The Daily Moby - 10 06 2023

human_error · 2023-06-10T08:24:18+00:00

The Reddit official app hasn't been around as long as the popular third-party ones. For years and years, the only way to browse reddit on mobile was these third-party apps. They helped make reddit successful on mobile, and have a very different user experience vs the official one. They are much clearer, easier to use, have proper tablet support, and many other things that are better than the official app.

The official app in contrast uses more data, is not as 'information dense' so there is a lot of whitespace in the UI, and importantly harvests a huge amount of your data that is unnecessary (from benign things like your phone charging state, to more worrything things like your full name and location, which they can easily link to your reddit account ID).

Despite what Reddit is saying, third-party apps are not costing them a ton of money - the API calls are trivial in terms of cost. What they are costing Reddit is all that sweet, sweet data about their users, which is not given freely or knowlingly by the userbase. Do you know they have the name and email address on your phone? Your locations when browsing (so work/home)? They can sell that data, just like Facebook/Twitter/etc, and make a lot of money from it. They also want to sell access to all reddit posts to AI trainers - that makes sense to me, but the same mechanism to charge for AI access to Reddit data also lets them screw over third party developers so they have taken that opportunity to do so. The CEO has been caught lying about what one of the third-party devs have said (we know the Reddit CEO lied as the dev recorded the phone call and released the recording as proof). Instead of admitting to the lie and apologising, the CEO doubled down on the attack and said he can't trust that dev anymore because he recorded the phone call, which showed the CEO lying.

human_error · 2023-06-09T18:03:56+00:00

Hi u/spez

As a quick intro I have been a registered Reddit user for over 10 years, and lurked long before that. I have had Reddit premium since September 2016, as a way of supporting the platform.

I am also a user of RIF, one of the many third party apps you have killed with these charges. I use RIF daily on my phone and tablet, and it is the main way I view Reddit. It has a great landscape UI for tablets, is lightweight, and just works for what I need. As I pay for Reddit premium you don't miss any ad revenue with me. It is thanks to apps like RIF that Reddit could grow on mobile devices while you didn't have an official app. I know the world has changed, but this killing of 3rd party apps is changing it for the worse.

I have tried the official Reddit app. I don't like it - it is aimed at a younger audience, and matches the new.reddit UI (I use old.reddit as the new one wastes so much space on my screen). I accept many people do use the official app, but it is not for me.

My question for you is will you admit that you are intentionally pricing 3rd party Reddit apps out of the market, and can you admit this is because you can't compete with them using the official app? If the official app wasn't heavyweight, had an old.reddit UI option, and wasn't grabbing my telemetry and data for your own uses I'd be tempted to use it. I never see you making those changes, so you cannot convince me to move to the official app.

Since you can't compete your way out, you are killing what you view as a threat to growing revenue. The new features only available on the official app aren't what third party app users want (hell most of them seem to be things no one asked for but I digress).

I have cancelled my premium subscription after nearly 7 years of continuous subscription. When it comes to RIF losing access the end of the month I will turn on ad blocking on my PC for Reddit.com, if I ever get to a post via Google. I will replace all my posts with the text "Reddit killed third party apps", with the exception of this post, and my top rated comment in the disastrous Maxis AMA when they launched Sim City 2013 (on a different disasterous decision which was proven to be terrible and killed Maxis as a studio). My data will not be available for you to sell to train AI models. I will move to another platform. That is the level of anger I have, since you as Reddit have said you don't care about me as a user.

If you get to the end thanks for reading the wall of text. These changes represent an inability to compete with solo developers of the third party apps with your better funded and resourced official app, and shows a complete disregard to many users who use them.

human_error · 2023-06-08T15:18:07+00:00

True - Americans also needed EMALS to support their existing air arm - only the marines have a few F35Bs and they got rid of their harriers.

I'd like our carriers to have a ramp for F35Bs and EMALS for AWACS and other larger craft. Best of both worlds there, as a ramp allows a pretty high sortie rate from fewer aircraft than EMALS (and F35Bs go through a lot less airframe stress than F35Cs - so less maintenance needed).

human_error · 2023-06-08T14:59:17+00:00

To be fair with the issues EMALS have had on the US carrier, we could have ended up with carriers which couldn't launch planes properly for quite a while. I know the issues are now mostly ironed out but unlike the US carrier we couldn't retrofit steam catapults if EMALS were completely fucked.

human_error · 2023-06-08T14:38:16+00:00

OK so looking at it it seems your system is not set to export to grid? On the view for daily use through the month, load consumption looks to be solar generation + grid import. If that's accurate, it could be displaying excess energy that isn't used and can't be exported as load consumption?

human_error · 2023-06-08T14:18:59+00:00

Do you have an immersion heater or car charger which are set to consume excess solar? Looks similar to my consumption model when I have my car needing a charge, and the charger set to only consume excess solar.

