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OK so search has always sucked.
It has sucked especially in the New Reddit era.
Now, they have deployed the Even Newer Reddit user interface.

One of my biggest use cases of Reddit was "what are people in various communities talking about this particular video"?

In Old.Reddit, you could at least see crossposts in the unlikely case that the YouTube URL was somehow equivalent to the actual URL posted to Reddit. You know, because YouTube videos could be called upon by many requests, and Reddit fucking gave no shit about any URL normalisation.

But they at least let you see if anyone had crossposted shit.

Apparently, the New New User Interface fucking doesn't even let you do that. I tried searching for a particular video that was already posted in particular communities. Nothing.
Tried Google Search to find this particular thing. OK, found it.
Slapped "old." to it. "6 discussions."
That's it. Reddit was already shit at finding discussions about particular YouTube videos if you didn't use old.reddit. The new Reddit interface at least pretended the crossposts were there. Crossposts no longer are there. Why the fuck do people even follow the site any more.

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Awww crap I guess I forgot to comment somehow. As the other commenter says, it's from Jim Carrey's bio. I don't think he's a thoroughly bad person necessarily, but the whole vaccine scepticism is a huge negative. And I do have a bee in the bonnet about rich people who align with "socialism" and do NFTs, I mean, what the fuck are you doing, just stop, think about what you're doing dammit.

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I used to watch iilluminaughtii several years ago, probably because I've been grabbing popcorn and enjoying watching someone dunking on multi-level marketing since, uh, 90s at least. Then I watched some video that was about some topic that I was kind of in middle of a deep dive, too (I can't remember which exactly. Elan School, probably?). And the video was bland as hell. And then I was like "yeah, most of these other videos are kind of forgettable shallow pap too".

...and this year we found out about the whole landlordy corporate town fancier backstabby financial abuser helicopter-CEO situation. And the content mill situation. And the plagiarism thing. Can't forget the plagiarism thing. ...I was like, "oh this all just makes sense now."

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Yeah, basically unsubbed from AvE over this too.

I can't remember who this was, but there was another engineering YouTuber who, during the pandemic, basically twittered about being frustrated with the lockdowns from business perspective and whingled about being scared talking about his political beliefs because apparently being anything anything right of a model leftist is a crucifiable offence in the bird site, according to him. And how the horse paste actually works. I was like "...oh shit, maybe this dude is a magahatter?"

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Probably some other NPC that does some highly specific thing. Like the name rater, or whatever.

Not important in the grand scheme of things, but people all over the world come for that one weird task I can do, and that's enough for me.

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Sssss, tail number SSS-55555

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Reminds me of another old joke: "My doctor said I have the lungs of a little old lady. The upside is that I know that little old ladies never die."

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I literally just looked at Reddit for the first time in ages.

What the fuck.

Here's the thing: Reddit's UI design has always been shitty. Old Reddit was fucking garbage, so admins cheerfully asked RES folks to fix their shit. (Instead of, you know, hiring them.) New Reddit? Always been shit, and nobody's going to fix it.

This Newer New Reddit? I... I don't think they even know at this point. What. What's going on.

If they ask critique from the community, some AI bot will AI-pat the admin's arse and AI-splain the remaining AI-users that things will be just fine. (Now, "things actually getting better" has literally never happened as far as Reddit or its user interface has ever been concerned, as you should well know if you've ever been a human Reddit user.)

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This is literally the old EA stratagem. Give the "independent" developer basically an impossible goal and then go "well you failed to meet the goal, looks like you need a little bit of help from us, and by little help, we mean from now on, you do exactly what we tell you, or else". EA pulled this off with Origin Systems and (to a different extent) BioWare to name just a few examples. It ended with complete sadness.

To EA's credit, that charade usually took a long time to come to completion. Sony is trying to pull this this so soon after acquiring Bungie.

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My theoretical answer is this: in an ideal world, there would be no copyright at all. This is an artificial contrivance that was once dreamed up to serve physical-copy economy, and it was rendered obsolete by the digital age. Shit would be so much easier when we got rid of this shit and everyone could share everything by default without any profit motive. (Caveat: This will not work unless literally every jurisdiction on the planet gets rid of copyright laws all at once, otherwise this is way too exploitable due to power imbalance. So I don't think this is a practical proposition. cough unless we all decide Anarchism is a good idea after all cough)

My practical answer is this: Welllllll we're kinda damned if we do and we're damned if we don't. My personal feeling is that AI creations aren't really copyrightable, and even suggesting they are copyrightable is kind of opening a huge can of worms regarding what exactly counts as "creativity" in the first place. The best we can do under current copyright regime is to regulate how the AI datasets are curated, because goodness knows the current datasets weren't exactly ethically obtained.

