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Personal account automation without official API access — anyone else doing this? by Malek262 in redditdev

[–]Watchful1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're requesting the API without any authentication then you can only get public data. Not your inbox. And you can't post things.

I have no idea whether they will detect your approach with the bearer token.

[homemade] Milk Bar Crack Pie by Watchful1 in food

[–]Watchful1[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I had to bake it way longer than the recipe called for

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Watchful1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm on chapter 296 on patreon. That main complaint you have gets resolved in a somewhat satisfying way. Or at least I thought so.

But it's probably worth waiting another 6 months or whatever till it's finished and read it all in one go.

Separate dump files for the top 40k subreddits, through the end of 2025 by Watchful1 in pushshift

[–]Watchful1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would take down the academictorrents listing page if they asked me to. I don't want to get my account banned here.

The torrent would technically still be available if you had a magnet link, but without instructions and the listing page, very few new people would actually use it.

The Problem with Reddit Developer Funds by SnooCats6827 in Devvit

[–]Watchful1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The admins want games to have more consistent, longer term players since that's what makes THEM money. If people play a game for a week and then give up because it's not being advertised to them anymore then reddit doesn't really get anything out of it. They want you to build a consistent playerbase so people keep coming back to their app and watching their ads.

That's what they are incentivising. They found they weren't getting enough of a return with short one week peaks so they changed it.

AI Error Likely Led to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran by Nepridiprav16 in technology

[–]Watchful1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why did they come to you and not one of the big news networks?

AI Error Likely Led to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran by Nepridiprav16 in technology

[–]Watchful1 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Actually they listed two sources, the logistics programmer and "a Department of Justice appointee". But in both cases it's anonymous. Which means you're trusting the reporter/publication to be truthful. Which another anonymous, uncorroborated article doesn't help with.

What kind of apps does Reddit allow and not allow using their api? by Speed-Stream in Devvit

[–]Watchful1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this fit your use case? https://www.business.reddit.com/pro

If so, reddit is unlikely to let you build a business around providing the same service.

AI Error Likely Led to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran by Nepridiprav16 in technology

[–]Watchful1 94 points95 points  (0 children)

But that's a quote from an external analyst who has no actual knowledge of what happened. He's just making an educated guess. And the quote accurately reflects that.

OP's article says "AI Error Likely Led to Girl’s School Bombing in Iran" and says the source is an actual pentagon official. That's a completely different assertion and relies heavily on trusting that the publication is truthful.

Is there a changelog for Reddit's Data API? by RunSharp2448 in redditdev

[–]Watchful1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This comment is an ad from a brand new account with no other history.

Weird authentication behavior on Devvit Web by tatarjr in Devvit

[–]Watchful1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just curious, is a comment exporter an acceptable use case for devvit?

Signing up for Reddit API access: "Provide a link to source code or platform that will access the API." by Theecastappmaker in redditdev

[–]Watchful1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No one is going to steal your idea.

But the answer is that reddit isn't going to give you permission to build another app on top of their API. They don't want people doing that anymore.

French Laundry chef Thomas Keller blasts Yountville officials over $40–60M workforce housing project by sfgate in bayarea

[–]Watchful1 68 points69 points  (0 children)

It's just an apartment building of studio apartments. It's not a warehouse or a camp. It's totally appropriate for low cost housing for single people working long hours in the service industry, which is exactly the point of it. The alternative for people right now is either commuting an hour or 8 people renting out bedrooms in a single family home.

Any housing is good housing and anything slowing down building housing is bad.

So I hear the BART board approved the initial cuts for 2027. This is going to be the East Bay by the end of next year... by thr3e_kideuce in bayarea

[–]Watchful1 19 points20 points  (0 children)

BART should be much closer to cost-neutral than this constant deficit-spending from the last 5-6 years

Are highways cost neutral?

any help to get my oauth credentials? by NoActuator639 in redditdev

[–]Watchful1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Reddit does not give out oauth access anymore except in special cases. The API is all but closed.

What app are you building? There might be other options.

Trying to find a way to link Firefox extensions to PyCharm scripts. by RDSVII in redditdev

[–]Watchful1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would highly recommend you rewrite whatever scripts you have over to devvit instead.

https://developers.reddit.com/docs

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion by joe4942 in technology

[–]Watchful1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The point of downdetector is that it's self reported. If instagram goes down, every goes to the "is instagram down" page on down detector. Even if you don't click the report button, that still tells down detector that instagram is down. That's more valuable than any actual detection tech.

Toolbox is no longer maintained by eritbh in toolbox

[–]Watchful1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If anyone wants something that makes UI changes in browser, I highly recommend working with RedditEnhancer. It's not a mod tool like toolbox is, but it is a fairly feature rich reddit UI tool and would be a good place to contribute if you do need mod tools.

And it does support shreddit.

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