich just kicks the can down the road, because the platform inherently rewards low-quality low-effort content. So it ends up on those subfora too.Which just kicks the can down the road, because the platform inherently rewards low-quality low-effort content. So it ends up on those subfora too.
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Comment on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down, owner citing burnout and disillusionment with Reddit as a platform in ~comp
etc Link ParentI was just trying to dig up /u/ggitaliano's goodbye from reddit (developer of one of the 5 'official' gold themes which is to-date one of my favorite old themes*, dev later left with similar...I was just trying to dig up /u/ggitaliano's goodbye from reddit (developer of one of the 5 'official' gold themes which is to-date one of my favorite old themes*, dev later left with similar disillusionment) and it turns out their account is now deleted too :(
If you're looking for fellow commiserators might be worth inviting him too, if anyone knows how to reach out to him :thinking-face:
*It was a damn good night theme back before anyone in the big leagues was even bothering with nightmodes. Somehow it still beats out a lot of standard ones. Dev was pretty cool too.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
etc Link ParentRookie mistake. /r/freefolk was where all the action wasonce to see the reaction to Game of Thrones and once just to browse my old front page. I was shocked to see how many low effort posts there were in the GoT and asoiaf subreddits following the episodes. Those subs were the first place I'd go to for quality discussion and analysis back in seasons 5 and 6. Now every comment was a one liner that could've been taken from an old Chris Farley interview sketch.
Rookie mistake. /r/freefolk was where all the action was
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
etc Link ParentMm. You weren't around reddit when it first started, were youjob diversity (because sometimes I feel like I'm on stack exchange lol), etc.?
Mm. You weren't around reddit when it first started, were you
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
etc Link ParentNope. Hubski Imzy (it was trying to be a unicorn too though, shut down now) Mastodon, probably TildesNope.
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Hubski
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Imzy (it was trying to be a unicorn too though, shut down now)
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Mastodon, probably
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Tildes
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
etc LinkYeah, I can easily see the potential for ego bullying here. Seeing little bits of it in powerusers' comments here and there, and a mod is just a poweruser with a banhammer so. I don't think Tildes...Yeah, I can easily see the potential for ego bullying here. Seeing little bits of it in powerusers' comments here and there, and a mod is just a poweruser with a banhammer so.
I don't think Tildes is a solve to that problem any more than other alternatives before it, it just also sidesteps it (for now) with being small enough for it to not matter as much (similar to niche communities on reddit). -
Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
etc Link ParentBack when it was basically just a usable bundle of rendering engines that happened to be maintained by one of the richest and most powerful companies on the planet, Chrome was (a) damn-snappy fast...For years I've been trying to figure out why exactly people like Chrome so much for them to have achieved such market share
Back when it was basically just a usable bundle of rendering engines that happened to be maintained by one of the richest and most powerful companies on the planet, Chrome was (a) damn-snappy fast and (b) basically devoid of all the 'crap you don't need' in a browser, which helped keep it damn-snappy fast. Razor-thin memory use, basically just gave you the content and some simplified-polished UI elements to manipulate them with, highly stable and able to race dropping plates for Google's ad campaign for how fast it was. For people annoyed with browser bloat, it was a solution which 'just gave you the web' as you wanted it.
Around when I got rid of it there was little or no reason by comparison. Its minimialism was gone, it'd gotten so sickeningly G-tied that even in the 'source' Chromium project there was no way to disable some ugly UI elements that integrated with their platform (not even in the feature switches, so probably "because Google willed it"), its memory footprint was a joke compared to what it was, it continued to bundle things I didn't want or need and if it was faster than my other browsers the difference seemed negligible.
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Comment on Tildistas, what is your favorite poem? in ~books
etc Link ParentIf— If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too. If you can...If—
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:If you can make a heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!— Rudyard Kipling
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Comment on MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2019 Teardown - includes a detailed look at the changes to the keyboard in ~tech
etc Link ParentI'm not talking about people who "merely like Apple products".Why must people talk in such ridiculous terms when describing people who merely like Apple products?
I'm not talking about people who "merely like Apple products".
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Comment on The last season of Game of Thrones feels so wrong because its storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological in ~tv
etc LinkIt changed from a political drama to a soap opera.It changed from a political drama to a soap opera.
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Comment on Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' cryptocurrency in 2020 in ~tech
etc Link'the same thing we do every night, try to take over the world''the same thing we do every night, try to take over the world'
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Comment on MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2019 Teardown - includes a detailed look at the changes to the keyboard in ~tech
etc Link ParentYour safety is assured, citizen! We will save you... from yourselves...And now with the T2 chip unauthorised repairs will brick the laptop "for your safety"
Your safety is assured, citizen! We will save you... from yourselves...
I'm frankly astounded that someone who considers themselves a professional only keeps one backup of their "life's work", and on a cloud service at that.
Even the random youtubers I follow keep copies of their (likely sizeable, and considerable # of) video project files from things they've mentioned about project work. Anyone making a living off their data should literally be safeguarding that data with their life.
Not to sound like a techie prepper but I'd want 3 copies minimum (as usual no more than 2 onsite) to even begin to feel secure. Involving finances is more like 4.