Honestly it sucks but when this happens with Google and others there's sometimes a person in the comments here: "Send me your info and I'll escalate this internally". Which also sucks, but the PR at least has some impact.
I think it's doubtful that this kind of PR impacts Apple as much.
I have a personal GCP account with an average spend of $12/month over the last year or so. The past week, I've been bombarded with messages and phone calls from a GCP saleswoman trying to get me to spend more. These business practices reek of desperation.
The way to get an issue like this fixed is a post on Hacker News with an sufficient number of upvotes to get to the front page for a long enough time. Good luck!
Obviously there might be many reasons for that, but as someone who worked on a similar gvisor tech for another company, it's dead in the water. No security expert or consultant will ever sign off on a process isolation model. Despite of architecture, audits, reviews, etc. There is just too much surface area for anyone to feel comfortable signing off on hostile multi-tenants with process isolation regardless of the sandboxing tech.
Not saying that there are no bugs in hypervisors, but the surface area is so so much smaller.
The first sentence pretty much sums it up: "Cloud Run’s new execution environment provides increased CPU and network performance and lets you mount network file systems." It's not a secret that performance is slower under gvisor and there are compatibility issues: https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/performance/
Disclaimer: I work on this product but wasn't involved in this decision.
gvisor isn't simply a process isolation model. Security experts will certainly sign off on gvisor for some multitenant workloads. The reason Google is moving from it, to the extent they are, is that hypervisors are more performant for more common workloads.
I read "we got tired of reimplementing Linux kernel syscalls and functionality" as the reason. Like network file systems. The Cloud Run client base kept asking for more and more features, and they punted to just running the Linux kernel.
I like the idea behind gramps, but it needs a massive UI/UX overhaul. I don't mind the look and feel but you really have to spend a lot of time with it to figure out how to use it. Things that should be straightforward require multiple levels of menus or windows.
It is very powerful though and allows for near infinite configuration.
The behavior of Reddit's management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contributed to. Doesn't management realize they are dependent on people like us to create content to generate value for the website?
>>I know I’m focusing a lot on that, but that’s where a lot of the protests in the community are focused. People appear to really love these apps. And, apparently, they think Reddit itself is not offering the experience they’re looking for. People talk about leaving the platform because they can’t use these apps. So if Reddit is going to shut down these apps, you’re going to lose people who loved Reddit, and that still doesn’t quite make sense. So I guess I’m wondering why hasn’t there been...
>90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium. Why would we subsidize this small group? Why would we effectively pay them to use Reddit but not everybody else who also contributes to Reddit? Does that make sense?
>These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That’s what this is about. It can’t be free.
I read the article and Huffman seems quite reasonable. Basically that they are asking profit making apps like Apollo to cover server costs, which seems not ridiculous if Reddit is loss making and Apollo profit making. I get the impression that some people who say they don't like corporate doublespeak are upset because Huffman just says pay or move on instead of doing the doublespeak. My biases - I did his python course and thought he seemed ok, also I use old reddit on the laptop and it works fine.
Third party apps aren’t upset that their free API access is getting charged; it’s the ridiculously high price, along with very short notices that make it painfully obvious of Reddit’s intention to permanently encapsulate all traffic in-house.
You'll want to destructively edit them, because apparently Reddit has recently started removing soft delete flags on some content, and it's not clear to people why besides possibly this blackout.
It's not clear if Reddit has post history to rollback destructive edits.
A substantial portion of my destructive edits (that were followed by deletion) appear to have now been rolled back, so it appears they do have the ability. These were recently deleted, however; there may be a time limit based on edit time.
This is false. Feel free to link to your source which will inevitably turn out to be someone who doesn't understand that the problem was actually in their deletion script or their understanding of it.
I have deleted all my comments and posts once. The way I did it required a lot of clicks, and I only had <100 things to delete. I couldnt find a better way to do it and neither will the average reddit user who has 1000s of comments.
The hurdle isn’t in finding Power Delete Suite. It’s in knowing what a Bookmarklet is, or what a bookmark is, or what a favorites bar is.
Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.
> Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.
This describes my father getting to Google. It was painful to witness. I tried to explain for about ten seconds, then opted that what he was doing worked for him and chose to pick my battles.
It would be impossible for him to use a tool like a bookmarklet unless someone set it up on his behalf. The barrier to use such a tool as PDS is nothing to a bunch of people who understand tech topics. It's unrealistic for a lot of others. I was going to say that I thought young people who grew up online could figure it out, but I've seen comments about teaching mobile-first CS students about filesystems, so…
People can easily find tools for bulk editing/deleting Reddit comments. They can't easily use them.
