Hacker News: Nas808

New comment by Nas808 in "Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods"

Nas808 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:35:28 +0000

A lot of mods had that opinion when the API changes were first announced. But those protests quickly crumbled when Reddit started threatening to remove mods of subs participating in the blackout. It seems like a lot cared more about keeping their mod wrench than anything to do with the user experience.

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO

Nas808 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-16/reddit-is-said-to-sign-ai-content-licensing-deal-ahead-of-ipo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404051

Points: 35

# Comments: 11

New comment by Nas808 in "X Bans and Then Unbans Journalists and Podcasters in Latest Free Speech Massacre"

Nas808 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:28:43 +0000

He seems to spout a lot of things about free speech, and about how Twitter is the only place to get your voice heard without censorship, etc. But if a journalist crosses him or pens an article that paints one of his companies in a negative light... they're gone.

New comment by Nas808 in "Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message"

Nas808 — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 23:01:59 +0000

Pi-Hole (or any other DNS filters) don't block this one.

New comment by Nas808 in "Our fight is far from over"

Nas808 — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 02:03:41 +0000

This is about the "National Emergency Library" they launched during the peak of the COVID pandemic? I think they had good intentions, but the legality around it was definitely questionable from the start.

New comment by Nas808 in "Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours"

Nas808 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 01:45:29 +0000

It won't load for me in Firefox either, even with all extensions disabled.

New comment by Nas808 in "Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo"

Nas808 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:05:39 +0000

That was a nice feature, but there are other apps that do this without consent and I don't like it. For example, if you have the NY Times app installed and tap on a link in Safari that leads to a NY Times article, it automatically opens it in the NY Times app. iOS has no user controls for this behavior. The only way around it is to long-press on the link and pick "open in new tab", or uninstall the app.

New comment by Nas808 in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

Nas808 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:38:59 +0000

I find Twitter really annoying to use now, since they made it so all of the replies from blue checkmark accounts get boosted to the top of the feed. I have to scroll past all of them just to find "normal" comments. The BlueBlocker browser extension is helping, but it can only block 1 account approximately every 15 seconds, or it triggers a rate limit and I have to sign-in to Twitter again.

New comment by Nas808 in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

Nas808 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 01:30:56 +0000

Many of the old default subs like News, Politics, etc are ran by the same group of moderators, and they will heavily censor things they don't like. But it's the same thing on the other side of the spectrum, a lot of the conservative subs aren't tolerant to whatever they think is "woke".

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills- Platformer

Nas808 — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-is-refusing-pay-its-google-cloud-bills-platformer-2023-06-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36276804

Points: 21

# Comments: 0

New comment by Nas808 in "YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube"

Nas808 — Sun, 28 May 2023 21:38:22 +0000

I completely agree with that, in the past if I saw a DIY video with a 50% upvote rate, I'd know that it should probably be ignored and to look for a better source. Now, I'm not sure. I have to comb through the comments to find out if that particular uploader missed something, left a bolt loose that should be tightened, etc.

New comment by Nas808 in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

Nas808 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:43:25 +0000

The FAA has a program called LADD (Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed) and high-profile individuals, etc can sign up to it. The major players in the flight tracking business like FlightRadar24 or FlightAware follow that. But sites like ADS-B Exchange do not adhere to that, so you can see a lot more flights that are blocked on the others. Also anyone with a Raspberry Pi and a cheap antenna can build their own ADS-B receiver and get that unfiltered data.

New comment by Nas808 in "A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)"

Nas808 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:51:55 +0000

I really miss that site, I remember you could place a "bounty" for some rare/obscure song or remix and there was always someone out there who had a copy of it who was willing to share it to get their ratio up.

New comment by Nas808 in "YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads"

Nas808 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:33:40 +0000

The YouTube ads defeat DNS sinkholes because the ads are served from the same domain(s) as the content.

New comment by Nas808 in "YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads"

Nas808 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:06:25 +0000

That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.

New comment by Nas808 in "Reddit CEO: Platform doesn't plan to ban pornography"

Nas808 — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 04:49:49 +0000

They never even admitted that bots were present in WSB despite the evidence. This whole Gamestop saga just gave them a lot of publicity and a lot of traffic from people who never would have visited Reddit before.

New comment by Nas808 in "Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test"

Nas808 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:10:50 +0000

The test flight of Falcon Heavy (when they sent the Tesla Roadster to space) is still the most memorable launch for me. Watching those 2 boosters land side-by-side simultaneously looked like magic.

New comment by Nas808 in "Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays"

Nas808 — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 02:17:00 +0000

Even on their own hardware (Surface Pro) I've ran into really annoying issues with DPI scaling, especially when docking/undocking from a secondary monitor.

New comment by Nas808 in "An update to storage policies across your Google Account"

Nas808 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:43:37 +0000

I still have an old @msn.com email address, I remember at the time you could choose from @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @passport.com. Haven't used it for email for at least a decade, but I do use it for OneDrive so my account stays "active".

New comment by Nas808 in "How to Think for Yourself"

Nas808 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:05:17 +0000

Why doesn't this site use HTTPS?