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Thousands of people got severely exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and subsequently died! It's frankly baffling that people don't talk more about this!

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The difference between wolves and dogs: wolves eat the grandma, dogs eat everything else in the house except the grandma

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Funny thing, in ISO 8601 date isn't separated by colon. The format is "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+hh:mm". Date is separated by "-", time is separated by ":", date and time are separated by "T" (which is the bit that a lot of people miss). Time zone indicator can also be just "Z" for UTC. Many of these can be omitted if dealing with lesser precision (e.g. HH:MM is a valid timestamp, YYYY-MM is a valid datestamp if referring to just a month). (OK so apparently if you really want to split hairs, timestamps are supposed to be THH:MM etc. Now that's a thing I've never seen anyone use.) Separators can also be omitted though that's apparently not recommended if quick human legibility is of concern. There's also YYYY-Wxx for week numbers.

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You can still format a 1 TB card FAT32 though.

umbraroze,
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Error in Moderation

Could have been worse. Could have been an Error in Excess.

umbraroze,
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Really?

Has NOBODY told Ubisoft that everyone else has figured out what their grand plan is?

"Same stuff, new box"? Hello? Anyone at Ubisoft heard of this?

If people get same stuff in a new box that's not a surprise, Ubisoft

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Depends on the type of account, but here are some of the common methods of how this might happen:

  • The attacker could be straight up guessing the password. (One possible way to mitigate this: the website can go "wow, 10 failed login attempts from that source. I'm going to ignore all attempts from there for 24 hours.")
  • The attacker could be using previously exposed passwords. (One possible way to mitigate this: The websites should immediately require password reset for all users when that kind of data breach happens. For users: never use same password for multiple different services, certainly never reuse a compromised password even if it's for a different service. Also: haveibeenpwned.com)
  • The attacker, currently using the same network, could hijack the session. (This was a really huge problem back in the day. In this day and age, websites should be using HTTPS, which limits this very much. Still possible if the site doesn't use HTTPS, and through some other vectors, e.g. malware or hijacked network hardware).

Also: Malware is a really scary big problem in that they're rarely targeting you specifically. Why do that, when they can million people at the same time and sift through that stolen data for most valuable stuff, right?

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You wanted deregulation, and ya got It, biiiachezzz

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One of the perks of owning these NFTs was that you could attend exclusive events. What those events were going to be about was anyone's guess. Eye burn, apparently.

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Basically, it's the same thing as buying a "permanent" ticket to a local sports team's home matches. What? Your local team doesn't sell "permanent" tickets? Exactly.

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Aww, ADHD dinosaurs sounds like a cool animal concept. I hope there are turtles who taught us how to deal with depression.

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I was about to say "this reminds me of the Hot Dog Stand".

...but someone actually made Hot Dog Stand. Shit.

Look, I'm a Linux nerd, and there are very few things that scare me. Linux Kernel programmers, maybe - you don't meddle with them unless the hour is truly dire and we form a delegation to seek their aid after a complex debate as the world burns around us and we climb their mountain together. ...And the other thing that scares me are some particular brands of Microsoft ultra fans, for thereover lies madness like we have not seen before.

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Oh you fancy PC people and your fancy syscall instruction.

I still don't know why I could remember jsr $ab1e. I didn't even write that much assembly.

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Oh how quaint, someone has discovered that Wikipedia can be vandalised. I'll have to have you know that that came to us a a real surprise in 2001. Things are more manageable these days. People usually notice these things.

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The indoors aesthetics of sci-fi spaceships are really a topic that has not been studied enough. I loved it when Mass Effect series went full hard into captain's quarters customisation and I was like "ooh! aah!"

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They can't touch an IP derived from a public domain work. If they want to make a new IP, they have to go through all the effort of re-deriving it from the public domain work. Hope this makes sense, I'm just a creative person and not a lawyer.

Edit: If derivative works from public domain were not protected, WOO BOY would Disney be in trouble.

