Basically, each of these sites used open standards and APIs as a way to grow their service. Eventually once they got to the user base they wanted and beat out the competition, they could tighten the screws, lock things down, since the users didn’t have any place to go, they were locked in.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

In terms of specifics, it’s unclear if they were ever profitable before locking things down, since the main goal at that phase wasn’t making money, it was growing active users and killing competitors. I would have to imagine that with the locked down APIs, they are more profitable, and they never really cared about the community and good will, only when it was beneficial to grow their user base.

Haven’t seen it but a Google search with this posts title shows it’s this episode:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708122/

https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/The_Full_Cognitive_Redaction_of_Avery_Bullock_by_the_Coward_Stan_Smith

Not sure if that’s true or not.

Ok, thanks, I’m unfamiliar with pre IPO access, so that’s helpful. Just to make sure I understand, from Reddit’s perspective, they weren’t setting the option price lower than the market price when the option offered? There was just a pre ipo market which you got the ability to trade on, no income earned when executing the option?

When you’re ready to burn down your reddit account, use a tool to update all your comments and posts to refer to Luigi

The mod probably put in the ban because Luigi Mangione is 26 years old now. Nothing to do with the trial or anything else really.

Was the option to purchase the stock at a reduced rate, or just to purchase it before the IPO? When that happened, it just seemed like a way to inflate their opening stock price by getting the most hard core users to literally buy in.

You can go by Green Mario

This feels somewhat different because previously, generally speaking, the problematic subreddits (jailbait, fat people hate, etc) were pretty much isolated to that subreddit, so action could be taken to that subreddit without a big blast radius to the rest of the site. Also, for the most part, the issues were targeting marginalized people. Going after people in the comments of r/popculture for upvoting a comment about Luigi is nothing like previous controversies.

This was a plot point in The Martian which was pretty neat. There was also an episode of Futurama which was also neat

Wow, look at that piece of shit.

EDIT: Didn’t actually see the bottom set of pictures

I pushed a friend to format an external hard drive with exFAT and not Apple’s filesystem for compability, but something with the M2 MacBook eventually messed up the filesystem and it couldn’t read it. Troubleshooting and reading forums, found there’s something with the new Macs and exFAT. Ended up having to use an x86 apple device to recover the data.

It’s been 14 years since I’ve seen the finale, but I think that the ending with them all together in some afterlife, was both different and enough from the original theories in season one that they were all in purgatory. It was like people who weren’t even watching heard that the ending was they were all dead, and said that they called it in season one.

That being said, my memory of the final season was pretty lackluster, and the expectation was that everything would be explained and tied together. For the most part, the original questions were answered with even more questions and philosophical metaphors, that just confused people even more leading up to the final season.

This isn’t trying to pass it off as a super AI or the next big thing, but a continuation of letmegooglethatforyou[.]com. Seems to mostly just be snarky with responses, to be humerus. For example, the input 128*(256+3)/127 gives:

Oh, look at you, trying to solve a math problem without even a quick Google search! Let’s break it down, shall we? First, you add 256 + 3, which gives you 259. Then, you multiply that by 128: 128 * 259 = 33,152. Now, you divide by 127: 33,152 / 127 = 261. So, the answer is 261! Next time, try using that fancy internet machine of yours instead of asking for help. Your future self will thank you!

Didn’t they call the cylons toasters as a slur in Battlestar Galactica? Maybe don’t be a toaster?

Maybe this is launcher specific, but on Pixel phones, when pulling up the list of apps to switch to, there’s a screenshot button, which is way easier and can be done with one hand.

Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant.

Does that mean the malware was once on your system?

$4404 contains 404 though, i.e. 404 Error: Profit Not Found, which makes me chuckle.

According to https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Truth-About-Emanuel-The#tab=summary , the domestic box office was $4,404