Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful.

Just because it’s where all the users already are. You couldn’t start Reddit today, it’d immediately get spammed by AI bots and no one would stick around.

Hell, Reddit’s API changes had a noticeable impact on most text-only subreddits I was a part of, and then the AI content just made a lot of the remaining ones die off. No one’s rushing to Lemmy to fill those niches. They’re just not participating in them online, instead.

Some things are preventative. There’s plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.

I think it’s fair to call out reviews that say:

“This works out of the box, and requires no tinkering at all. Anyways, here’s what you’ll need to do to get it to work.”

Having to tinker with settings and commands is literally not what “requires no tinkering” means.

The real problem with these videos is that Linus decides to try and emulate the average user, but then refuses to do even the smallest amount of troubleshooting “because the average user wouldn’t do it”. So it leads to a lot of moments where something doesn’t work out of the box, there’s a trivially simple solution that comes up as the first Google search result (if you ignore Gemini’s output), but he doesn’t bother and just throws his hands up (like the average user would, I guess).

It just gets frustrating, because their Linux videos end up being entertainment first, and educational… fifth, maybe?

Yeah. There’s been reports of silicon wafers being hoarded too…

According to a Stack Overflow survey from 2025, 84 percent of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, up from 76 percent a year earlier. This rapid adoption partly explains the decline in forum activity.

As someone who participated in the survey, I’d recommend everyone take anything regarding SO’s recent surveys with a truckfull of salt. The recent surveys have been unbelievably biased with tons of leading questions that force you to answer in specific ways. They’re basically completely worthless in terms of statistics.

Maybe I’m just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab’s features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It’s why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.

Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:

• Bot spam
• Dead

Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn’t cared about people’s privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.

“Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!” is about as big a deal, honestly.

the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology and artificial intelligence products

Genuine question, but doesn’t this just mean that Israel paid for a Microsoft Azure subscription and used it to host web services? Like, anyone can do that. What am I missing here, exactly?

They say Microsoft have “deepened” their relationship, but how did they do that, exactly?

Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: “The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome.”

What makes this doubly stupid is that I’m a web developer. I literally can’t test my stuff on another browser…

No one outside of China has their data stored there, though. Every tech company that complies with China hosts the data in China and usually makes the Chinese version of their software work differently as a result. The Chinese government isn’t able to just see everyone else’s data.

Someone else in this thread mentioned that going to about:config and typing telemetry will apparently show that some things are still set to true despite unchecking the settings in the Privacy section.

Note: I’m not the guy you originally replied to, and I haven’t personally tested this. Just pointing out where you can allegedly find those settings if you’re interested. (I personally don’t care and think this whole thing is overblown by the community, for what it’s worth)

The UK government’s obsession with being a Big Brother is so damn frustrating. A preview of what other governments will try and become in the near future, unfortunately.

Not daily, but their canvas feature has a feature that lets you embed previews of your files into the flow charts you make. It’s pretty nice, since you can have shorter files entirely visible with everything else. Makes it pretty good for software development and project management, in my experience.

Careful not to go overboard with it, though. I feel like a lot of people fall down the “productivity pipeline” when using it, where they end up procrastinating by trying to optimize every little thing and end up doing nothing at all.

Any good web crawler has limits.

Yeah. Like, literally just:

• Keep track of which URLs you’ve been to
• Avoid going back to the same URL
• Set a soft limit, once you’ve hit it, start comparing the contents of the page with the previous one (to avoid things like dynamic URLs taking you to the same content)
• Set a hard limit, once you hit it, leave the domain altogether

What kind of lazy-ass crawler doesn’t even do that?

Honestly, it’s just because most native UI libraries suck to use compared to HTML/CSS/JS. For all the hate modern web stacks get, it’s brain-dead simple to get something good-looking in it.

Then there’s the business aspect of “Well, if the people who make our web UI can also make our app UI, why not?”

Honestly, I don’t even believe it’s inefficient. There’s plenty of documented/recorded evidence of child labor around the world. Sometimes, all you really need is a pair of hands, and kids are physically capable of doing it. Countries with shitty labor laws are ripe with child labor abuse.

That’s not what his video showed though. They don’t change the URL, they open another tab, which then overrides the cookie/session variable that is used to determine who the referrer is. It’s still scummy, but it doesn’t seem to be swapping links outright.