Klonoar

This has to be a parody post, my god.

That redacted amount is absolutely miniscule and blown out of proportion.

Put a fork in me, I'm done.

There's a third theory of why they're doing this that I don't see discussed too much.

Behavioral tagging of bot traffic is actually easier when you're not serving plain HTML pages, because the number of signals thrown off by bad bots that don't exactly replicate browsing habits goes through the roof. The larger anti-bot implementations do a lot of this type of thing nowadays.

Bot authors no doubt have their own incentives for using old.reddit (lower bandwidth, conceptually simpler to crawl, etc) but it would not surprise me to learn that Reddit wants exactly one door for bots to have to shuffle through. They also don't work on old.reddit much at all these days, so any effort they have to put in to handling bot traffic is kept to one route.

Pretty dumb era of the internet we've wound up in.

Reddit has almost 20 years of comments.

You could certainly argue that it's less true now that there's legitimate people commenting, but there are years old threads on there with very helpful and valuable information that you can only really find via some incantations of Google search.

It’s fully possible to have scoped areas of borrow checker influence, which could be introduced after the port.

You have somehow lived in a strange bubble.

2025: https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ 2023: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/133 2022: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1690/ 2014: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.4/common/008_o...

It's an issue as old as time, or thereabouts.

Multiple anti-bot vendors will detect that replacement and use it as part of their fingerprinting process.

Then do it in the litany of comment sub-threads and stop complaining about one that's a Rust tangent.

Welcome to forums, we've been using them for a few decades now.

This example is one of the more striking cases and you could write a (light) novel on the history of how it changed.

You kind of had to be there for part of it, at least the early stuff though.

“A complete derail” is doing some heavy lifting there.

This is a wide ranging discussion board, not the OpenBSD forums. That shit is fair game even if you don’t like it.

(It’s annoying, sure - because dev tribalism is the most played out thing in this industry - but overall the topic can be an interesting discussion point)

People on this website (who have never witnessed a single Zig community interaction)

I'll take claims that you have no ability to make for $100, Alex.

There’s no way in hell it’s maintainable.

They rewrote the entire thing with extensive LLM use.

It is abundantly clear that their idea of maintainable and yours probably don't match up.

It's apparently out there, shipped in the real world, with people saying it's good. I think it's a pretty clear win for them.

Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality

Look, I'm as anti-AI as the next guy but their homepage is good. They didn't compromise on quality.

Call a spade a spade.

Finally, I can get Ubuntu on a CD.

IE was bad because Microsoft let it stagnate, not because they were creating new things.

Stop getting history twisted.

It’s not a bad assumption to the average person because words have meanings, and in this context they go back decades.

Appreciate the clarification, I missed that.

In three comments you’ve moved the goalpost on the 20-hours-of-battery comment multiple times.

Just take the L, dude.

If there weren't already enough tells that something is AI-generated, I guess you could add this to the list.

Systemd changes don’t make it harder, you control the damn OS at the source code level if you choose.

The purple theme seems fine and appropriate to me, given the GameCube’s color scheme - and some of the site feels almost Slippi-esque so there’s a bit of that angle too.

I admit that Valve’s approach to Steam on macOS has never made sense to me.

You are the outlier of outliers by holding this opinion. You're certainly entitled to it, but RDR2 has numerous accolades and there is multitude of reasons why it was so widely praised.

Trying to act like Rockstar missed here is like sticking your head in the sand. It doesn't matter that you didn't like it, they accomplished every goal the game had.

RDR2 is highly rated as one of the greatest games of all time.

Rockstar hasn’t missed, you’re an outlier.

Yes, but we’re at least not dying of sweat.

We do a lot of things wrong but AC isn’t one of them.

(Unless you’re in the PNW where they never needed it before recently, and somehow continue to build units without it)

Yeah, I've done that job countless times in my 20 year career.

Knock it off already.

The unfortunate truth is that the English speaking market matters for that kind of product and that name is a barrier. It just doesn’t matter that your day to day language or life doesn’t encounter it.

Users don't actually give a shit.

This is a techie complaint, and that's opting for a charitably nice description.

If $30 a month is too much for you, then you probably should be doing something other than trying to run a relay. It is just not a significant amount of money.