whofearsthenight

On kbin, if you hover over the user name, you can easily block them forever. Super cool! 👍

Ocarina of Time.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, I don't think the largest wave of users leaving has hit yet. Once the big apps shut down today, I think there is going to be another wave that actually leaves, and then it's just going to trickle out for months probably as reddit gets less relevant since the people actually making the content are likely to be the ones to move.

I have a few things:

UnRaid server:

• Guacamole (though not really doing anything with it at the moment.)
• Wireguard VPN
• SpeedTest (forget the exact name, does period speed tests and lets me see over time how my connection is doing.)
• DuckDNS
• Heimdall

VM server (esxi 6):

• Windows machine for those times when you just need something
• pi hole
• sharing VM. Dockerized all of the *arrs, sabnzbd, qbittorrent
• plex server. This will probably eventually move off its own VM, but it's there for legacy/laziness reasons.
• Minecraft server, though this is getting dusty as my kids aren't into it like they used to be.

Dell Wyse thin client:

• Home assistant

Pretty simple. I still use iCloud services for most of the other basics (email, call, contacts, iCloud Drive, etc) mostly just because I don't trust my home connection enough to rely on it, and I'd rather the things that actually effect whether or not I can work aren't my problem.

This may be apocryphal, but rumor was that Jackson said he based his performance in Django on Clarence.

Got tired of trying to figure out what service to watch a show on this week. Back to sailing the 7 seas…

No spoilers: it's a 5-6/10. I generally don't like Ezra's or the writer's take on Barry, but that almost gets out of the way. The CGI ranges from bad to really bad, but the movie does actually do a decent job of acknowledging the DC universe, and the dialogue/plot mostly make sense. There is some great fan service that probably carried the movie for me. It's one of the better entries in the DCU, which means it's a good popcorn flick that no one is going to be talking about in a few weeks.

Oh, one other thing I'll toss in with tiny spoilers if you haven't even watched a trailer - it's a multiverse movie, and had this come out 2-3 years ago might have significantly changed how I think about it. That said, especially after No Way Home and Across the Spider-Verse, it's hard not to compare to those and they're both way, way better movies. Watching it a week after AtSV especially, it really doesn't fair favorably.

I'll also toss out that if you privacy and non-annoyance are your goals with an out of the box voice assistant, the only real option these days is a HomePod. I built my smart home with combination of Echos throughout the house, and I pretty much regret it now. I wasn't as worried about privacy, but these things are so fucking annoying these days. "Start a timer for 5 minutes." "Okay, do you want to play some bullshit trivia game while you're timer is going?" No, never. Ever. I mean, at least she'll still turn the lights on without spouting back something dumb, but that's just about it. Probably what I'll be doing now is still using the Alexholes as a speaker target with the mute button on all of the time (better spotify integration) and start replacing with siri balls.

Why warp? I just downloaded, and when I was immediately prompted to create an account, I just tossed in the trash.

Lest we forget how dumb reddit is, they didn't have a mobile strategy in 2014, which necessitated buying Alien Blue.

If you look at the history of reddit, it has succeeded entirely in spite of management decision. Gotta say, even being on the site since 07-08, even I got this wrong. I expected reddit to do something dumb, I just didn't expect them to do the most dumb thing.

They took a 250m funding round and used it to build an nft site. reddit's problems are 100% self created. Think about how ama's used to be and how they managed to kill that. They could have had several revenue streams just based on ama's.

I think this whole thread/post is over-thinking it. If all reddit wanted was to break-even or make some profit off of the api, they wouldn't have priced it this way. They would have had changed the api to a key system and then created a two tier pricing system: third party apps like RIF and Apollo, and a large commercial license for LLM training and such.

This is fuck you pricing. As in, if you don't want to take a job, you tell them the price is 8x your normal hourly rate. You either get that bag or more likely, they don't offer the job. Although I say this with less certainty than I would have a month ago seeing exactly how stupid reddit is about all of this, I can't believe that anyone at reddit is so out of touch they actually thought any of the third party app devs could afford this pricing, and if they did and it wasn't just to kill apps, they would changed the pricing structure and not triple/quadrupled down.

This is just Huffman going after the IPO so he can get his golden parachute and peace out. I would absolutely put money on him being out less than a year after IPO, with the small asterisk that as bad as he's fumbling right now the board might kick him before that.