Routhinator

Routhinator, 2 months ago

Jinish him!

Routhinator, 2 months ago

Always into a good Denim sandwich myself.

A Jandwich if you willl.

Routhinator, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yes. Though its dated now. Really didn’t have any bright ideas for an avatar when I joined.

EDIT: Updated it to match my tenforward.social one.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

Perfect response.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

USA US & Canada

Routhinator, 3 months ago

Dang.

“We’re not the cops, we just want our cut.”

– IRS Probably

Routhinator, 3 months ago

I keep my watch history off, and no subs. I use bookmarks. The algorithm has no clue

Routhinator, 3 months ago

The rate at which the results got worse has a notable pattern in line with their drive for ad revenue. Most of the results are garbage because they are driven by money rather than user choice and popularity. The more money you pour into tuning SEO and Google Ads the higher you rank. To hell with relevance or what users actually want.

I ran a web community for writers from 1997 onward, and threw in the towel this year. The site had a core following but we relied on a steady trickle of new users from organic search and word of mouth to stay afloat. And little by little no matter how much time I put into SEO and the site we continued to slide due to a combination of seo rank and google just removing pages without explanation or reason. After spending the last 5 years rebuilding the site for SEO and mobile optimization, I watched google index 99% of the sitemap, our rank come back up slightly, new users starting to come in… And then it just… Stopped. I went to check the indexing, and google had silently moved all the indexed pages back to “crawled but not indexed” for no bloody reason. Zero errors, codes or messages.

I threw in the towel. The site was costing me nearly $500usd a month to operate and I could not throw a dime at ads. I had tried getting ad revenue on the site a few years back even though I did not want ads on the site and it looked promising… I got 90% of the way to covering monthly costs, but before the first cheque was cut google banned me from that service with no explanation. I followed every rule, discouraged regular members from clicking ads unless they really wanted to see the thing the ad was showing. Still got banned. And google just doesn’t even care to explain themselves.

I closed the site in January because I realized the internet I fell in love with, the one I created that community for… Its dead. Killed by capitalism.

Might be for the best. I can throw my coding time at open-source projects now. Just need to find one that entices me.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

I wont lie, it hurt to shut The Den of Amateur Writing down. That place was a product of the heart. So many good memories.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

As I get older I find my heels and arches just hurt randomly walking on hard flooring, and carpets get gross. The solution for me is a pair of sketchers I reserve for indoor use.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

Squash, definitely squash.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

My client is just set to not display nsfw posts. I never see it and I’ve blocked very few communities.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

What should have been a tool was designed to be a trap, because greed.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

Not entirely. There is LibreWolf (Formerly IceWolf) on desktop. librewolf.net

Mull is apparently an Android option that’s also a fork, but I’m just installing it now, and can also say its only on FDroid.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

.nomedia files are fairly standard across applications on Android and Linux. Nextcloud and other applications will use them to know not to scan that forlder with automation, thumbnail creation, ml, etc. Its a simple and standard signal. It follows the .file convention so it should be hidden when not browsing with hidden files on.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

It still irks me that the lumen level laws about headlights were circumvented by “unless installed from the dealer”

Bright lights mean higher contrast between the lights and everything else making it fucking impossible to see anything but the car ahead of you.

Routhinator, 3 months ago

Yep. Can confirm as well. And a weaker US democracy would create a power vaccuum in NATO that would very likely be exploited with the power dynamics in play on the global scale in recent years.

Routhinator, 4 months ago

If you’re a user interacting with a terminal => apt

If you’re writing a script or putting it in a docker file/automation => apt-get

Apt is just a wrapper around apt-get a newer binary than apt-get (I stand corrected after checking my memory against google) and there are warnings that the apt shorthand is not as reliable in scripted scenarios. Its meant for user convenience.

Apt-get is most certainly not outdated.

Routhinator, 5 months ago

There are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.

Routhinator, 5 months ago

Religions have been doing this for millenia.

Routhinator, 5 months ago

It’s a mobile game - basically a pay to win cookie clicker. It can be kind of enjoyable if you like cookie clickers.

But, no voices, minimal effort content in the game and extremely repetitive gameplay. I didn’t enjoy it but if you like repetitive cookie clickers the flavour text is occasionally enjoyable. This one example reference looks like a bit of fun.

Routhinator, 5 months ago

And they are finally shown in Lower Decks

Routhinator, 5 months ago

Yuck, Meta products.

Routhinator, 5 months ago

Ah sorry, I’m an SRE/Devops guy professionally so I forget that containers are still way out of folks experience range 😅

Routhinator, 5 months ago

Brand recognition if you’re in the market for a job relevant to the contents of your site or if you plan to run a blog.

Otherwise custom domain is really just vanity.