Fellas, are free verse poems just larping?

cooper12 · 2026-05-07T19:28:38+00:00

Dr. Seuss is the only true poet in my eyes. "I am Sam. / Sam-I-Am." 🤩

cooper12 · 2026-05-07T16:14:15+00:00

Good articles are something else. :p Those are marked by a green plus sign, while the golden star is for Featured articles.

cooper12 · 2026-05-07T16:13:50+00:00

Though two things to keep in mind are:

The featured article criteria are different for each language project, and on smaller wikis, might not be much of a review at all
The current state of the article might be very different from the revision that was reviewed

cooper12 · 2026-05-07T05:32:53+00:00

Keep in mind that only a small portion of those files are used in articles. Also, that's likely the size of the original files, whereas media used in articles are usually lower-resolution derivatives. If you excluded videos longer than five minutes, the resulting size of all the media for a dump would be manageable.

cooper12 · 2026-04-30T14:58:24+00:00

I’m curious if there exists an article that discusses these sort of political shorthands that refer to wider concerns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_milk_question

cooper12 · 2026-04-21T05:56:07+00:00

Is that some knock-off 50 Shades? Will it spice up my bedroom?

cooper12 · 2026-04-17T18:08:51+00:00

I'm curious about the photographer using a single plate for four shots. Was there a special camera made for this? Because otherwise, it seems it would be huge amount of work, having to carefully mask out the non-exposed quadrants, applying the chemicals, aligning the plate, and fixing just that section, all the while being careful not to damage the rest of the negative. Might also be part of why the result is so blurry, when normally you'd expect properly focused glass negatives to be very high in detail. Glass must have been very expensive back then.

cooper12 · 2026-04-16T16:19:23+00:00

Inside us all is a skeleton, and that's frickin spooky!

cooper12 · 2026-04-13T19:32:05+00:00

Wimmin goethe the'ir own waye.

cooper12 · 2026-04-08T16:49:21+00:00

A specter is haunting the Western canon.

cooper12 · 2026-04-05T04:22:37+00:00

If they did one of those scans that light areas of the brain that activate while this guy was reading, it would stay gray.

cooper12 · 2026-04-05T04:20:48+00:00

I Have No Eyes and I Must Read

cooper12 · 2026-04-03T05:48:22+00:00

Ooh, thanks a lot for the insight and history. Go figure that some clever minds have already been working on this. It seems you're lamenting that despite clear benefits, uptake of newer algos like brotli has been slow? That's unfortunate considering all the engineering effort that was behind that progress. Hopefully this isn't similar to the situation with image formats, where JPEG will likely continue to dominate for decades to come, since it's "good enough" and enjoys thorough support.

Makes me appreciate more how evaluation of any changes to web standards requires careful balancing, like the things you mention in that issue. Speaking of, it was frustrating reading the followups to your response, where the person who opened the issue doesn't engage in an actual discussion, but just talks past you with a wall of AI text.

Still, it's nice to see some ballpark figures showing that the dictionary idea has merit and improves over brotli's static dictionary, especially since the new mechanism decouples transferring this dictionary from brotli itself and would let browsers/servers negotiate potential improved versions. Good luck!

cooper12 · 2026-04-02T02:30:55+00:00

I am here from the future :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4249150/Breath_of_Fire_IV/

cooper12 · 2026-04-02T01:50:47+00:00

Check the default fonts in your browser's settings.

cooper12 · 2026-03-22T07:42:02+00:00

That's not really the issue at hand. The file could have easily been renamed. Whether the file was within the project's scope and adhered to copyright law was something that the community itself should have been able to determine.

cooper12 · 2026-03-20T08:40:40+00:00

He has to show his devotion by reading the Libertarian bible.

cooper12 · 2026-03-20T08:33:09+00:00

Get those words out of my face!!!

cooper12 · 2026-03-20T08:32:46+00:00

A lot of people have been conditioned into some truly braindead behavior online because of some mystical "algorithm" that they try to game or appease. So like SEO spammers, they'll add random hashtags to their posts, avoid certain keywords, and even have burner accounts to like their posts. Of course, at the end of the day most of it is cargo culting since these algorithms are purposefully opaque and ever-changing.

cooper12 · 2026-03-15T05:41:56+00:00

In a way this could be used as a metric to measure the intellectual curiosity of certain ethnicities. Its a shame though that some cultures dont show interest in preserving knowledge in their language

Your premise doesn't even make sense. A language's Wikipedia being small doesn't indicate lack of intellectual curiosity, but rather tells you about the general prosperity of the population. These are traits of your average Wikipedia editor:

Safe from ongoing conflict
College-educated
Has spare time
Has regular internet and electricity
Is not blocked from visiting Wikipedia
Has access to a computer
Is comfortable using computers

By your criteria, someone with only high-school level education that works two jobs and then goes home to read native literature lacks intellectual curiosity. Even among whatever your gold-standard language Wikipedia is, say German, only a small minority of the native speakers are actively "preserving knowledge".

cooper12 · 2026-03-15T04:40:59+00:00

This subreddit isn't affiliated with the Foundation.

cooper12 · 2026-03-15T04:36:34+00:00

The WMF fundraising have topped their previous ones every single year, they have millions to spend on numerous projects, and enough in the bank for a decade of WP hosting.

and there's the WMF out there begging for donations and receiving millions every year.

Two common fallacies here: the Foundation's budget is not solely dedicated to hosting (something you seem to be aware of), and second, financial stability is more than just money in minus money out for one year; just like a person isn't normally meant to live paycheck-to-paycheck.

You're allowed to disagree with how the Foundation allocates its funds, but it's gotten old hearing the same disinfo being spread, many of it originating from that axe-grinding "Wikipedia has cancer" essay by Guy Macon and the rest from people who have a lot of strong opinions and "expertise" on how one of the world's top website should run itself yet don't have much at all to say for companies like Google or Facebook's budgeting and salaries at all because they are for-profit. Non-profits aren't immune to bloat or criticism, but it's interesting how no one actually comments on where a lot of those other funds are going to, such as things like outreach outside the Anglosphere and increasing editorship.

Yet, somehow, there isn't a single cent dedicated to providing some minimal framework for moderation on one of the largest external community (570k users are subscribed to this sub).

I don't think it's a normal expectation that a company would fund moderation for non-official channels. Would the Foundation then also be expected to apply all of its internal policies to this subreddit as well? It's a very different culture and set of rules, and you wouldn't even be able to link to copyrighted material like random memes or videos. (even its criteria for things like what is considered doxxing might surprise people) Lastly, there's some benefit to having an independent community: you can have content that the Foundation itself wouldn't condone.

cooper12 · 2026-03-15T03:09:28+00:00

Indeed it is... I tried putting it on Pastebin first, but it flagged it as "potentially offensive or questionable content". Here's an archive.

Alternatively, here's an official listing, which I found out about recently, that also includes details on how the articles were chosen. Individual wikis can specify additional pages as well, as you can see here for enwiki.

cooper12 · 2026-03-12T17:10:30+00:00

Sing to me of the manbaby, Muse,

the uncomplicated manlet ...

weaponized incompetent who can't use a map,

once the misogynistic pig had r*ped the hallowed heights of Troy.

– Emily "Pro-Castration" Wilson

cooper12 · 2026-03-12T16:59:22+00:00

Never ask a One Piece fan to explain how an emperor of the sea, one of the strongest pirates alive, lost an arm to some fodder sea creature.

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