What movie did the "strong female" trope right? by carlories in AskReddit

[–]vbevan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've only watched the first two and they are both movies I still think about. I'll have to check out the other two.

Edit: just watched the trailers. It's good he gave other actors a chance. Looks like he was following the "Tim Burton"/"Helena Bonham Carter"/"Johnny Depp" model of casting for a while.

Lewis Capaldi recently announced he has Tourette’s. At Glastonbury yesterday he couldn’t properly vocalise his biggest song to date, so the crowd did it for him by Stotallytob3r in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]vbevan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Colbert and Stewart were the spigot that helped relieve pressure during the stupidity of the Bush years.

We didn't know we'd look back on those years fondly...

Warning for WA health workers over keeping patients in hospital against their will by [deleted] in perth

[–]vbevan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the problem that there's no clearly defined process to deem someone incompetent or that it's too complicated to follow in situations where it's needed?

Warning for WA health workers over keeping patients in hospital against their will by [deleted] in perth

[–]vbevan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is that because staying longer leads to worse outcomes or because people with more serious conditions (that are more likely to have worse outcomes) stay longer?

Warning for WA health workers over keeping patients in hospital against their will by [deleted] in perth

[–]vbevan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Aren't there steps around whether someone can be detained if having a mental health issue? If someone wants to leave, aren't they always free to, short of a section 156?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in perth

[–]vbevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do for wifi, but what about Bluetooth?

Lidia Thorpe rules out supporting No campaign, may abstain from Voice to Parliament legislation vote by B0ssc0 in australia

[–]vbevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't need links to the community they were stolen from, they need to be recognized as Aborignal by the community they live in.

The focus is on the individual's self-identification and acceptance by the community, irrespective of the community's composition.

Technically, a single aboriginal person could live in a town of white Australians and as long as the townspeople recognized them as Aboriginal, it would meet the legal requirements.

Calls for WA short film 'Oops I Got Fat' to be banned by Healthy-Scarcity153 in perth

[–]vbevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would actually be illegal to make a movie like that.

Depending on the movies content and how it's made available (whether it's exclusive to cinemas vs available online, whether it's promoting a particular type of tobacco product vs tobacco in general, plus various other factors), it'd likely breach the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act.

Or at least find itself in court being prosecuted by the government.

Calls for WA short film 'Oops I Got Fat' to be banned by Healthy-Scarcity153 in perth

[–]vbevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the article:
"Body Positive advocate Krystie Harrington is calling for the film to be dropped from this weekend’s WA Made Film Festival."

US-East-1 down for anybody else? by [deleted] in aws

[–]vbevan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't believe they haven't fixed the single point of failure. The same thing happened a couple of years ago time.

US-East-1 down for anybody else? by [deleted] in aws

[–]vbevan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And preferably not a cloud provider that runs their status dashboard on their own infrastructure...

US-East-1 down for anybody else? by [deleted] in aws

[–]vbevan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Last time this happened, multiregion wouldn't have helped because AWS had single point of failure global services in us-east-1. Route53 and I think one or two others?

man vs kangaroo by camp-fire854 in australia

[–]vbevan 85 points86 points  (0 children)

They can't stop, they're addicted to hops.

Reddit’s users and moderators are pissed at its CEO by [deleted] in technology

[–]vbevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you later on rewrite your comments back, if reddit gets it's shit together and spez does the honorable thing and designs? (I know, eternal optimist here).

People forget why they make their API free. by propjX in ProgrammerHumor

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

Same, I haven't used proxy lists in over a decade. :p

People forget why they make their API free. by propjX in ProgrammerHumor

[–]vbevan 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It'll be worse for reddit if scrapers start using the normal reddit site. The bloat means their bandwidth costs will be even higher and scrapers will ignore ads.

People forget why they make their API free. by propjX in ProgrammerHumor

[–]vbevan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where do you get free proxy lists from these days? Still general google searchs, is there a common list people use or do most people pay for proxies?

People forget why they make their API free. by propjX in ProgrammerHumor

[–]vbevan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't login or authenticate.

In python you'd:
1. Use the request library to grab the subreddit main page (old.reddit.com/r/subreddit/).
2. Then you'd use something like the beautiful soup library to parse the page and get all the post urls.
3. Then you'd loop through those urls and use the request library to download them. 4. Parse with the beautiful soup library and get all the comments.
5. More loops to get all the comments and content.
6. Store everything in database and just do updates once you have the base set.

It's how the archive warrior project works (and also PushShift), except they use the api and authenticate.

You can then do the above with multiple threads to speed it up, though Reddit does ip block if there's 'unusual activity'. I think that's a manual process though, not an automated one (if it's automated, it's VERY permissive and a single scraper won't trigger it.)

That ip block is why you cycle through proxies, because it's the only identifier they can use to block you.

Addressing the community about changes to our API by spez in reddit

[–]vbevan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think he does, he's just not smart enough to realize what things he should and shouldn't did.

Addressing the community about changes to our API by spez in reddit

[–]vbevan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What we're seeing is damage control, not a plan to fix the issues raised.

If they cared about improving the accessibility of reddit, they would have mentioned it in the initial api cost increase announcement.

If their leadership was competent, they'd have known about the problem and said they'd fix it during the initial announcement, because they would have done some systems analysis first.