Why did Nintendo do it? pic.twitter.com/BYNoPK1Hhi

— DAKKADAKKA (@PDakkadakka) April 18, 2023

Trans lives matters

Ten years ago I would have agreed.

Today? I'm not sure you're right about which is the greater threat.

Yes, state censorship can be abused. But promoting misinformation is a known threat to Democracy today. Right now.

I'm not sure what the real answer should be. If "the market" manages to get the propaganda farms' misinformation under control, then great. If they don't, the only answer I can see is for government to step in.

As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Dying to protect absolute freedom of speech when bad actors are abusing it to destroy the country is not wise.

Democracy thrives when the government polices and censors what's allowed to be said

I'm getting increasingly annoyed by Windows frickery and want to move to lunix completely. I need to do DXF/DWG stuff from time to time and so far my experience with FreeCAD is absolutely negative. Are there any tolerable alternatives?

doesn't apply to me because I will NEVER dip my toe into the byzantine cesspool that is the wider js ecosystem. but a fun read to give one a false sense of superiority for ten min

Some Gemmies I made

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

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

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

We will be discussing Firefuxs, iOS, and Wikipedia, so please wear proper attire for this thread.

Also mid-way through typing this up I got to a claim that Google Chrome wasn't up for deletion. But upon checking for myself it has now be nominated for deletion.

I was doing my once a month "let see what is going on with those r-slurred furrryfox users and found the thread linked to and the OP below.

I just got on the [Firefox version history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history) Wikipedia today as I do every few months, to grab version numbers of all the releases that I need to download for my archives. Well, much to my surprise when I got there today and noticed that ALL of the detailed Version History was removed!

I checked the "Talk:Firefox version history" page which redirects you to the "Talk:iOS version history" page and seen that the user responsible for the removal, Nosferatlus has also took it upon themself to remove ALL of the detailed Version History from the iOS Version History page as well! The user posted this, Release notes need to be deleted

The user stated the "release notes were a clear violation of WP:NOTCHANGELOG". I checked the WP:NOTCHANGELOG and item #4 in the list states...

Exhaustive logs of software updates. Use reliable third-party (not self-published or official) sources in articles dealing with software updates to describe the versions listed or discussed in the article. Common sense must be applied with regard to the level of detail to be included.

The last sentence reads, "Common sense must be applied with regard to the level of detail to be included.". So does this users common sense trump everyone else's common sense? Because my common sense says that all of that detailed version history information was absolutely useful and I'm sure there are plenty of other users who would agree! Maybe this user is training to become an Apple employee or something, thinking that removing things somehow makes something better? Of course we know that's how Apple does innovation these days. Is this the mentality of people these days? I mean seriously, what kind of fruitcake removes all that useful data? There was a total of ~700KiB of data removed from the Firefox and iOS Version History pages combined. Is Wikipedia strapped for storage space these days or something? Do I need to donate a hard drive to them?

I've never ran into this issue before and am unfamiliar with how to go about addressing this on Wikipedia. I was hoping that someone here who is familiar with Wikipedia might know how to address this issue and/or have this ridiculous data removal reversed. I read something about being able to do a "Rollback", but it seems only Admins have access to this.

I'll be transparent and admit I am far too lazy to go through any wiki:talk page. I only have enough willpower to do reddit. Sorry, not sorry.

Their common sense doesn't make any sense, I agree.

"Exhaustive logs of software updates."

This sentence clearly indicates that no detailed update logs should be on wikipedia, which makes total sense but a version history, no matter how long, is not an update log. Clearly this person is not familiar with the topic and should not have taken action.

I agree. Meanwhile, the Chrome Version History page still exists in it's full entirety. I'm sure that's only because this user, Nosferattus, hasn't discovered it yet. I mean seriously, who in their right mind is bored enough to remove that much data? LESS is NOT MORE in this case! SMH

Of course the Chrome Version History page wasn't removed. This stinks to high heck of Chrome fanboyism trying to stick it to Mozilla. (Edit - I'm assuming this same user created the Chrome Update History page? I'm not on Wikipedia much, but is it possible for ANYONE to edit or delete stuff on there?

