I find kale is quite enjoyable in a soup with sausage and finely chopped potatoes. I'm not really a fan of kale otherwise, but this is my favorite soup. Just like my grandmother used to make. Caldo verde.

Facebook is a great example. At Facebook, Content Moderator is a paid position, with a salary of approximately $45k on ZipRecruiter. Facebook employs approximately 15,000 moderators.

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At reddit, moderation is done by unpaid volunteers.

You think the task that the moderators do, to filter out low-quality posts, spam, and illegal content, is valueless to the owners of the "free" message board? You think the site will look and function the same after those people are disregarded, disrespected, and driven out? You think they will be easily replaced, without incurring additional costs? You think that users will be willing to give their money to the formerly "free" message board, after the leadership will have caused the content quality to decline sharply, and also removed access to their favorite third party apps with no acceptable replacements? You think this message board is somehow special and unique, and can't be replaced?

I know of at least one other "free" message board that acted with similar amounts of hubris and disdain toward its userbase. That site does still exist, but is no longer a message board, and no longer has a userbase, or any value to investors.

Both sides appear to be dugg in, so we are about to enter the "find out" phase.

That knowledge has already been archived in various places. You might have to find a new site to share knowledge in the future, but nothing has been lost. The site itself deserves to go bankrupt and shut down if this is how they regard their users and moderators on a site consisting of 100% user-generated user-moderated content.

I am a normal reddit user, not even a moderator. I browse reddit primarily with a third party app, BaconReader. I purchased BaconReader Premium for a couple bucks, 10 years ago. I'd be willing to pay a few bucks a month, directly to reddit, if that meant I could keep using BaconReader with ALL of its current functionality. But that's not possible. Users cannot pay reddit directly. They want the app developers to start paying them millions of dollars for an API key, and expect them to start collecting that money from the users of the apps. They did not allow enough time for the app developers to implement such a cost structure (only 30 days). And aside from that, the reddit API is being crippled so not all content will be available through it, even for those who do pay for access.

Reddit claims their intent is not to eliminate third party apps, but the combination of excessive charges, no forewarning, and removing API features will destroy all third party apps simultaneously on July 1, regardless if that was their intent or not. I understand that reddit needs to start collecting money somehow, so they can keep the servers running. Users like myself are willing to pay a reasonable amount. But the way this is being implemented so harshly and so suddenly is unconscionable. Oh and let's not forget, third party apps would be a moot point if the first party app was any good (i.e. if the developers listened to user feedback and achieved feature-parity with third party apps).

As a user, I support the blackout. Shut it all down indefinitely if that's what it takes. I would rather quit using reddit and see the company go bankrupt, if its owners insist on making such boneheaded decisions that disrespect the community that users have built around that site. The current reddit content has been archived in various places, and the contributing users can find a new home.

That's exactly what all of these moderators are eventually going to do if the blackout fails, particularly if Reddit admins decide to re-open all of these thousands of subreddits that are protesting. Moderators will stop moderating the content for free and go somewhere else and the crapflood will start rolling in. Reddit admins will have to figure out how to quickly implement the necessary moderation themselves, either by paying people to do it, or developing algorithms to enforce the rules. Either way it will cost them money that they aren't currently spending, and content quality will decline due to the inevitable shortcomings of their hastily-implemented new moderation system. This likely won't kill Reddit, but it will cause them to bleed.

The current group of moderators will go and join one of the replacements for Reddit, and the current Reddit will be flooded with garbage and start to look like 4chan. Not a good look for a company that is about to have an IPO.

947 Mbps down and 26 Mbps up. That's atrocious. I guess offsite backups are out of the question then. Nice thing about municipal or non-telco fiber is that your upload and download are the same speed. If I had to use Comcast I would be willing to pay more for that, but they won't sell it to you.

I don't even mind if Windows downloads the updates and installs them. They usually don't break anything so I leave automatic updates turned on. However, the one thing that I find completely abhorrent and inexcusible is to shut down or reboot my system without my explicit command. Microsoft seems to have drawn a line in the sand here. They will allow you to "delay" updates, or to "schedule a time for maintenance", but you cannot tell Windows "my system is doing something important and you must not interrupt it for any reason". Try all you want, with all of the menu options and Group Policy settings that Microsoft has provided, but those settings will eventually be silently undone by Microsoft and your system will reboot itself when you walk away from it. You literally cannot (permanently) prevent this without third party tools.

This is why the first thing I install on any of my Win10 installations is a little program called "ShutdownBlocker". It's a simple program that stays open in the systray and intercepts any and all attempts to shutdown the system. Shutdown events from Scheduled Tasks, application installers, and console commands are all blocked. Even pressing the shutdown button on the start menu is blocked until you click through a second dialog to confirm. It is quite ridiculous that I have to use such tactics to thwart my own operating system, but at least it's simple and it works.

Windows 11, on the other hand.... I did try it. They mutilated the Start Menu and Explorer Context Menus, removed or hid all of the useful customizations, and pre-installed TikTok and a dozen other useless Metro apps. Seriously, a clean install of Windows 11 from a .iso provided by Microsoft has this malicious spyware prominently displayed on the Start Menu. That experience was enough to make me disable the TPM chip on my motherboard so that my W10 system can never accidentally receive this "upgrade". I have also started to transition over to openSUSE KDE as my primary OS.

