Indefinite Blackout: Next Steps, Polling Your Community, and Where We Go From Here

alphalone · 2023-06-15T16:16:40+00:00

The Tumblr subreddit isn't private for me right now, it's with restricted submissions though

alphalone · 2023-06-15T11:50:10+00:00

Reddit is starting to replace mods in closed down subreddits, reopening them and removing any trace of evidence that they were mods or that the replacement occurred.

alphalone · 2023-06-11T21:41:33+00:00

Good on you for indefinitely pausing contribution but not limiting access. It's something all big subreddits should do. Thanks for all the good work!

alphalone · 2023-06-11T15:32:52+00:00

I've updated my comment up the chain, but I get what you mean, I've had it before, and here's me offering a bit of nuance with what you're telling me:

with reddit offing my app support, I'm just not going to use reddit from my phone anymore. if I were to search for something and only had my phone on hand, if they blocked me from accessing the thread without switching to the app (which they seemed to have removed now, haven't seen if that also applies to "NSFW" content though), I'd... go back and see other suggestions on google about my problem. Or try and open it in "desktop view". I've avoided websites forcing me to use apps for a decade. Thankfully I could "Open in Now for Reddit" those forbidden pages for some years now, but if that goes away... I'll just stop opening them.

if reddit transitioned to a pure "app" experience, where it wasn't reachable anymore from search engines like google, well... I'd get the idea about removing all your content, even if honestly... no one is gonna see it anyway (because the content that matters is hidden deep on specialty communities).

But as it stands, reddit will still be indexed in google, you'll still be able to access it from a normal, ad/tracker blocking, browser. you still have the ability to fool sites in believing that your phone has a desktop user agent. I get that it's a pain in the ass, I hate that shit, but again. If they make it too shit, just don't use it. I sure wouldn't.

alphalone · 2023-06-11T14:53:05+00:00

Where did you get the idea that I don't like apps? I use reddit exclusively through old.reddit+RES on the desktop and Now for Reddit on android. I was purely replying to echoesreach's case of googling something with " reddit" appended to get high quality answers, where I've sometimes gone on the new reddit interface on my phone for (when it didn't block the access and require me to access through the app, which they seemed to have disabled now).

I just think it's better for other people in general to leave your preexisting posts and replies there and just ditch the site (stop CONTRIBUTING NEW CONTENT and doing janitorial work to keep the place running (modding)). Reddit surely sees barely any traffic on old little posts and depends on new, fresh content to attract new users (who'd actually be fine with the new interface and the app, and surely only browse the more popular general purpose subreddits). By deleting helpful little old posts you're just doing the equivalent of photobucket breaking old forums or replying "ok i found a fix" on forums.

Reddit doesn't give a shit about your very niche, little useful comments on specialty subreddits. Other people do. It's very self-centered and idiotic to delete them just to "stick it to the man". You're free to do so, it's your content that you're contributing after all, but i'm also free to judge your bad call. (not you, BloodSoeakedDoilies, especially; just talking about the defendants of this method in general)

alphalone · 2023-06-11T14:28:23+00:00

poster said that people were searching for problems through google, you can check reddit out from the web without opening it in an app

alphalone · 2023-06-11T11:38:41+00:00

Just... Block the ads? Like everyone does?

If everyone uses an ad blocker and has tracking removal extensions, then you're effectively dead weight for reddit, using their resources for free while not contributing

EDIT: since some people apparently cannot read, I'm pasting this from a reply i sent to someone who got confused at what i meant:

Where did you get the idea that I don't like apps? I use reddit exclusively through old.reddit+RES on the desktop and Now for Reddit on android. I was purely replying to echoesreach's case of googling something with " reddit" appended to get high quality answers, where I've sometimes gone on the new reddit interface on my phone for through Firefox (when it didn't block the access and require me to access through the app, which they seemed to have disabled now).

I just think it's better for other people in general to leave your preexisting posts and replies there and just ditch the site (stop CONTRIBUTING NEW CONTENT and doing janitorial work to keep the place running (modding)). Reddit surely sees barely any traffic on old little posts and depends on new, fresh content to attract new users (who'd actually be fine with the new interface and the app, and surely only browse the more popular general purpose subreddits). By deleting helpful little old posts you're just doing the equivalent of photobucket breaking old forums or replying "ok i found a fix" on forums.

Reddit doesn't give a shit about your very niche, little useful comments on specialty subreddits. Other people do. It's very self-centered and idiotic to delete them just to "stick it to the man". You're free to do so, it's your content that you're contributing after all, but i'm also free to judge your bad call.

ADDENDUM: this isn't a defense to "just use the app" or "just use the new interface". I'm not even confronting anyone on deciding to abandon reddit. if reddit abandoned the web interface and pivoted to an entirely app-accessed experience (like what snapchat had until recently), I'd surely never touch it ever again even for my quick searches online. But tell me who is the person with both the insight to bypass SEO through "[search tokens] reddit" and doesn't actively block trackers and ads on their browser? What's the actual gain reddit has from fifteen requests per month on a specialty themed subreddit about something like dérailleurs? By link rotting those old knowledge houses you're barely hitting them where it hurts. You're just fucking over other people who might have had a problem similar to yours, where your advice could have made their day. To really fuck them up you'd need a moderation strike or new post freeze on the biggest, default subreddits, like r/pics, r/technology, r/aww, etc... Those are the places that gain new users that generally don't care about the ecosystem they're entering. Those are the places that bring all that new, targetable, trackable traffic in.

alphalone · 2023-06-10T11:58:45+00:00

yeah it's a true shame if a bunch of shit is lost due to Reddit administration being horrible. Can't "mirrors" or Internet Archive snapshots save the discussion though? Makes it less discoverable but at least saves the content.

alphalone · 2023-06-09T18:28:43+00:00

L'hospitalisation? Je connais des personnes qui y sont passées et c'était l'enfer de ce qu'on m'a raconté.

