froztbyte

I'm not sure I understand your comment, mind elaborating on the details?

it’s the holidays, it’s okay: you don’t have to go near the c++ right now

I haven't really got enough information about that side of it, the details I have to go on are mostly about things particularly around the values CCC has tried to hold/build (and even there I am absolutely not intimately familiar, for reasons of distance and exposure and such)

yep, have made the same critique. the way people "overcommit" on this is a fascinating interplay of sunk cost fallacy combined with some other shit

why they even are there

(from observation over some years) congress orga more than occasionally fucks up on paradox of tolerance by letting shit like this through

it's been a thing I've noticed and have wanted to actually discuss with some folks, but never really gotten to yet on account of life stuff

there were also the much, much less grey-area instances a couple of years back where they were far too open to a number of abusers (this was around the time the appelbaum shit hit wide daylight), so there is a possibility that the issue runs deeper (in a structural sense, at best; personal sense, at worst) too but I possess insufficient information to know one way or the other what exactly may constitute the problem here

full service plagiarism! bet you we'll see whiteglove variant of it next

idle datapoint: the first “not a sketchy domain clearly trying to circumvent” site I’ve seen in quite a while that has an ad immediately visible despite my regular blocker config

revenue must be sparse!

(it takes specific pointed work to circumvent, so someone had to have reason to do it)

I was trying to remember at which point I unfollowed him, and I think it was exactly this nonsense

I'm guessing it's some kind of generic/wide property filter. it was a weird enough thing that I honestly did not think of it until I was literally poking at something else entirely then went "huh, hold on"

not helped by how fucking feedback-obtuse mobile devices have been made to be in their default state :||||

I'll contact the developer to see if they can maybe finetune it for lemmy instance frontends, since it's definitely a bit overt

tangentially: I've been getting reminded of a bunch of services existing, by way of pointless "your year in review" bullshit

fuck spotify for starting that misfeature, and fuck everyone else for falling over themselves to get On Trend

let me spell it out for you: don't be such an ass.

a swing with a double miss