40{"sid":"WG-y19pRIHbinD-_AJY-"}42["messages","[{\"id\":\"999106806968221716\",\"timestamp\":1658276025288,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"(psst psst...in my head, I hear Weird Al singing \\\"to see the biggest ball of twine, in Minnesota!!!\\\")\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"999112442363785276\",\"timestamp\":1658277368871,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"no idea... we'll look into it.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"999112804571283456\",\"timestamp\":1658277455228,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"thank you\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"999341778169770024\",\"timestamp\":1658332046788,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Leigh Beadon\",\"content\":\"Turns out this was a buggy conflict between Jetpack and Cloudflare - it's now been fixed, though caching might make it take an hour to come into effect. If you get any more lockouts beyond about an hour from now, let us know!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"999341910944665810\",\"timestamp\":1658332078444,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Thank you so much!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001158911409270925\",\"timestamp\":1658765285113,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-22/twitter-spy-trial-exposes-betrayal-of-saudi-arabia-dissidents\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001282946373795961\",\"timestamp\":1658794857353,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1551722521589960704?t=ZpETundQ_UrpRhmgMQpTfg&s=19\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1551722521589960704?t=ZpETundQ_UrpRhmgMQpTfg&s=19\"}]},{\"id\":\"1001283099247775765\",\"timestamp\":1658794893801,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"How long until IPeeWatchDoug has a blog post about how damaging this order is going to be INVENTORS?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001573659909050378\",\"timestamp\":1658864168861,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"Doctorow vs Amazon/Audible:  https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/\"}]},{\"id\":\"1001577422736601278\",\"timestamp\":1658865065989,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"Some really sad stories about people losing everything.  Ed Zitron seems like he wrote this part to Mike (\\\"I do not care if you think ... that crypto 'might' do something cool someday ... this is not a quirky startup with a niche audience, but unregulated and lethal financial software that functions only to take money from retail investors and send it upwards.\\\").  \\nhttps://ez.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-silence\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://ez.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-silence\"}]},{\"id\":\"1001612030274445312\",\"timestamp\":1658873317069,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"I just canceled four Hertz reservations and moved them all to National.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001612053406036118\",\"timestamp\":1658873322584,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"The things that Techdirt causes one to do.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001612077795922061\",\"timestamp\":1658873328399,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Or at least informs one into doing\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001612270943621200\",\"timestamp\":1658873374449,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Seeing the news today that Martin Shkreli's first move post-prison was getting into crypto just kind of sealed it entirely for me.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001626173010345994\",\"timestamp\":1658876688960,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Maybe he can team up with the Enron guys.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001626211002359918\",\"timestamp\":1658876698018,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"I've been anti-crypto for a while\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001626238156279868\",\"timestamp\":1658876704492,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"for a _long_ while\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001626404607234048\",\"timestamp\":1658876744177,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"It started when I decided to sign up for a bitcoin newsletter and the cryptobro in charge of it didn't even know how to BCC\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001874045731614793\",\"timestamp\":1658935786422,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Yeah I've never been on board entirely, always more of a doubter than not.  The idea that you can have a currency backed by nothing at all as a superior mechanism than a currency backed by government taxing and credit seemed like it was doing a speed run to irrelevance.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1001874141932171384\",\"timestamp\":1658935809358,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"But it, like the Trump presidency, just became such a magnet for every other type of scam artist imaginable.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1002761950448599080\",\"timestamp\":1659147479403,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"katana\",\"content\":\"I was just watching this video and thought of you guys. https://youtu.be/Lawuy1_gNX4\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"video\",\"url\":\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lawuy1_gNX4\"}]},{\"id\":\"1005123037621927967\",\"timestamp\":1659710406452,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"\\\"I’m not saying that the New York Times Editorial Board intentionally supports those cynical elements of the Right. I’m saying the New York Times Editorial Board is being their useful idiots.\\\"\\nhttps://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"article\",\"url\":\"https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and\"}]},{\"id\":\"1005221203264421980\",\"timestamp\":1659733810965,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"I subscribe to popehat's substack, so that's old news to me.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005889507075313724\",\"timestamp\":1659893147010,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"<@Mike Masnick> do I remember correctly that you switched from a thinkpad to a Framework laptop?  Are you happy with it?  My #1 reason for liking thinkpads was their keyboards with relatively long travel, and their linux support.  