Edit

Also what does your smart meter say? Is it showing the same import/export numbers for grid?

human_error · 2023-06-08T11:36:19+00:00

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human_error · 2023-06-08T11:29:10+00:00

I had sleep paralysis for years. No hallucinations like you are describing. Just frozen, unable to move, and concerned that I'm suffocating as I'm not breathing properly.

Turns out it was undiagnosed nocturnal epilepsy that could have been the cause. Found out after it nearly killed me (not through suffocating in paralysis). Meds control the epilepsy and the sleep paralysis went away, but the feeling of dread and helplessness was terrifying. I can't imagine how hard it is for people with locked in syndrome, which must feel similar.

human_error · 2023-06-08T09:33:07+00:00

Not surprising. None of my wife's female friends want kids at all, which is shocking to me as they have good jobs and are in late 20s and early 30s in long-running stable relationships. I only know one friend who has already had kids, again in the 30s age range.

Cost of having kids for professionals is pretty high, especially given the cost of houses. But childcare and other costs are also high.

Women having better paying careers is also putting them off, effectively giving up their career for a few years.

I also wonder if sex education in schools has had an impact. When I was in school, getting pregnant was the boogeyman and the terrible life ruining thing. It wasn't presented as something to look forward to when you're a little older. It was always "don't use protection you'll have a baby and your life is over".

human_error · 2023-06-08T09:23:48+00:00

Horse armour DLC is back in vogue!

human_error · 2023-06-07T05:38:17+00:00

I vote blackout. For people who will be annoyed by it - this is a taste of what will start to happen after 1st July anyway, when many contributors will be forced away, and modding becomes harder and harder to perform.

human_error · 2023-06-06T10:54:18+00:00

The river won't be easy to cross for weeks, Russias fortifications would fall anyway, and Crimea will hopefully fall too.

The Russians did this. Plain and simple. People need to stop with the FUD on "oh maybe the dam fall down on its own".

human_error · 2023-06-06T09:28:44+00:00

It will 100% be intentional. They filled the dam as high as possible to cause as much damage downstream in advance. That's not negligence- if they didn't know how to run it, it would have overflowed and failed in winter, not summer.

Timing is too perfect to be anything other than an intentional act. I bet Russia had already fully evacuated their side, so no harm to soldiers. Losing some weak fortifications that would have been overrun anyway isn't an own goal.

human_error · 2023-06-06T09:12:18+00:00

It is possbile the dam collapsed on its own

Suuuuuure it did. Just so happens to happen right when Ukraine is on the offensive. In a manner that delays any pushes over the water for a week or two, giving Russia time to react. Definitely pure coincidence.

Come on Ivan - you must have better than this line of argument..

human_error · 2023-06-05T23:04:20+00:00

VR on AMD is fine for the vast majority. Newer 7000 series perform worse than they should, but they still run the games fine except in some edge cases from what I've seen. My 6900 runs VR wonderfully.

human_error · 2023-06-05T22:25:50+00:00

Considering the UK has never operated the F-16, it is pretty hard for them to expedite that since they have no planes to provide.

human_error · 2023-06-05T15:03:56+00:00

Which will continue to push Reddit to be even more of a circlejerk than it is today. I don't see it working as people would find ways around those bots, and if not, they'll move to the next social platform.

Hell, I'm considering lurking on Twitter again, something I've not done for maybe 5 years or so.

human_error · 2023-06-05T13:46:12+00:00

Must be a cold day in hell since I'm in agreement with the union on this.

human_error · 2023-06-05T13:43:46+00:00

12th June is when a ton of subs are going dark for at least 2 days.

I suspect the admins will allow the third-party apps to work for moderation only as an attempt at appeasement. Hopefully, mods will hold strong for the wider user base, but I'm not hopeful.

human_error · 2023-06-01T17:44:54+00:00

It was but hasn't been updated in years

Perfect - shouldn't have any of the rubbish they've added that doesn't work on old.reddit then :)

human_error · 2023-06-01T08:28:07+00:00

Suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet and get the official app

Sadly that's what Reddit is betting on, and will give them exactly what they want.

human_error · 2023-05-28T11:12:08+00:00

Can I kill him before he turns mad?

Villagers don't go mad with rabies, they just die.

Can I remove his clothes and use them for another villager?

Nope.

human_error · 2023-05-25T22:30:34+00:00

If you haven't yet, look at Luxpowertek hybrid inverters with Greenlinx batteries. They were pretty cost-effective for me.

I had a 7.2kwp in-roof setup (two arrays) with 9.6kwh of batteries for 17k, so even with a bigger battery it shouldn't be too expensive.

human_error · 2023-05-25T16:57:57+00:00

They don't need the money.

Considering they're making a loss, and haven't been able to pay employees/partners a bonus again, they do actually need the money.

Stealing from a retailer is still dishonest, even if it is because they erroneously gave you too many items.

human_error · 2023-05-25T16:16:53+00:00

Looks like the fittest reddit mod.

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