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Quequau··on Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent
No surprise when the CEO is a vandal.

Also, the other comment was wrongly flagged.

Quequau··on Oscilloscope/AWG/Logic Analyzer: Analog Discovery 3
the last time I looked at their stuff it seemed to me they could use a bit of refresh.
Quequau··on Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? (2015)
Now Reddit has to save itself from mr. Huffman
Quequau··on Cormac McCarthy has died
Cormac McCarthy was an optimist.
Quequau··on U.S. Warned Ukraine Not to Attack Nord Stream
This where I want to link to that gif of Gene Wilder, dressed all in white, playing Willy Wonka... calling out "No, Don't, Stop, Come back".
Quequau··on [dead]
lol, the histrionics.
Quequau··on Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?
I guess, I don't know much about TikTok beyond the stuff that showed up in subreddits that I wound up filtering.

I gotta say my home view and my popular view are obviously impacted by the protest. I think nearly all of the subreddits I subscribe to participated, so all I see is content in the subreddits I moderate (which are also shut down). Popular looks old & stale to me, so I turned off my filtering... which revealed a bunch of stuff I don't care about.

For me this is turning into a meditation about how new users are frequently impervious to the messages and signs intended to help them and instead often want a real person to spoon feed them the content of those messages and signs. In the future I'd really like improve the experience of new users but I am not sure how to politely encourage them to engage their brains.

Quequau··on Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?
Scrolling through the list of subreddits that are participating it became clear to me that a lot of the sort of places that facilitate a kind of repetitive mindless viral content churn stayed open. That's not really all that surprising. So in that way I think you're right, users who like that sort of thing probably won't notice much or care.
Quequau··on Reddit CEO: We're Sticking with API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark
I've had an account on Reddit for 17 years. Steve Huffman being dishonest and manipulative is who he is. Seems to me that the board is OK with him being dishonest and manipulative because if they had a problem with that sort of thing, he would not be CEO and Reddit would be a different sort of place.
Quequau··on Reddit Strike Has Started
2 subreddits with more than 20 million subscribers, 1 subreddit with more than 10 million, 23 with more than 1 million subscribers, 18 with more than 500K, 32 with more than 250K... seems like it's beginning to add up to me and it's only 7:40 CEST.

I'm shutting down roughly 50 just before midnight CEST and I expect things to accelerate with the date change at GMT.

Quequau··on Reddit Strike Has Started
lol, you're right but also with a good deal of 'minimum viable product' in the mix. I'm going to steal this to share with my friends (who mostly hate Reddit).

Also, have a nice day.

Quequau··on Five Years of Veloren
Wow, has it already been that long?
Quequau··on Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes
Reading through the list of concessions and explanations attributed to Steve Huffman that Reddit is currently sending to subreddit moderators, I saw a couple of things that struck as almost certainly untrue or at least exaggerated.

I don't think Reddit is approaching this in good faith.

Quequau··on Mill CPU architecture, roadmap for 2023
Pleasantly surprised this is still ongoing. I hope they are able to produce something that sees some success.
Quequau··on The Folks Lining Up for Elon Musk’s Brain Implant
I wonder if more people will die from this compared to the number of monkeys they killed.
Quequau··on The modern day USB Oscilloscope
If this is well supported by a Linux application, it seems really interesting.
Quequau··on USB armory – The open source flash-drive-sized computer by WithSecure Foundry
Sorta weird to see this thing back in the news after so long. Seems like they've gone through a revision and have been sold to a larger company since the last time I looked.
Quequau··on Ask HN: Could US cocaine legalization halt Mexican cartels?
Given how many cartels have expanded operations to include synthetic opioids, methamphetamines, and human trafficking I am sceptical of efficacy of such a policy viewed only through the lens of defeating organised crime in Mexico.

Also, given how American policy seems to have to explore and exhaust all the bad options before settling on some mediocre option, I expect that the first policy choices might actually turn out to be harmful.

Quequau··on I wrote The Incredible Machine game in the 90s. Now I've made Contraption Maker
The Reddit post seems to have been deleted by the author.
Quequau··on Reddit welcomes NSFW desktop image uploads ahead of Imgur’s ban
The former policy of allowing NSFW images from mobile apps but not from desktop browsers was dumb and contradictory. It created a ton of confusion. I hope they update their pubic facing documents and help to accurately reflect what they are really actually doing.
Quequau··on Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
So what's going on with the RTB2004 that is providing so much bang for that 10x price difference... and why do you claim that such a machine is "hobbyist class"?
Quequau··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
I am kind of on the fence about the content on YouTube being worth paying for but the website makes it so difficult to find the content that I am actually interested in seeing that it makes the whole experience absolutely not worth it to me to pay for.

Faced with blocked videos I would either figure out a way around or do something else with my time. No way I'm disabling my ad blocker.

Quequau··on Last Call to Migrate Mojang Accounts
I bought the game when it was just leaving alpha and migrated to Microsoft when I got the mail demanding I do so. Immediately afterwards, Microsoft closed my account for reasons and I've not been able to use it since.

I've been fooling around with Veloren instead. It's nothing like Minecraft but I'm not paying Microsoft money to buy something I already paid for.

Quequau··on Twitter allowing governments to post automated weather alerts ‘for free’
Surely that point was months ago.
Quequau··on 'ChatGPT Does 80% of My Job' – How AI Enables People to Work 2nd and 3rd Jobs
I've seen so many of these stories and then when I see what ChatGPT and other such LLMs are actually capable of, I conclude that either they are working weird niche bullshit jobs like phone scams or are just made up entirely.
Quequau··on ARM is reportedly building a chip to show off what its designs can do
"The company does not plan to sell or license the prototype"

Well that makes it a lot less interesting.

Quequau··on America's roads are more dangerous, as police pull over fewer drivers
This reads like copganda.
Quequau··on Show HN: AI-Less Hacker News
Seems like "Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion" made it through too.
Quequau··on Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator
If you don't already have a device for reading and writing EPROMs it's probably easier to just download ROM images from the internet.
Quequau··on Analyzing a failed drill bit with an electron microscope [video]
I like this dude and subscribe to his channel. It's my hope that my next move will land me in a spot with enough space to build a home workshop. It seems like a great hobby.
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