But I'm becoming a less-loyal Thinkpad customer after my current AMD model has this firmware bug with Linux sleep mode that makes it rather more \\\"nap\\\" mode and drains the battery about 30% a night\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005889687610736690\",\"timestamp\":1659893190053,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"They have a very long thread on their site about it where a bunch of customers keep saying why is this a problem and one poor support dude tries to put a good face on the fact that he can't seem to take anyone in their eng team to take it seriously\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005894952116572170\",\"timestamp\":1659894445209,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"katana\",\"content\":\"Friend of mine posts a \\\"meme dump\\\" in Facebook every Sunday. You know, funny memes she encounters over the week.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005895058626711554\",\"timestamp\":1659894470603,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"katana\",\"content\":\"This weekend FB \\\"fact-checked\\\" her meme dump and insisted that her post was missing context.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005895132228366366\",\"timestamp\":1659894488151,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"katana\",\"content\":\"FB just fell out of the irony tree and hit every branch on the way down.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005895890088763534\",\"timestamp\":1659894668839,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Yeah kind of like accounts that document and debunk anti vaxxer claims getting banned for spreading anti vaxxer rhetoric.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005896009114722384\",\"timestamp\":1659894697217,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"I wonder if anyone is going to write ever about how content moderation on large platforms is inherently difficult and often misses nuance.....it'd be nice if someone explored that question.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005902095020474428\",\"timestamp\":1659896148210,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"It reminds me when CNN fact-checked a Saturday Night Live skit\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005902132190400622\",\"timestamp\":1659896157072,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"and Jon Stewart made fun of them for that\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005912987304996966\",\"timestamp\":1659898745133,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"One time, I tried fact-checking a fact check.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005913016132452502\",\"timestamp\":1659898752006,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Then someone else fact checked that.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005913042250371112\",\"timestamp\":1659898758233,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"And that's the story of how Twitter was invented.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005918823217639597\",\"timestamp\":1659900136523,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Isn't that essentially what science study replication is too?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1005918864242118777\",\"timestamp\":1659900146304,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"might explain why so little of it actually happens, too\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006005258335551559\",\"timestamp\":1659920744261,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"Hey! Sorry for the slow reply -- I spent all day on the road today. 400 mile drive.  Anyway, I'm sorta using both the framework and my old lenovo. Basically, I use the lenovo at home since it's old and large and tends to heat up a lot... and i use the framework everywhere else (including on this trip I've been on for the past month, so I basically could switch to it permanently, and maybe I will)\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006005653107638353\",\"timestamp\":1659920838382,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"As for the keyboard... the framework keyboard seemed fine to me. Different than the Thinkpad, but it did feel pretty nice.  However, lately I've been using an external keyboard all the time, so I can't speak as much to the keyboard these days or over an extended period of time\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006006473417039979\",\"timestamp\":1659921033959,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"But overall, yes, I'm quite happy with the Framework.  I did have a brief heart attack when on the 2nd day of this monthlong trip the Framework wouldn't start up, but I realized that it was flashing a code on its LEDs every time I tried to get it to turn on.  I couldn't quite follow the online documentation for what the code meant, so I emailed support. They asked me to send a video of the LEDs, and then told me how to fix it.  I did have to pick up another torx driver (framework comes with one but I hadn't brought it on the trip) and open up the laptop, but then... it was fixed and no problems since then.  I like laptops I can tinker with -- and where the company even tells me how to tinker with it.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006006769870438461\",\"timestamp\":1659921104639,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"also, i'm kind of waiting for 3rd party folks to create even better keyboards you can replace the stock keyboard with...\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006006901294759997\",\"timestamp\":1659921135973,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"i do love the replaceable changeable port modules\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006007097697259610\",\"timestamp\":1659921182799,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"fwiw, i also attached a duex pro mobile monitor to the back of the framework, so i have a built in dual monitor, and it's really nice and still super light\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006146275282010212\",\"timestamp\":1659954365321,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"When you said you had a heart attack, I read that literally and made me concerned for your health…then I read on and found out you meant that figuratively and it makes me happy you’re not in the hospital!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006203591314378802\",\"timestamp\":1659968030528,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Timothy Geigner\",\"content\":\"And now here I am thinking about the original Sam & Max adventure game....\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006211896665448448\",\"timestamp\":1659970010678,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"No worries, and thank you for the answer, it could have been days away and I'd be fine.