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Alternate non-Reddit Link: https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/Minecraft/comments/14kj3z7/so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_feedback/

Thanks to Tununias for the link.

Minecraft, a game owned by software giant Microsoft, has decided to no longer post official updates on reddit. Emphasis mine.

As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits. Because of these changes, we no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer our players to.

We want to thank you for all the feedback and discussion you've participated in in past changelog threads. You are of course welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward, and if you want to reach the team with feedback about the game, please visit our feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net or contact us on one of our official social media channels.

Kind of feels like it is pretty huge to have a subsidiary of a major corporation admitting they don't feel like officially participating in a subreddit is a safe thing to do in respect to their branding anymore.

I also find it quite funny that Microsoft feels the need to give us permission to still post "unofficial update threads." We're welcome to, so they say. Ha. Isn't that what people were doing on reddit before they showed up?

I'm wondering if these settings exist. It seems some comments default to English (my default and only language because I'm a dumb US person), while others default to not being labeled (undetermined?).

Also, I would prefer a different sort method for comments when entering a thread, without having to choose each time. Is there an option for this, as well?

If either of these options exist, where are they? Please and thank you.

If these options do not exist I might put in a feature request, but I'm sure the developers are bogged down with much more pressing issues at the moment.

macOS is fortunate to have access to the huge arsenal of standard Unix tools. There are also a good number of macOS-specific command-line utilities that provide unique macOS functionality. To view the full documentation for any of these commands, run man <command>

Not your best, but your worst! B-Movies abound!

Give us your sick, sad, filthy pleasure flicks that you love to hate.

Rules: The Room is too popular at this point and doesn't count.

My list:

• Hard Ticket to Hawaii
• Frankenhooker
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Dead Alive
• Deadly Prey

Special Mentions:

• Cabin Boy
• Space Truckers

Nitter thread from Julio Merino on application responsiveness in early 2000's Windows computers versus modern Windows computers. Videos available in linked thread.

Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is.

Now look at opening the same apps on Windows 11 on a Surface Go 2 (quad-core i5 processor at 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD). Everything is super sluggish.

For those thinking that the comparison was unfair, here is Windows 2000 on the same 600MHz machine. Both are from the same year, 1999. Note how the immediacy is still exactly the same and hadn’t been ruined yet.

The protests get even more creative. PoliticalHumor mods have set it so that if you subscribe to the community you can now do moderator actions through comments.

No more "Landed Gentry" here, just a total shitshow of deleted comments and lack of cohesive moderation.

They can't ban all of us

Aol’s chat rooms and message boards had the same community/pioneering feel, but they were hitched to a company whose main business was Internet connectivity and looked poised to dominate the Internet age. So Aol monetized and the monitors revolted. Aol finally ended its volunteer program in 2005 and settled the lawsuit in 2010 for $15 million. One third went to the community leaders, one third to the lawyers, and one third to charity.

As described, Reddit is an interesting example where people voluntarily fill the same community leader role that Aol’s volunteers did, although they do so with fewer restrictions and more agency. That said, while we don’t expect or believe that Reddit should be sued for back wages, it may suffer from the same problem as Aol: Reddit’s fanatical users may remain devoted only as long as the site still feels, as volunteers once described Aol, like a “community where people got together to get together.” Reddit has struggled to ratchet up revenues, likely because users would rebel against aggressive monetization.

The goal of this paper: This paper was written to help people understand current wifi technology, so that YOU can make an educated 'router' upgrade decision -- because there is WAY too much hype out there (especially about wifi speeds) -- and router manufacturers' are directly to blame.

This site is a great resource if you want to understand WiFi and make informed decisions on which WiFi router to buy. It is very old school presentation, but wowsers the detail.

via Snuupy at Hacker News

I have noticed that when I create comments or posts to a a community I'm subscribed to but is on another instance: only some of the comments make it to the instance I am posting to. Even 10 hours or more later, some of them are showing up while others are not.

Made a series of comments to beehaw.org, only some of them posted.

Made some posts for lemmygrad.ml, neither have shown up on lemmygrad.ml at all, even when browsing by "new."

I assume this is because of the high traffic that some federation actions are either slow/getting backed up?

Thank you for your time.