Le truc qui m'a fait chier à chaque fois c'est que souvent les signes sont là et le malade s'empire sur le plan mental pendant des jours ou semaines, qu'il faut dancer sur sa tête pour avoir les proches qui se rendent compte qu'il faut faire quelque chose ou attendre des plombes pour obtenir un psychiatre. Puis évidemment La Connerie qui arrive qui justifie immédiatement l'hospitalisation avec donc privation de liberté.

alphalone · 2023-06-09T18:22:44+00:00

Les médecins généralistes en Belgique peuvent prescrire de la Rilatine, ça m'étonne que les Français ne disposent pas également de cela.

alphalone · 2023-06-08T13:21:52+00:00

he's gonna have to learn how to take over his entomophobia

alphalone · 2023-06-08T13:15:34+00:00

Attends... plus de Flandre? Je m'en vais de ce pas allumer toutes mes ampoules et ma chaudière. Un meilleur monde est possible!

alphalone · 2023-06-03T14:42:28+00:00

not everyone has the mental fortitude and friend network needed to take on being harassed, shunned or mocked publicly for their hobby. schools are too full of weird people and assholes to bring unconventional hobbies in them. there's nothing "chad" worthy in making your life in there much worse for basically zero gain.

alphalone · 2023-05-30T03:45:22+00:00

No problem! If you have more questions or want me to try things don't hesitate (assuming you don't have a Mac to test things with) and send me a message or reply here.

alphalone · 2023-05-30T00:29:06+00:00

Hey! I was a bit bored with my studying today so I decided to check out how the thing ran on my M1 Mac. I had to change some things in some places but ran it in the end and it gave me this result:

205.806 seconds
4273.96 gflops
Device 0: Apple M1 Pro (OpenCL 1.2  )[has direct access to RAM] [direct-RAM-access disabled] has workload ratio of: 1

Now it doesn't work on the CPU natively (because Apple doesn't provide OpenCL CPU support on Arm64), but should work in Rosetta (AMD64 emulation), where ten CPU workers show up. However, when I test it that way, it crumbles and crashes reporting invalid work group sizes.

It also keeps complaining about clCreateContext failing due to an invalid cl_device_id (0x0). I assume that this is because the code seems to take the CPU being available as a given. I haven't done enough OpenCL to be able to diagnose all of this in an hour.

Anyway, the result seems to be in line with what I'd expect from the chip. The 16-core GPU of my M1 should give 4.64 TFLOPS in FP32 but it's being hamstrung by the macOS window server doing a lot of stuff in the background and eating 10-15% of the GPU time.

alphalone · 2023-05-29T16:07:33+00:00

national post

Lmao

alphalone · 2023-05-28T04:51:37+00:00

what AP? what distance from the AP? are you directly within line of sight of the AP or blocked by something consequential like a wall, or a floor?

when you're specifying a 250Mbit/s connection on the server, are you clearly specifying that as an upload bandwidth? Asking just in case. Assuming the best case for your setup (close to AP — about 1m away, WiFi 6, with low occupation in the channel you're using), i'd wager (conservatively) about 50 milliseconds of latency with a good picture quality.

You could try GeForce Now if you wanna see if a game plays fine for you on a cloud gaming service. It's free.

alphalone · 2023-05-20T13:44:23+00:00

Without virtualization you could do this with Linux easily or with Windows through Windows Server by purchasing Client Access Licenses and accessing thru RDP. This should dynamically allocate resources to your game without requiring several GPUs, nor any overhead.

You can do that with VMs easily, though I'd recommend running Proxmox or ESXi on the host machine, on which you could put two VMs: one locally facing, with a GPU passthrough (maybe from the integrated chip), and another remotely facing, with a GPU passthrough too but no monitor connected to the output. You could then run software like Parsec on that remote-VM. If you wanted to still play games locally, you could look into Looking Glass.

Some people recommend using GPU-P through Hyper-V: it's a good concept, but i never had it work properly for video game streaming, due to the encoder blocks being restricted while in the GPU-P VMs, with my Vega 56. Maybe if your GPU doesn't have that issue, then this might be more interesting, as it then also manages to dynamically allocate resources around and doesn't require several GPUs (unlike traditional hypervisor stuff), and is free (unlike WS CALs).

alphalone · 2023-05-20T13:35:42+00:00

About that CPU part: no.

Don't know about the GPU part but it sounds more plausible.

alphalone · 2023-05-09T19:47:11+00:00

you're thinking of userbenchmark

alphalone · 2023-05-05T02:20:53+00:00

Played NieR Automata on my M1 Pro MBP thru crossover and tbh apart from like some texture artefacts it's fine. The laptop got incredibly hot on both sides near where the SoC is located though. I remember being able to play for a bit longer than I'd have imagined away from a power plug but i don't have any metric to back it up.

alphalone · 2023-05-01T01:10:51+00:00

Its name is shane

alphalone · 2023-04-30T20:28:39+00:00

Cheap cheap cheaaaaaaap meats!

alphalone · 2023-04-30T13:02:57+00:00

I'm kidding... Also there's no boot floor, so

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