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.

Spaniards shut down country over high housing prices
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7418079?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-cbcnews

@retrosponge I am highly into organizing everything when my ADHD & OCD party together.

@chockenberry B and D

@PhoenixSerenity Wow! Ours is a bit of a mess but it's mainly because we've had to fit so much stuff in such a small space.

Will the Dems Let Schumer & Jeffries Sabotage the Mandate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKkRJFQ_c3w

re-loaded, official website, entry page (1997) https://web.archive.org/web/19970330132518/http://reloaded.com/

Slowly being driven mad(der) by the uptick in flat, mechanical procedural prose everywhere online right now.

It's a kind of staccato set of state declarations written, presumably, for programmatic AI parsebots than befuddled wetware meat proxies snorting at the screen with one eye still half-glued with sleep 🤖.

Bring back the sea of "seamless" sameness.

@serge @theDrake I certainly wouldn’t want someone who would openly express such ignorance about my personhood being in charge of publishing anything about it.
Falsely positing that their claimed ignorance is good enough to dismiss an aspect of another person’s identity is just plain wrong on so many levels.

@retrosponge I'm known to start cleaning people's houses too, when under ADHD OCD times. I had to tell family & friends to stop me from cleaning their homes more than once.

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

@foone insufficient capitalization

@cr1901 @dalias @lanodan @shinmera I don't know if you would classify it as a "trick", but TLS up to 1.2 requires that all the certificates in a chain be sent in order. That allows the TLS engine to stream process the certificates, and validation can be done with a fixed amount of stack memory.

TLS 1.3 relaxes this requirement, which forces the TLS engine to malloc() to store all the certificates in memory before they can be ordered then processed.

That is one of the main reasons why BearSSL currently does not implement TLS 1.3.

ETA: and yes, we consider it a major misfeature of 1.3.

@gparker that would involve giving a hoot

@PhoenixSerenity That'd be cool. I'd just mess up the freezer a bit for you so you had something to do.😂

Cadeaux fiscaux : Macron a privé les finances publiques de 929 milliards d’euros - L'Humanité
https://www.humanite.fr/social-et-economie/budget-2027/cadeaux-fiscaux-macron-a-prive-les-finances-publiques-de-929-milliards-deuros

@GPJohnston SAME 🤣😂