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I mean, if EA wants to reboot the whole franchise, they can do so. But they can't use any of the stuff in American McGee's Alice IP, or anything too closely resembling that stuff. The question then becomes this: do they want to use their creative budget to do that... or do they want to use their budget for something else entirely? In other words: Is American McGee's Alice an IP that's financially worth it to rebuild from scratch? Answer: Probably no.

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Well, if American McGee wants to rebuild the franchise from scratch, then he faces the exact same problem, doesn't he?

If EA wants to remake the franchise, they're basically saying "Look, we filed the serial markers off, here's a new Dark Alice in the Wonderland IP", and they know nobody will buy it.

If American McGee wants to remake the franchise, it's basically "Look EA, we can't actually remake the Dark Alice in the Wonderland IP, but here's Wark Dalice in the Anderland IP", and none of the EA's lawyers will buy it, and he get sued to oblivion by EA.

It's an extermely uncomfortale stalemate regardless of the fact that the original stories were in public domain.

Sure, American McGee can go "well fuck it, here's a super fucking cute and lore-friendly happy trippy Alice in the Wonderland remake that totally goes to a whole different direction this time, HEY BACK OFF DISNEY LAWYERS, I said totally different direction", but that's no longer American McGee's Alice, now is it?

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That's a good angle to speculate on it. But the main thing to take away is this: Do they want to pursue this angle, or are they more willing to sit on this IP until the end of the time? I mean, sitting on an IP is a whole lot more legally safe than, you know, attempting to make some new wild legally-distinct numbers-filed-off things from it. (PROTIP: EA does this really well.)

And more importantly, is American McGee willing to rework this whole thing from the ground up?

Speaking as a random creative person: If I was in American McGee's position, I'd drop this stuff right away and go think of other ventures. The moneybagmen sadly won.

Good, inexpensive fitness trackers?

I’m looking for a watch that can track my heart rate, stay on my tiny wrist, and that doesn’t cost a lot only to break frequently. Fitbit is….no longer meeting that criteria and was honestly out of my budget to begin with, but i am nervous about spending money again on something random that could also break just as...

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Been using a Suunto 5 Peak watch since May and it's been absolutely great. Dunno if 250€ counts as inexpensive, but like we say in Finland, poor people can't afford to buy cheap shit that breaks right away. (I think they have cheaper options?) Suunto watches talk to phone app which at least on Android is pretty great, and the app can talk to other services which can analyse stuff further.

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And I have had a perfectly functional speaker sitting on top of my bookshelves since 1999! Two of them, in fact, for stereo sound! I thought we figured this shit out already. I mean, politics is so much older than electronics.

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I was a reddit user for ages. Reddit search always sucked. Heck, Reddit could barely make their own data available to the users (which is why their user histories are so limited and why the GDPR takeouts take a week). Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, used external search engines.

Do they want to block external searches? Literally enshittify their shit further? Are they willing to hold back progress?

Just today I was thinking of Reddit Gold - back when I actually paid for it, the marketing spin was "you get to test new features before we add them to everyone else!" Literally none of the Gold features I've ever used made to the unwashed masses. I take it back, saving comments did.

So yeah, they will hold back progress. In fact, progress isn't on the cards. It's just regress. AND you can be a premium user and PAY for it.

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Well, since it seemed to be a way to support the site and get to see new features ahead of time, so yeah, why not? I only decided not to renew my gold access when it became very clear Spez wouldn't ban the hate subs he loved.

As for getting gold otherwise:

I'm an introvert, ok? I mostly only comment if I have something worthwhile to say.

So the only comments I ever got gilded by others were drunken shitpost. And in one instance some random off the cuff post. ...I don't get it.

Anyway. Basically, I didn't want to post any Gold Baits™. because that way lies madness.

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Switch to Chrome? Never! I take my chances with the gargantuan planet humping fire elemental vulpine.

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Technically, SQL is case-insensitive.

Practically, you want to capitalise the commands anyway.

It gives your code some gravitas. Always remember that when you're writing SQL statements you're speaking Ancient Words of Power.

Does that JavaScript framework that got invented 2 weeks ago by some snot-nosed kid need Words of Power? No. Does the database that has been chugging on for decades upon decades need Words of Power? Yes. Words of Power and all the due respect.

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Here in Finland we have a really extensive and efficient plastic bottle and aluminum can recycling system. Every bottle and can has a deposit (0.40 € for large bottles, 0.20 € for small bottles, 0.15 € for cans) and you can cash them by returning them at any store. Just toss them in a machine.

