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I’m sure Reddit is gaming the investors

I would like to believe actual laws are being broken, and one day certain people will go to jail. I am vindictive about that whole series of events. I liked Reddit before piggy and pals destroyed it

Might makes right, at least in many cases. Lots of stolen artifacts, and bones, stored away from the public, or the descendants

I spent ten years on Reddit. I can use that to compare for myself the amount of engagement then and now.

If most of the users are not bots I would be so surprised. I think they lost a huge percentage of traffic and are now knowingly faking live user counts

Less than 10, after that I get the occasional reference but deep in the list

I think that is awesome

I think the value of Wordpress is its ecosystem of tens of thousand of plugins. They cannot rewrite it without breaking many of them

The other value of Wordpress is its low entry barrier for writing plugins. One does not need to code well to write a plugin, and often plugins are abandoned-ware, or close. Many of these badly written abandoned plugins are vital to thousands of sites, or more.

Broke plugins stay broken .

By definition wp must never change too much, ever

If anything, Chinese browsers might be safer for some American to use; if the data was not resold

I’ve intuited, maybe correctly, the service has become changed over the years and is not what it once was. Stuff like this makes me think that maybe my armchair analysis is correct

No, regular intelligence is all I needed. I made over a dozen plugins ( private not sold ) . I no longer have to maintain most.

One can pick up patterns, and the hooks get intuitive.

It’s not a bad framework, for the 1990s. It lacks many things, and God help anyone who wants to put a lot of data in it, or have multiple instances. It can be done , but omg.

And don’t get me started on the bad and lazy work seen in many of the popular plugins .

This is what a lot of the world depends on for day to day existence

You did not mention where, and I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve never heard of a copywrite or trademark holder react to just the name on an open software release .

Can’t hurt to get permission

Edit: Cannot use, too many automated take down notices whenever release mentioned on certain media. Even with permission, it will be a pain

If my own project is anything to go by, or the little I know of all my thousands of sisters and bothers who are also coding making and doing their own small projects .

I think wondrous new ways of interacting online, sharing and verifying things, is always around the corner. I can’t even image the next three years.

What we think about news propagation today will seem quaint to all of us later

I have blocked every news and political centered community i see here; it helps with the stress and my mental health a lot. Particularly since I have particular views that compels me to ruffle feathers, get nasty comments and be ignored on every political community across the whole spectrum.

It’s easier to just don’t try to post until tempers cool down, if ever. If I don’t see news then I don’t have to reply and share, and probably lowers the stress a notch

2 tea, one mostly empty. 1 coffee (old), 2 waters

Totally normal

Brushing teeth regularly, and flossing , is more important than I ever realized.

I once used a virtual desktop in the cloud, and I could access that from anywhere. It was just a regular OS that had all my tools, and it was where my work was done changes. Ultimately, that remote desktop went away when I changed jobs. But, it would be something I would think about again for me.

There is a danger of things going poof, or not being accessible. It cannot be helped at all. But a push to a backup repo during each commit, would allow an emergency restore. Doing a snapshot every few days of the machine, for example if its on AWS or other, helps lessen the loss when and if it goes poof.

To solve the issue of the internet going out, have one of your local computers do a regular pull as a cron job of the backup repo

As a dev who is in the middle of making a project myself, this is nightmarish for me to read.

Yes, I know this is not the topic, or how you meant it, but it profoundly affected me in my own way.

Like absolutely blows my mind. It reminds me that any solo projects I do are probably doomed to fail later due to them not being useful at all, or unknown. Or if they are used, then I will get overwhelmed probably, and quit. The only things that seem safe is a teamwork collaboration... and I suck at that.

Right, I am off to learn a new trade, carpentry.. perhaps

I wish he was less oppressed

You’re right, it has shifted. I looked at the polls week overall it’s split into thirds. 1/3 for, about the same against and the balance not sure or don’t know

However I think a majority of older adults still support the crimes, as well as more conservative voters. But that is ordinary people. Government and defense firms are pretty dirty right now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/01/slight-uptick-in-americans-wanting-u-s-to-help-diplomatically-resolve-israel-hamas-war/

I agree with what you wrote but the situation will get worse over time in many social sites.

Americans and many Europeans have a terrible track record of discrimination in wartime, the last few generations, and it’s hardly going to change now. And while many of the nations are not officially at war , they are in some things that matter

Usually war has to stop for a few years before the targeted ethnic groups see a change.

I am all for propping up news agencies that are worth something to me.

But I think the faster these dinosaurs die, the better off the next generation of news distribution, and faster to arrive also.

Routers, AP, and many other mainstream news sites are directly opposing the progress I want to see by their two dimension, very selective and filtered reporting. If they did this and not many people read them, I would be fine with that. But these oldsters still help maintain a lot of the ignorance, and sometimes even the toxicity, I see in my location. They don't have to do much to help the reactionary and static forces here. Only just do not report, or ignore many things when they do.

People still rely on these sources too much for their worldviews, and the replacements are not yet ready. One of the reasons the better news sources are not ready is these giants still take up too much reading room