If you want to avoid counting towards reddit’s traffic, take a look at LibReddit / LibRedirect

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
https://libredirect.github.io

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I have a bad sense of direction IRL but an excellent sense of direction in games. I don’t think it necessarily transfers.

I agree, it’s been pretty bad for a few years now at least.

Is there anything like this for kbin?

It sounds like YouTube is running experiments with small groups of users. You may not see anything until it’s rolled out to everyone.

Is His Dark Materials really science fiction?

Such a shame it was cancelled. I guess it was too weird for most people, but I loved it. It was playing with some interesting myths and metaphors.

I tried watching Fringe but I felt that some of the dialogue / character interactions were insufferably bad, cheesy, cliche. Couldn’t get into it.

Westworld season 1 is still one of the best seasons of science fiction television ever, in my opinion of course.

Elden Ring again after taking a break from it for a while. Exploring new areas, it’s fun.

The only parts of this video that are relevant to piracy are: 1) does it prevent your ISP from seeing your traffic (it does), and 2) can you trust a VPN when they say they have a “no logging” policy (depends on the VPN but IMO there are several that can be trusted). The rest is just debunking false marketing claims about how VPNs improve your security or whatever.

I’ve always felt that pair programming is more useful on early stages of a task, where there is enough doubt about implementation details and discussing them is worth.

Is pair programming the right way to address unknowns around implementation? It seems like a brainstorming / whiteboarding session might be a better fit.

SEO and propaganda / misinformation campaigns

I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media “monopolies”. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.

From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they’re not everything): People won’t jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.

More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.

There’s a snowball effect, and maybe one day we’ll get out from under our rich social media overlords.

I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media “monopolies”. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.

From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they’re not everything): People won’t jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.

More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.

There’s a snowball effect, and maybe one day we’ll get it from under our rich social media overlords.

Yep, to me it really depends on the welfare of the animal donors and the circumstances around donation.

I think it’s going to be an expensive novelty for a while. I’ll definitely be buying it on occasion, even if it is somewhat expensive. To me the cost is worth experiencing something that still feels like science fiction!

Agreed. Gaming has become a lot more acceptable over time and with younger generations. This is also true for the gender gap in gamers, which factors into the dating scene.

Someone should make a site where everyone can post their shreds and we can see things like total karma burned or total comments shredded, or top shredded accounts.