[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

The problem is scaling. If it takes say, 30 seconds per name, but the number of n is very large, then if you ban say, 1000 dudes a day then the 30,000 seconds becomes a requirement of 8 hours of mod explanations (collectively) per day. It's a scaling issue, in short.

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

These guys are even more paranoid than many smaller instances about user names that appear to be randomly generated. Your own user name, as others in this thread suggested, would easily trigger their auto-ban rules. And a human moderator would take one look at the name and think the same thing.

God damnit, it took me until now to actually read their username. It's the youtube URL for the rickroll video (ending in XcQ). I think you're right though - it was obviously autogenerated originally and only took on its current meaning via Youtube's use of the string.

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

I didn't realise this was a Political Compass thing but the colors of the backgrounds check out

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember installing PC adblock just for Wowhead because even though they have great info (just about all the quests and dailies in WoW) they have so many ads and video popups. Haven't really looked back since.

I haven't gotten around to doing adblock for my phone, and so whenever I do visit those sites, I get really annoyed by everything.

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

It's funny, many wikis moved off then-wikia to Curse's Gamepedia family and then they just merged back again, kinda sad :(

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, video ads are the popup ads of our days. Just as intrusive. Money corrupts :(

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Heartily recommend this Computerphile video with some history and background about Ethernet and a bit about where the name came from!

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Apple spent a lot of investment getting the thing going, but it is certainly still a modern powerhouse. Even if worldwide iOS has a smaller marketshare than Android, Apple is huge in Japan, the US and UK.

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There's definitely something to be said for classic simplicity!

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, I mean I'm using up 8 gigs of ram with 10 chrome tabs open, 16gb is definitely starting to look a little lightweight than I'd like at the moment. I built my PC in 2020 with 16gb and around the end of 2021 I ended upgrading with two more sticks, just to keep things running smoothly!

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's kinda sad how SLI and Crossfire faded away. I used to think multiple GPUs were amazing and wanted my own SLI setup! But technology went a different way. It's probably better for my wallet though!

[-] fedosyndicate@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I agree, I think it's good to have a discussion, and polite disagreement is quite acceptable. But like you said, encouraging violence and hatred is not acceptable to me.

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