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Anders429 ,

Honestly, you ever tried to look back through a long thread on Discord? It’s impossible. If you want to read the original message that started the thread, good luck, you’ll be scrolling all day and may never get there. How anyone can claim that’s “easy to use” is beyond me.

Discord works for quick discussions happening right now, and that’s it.

Anders429 , (edited )

The problem they’re addressing is that some sites they were scraping from have begun instituting measures to stop them. The site went from working beautifully to working barely at all, with most sources either loading incredibly slowly or failing to load at all. I followed the discussions a bit on their discord, and it seems like the first recommendation was for users to host their own proxies. From what I see on the site’s initial splash, that still is one of the recommendations. I’m guessing they also rolled out the browser extension as an alternate method for users who don’t want to set up a proxy, since they were getting tons of people on thsir discord complaining about it being too hard or whatever.

But yeah, who knows if the extension is safe. The project is open source, so you can always examine it for yourself. But at that point you may as well just host your own proxy.

Edit: looked into it a bit more; the extension’s originally proposed purpose seems to be to get around CORS restrictions on certain sources. Seems the original proposal was here: github.com/movie-web/movie-web/issues/581

Anders429 ,

Don’t forget to upload them all to crates.io. Add them to the list of useless crates that no one will ever use.

Anders429 ,

Companies are using subscription models because it has proven to be far more profitable than a one-time purchase. Why sell the product to each person just once when you can sell it to them over and over again? You no longer have to constantly develop new products and versions, and you now only have to maintain your existing product.

And it works because people buy it.

Anders429 ,

I don’t really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

Anders429 ,

Anyone got a non-paywalled link?

Anders429 ,

Did we read the same article? This mentions nothing about infighting between groups.

Anders429 ,

Why the heck does it need to be dynamically allocated? Just put that puppy on the stack.

Anders429 ,

Oh, is this what they meant by “commenting your code”?

Anders429 ,

I would argue that in this case the maintainers are in the wrong for not even responding to the issue, not the reporter responding with memes.

Anders429 ,

I’ve seen this same thing happen with Python’s type hints. Turns out giving an “escape hatch” type for devs who have no clue what the type actually is leads to a lot of useless type hints.

Anders429 ,

What the hell are you talking about

Anders429 ,

I think you’re spot on. It fits right in to the whole “enshittification” topic that Doctorow wrote about. Everyone started using streaming services like Netflix because it offered such a great user experience; now that they have the user base, unfortunately we are now at the point where Netflix has every motivation to make the platform as shitty as possible to milk as much money from their users as they can.

Anders429 ,

I usually agree with his takes, but I can’t watch more than a minute and a half of a video of his, because it’s always an unscripted rant. It’s fine though, he usually gets his point across in the first minute anyway, and then repeats himself for another ten minutes.

Anders429 ,

Bet you $50 we later learn this guy was orchestrating a supply chain attack.

Anders429 ,

Wow, I’m really disappointed, it’s just full of posts from parody accounts with people in the comments not realizing it isn’t real.

Anders429 ,

Hard to say without being able to see the comments. I suspect that if that were the case, the entire post would have been removed.

Anders429 ,

Cheaper? Yes, I guess so, depending on how you measure cost. More useful? Absolutely disagree.

Anders429 ,

Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.

Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy

Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....

Anders429 ,

I don’t think that necessarily holds true for OSS. The average user with no development experience wanting to use an open source project doesn’t mean it will always develop faster.

Anders429 ,

Don’t worry, I misread it the exact same way

Anders429 ,

Also I believe California has laws protecting your data privacy.

Anders429 ,

lol why?

Anders429 ,

So this actually came up recently for me. I wanted to get spoons the same size as the ones I used as a kid to eat cereal, so I ordered some dessert spoons. Turns out, what I actually used as a kid was a teaspoon. My wife was confused when I said the dessert spoons weren’t the right size though, since that is the size of spoon she always used to eat cereal growing up.

In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires 'unshared attention' (www.businessinsider.com)

In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires ‘unshared attention’::Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke discourages employees from side hustles in company memo, saying their jobs require their undivided attention.

Anders429 ,

It’s explicitly illegal in California? I’ve never heard that before.

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