Firefuxmesia!!1!

This is sentiment is common in /r/firefox. The world is against them because they don't use Chromium (or safari). They of course jumped the gun, as seen above.

The article is now being considered for deletion. Maybe add your opinion or it might actually completely vanish.

It's not being considered for deletion. It's going to be moved to

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

When you enter the Talk page of Firefox version history, there's no discussion there. The discussion was moved to Talk:iOS version history because they are talking about renaming all "version history" pages to "release history".

But /u/bluefisch200 is right. There's another discussion about removing the page here.

Apparently they're not deleting them at all! They're just renaming every single page with "x version history" to "x release history" for "reasons" autisim

Active Wikipedia editor here: Reddit is not the place to conduct off-site discussions or direct attention towards this sort of thing. It was not professional to link the offending user's Wikipedia page in this post.

For some context, the Firefox version history article is the 12th longest page on English Wikipedia. It appears as though Nosferatlus is attempting to cut back on this list, as an edit to the page for season six of a Philippine TV show might suggest.

The first thing to note is that Wikipedia has several policies and guidelines. The most pertinent here would be WP:LENGTH, which deals with three different types of sizes. It's difficult to cut down on Firefox version history's markup size because a large portion of the size is lists and tables. If one seeks to cut down on the article's size, then they should attempt to split the article out. The most logical way of doing this is to create separate articles, such as Firefox version history (Firefox 1-37) or Firefox version history (Firefox 38-77).

There is nothing that explicitly says an article must be below a certain threshold, although MediaWiki (Wikipedia's software) requires articles to be under $wgMaxArticleSize, or 2 MiB by default. The article List of Gunsmoke (TV series) episodes is a featured list on English Wikipedia and its eighth largest article; it was considerably large even in 2010, when it passed a featured list review. A large article may suggest, however, that the contents of an article may violate a larger policy. List of Hindi songs recorded by Asha Bhosle is the site's third largest article and was created in May of last year by a now-blocked user. The article has an excessive amount of detail for the topic. List of Statutory Rules and Orders of Northern Ireland—the second largest article—does not cite any sources.

The prevailing philosophy for many users is be bold, and one that ironically applies here as OP has brought this issue to a larger (at times uninformed) audience rather than fix it themselves. Conversely, editors must be careful while handling long articles that obviously do not violate some policy. The article for Trump's presidency is the largest article on Wikipedia that is not list-class. It remains such because Trump's presidency is a large topic that has been covered extensively. Removing even half of the article's contents and relying upon article topics for the subject has consequences towards coverage of the topic. It's for this reason that the removal of 400,000 KiB from the Firefox version history is reckless, disruptive, and misses the point of the policy.

The point of WP:NOTCHANGELOG is to establish an encyclopedic tone, as are the rest of the encyclopedic content related "nots". The issue with applying even the most apt policy here—WP:NOTEVERYTHING—to this article, is that this type of article demands full coverage. It would be illogical for an article about the version history of Firefox to not have complete coverage of the topic at hand. Mozilla's articles are licensed under Creative Commons, so a user cannot even claim that this is a copyright violation.

Having assessed the whole situation, I do not believe nominating this article for deletion is a compromise. There appear to be some anomalies, as Nosferattus pointed out, in how this nomination is being conducted. Perhaps this article could also do with a rework; rather than covering just the version history of Firefox, the history of Firefox as a whole could be covered, with a split obviously necessary.

Someone who edits Wikipedia typed this and it looks as boring and lacking of life as most wikipedia articles. I may read it before bed if I am having insomnia tonight.

tldr: some nerd upset other nerds because of technically details that people who frick will be baffled at

That being said I have managed to fit a full size hard drive, PSU, GPU and bluray drive into a small form factor case by attcking it with a hacksaw and file and building a wooden shelf that expands

#frugal

boot campers are not engineers [-2]

Eh, as long as you have a BS in it you're a Computer Scientist imo. Understanding everything from circuits, hardware, Networking and the electrical properties involved in computing is very technical stuff which gets taught to you. Then you add programming, languages, OSses and there is a ton of knowledge specific to the field that separates you from the layman or even casual learner.