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006212022788182066\",\"timestamp\":1659970040748,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"I actually hunted more and applied a firmware update that might have fixed my original issue but I will probably want to look at a framework seriously when I'm due for a replacement.  This machine is only a year old.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006269694631739513\",\"timestamp\":1659983790787,\"modified\":1659983799759,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"You can get it on GOG. I, for one, prefer the Telltale ones (which are also on GOG).\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006269914534916178\",\"timestamp\":1659983843216,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"One of the people who used to work for Telltale is a friend of mine and he went back to what he did pre-Telltale once the company (well, the _old_ company) folded.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006269971619389542\",\"timestamp\":1659983856826,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"He now has his games on Steam and itch.io.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006270164939051111\",\"timestamp\":1659983902917,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"enough of me being vague, here's a link to his games in itch: https://pinheadgames.itch.io/\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"article\",\"url\":\"https://pinheadgames.itch.io/\"}]},{\"id\":\"1006270413002788864\",\"timestamp\":1659983962060,\"modified\":1659983982350,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"He's remaking his flash catalogue in Unity, and they look and play like Telltale games pre-Walking-Dead.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006273170342416464\",\"timestamp\":1659984619461,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Timothy Geigner\",\"content\":\"Awesome....but the original Sam & Max is king!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1006299139631501322\",\"timestamp\":1659990811022,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Disagree; felt it had too much moon logic\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1007066296334160005\",\"timestamp\":1660173715433,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Oh <@Timothy Geigner>, Two things to announce: \\n#1: the gamedev studio at which I work will get a Nintendo President Hanafuda deck\\n#2: Speaking of decks, I got a steam deck!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1007066395240038400\",\"timestamp\":1660173739014,\"modified\":1660173750831,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"BTW, Hanafuda is in the public domain, so Nintendo can't litigate over it.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1008745218360758352\",\"timestamp\":1660574001637,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Timothy Geigner\",\"content\":\"I've been kicking around the idea of getting a Steam Deck....\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1008755201139818526\",\"timestamp\":1660576381717,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I've been really tempted to just put a Valve logo on my old Game Gear and tell everyone it's a Steam Deck.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009040177324372069\",\"timestamp\":1660644325334,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"The reason I got a Steam Deck was FOMO; I just felt like I’d deeply regret it if I didn’t get one. Turns out, I’m really glad I got one!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009114055555944518\",\"timestamp\":1660661939277,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"It's more or less a Linux box game head that attaches to your TV?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009114087726268466\",\"timestamp\":1660661946947,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Is that right?  Not that that can't be awesome.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009148669322346496\",\"timestamp\":1660670191842,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Leigh Beadon\",\"content\":\"no that's the old steam thing - this is a self-contained mobile gaming PC, pretty much like a Nintendo Switch but a bit bigger\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009148792899121153\",\"timestamp\":1660670221305,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Leigh Beadon\",\"content\":\"i've been tempted to get one just to support them, because I like how Valve went out of their way to make it repairable, moddable, support alternative OS installation, no walled-garden app store, etc.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009148842815537162\",\"timestamp\":1660670233206,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Leigh Beadon\",\"content\":\"a very user-friendly and general-computing-friendly approach\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009155925485043722\",\"timestamp\":1660671921846,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I have a Steam Link.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009156129374359702\",\"timestamp\":1660671970457,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"And believe it or not, Valve still supports it pretty well.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009161201969803385\",\"timestamp\":1660673179858,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Dear Mr. or Mrs. Dirt, what is the price point for a guest post on your website and/or blog? Have a salutations day!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009218642933727353\",\"timestamp\":1660686874851,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"you do not understand just how many of those i get every day.  and all i wonder is where does this actually work? what sites are doing this?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009247386360631459\",\"timestamp\":1660693727818,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"The whole question of whether a prosecution is political is completely meaningless when you are prosecuting a coup, the most political crime possible. It needs to be framed this way.  Own it.  It's political.  That's less than desirable, but totally necessary given the circumstances.  Why is this even a debate?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009248566591619143\",\"timestamp\":1660694009207,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Are you sure you're posting that in the right place? I think you meant to post that in the comments section of the Espionage Act article that has a creative commons license.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009256302763065344\",\"timestamp\":1660695853654,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"I wrote that there and I came here to say it louder, is that a problem?