[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really cannot understand why advertising is such a huge business. Where does all the money spent on advertising really come from?

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But store-bought tomatoes are nearly tasteless...

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to c/plugins@sh.itjust.works

Description

It adds a scroll to parent button to nested comments (after clicking the "more" button). If you then press the more button on the parent comment, you'll see a back to child button that will scroll back to the comment you came from on click (also after clicking the "more" button).

Install

  1. Install via Greasy Fork or copy the code from there.

  2. Replace the @match value with your instance.

Screenshots

Notes

Tested on Firefox with Tampermonkey and Violentmonkey.

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What Kurt Vonnegut had to say (www.stabroeknews.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to c/antiwork@lemmy.ml

Interesting little essay.

Perhaps one could find it a bit Ludditic. But technology is a good tool that is oft misused like any other.

Not sure if belongs here, but couldn't think about where else to post it. 🙏

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I understand the intention here is to reassure people that not all is lost and there's still time for action, a take like this is going to be paraphrased into "climate change is overblown and isn't something to worry about" by Big Oil and other major polluters.

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any sort of not respecting the player's time: grind, making the player do the computer's job (e.g., not having an auto-sort button for the inventory), time sinks, unskippable cutscenes, slow walking etc.

Trailing and leading spaces are almost always trimmed in such cases, but that is indeed very funny.

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More and more people in the industry saying that Google is trying to implement it under false pretenses of making the web safer for the end user. But I guess for most it was obvious?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One wouldn't be too wrong to point at similarities between cancer and Discord in how it quickly takes over different systems (e.g. issue tracking, discussions, Q&A, documentation) and replaces them with a single non-functional thing (chat).

But, to play the devil's advocate, Discord seems to have some kind of a forum functionality, however I've never encountered those Forum Channels myself.

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microsoft really really hated open source some time ago. Now they seem to have embraced it, however some still think that might be an attempt to EEE.

Still, I suppose Microsoft doesn't think replacing the Windows default filesystem is a sound investment at this point even if the political resistance to such a change is, supposedly, gone.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/83231

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

EDIT: replaced the link with an archived one as it appears that the author had removed the post from their website.

Wow they moved incredibly fast, even considering the repository was first committed to in April 2023. I wonder why the outrage only started a few days ago? There was also a discussion, started in May.

I think you're supposed to get angry, not ignore them.

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Wikipedia article for those unfamiliar with the term.

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I personally just don't get Discord and find it very annoying when it's the only means to communicate about something. And it certainly doesn't feel like a good replacement for Reddit due to the many reasons mentioned in this thread.

The fact that one of those is some sort of a gambling app promotes that to very infuriating! 😡

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