Hacker News: OnlyLys

New comment by OnlyLys in "SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube"

OnlyLys — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:28:31 +0000

I have YouTube Premium and on my phone I sometimes get a "Jump ahead" button that pops up on the bottom right corner when the video is in fullscreen. It doesn't just appear during sponsored segments but also during "less exciting" moments of a video like the introduction.

New comment by OnlyLys in "‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders"

OnlyLys — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 03:39:20 +0000

I think the worst one was NBA 2K20 which had a literal slot machine in the game:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=46MQ1ZMZ-l4 (0m 55s)

New comment by OnlyLys in "/u/spez is right about feudalism and that's why Reddit is doomed"

OnlyLys — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 14:18:44 +0000

I don't know about karma or gold, but I earned a few death threats as a subreddit moderator. Now that was truly rewarding.

The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so

OnlyLys — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:11:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781306/reddit-moderators-iama-celebrity-ama

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36557487

Points: 56

# Comments: 23

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

OnlyLys — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 05:18:30 +0000

>and selig admitted as such

Proof of that happening?

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private"

OnlyLys — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 03:57:20 +0000

In response to Reddit management's actions, the Minecraft developers will no longer be endorsing r/minecraft.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/14kj3z7/so_long_...

New comment by OnlyLys in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

OnlyLys — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:53:13 +0000

Is that true? I don't know about the other services, but YouTube has this to say in their terms of service:

> You retain ownership rights in your Content.

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest"

OnlyLys — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 06:05:36 +0000

Reddit is not allowing r/finland to poll their users about whether they should shut down: https://old.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/14f0rgs/discussion...

Didn't Steve Huffman suggest fairly recently that he was in favor of more democracy, including allowing users to vote their moderators out? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blacko...

So some kinds of user votes are acceptable but others are not?

New comment by OnlyLys in "Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated"

OnlyLys — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:44:15 +0000

The developer of Apollo explains it in detail here:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-p...

New comment by OnlyLys in "A barista fought to unionize her Starbucks. Now she’s out of a job"

OnlyLys — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 02:09:42 +0000

I'm not an accounting professional, but the official Starbucks report says that for fiscal year 2022, their "GAAP Operating Margin" was 14.3%. That seems to contradict the macrotrends.net website, no?

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit Admins are forcing protesting subreddits to open to the public again"

OnlyLys — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:11:47 +0000

> And if you do, feel free to screenshot me your homepage and tell me it looks normal.

I have two main reddit accounts, one subscribed to "serious" discussion-focused subreddits, and another to all the meme picture-heavy subreddits. The latter's frontpage is mostly OK but the former's is completely desolate.

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout"

OnlyLys — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:17:19 +0000

> There's a silent majority - "lurkers" - that the mods have completely ignored

What is there for the mods to ignore, when the lurkers are - as you said - silent?

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

OnlyLys — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:35:41 +0000

Paying a monthly subscription to only have access to half of Reddit (NSFW will not be available through third-party apps) sounds like a bad deal to me.

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

OnlyLys — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 04:59:10 +0000

> force communities back open

Force communities back open, how? I've read countless comments over the past few days about how Reddit can just reopen all the privated subreddits with new moderators, without explaining where those new moderators were going to come from.

Curating and maintaining a community takes a LOT of effort, and I'm not convinced it's that easy to find people willing to do it for free. Just think about open source projects and how many have died when the sole maintainer called it quits.

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely"

OnlyLys — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:46:35 +0000

This seems to be what I've observed as well.

Across many subreddits, the announcements to participate in the blackout were highly upvoted (>90%), while announcements against participation were heavily downvoted.

Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/146xzgk/meta...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/145s613/rgames_and_t...

New comment by OnlyLys in "Reddit Doubles Down"

OnlyLys — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 02:41:24 +0000

I moderated a subreddit once. It sucked all the joy out of Reddit for me. Every time I visited the site, I got stressed as to what new nonsense happened.

Fun stuff I had to deal with include: The admin's "Anti-Evil Operations" frequently deleting user comments with no explanation. A persistent pedophile who just wouldn't go away. Getting guilt tripped by a severely mentally ill guy whenever we had to ban him (and his many alts) for breaking the rules. Doxx. Gore. Brigading. White supremacists. Racists with their "racial crime statistics". An impossible to moderate Reddit Chat (there were no chat moderation logs at all). And much more.

I completely checked out of moderation when I remembered that I wasn't getting paid to deal with any of the above. And since then, I've had much more appreciation for all the moderators who were willing to put in time and effort into maintaining a community for free.

Intel's Blockscale Cryptominer Ships Ahead of Schedule, Late to the Party

OnlyLys — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 04:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-blockscale-cryptominer-ships-ahead-of-schedule-late-to-the-party

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965046

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by OnlyLys in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

OnlyLys — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:27:49 +0000

It's not like Activision / Blizzard really cared about Linux gaming anyways.

New comment by OnlyLys in "Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?"

OnlyLys — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:49:31 +0000

I'm on 97.0b2 (developer edition), same issue.

New comment by OnlyLys in "Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern"

OnlyLys — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 02:57:06 +0000

Isn't updating the vaccine on a yearly basis something that's already being done for the flu vaccines?

> because flu viruses are constantly changing, the composition of flu vaccines is reviewed annually, and vaccines are updated to protect against the viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming flu season.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm