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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.

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.

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

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.

How things used to work 15 years ago, in general:

Government: "You must do the responsible thing!"
Billionaire: "I'll just move my business to some other country."
Government: "Noooo!"

How things work for Elon Musk:

Government: "You must do the responsible thing!"
Elon: "Fine, I'll make it so that this service isn't available on your entire continent."
Government: "..."
Elon: "You were supposed to go 'Noooo!'"
Govenment: "..."
Elon: "Not having access to Twitter is a bad thing, isn't it?"
Government: "..."
Elon: "Guys?"
Government: "...Just go, it's not like anyone cares about the damn thing."

God clearly failed, then. George W. Bush kept bombing places that he couldn't pronounce.

There's been plenty of recent developments on plastic-free coffee cups. Even ones that have very thin layers of biodegradable plastic. A few years ago someone came up with fully carton based cups that hold coffee.

But I think that reusable cups are probably more viable. The €2 deposit sounds pretty hefty, so it's going to strongly encourage people to bring their own cups and actually return the reusable ones. Mini-thermoses are cool, I like them.

That's not weird at all. Here's how neo-nazi mindset works:

"We should label these other people nazis, because the public knows that the nazis were the bad guys. It's a powerful analogy that resonates with the public."

...

"Why are you calling us nazis? Are you saying we are the direct political continuation of the NSDAP? You, sir, are factually incorrect!"

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.)

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.

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

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)

I've been on social media for quite a long time, and I've noticed that people have one thing in common: people just like to read the headline and argue endlessly.

(See? I'm doing it right now: writing this part of the comment before reading the article!)

This raises the question: If there is no headlines any more, what's left?

An endless barrage of people grumbling about nonsense that isn't even tangentially related to anything? People given a new excuse to pretend the source wasn't posted in a debate? (...okay, so this is already what's happening at the birdsite, so I can see why Musk considers this just an aesthetic change.)

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)

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

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.

I had a momentary panic because it's the end of the month and I'm low on money... but then I remembered I deleted my Twitter account and life has just been absolutely peachy since then.

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?)

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