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[–] Bellychris 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really impressed with the reporting from the verge on the Reddit protest and beyond.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have been documenting some of the downfall myself-

https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/what-happened-to-reddit/

And let me just say- I don't think the verge is missing many details at all. They have been ON TOP of this one.

[–] tkchumly@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think The Verge has been getting better over time. Its kind of a breath of fresh air they seem to mostly stay politically neutral and they occasionally use tasteful euphemisms while reporting very accurately. I miss Paul and Dieter but the newer people are doing great work too.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 12 points 1 year ago

I think The Verge has been getting better over time

Agreed 100%. They use to just publish complete click-bait bullshit stories.

[–] stilgar@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice summary, I'll link confused normie friends to it.

BTW, the header on your site is very large on Firefox mobile

Large header screenshot

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 6 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, that doesn't look good at all.

Chrome:

Firefox focus: Yup. Looks like crap.

I'll have to mess around with this when I get time.

[–] darkmatterstyx@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

That is an awesome write up; direct, clear, and not sensationalised! Thank you for taking the time to do that.

[–] chahk 5 points 1 year ago

They have come a long way since the "Screw with confidence" fiasco of that PC building tutorial.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, seeing people putting in effort from r/transcribersofreddit always reminded me about how many good people are in the world. It's a shame they won't be able to keep going, and even more of a shame that Reddit doesn't care about blind people using their platform.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit doesn't care about anybody. not about its user community and the free content they provided, nor the mods and the free labour they provided, nor u/spez who'll be discarded when they're done with him, nor the admin who're playing villain's bullyboys to the T.

[–] ardi60@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NylaSmokeyface@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

That is actually really cool of them!

It just makes me so damn sad that a lot of blind/visually impaired people won't be able to enjoy posts on Reddit anymore...

[–] stilgar@infosec.pub 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The enshittification doubles by the day, good lord

[–] c64tone@lemmy.commodore.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love that this term has taken off! I also do not like that it's needing to be used so much :(

[–] Gollan 4 points 1 year ago

Enshittification is the logical consequence of modern capitalism, where profit is the ONLY consideration. Satisfied customers, happy employees, sustainability, the environment - none of that is important to a modern CEO, only profit.

[–] NylaSmokeyface@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fucking hell. this sucks so fucking much. i hate these API changes so fucking much and there's nothing i can do about it.

[–] communist 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I love them, let reddit die, we should have never trusted a centralized dictatorship of a corporation with our forums.

[–] CoffeeBlood91@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It should have died years ago. So glad people by the masses have realized enough is enough.

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[–] jherazob 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is: delete everything on your account and then the account itself, then forget about them

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[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I'm angry with Reddit atm, but that is the first time I have seen a Reddit post embedded in an article like that, I just had a look at the embed options and they are very good. I assume that Reddit is trying to fill the hole that Twitter left when Elon had no idea why embedded tweets were good for traffic.

It's a shame that I strongly dislike too many of nuReddit features, it meant I missed the good ones using oldReddit.

It would be a very long way away, but a lemmy embedded feature in the future would be cool, I especially liked how you could opt for dark mode.

[–] pantheonw@terefere.eu 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

embedded tweets were good for traffic.

You know what embedded tweets weren't good for? Try looking at some news articles from the trump administration and enjoy guessing what wild-ass shit the man said when there's a blank spot where a tweet used to be.

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[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.”

Lmao

[–] Jenneke 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gee, that sounds a lot like Tesla's method of responding to any press inquiry with an automated poop emoji. I wonder why they're taking a page from Musk's booklet? /s

[–] TheOtherJake 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would not surprise me if they have the same ethics: "didn't happen unless you write it down."

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[–] YMS@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Tesla, not having a PR department, is notoriously hard to contact, but the one with the poop emoji is Twitter.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 18 points 1 year ago

People are so gullible. Only now do they see reddit for what they are.

This is also why good poeple can't understand how evil some people can be, and they think they must be misunderstood or it's not their fault or something else.

[–] TheOtherJake 9 points 1 year ago

When are we going to get accessibility options coded up in Lemmy? That's all I read, "Zombie Steve feasts on disabled people."

[–] quaddo@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Last year, CBS correspondent David Pogue commented on the sub’s “jerry-rigged” design before

A shame that this keeps getting brought up. Yeah, some of the stuff was super-basic. But the absolutely key component, ie, the pressure vessel itself, was anything but jerry-rigged.

That said, I'm really curious how the pressure vessel failed. My random guess is that the viewport glass (which may not have been glass at all) cracked and then ruptured. I know that one of the vessels that has been down to the Mariana Trench experienced glass cracking; that was definitely a sweaty palms moment for the crew.

Also, given that the hatch had to be bolted shut from the outside, I've been wondering whether they need to be set to specific torque values each time. Meaning, what would happen if they were unevenly torqued down? My bet is you'd get uneven warping where the hatch mates to the vessel cylinder. Even if the warping is microscopic at sea level, the stress differential would get magnified at depth.

It's also got to be pretty rattling to folks like David Pogue who have already been passengers. I've heard David himself say he's still trying to process it all. But there's got to be an ample heaping dose of "holy shit, that could have been me if the dice had fallen differently". It's already started to bother me that he keeps getting pulled into interviews; the first one was fine, but to keep pressing him with "what are your thoughts/feelings"… I'd rather buy him a beer and talk about literally anything else, so he can have a breather.

[–] bamboo 32 points 1 year ago

idk if /c/LostLemmies exists, but this fits

[–] Los 17 points 1 year ago

Your comment has been posted in the wrong thread as I'm sure you're aware by now. FWIW, this is a known Lemmy bug.

[–] brownpaperbag@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are you posting about the Titan sub in a thread about a Reddit community of transcribers that will be closing?

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

it's a known bug in Lemmy. sometimes comments get sent to the wrong thread

[–] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Well, first off, you're in the wrong thread. Your points are valid: the viewport glass was technically rated for the depth, but the viewport company said that they wouldn't actually stand behind it because OceanGate was using a different hull. The viewport company suggested a different viewport but it was more expensive and OceanGate refused.

The torque on the bolts wasn't something that had occurred to me and is interesting.

My theory is that the carbon fiber hull collapsed, due to the strain of pressure cycling. It's something the whistleblower was concerned about, and apparently they accepted visibly flawed carbon fiber for the hull. You can read more here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired/

[–] Jo@readit.buzz 5 points 1 year ago

Your post has appeared in the wrong sub but the pressure vessel absolutely was jerry-rigged and the viewport wasn't up to the job: A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.

The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.” These are the huge pressure changes that the submersible would experience as it made its way and from the deep ocean floor. He noted that a previously tested scale model of the hull had “prevalent flaws.”
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A day after filing his report, Lochridge was summoned to a meeting with Rush and company’s human resources, engineering and operations directors. There, the filing states, he was also informed that the manufacturer of the Titan’s forward viewport would only certify it to a depth of 1,300 meters due to OceanGate’s experimental design. The filing states that OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the Titan’s intended depth of 4,000 meters. The Titanic lies about 3,800 meters below the surface.

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