I don’t understand why people complain about their Python code breaking because it relies on indentation instead of explicit {} syntax. I’ve never had an issue with it and it’s not just because I’m used to it because Python is the only language I use that relies on whitespace like that. I think the complainers just don’t know how to indent properly, which makes me really glad they’re writing in a language that forces them to instead of pushing unreadable garbage in other languages.

So it’s sort of like Minecraft structured like Roblox? (Minus the corporate greed)

That sounds too completely absurd to be real, which is why I believe it. Yikes.

If he likes making simple games, consider introducing him to Scratch. It’s not monetized at all and last I checked, was much better moderated than other online platforms for kids.

Oh yeah, I hate sites that do that.

I’ve had some sites bug out on Firefox that I’m pretty sure weren’t really related to Google or Microsoft in any way. I still use Firefox obviously, but it’s annoying.

It’s definitely gotten a lot worse within the past year or two.

I’ve noticed an increase in posts on reddit that follow the format of:

• Post with either a problem that can be solved by a product or a showcase of the functionality of a product
• Comment from a different account naming the product and basically giving a good review
• Multiple replies from different accounts corroborating the original comment and sharing their own positive anecdotes

It’s very sus, especially considering the amount of blatant repost/comment-stealing karma farm bots.

It’s illegal not to disclose when something is paid promotion. Worst case scenario, the ad blocker blacks out your screen while it detects the ad notification and auto skips when it can. We’ll never actually be forced to watch the ads.

Oh yeah, maybe it was a package deal and they only really cared about the training data.

I don’t get why Google would agree to pay for anything. Google can survive without Reddit, but Reddit would be hurt without Google and would eventually be forced to give in. Where’s that corporate greed when you need it?

This is unironically the answer. You can’t make a general-purpose captcha solver AI if every website or group of websites uses a completely different kind of captcha.

Yep. Not always larger necessarily, but close to the same size on average, or maybe a little smaller if the domain is limited and compression can be applied. Not really useful.

It also means that people with no friends already using it simply can’t join. Big oof for them.

Invitation only services are bad.

That’s an absurd hurdle for accessing an online service. I guess I shouldn’t expect people on the fediverse to understand, considering the barriers to entry it has.

That sounds infeasible in the real world. 90% of the population isn’t even going to understand a system like that, much less be willing to use it.

Like, she admitted to it? Not calling you a liar, just trying to imagine how you’d go about proving that something didn’t happen.

How do you know?

This was how my relatively modern laptop with an HDD ran when it had Windows 10 (which it came with). The main difference was that it was closer to 5-10 minutes.

I switched to Linux and the problem went away. Funny how that works.