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> There's a reason I still am skeptical of calling client-side devs "actual programmers".

Nothing in your comment actually supports this last jab at web developers. Can you elaborate? I imagine you can't because you're arrogantly posturing.

I get that people don't want to underestimate someone as bad as him being president again, but at the same time, he's not even going to be on the ballot in Colorado, he's pretty much already finished as a politician.

I was going to look this up, but it seems at least one of the people that maintain my pihole's lists have already blocked the domain. In any case, I like not being monitored in real time.

Now try putting headphones on. I can notice the difference between premium and free tier audio quality.

It almost strikes me as the design equivalent of the "how do you do fellow kids?" meme. Like, it's in your face trying to engage with craft-like design but fails to make a point because google is pretentious and drinking their own Kool aid.

This is something the FCC definitely has power to do and if you think this is overstepping then they certainly would not be able to do anything about anti-competitive behavior in your idealized version of them.

I think as long as what is meant to be conveyed is clear and concise, it's served its purpose.

> It's only because the people there tolerate it.

Or they're too poor to leave for greener pastures. Dictators are in power not because their people tolerate them, but because they don't have a choice in many cases. There's exceptions, but generally the stigmatized term "banana republic" aptly describes many of these places dictators control for a reason.

That's before git was created. Do you have details about this?

"Business" sucks then. This is sociopathic behavior.

> Nicotine itself is addictive mostly because it has such a long half life, it stays in the body for multiple weeks.

It has a half-life of 2 hours [0]. If it lasted longer I think its withdrawal effect would be less steep and more gradual.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7794006/

People need food but they don't have to eat factory produced meat that requires huge amounts of CO2 footprint and antibiotics that make our own human populations less resistant to bacteria.

Biologically we are carnivores but factory farming is leaving evidence for modern society to determine whether or not it's okay and it definitely gives me pause. People care. I think maybe you're just not caring.

I think everyone likes innovation. The problem is innovation requires creativity, which is a scarce resource in corporate environments.

This is not really a CPU issue, it's a disk issue. For a lot of workflows, windows already has inferior I/O performance compared to Linux even with AV disabled, so more on by default security features is not exactly helpful for developers.

They almost did in the early 00s, but unfortunately their lawyers were just as good then and republicans controlled the justice department.

It's been a few years since I've worked with the cinnamon team, but their 2019 sentiment was basically "ignore Wayland and hope it dies".

Try out Harmonic, it's now open source.

Maybe it doesn't need a competitor but something that supersedes its design while staying inside the community of communities structure. Most Reddit clones do nothing better than Reddit, they just attempt to painstakingly emulate it. Karma is gamed too easily. Why hasn't someone tried to rank content by a mix of votes and quality indicators (grammar checks, NLP sentiment, engagement)? Innovation usually disrupts.

I maintain an open source extension with just a few thousand users and have been receiving these offers every month for years. These people will eventually find someone desperate enough for money to do it, which is unnerving and a good reason to use something like pihole, as ad blockers can't inspect traffic from other extensions.

Some of it may come from them rebuilding a lot of the game after the leak, but that was arguably an unnecessary exercise to protect their IP. Even then, not close to that figure. Federal agencies are keen to protect corporations' quarterly profits, even if it ruins people's lives. Nothing new about that.

I can get on board with education about social engineering hack attempts, but the amount of spyware on my work machine feels like institutionalized cyber crime. I have work that is I/O intensive, and the third party AV makes sure that's as slow as possible.

Most of their debunking claims are hair splitting or leaving me with the impression of there being more to the story. I can easily believe a reddit mob has been stalking and harassing a musician for years. This is a sad view of a community stuck in their own toxic hate bubble, enabled by a voting system that makes them feel validated chugging their own Kool aid.

If anything, real name identification just gives people ways to harm themselves socially in the real world. It's not going to deter antisocial behavior. Like the stereotypical crazy uncle at Thanksgiving - He's just no longer invited to Thanksgiving because they saw his extremist views in a much greater detail than otherwise.

This is why I stopped using Facebook years ago. It's bad enough that recruiters will filter me from a job opportunity over my GitHub activity grid. I know they are also researching my social media activity and most people have realized this now, and are not sincere when they feel like they are being surveilled.

Reddit continues to show how little they care. I hope they get the IPO over with relatively soon so we can watch it turn into Tumblr, and have an exodus of people move to a service that "remembers the human".

I made a user script that alternates between teddit instances on error responses. It's quick and dirty, but does the job.

https://pastebin.com/zFJ5nb42

Exceptions don't make it good for the majority of society. Those exceptions are also what keeps people hooked, chasing a carrot until their bank account is empty.

I actually wrote to my representative and warned them that Reddit was playing fast and loose with social responsibility in 2022. I think more people should do this. People should write to their representatives and ask for social media regulation.

Exactly, private insurance companies with millionaire executives are the most efficient way to handle a fundamental human need for our society. /s (this means sarcasm).

This whole situation has been a giant rugpull from under users' feet. Users shouldn't have to worry about Reddit's IPO. They signed on to a platform with expectations that there was some autonomy with administering individual forums. That they could use their third party client. This all makes sense if all you care about is money and ignore what reddit was for the past 15 years.

This isn't about just moderators. There are a lot of people that are moving on simply because of the implication of having to use Reddit's own app. It's not out of spite like you seem to be painting this as, it's because Reddit has historically made terrible software and have relied on the very same people that gives them most of their value to even make "their" content browsable.

And no, spez isn't the only person putting his name next to his arguments - the Apollo developer he defamed also was.

Is there a link to the study? Seems weird to question the efficacy of drugs for things they're not FDA approved for. They're not nootropics.