To be honest I'm more concerned by language-humor. Like not even saying what kind of humour, just any type of humour at all. Jokes are for adults only!

Yeah during the reddit exodus, people were recommending to overwrite your comment with garbage before deleting it. This (probably) forces them to restore your comment from backup. But realistically they were always going to harvest the comments stored in backup anyway, so I don't think it caused them any more work.

If anything, this probably just makes reddit's/SO's partnership more valuable because your comments are now exclusive to reddit's/SO's backend, and other companies can't scrape it.

It is, but it probably shouldn't be any more. WebP has good support everywhere now and is slightly better than JPEG and PNG combined. (Better lossy compression than JPEG, plus transparency support, and better lossless compression than PNG). But even WebP is considered lame these days compared to the new crop.

E.g., JXL (JPEG XL) is much better WebP and is supported by everyone except Google (which is ironic since Google helped create it). Google seems to want AVIF to be the winner for the new image format, but not many others do.

Anyway, until the Google JXL AVIF hissy fit is dealt with, at least we've still got WebP. It's not super great, but it's at least better than JPEG and PNG. A lot of web developers are stuck in their old JPEG PNG mindset and are being slow to adapt, so JPEG is still hanging around.

It's not. He was very explicitly not talking about his murder there.

Hm, he and his wife are getting on in years. If they want a son, they should probably get on that right away.

It's a cool idea and the example they gave actually seemed pretty neat.

I'd (somewhat perversely) love to see this feature tried in a terminal emulator. ANSI does actually define escape codes for switching to alternative fonts (ESC [ 10 m through ESC [ 19 m) though I don't know of any software or even term drawing library that uses it.

Yeah, I remember when Linux was first becoming cool, in the mid-to-late 90s. There was a lot of folk wisdom going around, and one of them was "make an alias rm='rm -i' so you don't accidentally delete anything!"

And then there was the (correct, IMHO) counter-wisdom of "no, that actually makes it more likely to accidentally delete something, because one day you're going to be on a machine where that alias doesn't exist, but you've become dependent on it existing".

I don't mind creating aliases to add colour or change formatting a little bit or something, but don't make an alias to keep yourself safe, because it'll probably backfire on you.

This one incident has had so many variations and urban legend-ish twists. This article itself even incorrectly lists the date as 1945 in one place, which is a common twist on the story, but incorrect. (This computer didn't even come into existence until 1947, so the bug couldn't have been found in 1945). For any know-it-alls who like to one-up people with the correct facts, here's the truth behind the story, best I can figure out:

• This is indeed a real log entry book from September 9, 1947 (not 1945, as is sometimes reported)
• Grace Hopper did not write the log entry book
• Grace Hopper did not find the bug. She wasn't even there that day
• Grace Hopper did make the story famous, though. Even though she wasn't personally involved, she found it funny, and liked to tell it, which is how she got associated with the story
• This was not the first usage of the word "bug" (obviously, since "First actual case of bug being found" wouldn't have been funny). The earliest recorded usage of "bug" (in an engineering context) was Thomas Edison in 1878, but it surely predated him, as well. It was in common usage among engineers in the early 20th century
• It was not the first usage of the word "debug", as is often attributed. We have a record of the word "debug" being used in 1945. (Maybe this is why some versions of the Mark II story are sometimes given as 1945). "Debugging" was used in the aviation industry before the software industry
• The earliest recorded usage of the word "debug" in the context of software is 1952, but again, it probably predates its first record. Who knows if the word was already in use in 1947!

What advantages does it provide

ZFS, mostly. There are some smaller peripheral things (like much better manpages), but these days the big one is probably ZFS. Zero licensing conflicts allows it to be an integral part of the kernel.

The only thing that could have made it better would be if they added a "Moderators need to work much more slowly now due to having to use the official reddit app's terrible UI"

He's not completely wrong in the powermod=landed gentry analogy. People have been (weakly) protesting and trying (not very successfully) to leave over the powermod situation for years, and it's true that the powermods aren't friends of ours.

But he seems to be suggesting that the protests are just the actions of the powermods, as if other users (and smaller mods) aren't also leaving. I think he's going to be disappointed when he discovers that the peasantry are also upset. They just don't have has his ear because he's so removed from them, so all he hears are the powermods.

This is what I'm expecting. A year from now someone will mention "reddit" to me and I'll be like "that's still around?" and I'll check it out and it's just turned into TikTok challenges.