No, there is another option: don't install the update. Many people don't care about all the new crap, and they just want their phone to perform the same as when they bought it. Apple could have been up-front about the potential performance issues with a warning that the new firmware require CPU throttling on older phones, and that if you're happy with the way your phone is running now, you may be better off staying with the older firmware. Apple aggressively pushes software update notifications, and they make it difficult to downgrade to an older firmware, so the update may very well be an irreversible change that will permanently cripple your old phone. The people suing Apple over this would have heeded such a warning, or they would have only themselves to blame for accepting the update. Instead Apple did the underhanded thing and pushed the new firmware with hidden CPU throttling to old phones that they knew would struggle with it. People praise Apple for providing software support for so long, but maybe the software updates themselves are part of their planned obsolescence strategy. Those phones would continue to function normally for years if they stayed on their original firmware (with security updates only, perhaps). Pushing IOS N+1, N+2, etc. makes these phones run worse and worse, so there is always a clear difference in performance when the person visits the Apple store and compares their old phone with the newest shiny thing.

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- So you can restore the phone to 100% charge without having to plug it in for a couple of hours. It is annoying to use a phone while it is plugged in. Even worse if you are trying to use it while it is tethered to one of those "power banks". Carry a couple of extra batteries with you and replace them as needed, and you never have to plug in. It's convenient.

- So you can easily replace the battery when it is old and will no longer hold a charge. Batteries are cheap. New phones are expensive.

- So you can remove the battery to be sure the phone is turned OFF completely. Is the entire phone powered off, or only the screen? Did the phone freeze up with a black screen while the CPU is cpntinues to run? You can hold the power button and wait, or you could remove the voltage source and have immediate certainty. This is useful if you are paranoid about someone spying on you. It's even more useful if you have dropped your phone in water. If you remove the battery immediately and dry your phone out, it usually still works afterwards. Not possible with a permanently-attached battery.

I have taken full advantage of all these things, including dropping my phone in water and then restoring it. Removable battery is a very important feature and it is the main reason I now use an LG phone instead of Samsung or Google Nexus.

This is correct. I was a Windows Mobile user from 2006-2010. It was the best mobile platform at the time -- it did more than the competitors. Microsoft let it rot and fade away into obscurity, while the competition got better and better. By the time Microsoft "upgraded" their mobile OS (read: completely EOL'ed and threw away the previous version and replaced it with a completely new, incompatible, less-functional one), Android and IOS had completely taken over the market.

I was a WM user for two phone-generations and I had no choice but to switch to Android. In 2010, Microsoft simply did not have a viable product anymore, even compared to their old phones, let alone the new Android and iPhones. They started completely over from scratch, breaking all compatibility with previous versions (_twice_, with both WP7 and WP8), way too late in the development cycle to compete with current offerings from competitors. Windows Phone continues to try to catch up to its former self, in features and capability, while Android has gone way beyond that, and continues to improve. Nearly all of the former Windows Mobile developers have switched to Android and will likely never return -- the mindshare loss was devastating.

But Microsoft has a lot of money to throw at the problem -- they will eventually catch up, and then struggle to regain what they once had.

I always clicked "NO" to those Sprint/Google integration prompts. As in-- do not choose either option, and close this dialog box. That means I still have two distinct phone numbers, one associated only with the telco, and one associated with Google that will redirect to your cell phone (or not redirect, if you choose). The way it should be. Integration with the telco kind of defeats the purpose of Google voice, IMO. If you only have a Google voice number then it's already too late, you are fully integrated and must always use Google voice for everything.

The airave piggybacks on a terrestrial (home) internet connection (i.e. AT&T DSL, Roadrunner, etc.) to create a virtual Sprint cell tower. If I am paying Sprint to have a wireless internet connection anywhere I go, how does it make any sense at all to connect to Sprint's service via a secondary internet connection that I also have to pay for? In other words, if I am in a location where I can set up an airave, then I can simply use WIFI instead and thus have absolutely no need for Sprint. (Yes, I know some people do use Sprint to make calls but, imo, that is irrelevant. Sprint is a wireless ISP that also happens to provide voice service).

Wow, LotRO made the /. headlines, awesome :)

I had never previously paid any money to play an MMO before LotRO. I used to play Ultima Online, first as a free 1-month trial and then on free unoffical servers many years ago. I joined LotRO a few months ago because it was free to play, and I quickly became hooked. It is a very high-quality game and very fun to play. Yes, I admit it is very commercialized because there is a 'store' built right into the game, and you can purchase points to buy things in-game. These things include additional content, quests and such, items, and lots of other 'little' things that can make things more convenient and/or fun.

But the beauty of it is -- you don't need to purchase _anything_ from the store to play through the main quest line, or to go to any area in the game except the major expansons. You can also _earn_ points without paying real money for them, just by playing the game. So I could avoid a monthly fee altogether and just throw a couple of bucks at it if there's something I want, or I could earn it by playing. And the stuff you spend the points on does not really imbalance the game. Sure, you can level a little bit faster or you can fast-travel to distant lands a bit more easily, but it's not like the free players are at a huge disadvantage.

I played for about a month and then I purchased the big expansion for the game, Mines of Moria. You need to be level 45+ to really go to the expansion area, anyway.. So along with this expansion I got a 'free' month of 'VIP' access, which includes many of the perks you can purchase using the points system. I really liked having these things after my free trial expired, so I decided to continue my VIP access by paying $10/month. I still play this game every day, so why not? But if I ever start playing less frequently, I can completely stop paying any money and still reap the benefits that I have unlocked already. That, to me, is really awesome. If this were WoW, if I stopped paying I could not play at all, period. It's a really ingenious system, IMO.