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I like how the author figured any cord cutting image will do. Ethernet is not the cord the term refers to.

What’s wrong with the name? I like it. Valid points on everything else though.

If it is, it’s news to me. I co-owned an education data consultancy (before realizing there was no money in education) that used a .org; we were for-profit.

Damn, you’re so enlightened.

2013-2014 was when the timeline shifted from being a chronological timeline to a feed. The algo took over and it went to shit.

Thanks, I’ll check this out.

Since this is sort of related, what are y’all using for a tiling manager? I really miss Fancy Zones from Windows and would literally pay for a clone on Linux Mint.

$1000? I have a hard cap at $600 on principle. Just get a phone one generation old and it’s easy.

It’s the Costco of health insurance, and given the competition, that’s a good thing. Literal one-stop-shop for healthcare is pretty fucking nice in the world of networks, specialists, referrals, and “coverage”.

But yeah, they fucked up here.

Hah, well time to tell our CEO I’m shutting down our prod servers.

Back when I was on reddit, I subscribed to about 120 subreddits. Starting a couple years ago though, I noticed that my front page really only showed content for 15-20 subreddits at a time and it was heavily weighted towards recent visits and interactions.

For example, if I hadn’t visited r/3DPrinting in a couple weeks, it slowly faded from my front page until it disappeared all together. It was so bad that I ended up writing a browser automation script to visit all 120 of my subreddits at night and click the top link. This ended up giving me a more balanced front page that mixed in all of my subreddits and interests.

My point is these algorithms are fucking toxic. They’re focused 100% on increasing time on page and interaction with zero consideration for side effects. I would love to see social media algorithms required by law to be open source. We have a public interest in knowing how we’re being manipulated.

Yeah! Everyone should have to pay full price for their roads or build their own!

So legally speaking, what happens if it was my 8 year old son, who clicks buttons with no regard for human life, that agreed to this BS TOS? How is that legally binding?

If you have Python Django or Flask experience, let me know. I’m hiring two positions.

AudiobookShelf does more than audiobooks. You can do epubs, etc.

They offer multiple products and services. Each of which can have a respective monopoly.

$6 million

Why that amount? I’m guessing I’m missing some backstory.

while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.

Laughs in DNS-level blocking

I wonder if this is the motivation behind removing the auth-gate on mobile. Previously, if I browsed the mobile site on my phone in a non-signed-in state (I deleted my account), I could view 5-8 top-level comments and that’s it. Clicking “Show more comments” or trying to expand child comments would show a modal asking me to sign in or download the app.

That changed last week along with a complete rework of the mobile site. I’m betting that they saw a huge increase in unauthenticated mobile users with a far below-average time-on-site metric and decided to open it up.

Overall, I appreciate the change because I still lurk in many of the niche subs that I still haven’t found a good replacement for. self-hosted, datahoarder, webdev, 3dprinting, et al. have analogs here, but the content isn’t as deep.

Hmm, that really doesn’t sound like a traffic pattern that would be confused with a DDoS attack. I would be frustrated as hell too.

What’s concerning is that our traffic would look very similar. We have a VPN dedicated droplet that allows access to our DO private network where the rest of our resources can be accessed. We also have high throughput periods though not as sustained as yours.