[-] IggyTheSmidge 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can still do this in Waterfox, FYI.

I've not used Firefox in years (just various forks), specifically because of Mozilla's insistence on changing the UI and not allowing you to change it back.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 1 month ago

I'm just picturing one of those episodes of M*A*S*H where they leave Frank Burns in charge.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 39 points 1 month ago

I remember reading an article in the early 90s where they opined that 'the thing that would really date TNG was the presence of a therapist on the ship'.

Mental health - a total 80s fad, right?

[-] IggyTheSmidge 5 points 2 months ago

Toads are actually a subspecies of frog, so they're technically correct - even if by accident.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 16 points 2 months ago

England - never been a line. The only thing I've ever had to wait for is for the bod manning the polling station to find my name on the list and hand me a voting slip. In and out in a couple of minutes.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 6 points 2 months ago

It comes from bonehead, iirc - a boneheaded mistake.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 11 points 2 months ago

I had a hunch that the original image would be Nyarlathotep related, aaaand:

I think someone's been feeding them Call of Cthulhu game module plots. I hope they do Beyond The Mountains of Madness next.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 54 points 2 months ago

The problem with knowing any amount of history is that any time anything happens you're just like:

'Oh. This again'.

It's somehow both tedious and horrifying.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 4 months ago

I saw an early screening of that episode at a post-con event at a Star Trek pub in London.

When that scene came on a ripple of 'FFS - really‽' laughter went round the room, just because of how blatant it was.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 14 points 4 months ago

Clearly they used methane.

Crowds of farm labourers during flood season, all lined up just waiting for their turn to fart into the balloon.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 10 points 6 months ago

That's Fergus Wilson - frankly, I'd prefer the leech.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 2 years ago

I think that was definitely the impetus - I first read about the changes in this article back in April: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/18/reddit_charging_ai_api/

The closing statement is interesting:

The spokesperson we talked to also wanted to make clear the Data API was still freely accessible for appropriate use cases through the Reddit developer platform; hopefully app developers and other small-scale operators won't have any surprises ahead this summer.

I suspect they ran the numbers and started seeing dollar signs - they don't care about the third-party apps (which don't make them any money directly), they're just trying to cash in on Microsoft etc.

I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to end up back-pedalling, but it will be too little, too late.

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