I like both the piped bot and the tldr bot for the same reason: I don’t need to visit a horribly bloated, ads and scripts ridden web site, which most news sites are. So I take the bot as a really good service. Also consider that without it I’d say most will just read the title and may make conclusions based on that. I’d say that’s a bigger advantage than the downsides you mention.

(Yes I use adblocks and stuff. Most news sites are still a drag to visit and difficult to read.)

I think the bot is fine in principle. The YouTube web site is fucking terrible and it’s nice to introduce people who don’t use automatic redirects or 3rd party clients to an alternative.

My problem is that it would offer only piped.video links. We don’t know how long the piped.video instance will work, but well that’s the case for any instance. Ideally a bot would provide at least two links - piped and invidious, and maybe cycle or randomly choose instances. Perhaps under a spoiler tag.

Of course it’s up to community mods to choose, but I think bots like this or the tldr bot provide value even if they can cause that “Reddit moment”.

The greatest DYKWIA I’ve ever seen

Oh dear, 2366 subscribers, I don’t think I’m doing my job well

Lemmy: I don’t know, but I wouldn’t trust any bike helmet that I can’t compile myself from source. It’s best to just stay home behind (real) firewalls so the Big Bike doesn’t target you for your striped Linux socks.

Not just with itself, also with other elements. Say, you won’t find pure iron in the wild either, because normally it reacts with oxygen so well.

But yea oxygen needs to pair with something because its outer electron shell is incomplete. So pairing with another oxygen atom is likely, but also with whatever else is available - nitrogen, iron, whatever.

Most elements are found in molecules really, with the exception of noble gasses like Helium. And some are less reactive than others.

Well since they’re constant by tracking every device at all times and all the other devices and networks as well, might as well put that to good use.

I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

Okay bro. As if I’m testing multiplayer on the DS in 2023 bro.

I’d still prefer to use Sumatra just because how lightweight it is compared to modern browsers, plus no fucking telemetry

the brand’s engineers made it next to impossible to open the frame that contains all the parts

VanMoof’s creators fancied their company to be like Apple — creating unique products that would spawn its own ecosystem

Well there we go, nothing to add that.

The attack in space angle was probably just to convince some manager.

The survival in Siberia is completely valid. US retrieves their astronauts in the ocean, but Soviet Russia didn’t/doesn’t have such a worldwide navy, so Siberia it is. It could take days for the cosmonauts to be recovered, so it was expected they might need to defend themselves against wildlife or even hunt.

I’m really not a fan of the lw admins just blocking communities. It’s not the first time either. It’s even worse than defederating, because there’s no record of it.

I signed up to lw on its almost first day, but with some of these policies, and constant downtimes, looks like I’ll be moving. It’s a bummer I’ve created all the communities here before lw became so big.

Honestly I feel like transferring to shit.

Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.

I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that’s why they kept it open.

Yes, that’s why they’re designed that way, to be compatible both ways.

Same goes for mono jacks in stereo socket and vice versa.

The only problem was over 10 years ago when there were two standards of TRRS, with one of the two connections swapped (so maybe the other one was TRSR or something, I don’t remember anymore). So if you used earphones with the other standard, they’d only play sound when you pressed down the button. That thing has been looong abandoned tho, and I think Sony Ericsson was the only major brand using them anyway.

I was a tech journalist in the early 00’s and I remember writing about that story or one like that.

A similar thing happened with Microsoft, who either delivered or was served the full documentation of some office format printed out. It’s a pretty popular form of malicious compliance, also paying people in bags of coins.

Midi is quite literally a text format, and you can open it in anything. It’s just a matter of interpretation what comes out of it.

Webp is an image format.

Jpg is ancient, and gif, holy shit gif is from stone age.

I dunno, if you’re playing a video, you probably want x264 or better these days, no? For music, we use some variant of mp4 or lossless at this point.

Yet with pictures, for some reason we insist on the old shitty stuff.

Using jpeg or gif is like using mp1 for music and VideoCD for video. Come on now.

The only problem with webp is that there’s quality loss if you convert an already compressed jpeg into webp with high compression rate, like some web sites do. That can suck, but I don’t know how else to get people to use more modern formats. Otherwise we’d be using ancient formats into the 24th century.

The delusion of fatties that skinnies are loved is quite fantastic. How much do you think it’s enjoyable to be stopped on a street by a complete stranger and told one of those things in the picture?

The only difference is that if someone is making fun of a fat person, they at least know they’re an ass, while bullying a skinny person is actually encouraged as helpful, because we need to be told to eat and stuff.

Plus you can always find someone who finds a fat person comfortable as a pillow, while around skinnies people just bitch that the bones hurt them or similar shit.

Still wanna trade?