tl;dr: screw reddit. Good bye forever (again).

I had to go back to reddit about a year ago to promote local mutual aid organizations and protest groups. I had turned my “since 2008” account into nothing but over the top abuse aimed at u/spez and vulture capitalism during the RiF debacle. I made a new account and engaged a little bit. I commented now and then, because you have to have minimal amounts of activity to post on some of the local subreddits.

Two days ago, I got flagged by automoderator for mocking a conservative on r/politics. I apparently had like 8 hours to tell the mods I was sorry, but I had no idea I’d been flagged, because I hardly go on reddit so I didn’t know. They gave me a three month ban and when I messaged them to be like “why was I banned?” because it didn’t make sense to me… I hadn’t done anything that objectionable, a mod very condescendingly told me “You had 8 hours to respond to the complaint, but didn’t avail yourself of the opportunity. You may protest the ban in 3 months.” I seriously messaged them back with “enjoy your enshittification train to corporate town.”

I hope I never see a snap again. Maybe they are better now than last time I have to deal with one, but why when we have flatpaks and appimages? Why do they suck so much?

If you know rich people, this is par for the course. I’ve been hearing them say this kind of thing for years. And they 100% believe it’s true.

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. It’s really true. Throughout all history, every time the rich are asked to give up a meaningful percentage of their wealth to create more equality they feel oppressed and get angry. It’s just a human thing. We have to build systems that don’t care if the rich whine and are “rich, dumb idiot proof” or the cycle will just continue.

Just have AI scrape Twitter for people complaining about applications they wish existed, and have the AI make them.

I mean… in 2026, this is probably a viable business strategy tbh.

The tri-stat system was as elegant as it was exploitable. It was so easy to blow up planets by taking entirely too many minor defects.

So… it’s genre accurate is what you’re saying.

Yeah, I missed this one too.

Don’t talk about your mental health with an AI seems like pretty basic common sense to me, as someone who interacts with them constantly.

This article seems like it was written by a PR firm for big AI.

2014 called. It wants its controversy back.

Well… When I first quit, I stopped getting invited to stuff / knowing what events my social circle was organizing and that was frustrating and I was loosing something valuable.

But since I was an early quitter, things have gotten much better as over the last few years most of the rest of my social circle has followed me off.

Who are the morally bankrupt execs who wrote this? I want names.

You’re actually 100% right, I despise coffee.

Honey, the proprietary operating systems are quarreling again!

*sips coffee in exclusive Linux user land.

Oh, Android does this to me too. It constantly suggests I want to call my old boss from 13 years ago who I honestly hope I never see again.

I was seeing a whole bunch of Oracle people I know suddenly “open to work” on LinkedIn, posting about how they were all “ready for my next opportunity” or “excited to discover my next project” and immediately correctly guessed what had happened.

This is the way.

or do they often fail and vanish?

No. Niche, hipster, “latest hotness” distros sometimes vanish. Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Kali, Qubes, Mint are all examples of community maintained distros that have been around for a long time.

Since you’re looking for “stability” highly recommend Mint.

No.

Very rarely, but probably only in situations where you would too. No, usually I put my HTML in HTML files. They’re usually building blocks… page components, not a full page. I regulate the page flow in PHP, and I don’t like it cluttered up with tons of HTML, inside or outside of echos. I have been known to do stuff like this though:

echo “<div class=‘whatever-container’>”.$Page->pagecomponents[‘contents_of_some_html_file’].“</div>”;

If I go and look at $Page, it will show that $this->pagecomponents is set by reading my template files in so I can grab HTML structures dynamically. If the contents of pagecomponents[‘component’] are set dynamically (they usually are), there won’t be some ugly <php ?> tag in the HTML file, but my $Page class will handle populating it somehow. The architecture I usually use is $Validator is instantiated for a page load, then $Data, so whatever user activity $Validator has detected and cleaned up tells $Data what to do with the data backend (which is usually a combination of Maria and Redis) then $Data gets fed into $Page which figures out what page to build, looks at all my HTML building blocks and figures out how to put them together and populate whatever it needs to. So it will usually be something like (very simplistically)

$Validator = new Validator($_GET, $_POST);

$Data = new Data($Validator);

$Page = new Page($Data);

renderPage($Page->Page);

I don’t like reading it captain pedantic. Deal with it. :)