There's even some hypermarkets where you can just pour in a giant bag full of bottles or cans and the machine sorts and prices the things automatically.

It's super annoying we still can't really do the same for rest of the single use plastic, but at least trash sorting and recycling what can be recycled is a thing everywhere. We have a lot of projects that aim to reduce those. Probably the coolest recent thing was that someone came up with all-carton coffee cups. (I hope they catch on so we can get rid of the cups that have the Sad Turtle Warning. I don't want turtles to be sad, they're awesome.)

Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’ (www.al.com)

Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

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Reminds me of that time when some Christian website had put an RSS news feed on their home page, but of course the owner had insisted on putting a word filter on it.

So the website had a headline about "Tyson Homosexual" winning gold.

People immediately started wondering what kind of headlines the website would have on the anniversary of the historic flight of Enola Homosexual and the Hiroshima bombing.

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Almost every situation can be made hell by introducing an enthusiastic sales person with lots of options to market to you

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Or:

Software has a Linux version and it only comes as a .deb

Depends on a load of packages exclusive to Ubuntu and installing it on stock Debian is bloody impossible

Yeah I remember when Steam came to Linux. Never got it to work. I hope it is better nowadays? (Sadly can't check. My only pure Linux box at the moment is a Raspberry Pi, I don't expect Steam to run on that either)

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Or:

Software has a Linux version and it only comes as a .deb

Depends on a load of packages exclusive to Ubuntu and installing it on stock Debian is bloody impossible

Yeah I remember when Steam came to Linux. Never got it to work. I hope it is better nowadays? (Sadly can't check. My only pure Linux box at the moment is a Raspberry Pi, I don't expect Steam to run on that either)

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That's a pretty good point. A lot of people don't realise that even casual photography can serve a lot of roles, and a lot of "boring" photos can still be very useful. You might not even realise how useful the photos can be later. I've found some old photos of mine that don't really look like much at first glance, but there might be some detail in them that gives context for the rest of the image set.

For example, a lot of people take photos of their food. Some might say "well, that's a clearly pointless habit", but think about it this way - today, it can serve a journaling purpose (so what did we eat last week? stick these things in a food journal so you can get a better idea of your calorie intake?) and maybe later it can serve as historical evidence (okay, so what did we all eat 10 years ago? Remember when McD did this goofy campaign? etc etc)

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Uptime ~30 years

Too generous for Gentoo.

"Maybe if I tweak the kernel config juuuuust a little bit today" "Is it just me or did this particular version of gcc make the kernel 0.0002% slower? I need to do some tests" "...Dunno, it just feels slower today, I guess I need to recompile the whole system"

Uptime: 30 minutes, tops

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Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

Welp, another Google service that was too beautiful for this world.

Time to move my subscriptions to other podcatcher then. [taking a quick look at various migration options] Hmmm. What to write on Google Podcasts gravestone? "Here lies Google Podcasts. It never supported OPML."

with listeners migrated to YouTube Music

Damn. I migrated my Google Play Music purchases to YouTube Music and to this day I have no idea where they actually went. If I hadn't downloaded the local MP3 copies with the terrible joke of a client software they had, I'd have been screwed. Went back to just buying music on iTunes.

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That's right! However, remember that bananas have potassium-40 in it, which is radioactive. Not much, though. So be very very mildly careful around bananaphones! /old joke

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Doesn't even list the most fun part of Reddit experience.

You fancy yourself an established user, right? Been there for years. Decade, even. Surely by any reasonable standard you can be trusted to apply common sense and etiquette by now, right? Perhaps it is finally time for you to submit new posts to a subreddit?

Lol, nope, wrong. Every link post to a "popular" domain (e.g. YouTube) gets silently eaten by the spam filter. No, nothing tells you this. If your post has no engagement whatsoever after a day, maybe this is what happened. You can sometimes get the post unstuck by messaging the moderators. Which is sometimes fruitful. Sometimes not. Because the individual moderators making these decisions might have differing opinions on prevailing submission standards and this is about the most polite way I can put this, I'd have more colourful explanation for this but it's late and I'm kinda tired.

But never worry! If most of these links get eaten by the spam filter, it might be just that you're using the old interface. Try using the new interface instead! It eats only 80% of submissions silently. The rest might even get feedback on why they got automatically rejected! Like "you haven't linked your account to Twitter, so you're clearly a suspicious noob." (...I'm confused, I thought only noobs linked their accounts to Twitter. I mean, what's the point of that to begin with?)

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