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009271670604841031\",\"timestamp\":1660699517633,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Yeah, you need to send a dozen emails to Mike requesting a guest post first.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009426184049799209\",\"timestamp\":1660736356509,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"No, it's not. I was just confused because it seemed weirdly out of context. Carry on!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009863289385271436\",\"timestamp\":1660840570542,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"I have always been baffled by that type of thing too.  I run a site that very obviously is functional, has zero written content on it of this type, and yet about twice a week I get someone offering \\\"a great opportunity for placed content.\\\"\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009863349556744364\",\"timestamp\":1660840584888,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"*mutters something about telling them where they can place their content*\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009863558001074216\",\"timestamp\":1660840634585,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I've seen a few sites that end up accepting things like that.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009863666918752318\",\"timestamp\":1660840660553,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"And I know that's what they're doing since it's one of the least subtle things I've ever seen.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009863880085884938\",\"timestamp\":1660840711376,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"It's particularly tragic when it happens to sites that used to be way more prominent, but gradually fell into obscurity.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009864772285632533\",\"timestamp\":1660840924093,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Yeah.  It becomes some bean counter's last Hail Mary or something\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009864883564711966\",\"timestamp\":1660840950624,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Some formerly well written site that suddenly has posts about \\\"the homeopathic cure that DOCTORS don't want you to know about!\\\"\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865205154594816\",\"timestamp\":1660841027297,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"I think it's a form of advertising\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865242211254332\",\"timestamp\":1660841036132,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Oh wait, <@mildconcern> already said that\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865373732065300\",\"timestamp\":1660841067489,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"The worst is when it happens to sites that aren't entirely dead.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865440589254656\",\"timestamp\":1660841083429,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"yeah it's all AI-written PR flack crap\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865491935920269\",\"timestamp\":1660841095671,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"So you'll see SPAM, SPAM, content, content, SPAM, content, SPAM, SPAM\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865523275771925\",\"timestamp\":1660841103143,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Five padding paragraphs that just mention the product as much as possible with as many SEO words packed in\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865625612587079\",\"timestamp\":1660841127542,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"the same type of crap that has made it basically impossible to find out on the web if a product sucks or not\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865678716665866\",\"timestamp\":1660841140203,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"or finding \\\"what is the best wireless mouse\\\" or whatever\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009865740100321390\",\"timestamp\":1660841154838,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"search for that and you get hundreds of these placed articles or whole websites that are nothing but them.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009866266208649278\",\"timestamp\":1660841280272,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"jayisgames [dot] com (trying to avoid direct links) used to be a great aggregate of various web games.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009866414020116553\",\"timestamp\":1660841315513,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Even by the time flash was killed off, they were already a shell of what they once were.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009866489270128712\",\"timestamp\":1660841333454,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Today, they're still active-ish...\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009866611437600852\",\"timestamp\":1660841362581,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"But it's painfully obvious which entries are actually real.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009920200340148406\",\"timestamp\":1660854139171,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Yes\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009920213216673843\",\"timestamp\":1660854142241,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"It's kind of amazing really\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009920246817230889\",\"timestamp\":1660854150252,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"it's not like web hosting costs that much to keep going\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009920303557791837\",\"timestamp\":1660854163780,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"the barriers here to keeping a good site going are low\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009920330892062840\",\"timestamp\":1660854170297,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"but I suppose the barriers to selling out are low as well\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009920417235996712\",\"timestamp\":1660854190883,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"\\\"Here, free money.\\\"  And who cares if it poisons the well, if you're sort of shutting down anyway\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"1009926564332458026\",\"timestamp\":1660855656465,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"by the way I knew a guy named Steve Biss in college and I cannot stop snickering every time the awful lawyer who shares his name comes up again for his awful lawyering\",\"embeds\":[]}]"]