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I have YouTube Premium and on my phone I sometimes get a "Jump ahead" button that pops up on the bottom right corner when the video is in fullscreen. It doesn't just appear during sponsored segments but also during "less exciting" moments of a video like the introduction.

I think the worst one was NBA 2K20 which had a literal slot machine in the game:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=46MQ1ZMZ-l4 (0m 55s)

I don't know about karma or gold, but I earned a few death threats as a subreddit moderator. Now that was truly rewarding.

>and selig admitted as such

Proof of that happening?

In response to Reddit management's actions, the Minecraft developers will no longer be endorsing r/minecraft.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/14kj3z7/so_long_...

Is that true? I don't know about the other services, but YouTube has this to say in their terms of service:

> You retain ownership rights in your Content.

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

Reddit is not allowing r/finland to poll their users about whether they should shut down: https://old.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/14f0rgs/discussion...

Didn't Steve Huffman suggest fairly recently that he was in favor of more democracy, including allowing users to vote their moderators out? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blacko...

So some kinds of user votes are acceptable but others are not?

The developer of Apollo explains it in detail here:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-p...

I'm not an accounting professional, but the official Starbucks report says that for fiscal year 2022, their "GAAP Operating Margin" was 14.3%. That seems to contradict the macrotrends.net website, no?

> And if you do, feel free to screenshot me your homepage and tell me it looks normal.

I have two main reddit accounts, one subscribed to "serious" discussion-focused subreddits, and another to all the meme picture-heavy subreddits. The latter's frontpage is mostly OK but the former's is completely desolate.

> There's a silent majority - "lurkers" - that the mods have completely ignored

What is there for the mods to ignore, when the lurkers are - as you said - silent?

Paying a monthly subscription to only have access to half of Reddit (NSFW will not be available through third-party apps) sounds like a bad deal to me.

> force communities back open

Force communities back open, how? I've read countless comments over the past few days about how Reddit can just reopen all the privated subreddits with new moderators, without explaining where those new moderators were going to come from.

Curating and maintaining a community takes a LOT of effort, and I'm not convinced it's that easy to find people willing to do it for free. Just think about open source projects and how many have died when the sole maintainer called it quits.

This seems to be what I've observed as well.

Across many subreddits, the announcements to participate in the blackout were highly upvoted (>90%), while announcements against participation were heavily downvoted.

Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/146xzgk/meta...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/145s613/rgames_and_t...

I moderated a subreddit once. It sucked all the joy out of Reddit for me. Every time I visited the site, I got stressed as to what new nonsense happened.

Fun stuff I had to deal with include: The admin's "Anti-Evil Operations" frequently deleting user comments with no explanation. A persistent pedophile who just wouldn't go away. Getting guilt tripped by a severely mentally ill guy whenever we had to ban him (and his many alts) for breaking the rules. Doxx. Gore. Brigading. White supremacists. Racists with their "racial crime statistics". An impossible to moderate Reddit Chat (there were no chat moderation logs at all). And much more.

I completely checked out of moderation when I remembered that I wasn't getting paid to deal with any of the above. And since then, I've had much more appreciation for all the moderators who were willing to put in time and effort into maintaining a community for free.

It's not like Activision / Blizzard really cared about Linux gaming anyways.

I'm on 97.0b2 (developer edition), same issue.

Isn't updating the vaccine on a yearly basis something that's already being done for the flu vaccines?

> because flu viruses are constantly changing, the composition of flu vaccines is reviewed annually, and vaccines are updated to protect against the viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming flu season.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm

> I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client.

Wait a second. Did they? My Dropbox client is currently working on my Arch system.

I've experienced this but with Google Maps.

A highly rated pizza chain in my city (4.8 stars out of 6000+ reviews) is giving out free desserts if you rate them 5 stars. I've called them out on it years ago, but it seems that they are still doing it today: https://goo.gl/maps/1L8zdhWgwDK8b8Cy6.

> January 2020

May I know what the significance of January 2020 is? Isn't that before Australia closed their borders?

I believe the poster you were replying to was talking about JS's new `BigInt` type.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I live in Malaysia. Electricity is not very cheap once you go above 300 kWh. The current tiers (at least on my most recent monthly bill) are as follows:

- RM 0.218 (USD 0.052) per kWh for the first 200kWh

- RM 0.334 (USD 0.079) per kWh for the next 100kWh

- RM 0.516 (USD 0.120) per kWh for the 300kWh after

Those prices are before the 1.6% tax by the government. And furthermore, any usage above 600kWh is taxed an additional 6% by the energy company.

I've bought a few Pearson ebooks from InformIT (all the books were programming related), and they all come in PDF format with watermarks.

Honestly, I'm happy as long as publishing companies don't force me to use their crappy proprietary ebook readers.

> A 4K video, if I estimate it at 56 GB per hour, need roughly 16MBps.

But 16MBps is 128mbps.

Recently I asked my non tech savvy mom if she wanted to join YouTube Premium with me under a family plan so that she doesn't have to see ads on her YouTube any more.

Her response was "No thank you. I like the ads. Sometimes I see things I like".

Now that you mention it, I do remember being given free extensions to the WhatsApp service. But at some point I recall the extension had run out and I had to pay for it.