AlexanderESmith

Are they still randomly disabling options in the UI, then when people document how to edit those options in about:config they remove those too?

I’ve been in my field for 21 years. I make really good money, and have high confidence in my hard-earned skillset. I focus on Cloud Infrastructure and general Linux administration, but I code in a handful of languages to facilitate automation (because I’m lazy). I consider myself extremely well versed in technology in general.

… Then I watch a YouTube video where some guy hand-solders a motherboard for his custom-designed keyboard, and decides it’s easier to - instead of adapt someone else’s - write his own driver from scratch, then open-sources everything from the PCB, to the CAD files he used to print the case, to the driver itself. Then he uploads the video, titled “Quick weekend project because I couldn’t find the keyboard layout I wanted on Amazon”, and forgets about the whole thing.

In that moment, I feel like a complete, no-nothing idiot.

A person with a doctorate in astrophysics isn’t not-a-doctor because they don’t know how to do brain surgery. Hell, a doctor who is a surgeon isn’t not-those-things because he isn’t - specifically - a brain surgeon.

Don’t sell yourself short because other people do things you don’t (yet, or even ever). You’re a technical person.

I love when businesses try to calculate the loss of digital products, especially when they weren’t on sale to most of the “thieves” in the first place.

It’s like when the RIAA sued Limewire for 72 trillion dollars, which I’m pretty sure was more money than was circulating in the world at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire

The best way to detect an idiot is seeing them on Twitter at all

This shit sounds like flavor text on an item in a post-dystopian futuristic video have (the first Horizon game’s news clips come to mind)

It’s easy to forget what other people don’t innately know (or can intuit).

I have a 2 page Google Doc that I wrote while installing Matrix (because I wanted to be able to recover from a complete system loss, and knew I’d forget what I did). Half of the doc is my HAProxy notes.

Are you still having issues? I could try cleaning up my notes for a wider audience (note: my professional background includes technical writing and corporate technical training, so I’d be super anal about, and it would take a few hours at least).

Is this meant to be single-user, or a larger host?

Get 5 remote work jobs and keep the ones that don’t suck.

You’re not wrong there either, but I do recall a time in which (at least in threads/forums/chat) it worked fairly well.

The issue is that the main way to detect it is to look for an opinion that was wildly diverged from the consensus, but… yeah, I guess people just broadcast those seriously now.

Fuck.

They’re not selling the ability to scrape their publicly viewable site, they’re selling API access to their database. Deleted posts aren’t removed from that database.

I guess you’re not wrong, but that does mean that deadpan delivery is dead.

Systems admin here: You’ll lose almost the same amount of processing time looking up limits and providing a “you’re over your credits / rate limit” as you would by just providing the data.

Also, everyone will game the system with multiple accounts (cost be damned, the entities who want the data have cash to burn).

All you did was screw over people looking for potentially useful content while searching online. Reddit still has all your content.

ITT people who don’t know what sarcasm is without a literal “/s”

SearXNG

Whenever this comes up, I immediately think of how easy it would be to scrape the threadiverse.

Horseshit

Someone else in this thread had “Shark” in their name. Common interest there. Kismet?

Can we put the “thank you”, “donate”, and “beep boop” in a collapsed section too? That’s a heck of a footer for basically the one line of data I’d otherwise want from this bot.

I stopped going to McDonalds around 2004 after seeing Super-Size Me (which didn’t really convince me of anything other than what I already knew; Fast food in general is gross).

A few years later, I was hanging out with some friends and someone wanted a drink or something, so we walked in, and the smell was overwhelming, and disgusting. It wasn’t different, it was the exact same McDonalds smell, it was just gross as fuck.

About a decade after that, I was dating someone who wanted some of their fries (they were having a bad day and wanted comfort food). So I drive over there, just order the fries (everything else she wanted was already at home), and head home. The entire time, my car was filling with this gross, oily, I-don’t-know-what smell of those fries. It occurs to me that I could only define it as “smelling like McDonalds”.

Mind you, I’ve gotten fries at Wendy’s, Jack in the Box, Arby’s, etc. None of them smell gross. They smell like salty potatoes (except any place that has curly fries; they all seem to be from the same supplier, and they’re gross).

I haven’t been back to McDonalds in probably another 10 years, but I can only imagine that my first reaction would be to wretch, and my second reaction would be to leave. I have no idea how they fucked things up so bad, I had them all the time as a kid. I still eat Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwiches, they’re fine. wtf.