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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I think it went like this:

    • Linux is highly customizable
    • customizing or “ricing” your Linux machine became a hobby
    • weebs got into the hobby, infesting the space with anime waifus and other degenerate cartoons
    • some time during the weeb infestation, thigh high socks became a recurring theme
    • gay/trans programmers sarcastically posted themselves in thigh high socks
    • gay/trans programmers who didn’t get the sarcasm unironically adopted thigh high socks
    • Rust was invented

    So you see, it’s just another example of the kind of tragedies that can befall society when sarcasm isn’t clearly labeled on the internet.




  • Yeah personally I much prefer Freetube’s UI over Grayjay (on desktop at least). For example, the subscription feed has an annoyingly huge list of subscribed channels that takes up like 25% of the screen real-estate, and you can’t hide it. It’s also pointless because there’s another list of your subscriptions on the left side of the screen. It also can’t be launched automatically when opening a YT link with the LibRedirect firefox extension, whereas Freetube can.

    But besides design issues like that, Grayjay is much more reliable than Freetube when it comes to bypassing Youtube’s bot protections.









  • This is one of those radical ideas that people are terrified of, because it would kill the business models of a lot of massive corporations. It’s easy to spin that as the death of the game industry, rather than what it is: the death of a business practice.

    Like the laws against underage smoking probably wiped out billions in shareholder value, but that was objectively a good thing. Banning (or heavily regulating) in-game purchases would also be a good thing, no matter how much it affects existing players. If it leads to the death of name brands like EA, Ubisoft, etc. then who cares? The market will readjust and new players who were able to adapt to the changed environment will take their place.