Re: Discord is opening the monetization floodgates wit...

I say this as a (begrudging) discord user : I don't know what they (Discord) did right to get communities to lock up all of their community and data into such a hard-to-index walled garden.

People compared the loss of what.cd to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. While I do think that was an exaggeration at the time, I worry about the loss of effort and 'thought-power' when the discord walls get even taller than they are now -- or worse yet -- when the gardens disappear without ever having had the chance to have been archived somewhere.

serf, 5 hours ago

Re: Discord is opening the monetization floodgates wit...

> I say this as a (begrudging) discord user : I don't know what they (Discord) did right to get communities to lock up all of their community and data into such a hard-to-index walled garden.

Their app isn't buggy, is easy to use, voice chat and screen sharing just work, and it's extremely easy to onboard yourself -- you don't even need to create an account immediately.

Love it or hate it, let's not pretend it's like IRC, Slack or any of its competitors.

Filligree, 6 hours ago

Re: Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as ...

Reddit was a co-op between a few groups of people.

General low effort content scrollers

Power users and mods who appreciate creating and contributing to make a community

Advertising interests

The deal was, the ad seeking was for the mainstream strollers, and the contributing power users and mods could opt out of the bs. The community builders get a nice environment for their community, the scrollers get content, and the ad people get to shiw thejir ads.

I always thought spez understood this. Its why the api existed. Its why old.reddit.com existed. It was the commercial machine's compromise to the content generators in exchange for the moderating and commenting.

But he seems to have forgot. I wonder why?

Without the compromise the whole thing falls apart. Reddit becomes digg.

rubinlinux, 23 hours ago

Re: A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2...

Technically not a regular expression, as (intuitively) the backreference has to “count” the number of 1’s that were matched. Regular expressions are equivalent to finite state machines, which cannot count arbitrarily high (any state machine that can count arbitrarily high needs an infinite number of states, since there are infinite natural numbers).

The 2022 discussion has a more formal proof using the pumping lemma.

tylerhou, 1 day ago

Пацаны вообще ребята, вот что я скажу.

Re: French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal e...

Yesterday the French government dissolved an environmental movement (which I don't like btw), amongst the reasons stated[0] are that they leave their phones at home or switch them off, refuse to talk to the police when arrested, or even that they organize their protest over the internet.

When accused of authoritarian tendencies the government usually answers "go to China or North Korea to see what a dictatorship is like".

[0] https://twitter.com/mart1oeil/status/1671467485931921408

conradfr, 13 hours ago

Живая версия тоже хороша.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvV_gy_uUVA

А кто чем нынче записывает видео из YouTube?

Совершенно, конечно, не понятно, как я не знал толком про Black Praire и The Lumineers. Прямо культурный слой мимо прошел.

🇺🇸США намерены отложить введение новых санкций в отношении ЧВК «Вагнер» на фоне ситуации в России, сообщила газета The Wall Street Journal.

Как пишет издание, американская администрация опасается, что, введя новые санкции против ЧВК, она может «занять сторону» российского руководства.

«Вашингтон не хочет выглядеть так, будто он занимает ту или иную сторону в этой [ситуации]», — цитирует WSJ слова источника.

По утверждению газеты, Госдепартамент США планировал 27 июня ввести очередные санкции в отношении ЧВК «Вагнер» из-за ее действий в Африке.

@BFMnews

❗️В Липецкой области начинают отменять введенные ограничения, скоро откроют движение на региональных трассах, начали восстанавливать дорожное полотно, сообщил губернатор региона.

@BFMnews

Касательно сегодняшний событий — вот песня хорошая (нет, «Правда на правду» совсем про иное, как мне кажется).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yE15aZFUMcQ

Re: Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly....

A lot of people are bringing up Wirth's law or other things, but I want to get more specific.

Has anyone else noticed how bad sign-on redirect flows have gotten in the past ~5 years?

It used to be you clicked sign in, and then you were redirected to a login page. Now I typically see my browser go through 4+ redirects, stuck at a white screen for 10-60 seconds.

I'm a systems C++ developer and I know nothing about webdev. Can someone _please_ fill me in on what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness?

verall, 2 days ago

Re: Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court cit...

LegalEagle did a video on this case two weeks ago, digging into it in some more depth: https://youtu.be/oqSYljRYDEM

They lied to a judge, doubled down, showed further incompetence by admitting to not knowing how the legal reference they supposedly quoted was even structured, then lied to a judge again trying to get more time to get their story straight, and all it cost them was $5000? And even then they have the guts to say they disagree with the judge?

Levidow, Levidow & Oberman must either be run by fools or take the rest of the world for fools.

I can understand how the rubber stamping lawyer signing all the paperwork got off easy; he was just signing documents because the lawyer who supposedly did all the work for the case couldn't operate in the court the case was transfered to.

The other lawyer, the one who did the AI equivalent from copy pasting from the summary page of Google, should not be deemed fit to practice law.

jeroenhd, 2 days ago