Obsidian is just sooooo good. I hate that you (technically 😉) have to pay for multi device sync, but the UI and UX are excellent, especially if you’re already proficient in markdown

Haven’t tried logseq before, so I can’t compare

As a former mod, in my experience it was more having a place to engage a community, and helping that community grow and improve. Reddit being a million dollar company when I started and a billion dollar company when I left didn’t really factor in. If you have a site split up into a million little communities, you need moderators that can have intimate knowledge of each community they oversee, and that’s unreasonable for a company of any size to do in house. Otherwise you have Facebook style moderation where it’s just plain dreadful no matter where you are.

Additionally, it really matters what sized sub you modded.

I modded mostly smaller subs, one big one for a while, and a default for 2 weeks. I put a lot of effort into the smaller subs, especially when it was just a few people whose usernames I recognized posting. I had little jokes hidden around, some cool CSS stuff, and some automated tasks. It was an enjoyable way to spend a couple hours a week. I didn’t mind it.

The big sub I was on mostly through mutuals. I was known to be pretty decent with automod scripting, so I got brought in to deal with never ending spam. I would update the automod and check queue every couple days, no biggie. Then the rest of the mods all drifted offline, leaving me alone to either let the sun die or to try and maintain the damned thing.

I maintained it near single handedly for like 2 years. It was mostly adding more and more to automod, but a lot was manual approvals and deletions. It sucked and sapped all the fun out of an activity I used to enjoy. Wasn’t the worst, but I wouldn’t have joined in the first place had I known why would happen.

Default subs are a different beast entirely. They don’t even use automod half the time. All of them have custom bots that link either a slack or discord, and everything is run externally through there. I decided to dip when I asked how tf all their tools worked and got refered to almost a damn knowledge base. That truly seemed awful and like it needed to be done by dedicated and paid employees.

Anyways, this comment spiraled, so sorry about that.

Oh man, I used to see you around constantly. I believe you posted about your methods at one point and I started following them. Hunted down quite a few bots as well!

For the subs I modded, my main strategy was to just ban any NameName or NameName## accounts that could post, and remove any comments from them that were super short or contained a link. That cut down on a ton of those assholes.

I actually got to talk in person with one of the admins at Reddit in charge of spam prevention. I basically gave the bastard a lecture in all the ways the spammers were spamming and scamming. Got told they’d follow up with me soon for more. Never got that follow up and I gave up caring once the API changes went through. I actually deleted all my anti bot code from the subs, but they’re still all private anyways

Neat! I’ll add it to my long list of things ADHD will never let me finish!

True, true. I have a vague idea how embedded systems work. I have no idea how you even get started with driver development.

OS development isn’t terrible though. There are numerous books to help you make your own kernel and OS

And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it’s embedded systems programming

I have never felt dumber than while reading that article and condensed matter physics, whatever tf that is

Definitely sounds like an interesting concept. I can also imagine some people seeing it as developers not actually making a game, instead getting their community to do the work.

I think maybe letting people design a building or block at a time, then doing voting and integrating the winner into the game could be a neat way to go about it

Yeah, zooming in the sign says Vancouver in the bottom right

If this is America, the cars will just stop in the intersection or ignore the light entirely

Do we really need them here though? Do we even want them here?

Honestly, I’ve been enjoying not having an infinite amount of content to scroll through anymore. I get off of it a lot more and do other things. It’s been nice.

Plus, memes last longer on here. I started falling behind on Reddit every week. Here a meme might last up to a month

You forgot that the oinker attempted to dark souls roll away from the “situation”. Needless to say he was fat rolling

He was a legendary race car driver for NASCAR. Basically the Messi of stock car racing (idk much about football. Or NASCAR for that matter)

Oh yeah, meant to say in my long ramble -

If you can get like 20% of the questions correct, you’re already smarter than the average person. Some people are just really damn good at trivia, and you don’t need to compare yourself to them. It only matters that you’re having a good time

As someone who hosts these types of shows, you have 2 forms of “know it all’s” - Pros and cheaters.

Pros are the people that just do trivia nights. I have some regulars that play 7 days a week at different venues, using their winnings to offset their food and drink costs. They know an ungodly amount of things themselves or they have a team of people with high levels of knowledge in different categories. You’ll find a lot of retired computer and science people in this group. I have a regular group of professors from the local university. They span over almost every discipline. They come about once a month and I haven’t seen them not get at least top 3 every time.

The second group, cheaters, can go fuck themselves with a cactus dildo. You’ll have probably 5% of a show being cheaters. This includes people that cheat the entire time and people that cheat for one or two questions.

Sadly, not much can be done about the second group. People will always cheat and venues are extremely reluctant to kick anyone out since it could affect their income. Plus, you have sneaky cheaters. I have one group that I know is getting answers from somewhere. It’s 2 people and they seemingly know everything. I suspect they have a friend at an earlier show feeding them the answers or someone in this company is leaking answers to them.

Anyways, you didn’t ask but I felt like posting that so enjoy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There’s likely zero bugs, but Firefox has more ways to block ads and trackers from affecting you, which is likely to real reason they don’t want it being used.

Yeah, I’d agree. It’s definitely 2 different things going off the cube rule

Hear me out -

It’s a ring torus with a a different substance inside.

It’s a filled donut.