Everyone loves the idea of scraping, no one likes maintaining scrapers that break once a week because the CSS or HTML changed.

I’m calling the cops

Not understanding the true power you wield or the consequences of your actions

Sibling, I make CRUD apps with React and Python. I don’t think it’s that dramatic lmao

Stanford Prison Experiment rears its head again.

My gf pronounced it Leemy once, and I’ve never let her live it down

Why even give him a seat in the first place then? The guy got 9th place last year in a Williams.

Ironic, wasn’t de vries the one to push him to 21 after scoring 9th? And now de vries has also been given the boot.

I just checked Airbnb prices in Austin with flexible pricing for a weekend, and the only way I could even sniff $100 a night is if I turned on “Display total price,” which factors in the cleaning fee. Turning it on rockets up the price.

The cheapest place that gives you the whole place to yourself on Airbnb is the Holiday Inn lol.

Which again, supports my experience of hotels being competitive. They’ve only just given you the option to turn on “Display total price,” so if you’re browsing Airbnb’s before, the price didn’t include the exorbitant cleaning fees which is how the owners hid their prices.

Maybe worth taking a look at those receipts in your email to see if you actually paid $100 a night. If 90% of people are complaining, either your a genius or it’s actually a real issue ;)

True, but are Airbnb’s even cheaper than hotel rooms anymore in cities?

Only time I’ve found that to be true is when you have a lot of people, getting a single Airbnb can be cheaper than multiple hotel rooms. Otherwise, Airbnb’s basically are similar in price or negligibly cheaper.

Even audited source code is not safe. Supply-chain attacks are possible. A lot of times, there’s nothing guaranteeing the audited code is the code that’s actually running.

Have you seen the dependency trees of projects in npm? I really doubt most packages are audited on a regular basis.

100%. Reddit has been looking for an exit for years lol. They’d probably sell for anyone at a few billion valuation.

Imagine getting paid to post soyjak memes on Reddit lmao

The model works when you have high effort content (YT, Insta, TikTok, Yelp). The bar to get started is high, so the idea of a payout gets the ball rolling for some people. Contributing to Reddit (and Lemmy for that matter) probably doesn’t fit that bill.

It’s a good bet. Breaking habits is hard, but removing some people’s preferred way of using Reddit forces them to go cold turkey. It’s a great opportunity for all the alternatives.

My favorite code reviews are where the reviewer only comments about trivial shit that doesn’t matter, like “it would be more readable if you added a newline here” type stuff.

I’ve posted about this before and I think a lot of people disagree, but some centralization is good. There has to be a no-thought option for when people want to join Lemmy. After they learn more about federation, they can move on to another instance.

The reason why kbin grew so fast is because for a lot of people, Kbin = kbin.social (See how “kbin” links to kbin.social on: list of alternatives on Reddit)

I believe this also explains Beehaw’s growth despite their onerous rules. When someone recommends Beehaw, they don’t need to think about which instance of Beehaw they want to join, they just go to Beehaw.

A lot of people are dogmatic about federation, but I quite frankly think that if you are going to die on the hill, don’t complain when you die.

I think two communities can live side-by-side and even develop their own culture. With federation, someone subscribed to both essentially has no downside right? I think forcing merges would cause some issues (like, who moderates?).