Well that’s truly fucking terrifying

I like this, but let me frog them first

I think Perl is closer to Esperanto - the vast majority of people will never want to learn it and the people that know it won’t stfu about how everyone should use it! And they could all use a shower!

(I kid… Mostly)

I really don’t understand why PolyMC forked… Multi MC still has several third party mod packs available

Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns

If it isn’t it damn well should be

Shh, don’t scare them off!

Obsidian is just sooooo good. I hate that you (technically 😉) have to pay for multi device sync, but the UI and UX are excellent, especially if you’re already proficient in markdown

Haven’t tried logseq before, so I can’t compare

As a former mod, in my experience it was more having a place to engage a community, and helping that community grow and improve. Reddit being a million dollar company when I started and a billion dollar company when I left didn’t really factor in. If you have a site split up into a million little communities, you need moderators that can have intimate knowledge of each community they oversee, and that’s unreasonable for a company of any size to do in house. Otherwise you have Facebook style moderation where it’s just plain dreadful no matter where you are.

Additionally, it really matters what sized sub you modded.

I modded mostly smaller subs, one big one for a while, and a default for 2 weeks. I put a lot of effort into the smaller subs, especially when it was just a few people whose usernames I recognized posting. I had little jokes hidden around, some cool CSS stuff, and some automated tasks. It was an enjoyable way to spend a couple hours a week. I didn’t mind it.

The big sub I was on mostly through mutuals. I was known to be pretty decent with automod scripting, so I got brought in to deal with never ending spam. I would update the automod and check queue every couple days, no biggie. Then the rest of the mods all drifted offline, leaving me alone to either let the sun die or to try and maintain the damned thing.

I maintained it near single handedly for like 2 years. It was mostly adding more and more to automod, but a lot was manual approvals and deletions. It sucked and sapped all the fun out of an activity I used to enjoy. Wasn’t the worst, but I wouldn’t have joined in the first place had I known why would happen.

Default subs are a different beast entirely. They don’t even use automod half the time. All of them have custom bots that link either a slack or discord, and everything is run externally through there. I decided to dip when I asked how tf all their tools worked and got refered to almost a damn knowledge base. That truly seemed awful and like it needed to be done by dedicated and paid employees.

Anyways, this comment spiraled, so sorry about that.

Oh man, I used to see you around constantly. I believe you posted about your methods at one point and I started following them. Hunted down quite a few bots as well!

For the subs I modded, my main strategy was to just ban any NameName or NameName## accounts that could post, and remove any comments from them that were super short or contained a link. That cut down on a ton of those assholes.

I actually got to talk in person with one of the admins at Reddit in charge of spam prevention. I basically gave the bastard a lecture in all the ways the spammers were spamming and scamming. Got told they’d follow up with me soon for more. Never got that follow up and I gave up caring once the API changes went through. I actually deleted all my anti bot code from the subs, but they’re still all private anyways

Neat! I’ll add it to my long list of things ADHD will never let me finish!

True, true. I have a vague idea how embedded systems work. I have no idea how you even get started with driver development.

OS development isn’t terrible though. There are numerous books to help you make your own kernel and OS

And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it’s embedded systems programming

I have never felt dumber than while reading that article and condensed matter physics, whatever tf that is

They actually retired last year

I found a 10 pack of 10mm once. Bought it immediately thinking I’d never need another 10.

That was 5 years ago. I have 2 left…

Once you’re at this level, you’re looking to get improvements of a fraction of a percentage. I don’t know the specifics cause I’m not a pro shooter despite being American, but from other high level skill people I know, you hit a point where improvements basically plateau and you have to resort to increasingly niche products to obtain non skill improvements. If you want proof of that, check out calligraphy and fountain pen communities. The amount of money some people spend on things I didn’t know existed is wild.

(No bad judgement to those folks, I’ve gotten hard into map making and 3d printing lately, so I’m right behind you)

The GOTY edition is $16 bucks on GOG right now (at least in America). If you do that, you can just install the mod and launch without down patching.

If it’s anything like magic the gathering, whales and third party sellers are to blame

Wait, wtf does that song actually say? I thought it was Starbucks Lovers