Then you get into Data structures, algorithms, calculus, discrete etc. Some specialties go a bit further into other disciplines like physics and various other classical sciences

Ah yes, the barrier to being a scientist is knowing first year calculus and what a hashmap is

"Software Engineer" is a very common title. I would not call myself just 'engineer' without the 'software' prefix because 'engineer' by itself is just pretty meaningless.

“engineer” by itself means Mechanical/Chemical/Civil/etc in my opinion. Calling yourself an engineer as a software person is a bit much. [-80]

Thank you! Some devs are acting like their code review is the same as the process and responsability that in building a bridge. [-1]

Software engineer is a valid title and if you‘re working in a company where the only type of engineer that exists is a software engineer, then it makes sense to leave out the “software”. [... the entire post was too long ]

heckin' valid title

and there's way more threads of arguing if they aren't engineers then why are their titles at work software engineer

I think this is from the video where someone created Flappy Bird using ChatGPT. There are a few videos that keep getting posted as the defacto proof that gamedevs are getting replaced.

The absolute state of vir/g/ins lmao

desuarchive

The pace of development surrounding Baby AGI and AutoGPT is mind blowing. Seems like a new *groundbreaking* update comes out every hour

Here are a few examples just from the past 24 hours pic.twitter.com/0045XL2DrH

— Jay Scambler (@JayScambler) April 11, 2023

I'm really excited to see what is going to come from all of this in a year.

I hecking love Openai.

I don't expect you to read it just see how fricking long the redditor had to argue to get a single yo mama joke

Note that this is gpt4. Yo mama jokes still work on normal chatgpt (3.5)

Fellow tech bros, why?

Another one bites the dust

Parler's homepage rn (archive)

It's a free-speech website on which you can post articles, videos, live streams, and all that stuff. It's, obviously, mostly used by rightoids.

Pretty shitty off wine but i was thinking like gold is a hedge against there being no more gold right? And buying BTC is a hedge against SHA256 being broken.

Seems to me we have too many Neurodivergents that will work to break SHA256 or develop rocket ships to find gold

Just a thought.

Most of them were cool projects like Nuxt, dioxus, and mockoon. But one project stood out:

JessicaTegner/pypandoc Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter.

To be frank, that doesn’t seem like a project worthy of $20k to me. Not very many commits recently [0], it has 918 source lines of code in the main package, and 547 lines of test code — it even describes itself as a “thin” wrapper, and the only thing it does is converting some arguments to Pandoc flags and calling the Pandoc executable. How many more features could be added to this project? What is it missing now?

[0] https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commits/master

Why would this thin wrapper of another popular OSS project be selected when all the other projects are serious OSS projects with giant repos and thousands of stars?

Then someone noticed a commit:

Jessica's Github profile:

Various chuddery

Edit: forgive the repost, forgot to post it to /h/slackernews

The even more frugal guy reading this and using a $100 phone is wondering why OP is splurging on a $200 phone.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg33vvj/

I keep my phones for a long time too.

But once it stops getting security updates, I get a new one. You would be more at risk from security exploits if you're not getting patches anymore. The savings from not buying a new phone is not worth the risk.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg306au/

Not everyone sees the world the way you do.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg2rgh6/

Because some people like them the same way you like your phone. It’s okay for people to like different things and have different priorities

Nah if somebody buys the new iphone every year thats a massive redflag that theyre dumb [-72]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg2u6du/

I don't understand it either. I used to buy iphones around iphone 2-5 but each one completely died after a year. I got so sick of it so I switched to Samsung. I'm on my second Samsung in like 10 years. I later found out that Apple was updating their phone to kill battery life after the phone was about a year old. I will never ever buy an Apple product again.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg2s8or/

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Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, following an operation undertaken outside the city’s borders. The alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew.

We are told that police today were dispatched to Emeryville with a warrant to arrest a man named Nima Momeni. The name and Emeryville address SFPD officers traveled to correspond with this man, the owner of a company called Expand IT.

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525

if so then i learned something valuable today that will no doubt affect your participation in every venue i participate in. congrats to us both

— Jordan Harband (@ljharb) April 12, 2023