Speaking of hacks, that title sucks.

Cool, well let me know if you do, I’ll join up. I’m sure if you do there would be several dozen people who would be thrilled! 😂

Well, for one, the old Reddit interface’s appeal is fairly limited in general. Most people use apps anymore, I feel like in general desktop users are not catered to even in default interfaces. Of people who do use the desktop, more of them are likely to be new(er) Reddit users who probably find the Lemmy/Piefed default UI to be superior to Reddit - but the pool of people who prefer old Reddit is dwindling, which doesn’t usually lead to continuing support of things.

As it stands, few Lemmy instances have it and in any case it feels pretty fragile. It has broken a couple times and I think been fixed, but this has led instances to drop it altogether (dbzer0 used to have it, for example, but the lead said it was too much of a hassle and its devs weren’t responding to his questions).

I’m fairly worried that 1.0 is gonna break it, tbh. It never gets any updates that I have noticed, and its functionality is a bit all over the place.

Yeah, sorry you’re right, like being able to get feeds for small communities, and that sort of thing. But all the actual content is the same, is what I meant. Piefed doesn’t provide any content that you can’t get on Lemmy, just a different way to view it (UI) and organize it (features).

Doesn’t matter to me, I’m still using the old reddit theme on .world and that’s what I want to keep using.

Piefed or Lemmy, it’s the same content, so you’re arguing about either UI or philosophical differences (Lemmy devs are tankies or whatever).

I’d consider Piefed if they had an old reddit UI available, but that’s never gonna happen and I absolutely cannot stand either Lemmy’s or Piefed’s UI.

Strange, I put the same link in one of my comments and a mod removed it.

Removed by mod

I highly recommend to everyone just turning off your watch history on YouTube. You will not be given recommendations and you have to make a search for something in order to get anything at all to watch. Only works on desktop/laptop though. I successfully kept my parents away from all these destructive algorithms (I managed to keep them totally off Facebook, et al), but YouTube got them because you cannot turn off recommendations when using YouTube apps on phones/tablets/TVs - and it single-handedly turned them into right wing sycophants over about a four year period (to be fair, they were already the religious type).

I mean, the core idea of the technology - that a single monolithic file can be broken up into a torrent of smaller packets and losing the connection won’t mean that you lose your progress towards downloading the big file - doesn’t require that you also act as a seeder. Personally, I’m fairly sure Steam uses something like this behind the scenes, as their delivery system, because you can interrupt it and it will continue once you resume.

It’s being handled by algorithms and AI, not people. It requires only a relatively few people at the top of the largest hedge funds and financial institutions, all of whom are benefiting from it. Truth be told, they don’t look at themselves as bad guys and in all honesty, they might not be. Aside from the unfortunate side effect of giving them the power to pick winners and losers, literally everyone benefits from a market that can’t implode.

It’s not like it isn’t being said openly in certain corners of the Internet. Anyone who “breaks ranks” and says it will just be downvoted and ignored as a crank (as my simple comments here can attest). In the meantime, the indices will fluctuate and react to the news giving a veneer of authenticity, yet the march will move ever upward (as it has, manifestly, since the last “real” crash, 2008).

For those who think this is just bullshit, I would suggest that you read a fantastic book called Flash Boys and then contemplate that it was written in 2014. The author, Michael Lewis, had this to say, also, 11 years ago.

You can’t see it? It’s *******

The stock market is wholly price controlled by the biggest players via dark pools, algorithms, AI and HFT and that there will not be an appreciable crash ever again because of this. So it’s going to be very interesting as it continues to make less and less sense and we continue to get ever-higher numbers coming from Wall Street.

Edit: downvoted every time man, people really want to believe in the stock market (or maybe they just want to believe it can go down in flames lol). Well that’s cool, the big players I’m sure are glad for your existence. But you’ll all come around.

They have played us for absolute fools.

Can someone explain to me why Rust enthusiasts are so evangelical about it? I get that it’s memory safe, OK - super great. But rewriting a stable, small-but-important legacy tool doesn’t seem like a good place to prove its worth. Surely there are a million better places? And yet when I heard about this, it totally seemed to track. I’ve never touched Rust but I already find its proponents to be strangely focused on it. I never felt such religious zeal with regard to a programming language.

OMG another Derry Girls DS9 mashup! And it’s good too. 👏

I’m gonna press X to doubt. Fuck knows that the world is filled with dumbshits, many of whom can be found categorizing themselves in the “online influencer” category, but I have to feel like real life for the average zillennial or whatever has to be at least marginally humbling. Hard to feel like you’re hot shit when you either live at home or wage slave three side hustles to afford your one bedroom apartment.

If they’re truly dumbfounded by all this, then they’re so braindead that they very likely voted for it. No sympathy at all.

I partially switched to Linux this week, I had an older Windows machine just laying around so I decided to install Linux (I went with Mint) sit it next to my regular Windows machine and set up a switch to easily switch between them. That way if I really need Windows, I still have it. I don’t think I will.

I’m still configuring the (now Linux) machine and getting everything like I like it, and all I keep wondering is why I didn’t try this sooner. There are so many cool things (like sftp right in the File Manager? right on). I have no complaints.

Steam has run every game I’ve tried with only minor tweaks (switching to recommended Proton versions for each game, basically). Gaming is not a problem on Linux anymore. I’ve run old games (Torchlight II, Portal 2, Skyrim) and new games (Oblivion Remastered, Baldur’s Gate) and the only problem has been my shit-ass video card just can’t run them basically (1050Ti, time to upgrade, lol).

A little while doing all this and I’ll convert the Windows machine to Linux and be rid of Windows altogether. Before the end of the year, hopefully. Everyone should give it a try.

Which is more likely, that someone made an offhand remark in an attempt to make a joke or that someone believes all corporations exist in China?

Sure if you can get to Beijing.