Power Delete Suite is a bookmarklet. It's installed by clicking the link in the Github readme, going off to a CodePen, and clicking and dragging the resulting red button to the Favorites Tab.
Probably greater than 90% of Redditors who are interested in using it wouldn't know how and would give up. I'm guessing the number is actually closer to 100% than it is to 90%.
They don't have a mental model of what a bookmarklet is. They don't even have a mental model of what a URL or browser address bar is, much less dragging something to their favorites bar and going through two levels of redirects ("you got the latest version!"... "you need to be on your reddit profile page!") before they hit a page that lets them bulk delete comments.
It's relevant to the point that that post was replying to. "I couldnt find a better way to do it and neither will the average reddit user who has 1000s of comments."
The level of understanding (or level of willingness to figure out a more optimal way or even conceive that a more optimal way is available) of the typical computer user (which is probably not that far from the typical reddit user, because reddit is a mass-appeal site) is shockingly low. I've seen people with science PhDs open their browser to their default search engine page [Bing], type in Google, search for it, click on the resulting link, and then type their search query. Those people are not going to be finding the "easy delete script".
THIS is the way at least people in the EU and California could bring the asshole reddit management to its knees.
Just ab avalanche of private account data deletion under CCPA or GDPR (or ARCO in Mexico yay!) Would make break reddit where it hurts. Most companies are not prepared to automate that.
I would be shocked if they were on track for an IPO and don’t have this automated. But I also disagree it would be impactful. Reminds me of the Facebook groups from a dozen years ago: “we will quit Facebook until the old design is brought back.” Guess who won that!
I would question the monetization value of a user visiting reddit to read a 4 year old post about the best water pump, vs. "normie" users just flipping through their front page
These investors are trying to make back 1.3 BILLION dollars sunk into a social network in the top 10 websites visited in the US that can't make money, they're rightfully trying to go full facebook/instagram/normie. What if I told you old.reddit only accounts for 10% or less of web users. That people are actually able to browse new reddit (I personally can't).
tl;dr: For the content they're looking for, no they dont need someone like you who's deleting old posts they don't care about
Search engines refer people to those old threads. Users who care enough and are tech savvy enough to delete their post histories are more likely to have made higher quality comments in the past answering tech support questions, reviewing products, etc. Those are the old threads that appear in search results and potentially draw in new users.
Having old reddit history show up repeatedly in your search results is part of what creates perceived value to get on the treadmill and follow things happening now.
I don't actually see that as something I should care about. My interest in chatting online on a forum isn't that my convo is available to everyone for eternity.
I wouldn't even grant that access to old posts is a particularly useful part of a community. Even on HN it doesn't impact my day to day except to laugh at that dropbox rsync guy once a year.
Let's be honest: you're hurting both but the latter will find other ways to hold the information in a way which may not be bound to a corporation led by a lying weasel.
Once they accepted $1.3B in vc the die was cast. If it's not spez, it will be someone else.
That said, ballooning reddit from 300 employees to 2k while simultaneously (somehow?) being largely incapable of delivering the mod tools promised for a decade, making the site or the app accessible, or improving their app past what a 1.5 person dev team can deliver certainly merits firing.
More of an analogy. If you kidnap US citizens then (officially) the US won't negotiate with terrorists to set the hostages free. People shouldn't try negotiating with reddit admins.
Multiple people in this thread have stated that they believe that users deleting their own content is "destroying the community/Reddit", to which I say "their access to said content is a privilege that can be revoked, not a right", and users who do this (of which I am not one) should not be made to feel guilt.
Community contributions are a voluntary act, not an obligation.
That’s the point. Reddit turned on the community. So people want to remove their contributions to the community. If everyone did so there’d be nothing left.
Hopefully Reddit will exercise the prerogative to hit the undelete key. The idea that forum posts belong to the author in perpetuity is a weird mental hangup; forum posts are a conversation and after a certain grace period, contributors should not have the right to memory-hole the past.
No, I think it applies to public forum conversations, like the one we are having. You shouldn't have the right to prevent future generations from seeing how I zinged you good.
My original comment was going to read: "I really like tarsnap, and the pricing seems much worse than rsync. $0.25 / GB-month. For 500GB that would mean $125/mo, right?"
