I refer to it as the social graph. When a site starts using metadata to map how users are related on a social platform. And then implementing features based on that. It’s not a buzzword but that’s the technical root that stems everything that makes an enshittified Facebookified site.

Unfortunately when reddit started becoming a social graph based site, the technical literacy of the user base also plummet. So nobody knew wtf a graph structure is.

The popular feed for Canada became voat. The far right subreddits are the top posts every single day.

For some reason I memory holed the first distro I used. There’s only vague recollection. I think it was SUSE or something. When Ubuntu came around I tried Linux again. That’s when I started to get the hang of things.

I’m pretty sure Shield happened because the Tegra chips were used in infotainment designs. It wasn’t just because of Switch as oft repeated.

They talk as if they’re protecting our privacy when it’s really a global surveillance net. The spin doctoring is insane.

No politics was a rule on many forums. One of the things social media did away with.

Sounds like peer pressure.

He’s a university professor. That’s their bread and butter. It’s a skill they learn to prevent undergrads from nodding off during their lectures.

I thought that’s gentoo.

Fun times. Always keep a fallback kernel installed. Even if you’re not compiling your own.

I had to learn what chroot is when I borked my own kernel compile and there wasn’t fallback.

• Sublime Text.
• Whatever build toolchain of the current thing I’m using.

I’m still getting the hard lock issue with driver 535 and a laptop running Arch. I’ve did a quick searches for issues and lots of different complaints in the results. I’ve been waiting for nvidia to put out these fires. Whatever they are. Still waiting since the 535 release…

Bluetooth stacks are notorious for being gargantuan spaghetti code base. People have been trying to put out all those little fires because it’s more possible on Linux than Windows.

It’s telling how new the reddit userbase is that they don’t know the histories of it. In for the first part of reddits existence it was full of warts. There was a saying, 402 it went through 404 try once more. Because reddit sucked at submitting comments so you had to keep retrying at times. Down times were so often too.

Very nice. I don’t understand the paradigm where everything is spaced out and there’s useless sidebars wasting space.

I general why does there have to be static sidebars that are rarely used. It causes the content body to be squeezed into tiny space. I will use the left menus when necessary which is not every single page view. In particular the right panel on lemmy and reddit have become cognitive blindspots. I will read the board description and decide to (or not to) click subscribe once. Otherwise it’s like how my brain ignores my own nose.

Why did web design become this way?

I figured sex toys are difficult to service because they have to be waterproof. I before reading through I was sure you’d find a lithium ion battery in there. There’s probably some devices out there with such batteries. It would be dangerous for these to burst into flames mid use.

Also charging in use means extra circuity so more complexity.

Am I the only one that’s noticed how reddit has been fucking with web crawlers? They insert newer comments into older posts so the crawlers pick up false results.

A few years back they started injecting a “related posts” box into pages. What that does is multiply the amount of results a crawler will pick up. But all those are false results. There’s only one true search result which is the original comment/post. Some times I find myself sifting though the search engine results to find the actual original post.

I know all this blackout stuff hurts now. I see it as necessary for the platform to lose its status as the “front page of the internet”. Reddit turned evil a long time ago. It’s long past time it be deposed of.