If really bots are being used for this, will that also contribute to the traffic metric like a normal user would?
no: bots generally use the API and, even if they went through the web ui, bot traffic doesn’t generally trigger tracking (you could write a bot that does that, but it would be extra work)
$ n=0; while read -r l; do n="$((n+1))" printf ' %d %s\n' "$n" "$l"; done < /etc/os-release
0 NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
0 # VERSION="20230619"
0 ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
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I love how much effort they put in this every time!
If you wanna listen to more of them, here’s the full playlist from SUSE’s channel on youtube.
OP was about data caps on landlines… yeah, at first glance I too thought it could only be mobile
With the people I’ve talked about privacy the issue seems to be that they perceive google/apple/whoever as somewhat abstract entities: when I try asking if they would allow their local supermarket/corner shop (let alone the government!) to know that much about them, they immediately reply “no way!”… but then (even after the conversation) they are still ok with google tracking their location 24x7.
Lack of healthy competition. It’s plain to see from the other side of the ocean where I live… Is it maybe one of those things you can only see from afar?
yq (“jq for yaml” written in go) seems like a cool project and the dev seemed like a nice (but busy) person when I implemented a feature for it. Maybe it could be a nice place to start.
I can already hear the voices of mods wishing him good luck moderating reddit on his own (in fact, I was certainly able to hear my own saying so before I de-listed myself as a mod).
I am impressed at how badly they are managing something that was initially merely “not the best idea” and now has become a true shitshow.
RIP reddit, you may very well survive this, but you’ll never again be “the front page of the Internet”.
What is the scenario you are thinking of specifically?
Here’s my favourites:
Blob wars is a 2d platform/shooter that is great fun (great sound effects and hilariously excessive gore).
Warzone 2100 is an RTS with a “neoclassic” appeal (something that would have felt like “the future of RTS” back when you played Command&Conquer).
Battle of Wesnoth is a hex-grid strategy games with loads of mods and campaigns.
There aren’t many because there is no request (“market”, if you will) for them.
OpenSUSE has Yast which might be what you are looking for (“might” because, despite using tumbleweed, I never used it and I even actually uninstalled it).
Any sufficiently advanced reputation system is indistinguishable from magic
How does/did the digg reputation system work?
CUPS is made by apple
IIRC CUPS started independently and then apple employed the main dev. After a few years he then left apple and forked his own project under the Linux Foundation, which is now the “proper” upstream
The Ask Noah podcast has an interview with Mike McGrath from RH and, besides trying to argument that it will now be illegal/impossible for downstream repackagers to just use RHEL’s source rpms, they say that the whole thing boils down to RH stop de-branding RHEL sources and feeding them back into the Centos git.
Personally, I guess they initially just decided to stop working for Oracle/Alma/Rocky for free (after all, there’s no reason for RH to do the RHEL de-branding anymore since they killed Centos) and then saw an opportunity to try and spin the story into “clones will now be worse than RHEL” and “clones are morally bad”.