The two naturally tend to go hand in hand. Advertisers want lots of people to see their shitty ads, and reddit had a lot of traffic, which was marketable to advertisers. Reddit gets paid to keep the servers online (in addition to what they already made from reddit gold, awards, etc. which was just basically people paying for an emoji) and line their pockets so they don’t have much of an incentive to say no.

I want to wage a holy war on advertisers. They ruin just about everything that they touch with the stink of commercial consumerism. Simply blocking them doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.

@hagedose68 I didn't ask this time - I should ask nest visit. I did ask that a couple years ago, and at the time it was still cheaper with the high deductible we have. I feel like they would have suggested that if it was actually cheaper to do out of pocket but I should probably find out for sure.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117599724532603522

I would love to see the work being put in now to make her a viable candidate for 2028. Seriously.

This is the kind of thing we can advocate for and win too.

This is one of those votes where the Dems HAVE to show up to every vote like it's game day. The whole team must be fielded EVEN when you don't think you can win.

Because enough R's missed the vote that had the Dems had their fucking heads in the game we could have won this shit.

@ai6yr Fair distinction. If you're differentiating between the basic game and the social culture around playing, then yeah, I don't know anyone who's ever participated in the latter either.

@kf maybe they could sneak up the river

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

please find attached a demo of the VIC EDITYPE text editor.

originally distributed as a type in BASIC program.

Compute! Magazine, April 1983, page 50.

permacomputer.solarpunk.au/?p=93

https://vidakovich.itch.io/vic-editype

#basic #minimalist #minimalism #permacomputing

#AskFedi
Xfinity just sent an email msg saying my modem is inadequate and needs to be replaced. My modem is a Motorola MB7621.
Are they just trying to get me to buy something I don't need?

@Catfish_Man Good to know.

The two naturally tend to go hand in hand. Advertisers want lots of people to see their shitty ads, and reddit had a lot of traffic, which was marketable to advertisers. Reddit gets paid to keep the servers online (in addition to what they already made from reddit gold, awards, etc. which was just basically people paying for an emoji) and line their pockets so they don’t have much of an incentive to say no.

I want to wage a holy war on advertisers. They ruin just about everything that they touch with the stink of commercial consumerism. Simply blocking them doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.

#Huevember day 11 for @nini!

🎨 Huevember commissions are closed for this year, but if you'd like one send me a DM and when they open next year I'll let you know!

#Furry #FurryArt #FurryCommissions #ArtCommissions #Commissions #CommissionsOpen #CommsOpen #OpenCommissions #MastoArt #FediArt #Artist #CreativeToots #DigitalArt #ArtWithOpenSource #Inkscape #Huevember2026

(The above post glosses over MAP_ANONYMOUS for lack of space, but it is not important to my question.)

Thomas Vacheron impeccable 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #OnEstLaCGT ✊️

POSIX/SUS seems to be unambiguous that if you mkdir with the directory already existing at the start, mkdir exits status 1 (and 26.04 Rust uutils does). But a race while mkdir is running is something you can argue about even within the POSIX specifications language, at least as far as I can see.

Interested parties can peruse the relevant SUS page and argue about it: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/

Americký prezident Donald Trump v projevu ke Dni veteránů na Arlingtonském národním hřbitově řekl, že USA vyhrály válku s Íránem. Je ale podle něj pouze otázkou času, kdy budou chtít konflikt ukončit.

2nd odd question.

The person calling on me to write "partial deallocate" also wants me to return the "allocate page size" and "commit page size". They provided a Win32 implementation, I must write UNIX/Linux. here is what I believe is happening.

- Windows vmem has two operations, "allocate" and "commit". These operations have different requirements for the range size.

- On UNIX/Linux, these operations correspond to "mmap" and "mprotect". They BOTH use sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) for size multiple.