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This sounds entirely on brand for Nazi Musk.

Awesome! I think I like “Say No to Yes” even more than “Say Pizza to Drugs” 🤣

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I hear he still sleeps with a katana under the bed.

I remember when I turned up to a new C# role, when all the interviews had been about C#, but the system was all VB.Net. Fckmylife.

A Master Gear Converter would have made you a baller https://castlemaniagames.com/cdn/shop/products/20210405_201406_HDR.jpg

If you haven’t read it, and you’re interested in the history of Sega in the US, then Console Wars is an excellent book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(book).

Crying in former COM programming hell

/m/floof !
/c/floof !

Tee hee hee

Ingrish!

I did similar, but for Whatsapp. Mine pre-dated ubiquitous connectivity, so had to be SMS based, which limited scalability. Had I been perhaps 1-2 years later, I could have been cage-fighting Elon Musk and getting imploded next to the Titanic 🤷‍♀️

I work with (big, enterprise) customers who are actively migrating away from RHEL where they can. There are lots of free OSS alternatives that are enterprise-grade. Even Amazon Linux is gaining traction, especially in the cloud.

It’s the literal title of the article. If you don’t like El Rog’s style, then jump in your time machine, head back to the late 90s, and ask Magee and Lettice to kindly knock it off.

/u/spez really is the fucktard in the pool here

OpenAI is another dumpster fire waiting to happen, then.

Let’s not forget that they also nuked NSFW content on the API, which is at least 50% of the uproar. Nobody likes to mention it, but it’s a big reason that a lot of people use Reddit.

Short term, I agree with you. Long term, for me it’s a virtual certainty that Huffman is fired as CEO of Reddit within one year of an IPO. At that point, the community and content may have deteriorated so much that a new CEO sees value in re-opening the API and third-party apps, probably with some kind of revenue share/ad delivery aspect, and maybe with a (sensible) fee for the biggest users.

EDIT: having just discovered Manifold Markets (thanks @lixus98 !) I’ve created a market for this: https://manifold.markets/IE/will-steve-huffman-be-fired-or-resi

Reddit only really exists because of three things: 1) the company that pays the server bills; 2) the users who ADD content; 3) the moderators who curate their communities, fight spam, etc., etc. The demographics of 2) and 3) are HEAVILY skewed towards third-party apps, especially 3). By blocking third-party apps there will almost certainly be a significant decrease in content creation, and a definite decrease in the quality of moderation. Both of these will hurt Reddit, especially in the long-term. Spez has played his hand really poorly here, and has overestimated the switching costs to other platforms. I’m already feeling at home on Lemmy and kbin, if and hopefully when the communities get repopulated, it’s going to be just fine.

If you want to read the history The WELL, and other virtual communities, then Howard Rheinghold’s book “The Virtual Community” is a very good read. I first read it before I even had internet access, and it completely captivated me. Talk of running The WELL on a minicomputer will certainly feel dated, though :-)