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"TL;DR: reddit is launching a bus tour through the Midwest to campaign for the Open Internet. Be a part of it by contributing HERE, and subscribing to /r/internet2012."

And Amazon and Microsoft as well. Happy employees are better employees. Also, if you are head quartered in a state without gay marriage, you lose out on recruiting some talent. Acquiring and retaining talent is something these companies are extremely concerned about.

Reddit's API has some amazing tools, you could build something like this yourself!

PRAW gives you a really powerful way to interface with the API, if you like Python (if you don't know any Python, I can't recommend CodeAcademy highly enough).

A basic flow for an automated top-content mail would be something like . . .

1. Get a user's subscribed subreddits

2. Read the top posts for each subreddit

3. Apply some weighting multiplier or filtering to list (maybe you want to see the top ten from each? Or you want to see the ones that got an unusually high amount for votes for the subreddit size?)

4. Combine the filtered lists into a single list and drop it into some formatting

5. Send it to you (email or pushbullet or rss or whatever)

I think Tom's Hardware actually had a better article about the impact of SOPA, because they narrowed the focus to what it would mean for that one site.

He describes how SOPA means that they are no longer safe from a full-site takedown in the event that one of their members uploads an unboxing video set to a copyrighted song. The whole site can be taken down for that one violation.

So that mean's Tom's either has to rigorously screen all user submitted content for potential violations, or they just have to stop accepting those submissions entirely.

The idea of the end of user-submitted content should shock and appall anyone who's spent more than 10 minutes on the internet in the last 5 years.

edit: article

A beta version on Android is available today here. We're working to get it out publicly as soon as we're sure it's ready.

>but where do we go then?

Probably over to the open-source and non-profit reddit clone called Tildes.net created by Deimorz. He's an ex-Reddit admin and also the creator of AutoModerator.

More info can be found over at /r/tildes.

Is there anything that you folks can do about the "impassible captcha of doom" that the new CloudFlare setup presents to users who access the site through Tor with JavaScript disabled?

> Apple put in a canary clause

Unfortunately, it didn't last very long. Almost like the Government saw it and said, "Hey, we never thought about forcing Apple to secretly give us information!"

Tor in no way advocates child pornography.

It was created by the US Navy and still gets a lot of funding from them. Tons of journalists use it. It's used in China to bypass the great firewall.

I personally use Tor extremely often because I like to keep my different online identities separate.

Saying Tor advocates child pornography is like saying Tesla advocates running people over.

more information

CTO of a tech company called Zapier -- we literally depend on net neutrality to keep a healthy partner platform going with nearly 1000 different services (we are sort of like "legos for the internet" I suppose). Without net neutrality, there would be so much less diversity and competition that you'd never even have the problem we're solving (integrating your favorite services together) -- you'd have a completely different problem (none of your favorite services would exist).

We support net neutrality, we're proud to be a participant! https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/#participants https://zapier.com/

Now they know!

[](/c21 "I think it would get caught by automatic scanners if they were implemented, but I doubt it would be caught manually. Unfortunately, all of Reddit could be taken down if someone links to illegal content and it's caught, so it's kind of a moot point. Also, this explanation is pretty long-winded, so I think it's worthy of Twilight overthinking things. I'll also take this opportunity to promote DeSOPA, a firefox addon that uses a DNS server external of the US to resolve URLs, effectively bypassing SOPA's "takedowns."") DeSOPA is available here

Hello, everyone. I wrote the tune that was used in the video; Hueypriest contacted me a couple weeks back and asked if Reddit could use it.

My personal opinion on the issue is a strong one: a free internet is a powerful internet. No tool distributes information, encourages collaboration, or protects the basic mental interests of humanity like this one.

I was thrilled to be asked to be a part of it.

If you like the song, please download it for free... I'd like to think that it'll remind you of a watershed moment for bipartisan support of freedom of information.

Oh, and feel free to pirate the hell out of it. =)

Cool, maybe this will prompt reddit to switch to a GPL-compatible license.

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/LICENSE

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

Abortions are only 3% of planned parenthood's business.

Hypothetically, if 3% of the money donated to PP went to abortions that would mean $2,482.97 would go to abortions. The average abortion costs whomever is getting one $451.. (I couldn't find any info on how much it costs PP per abortion.. I'm assuming it's significantly higher than $451) that means that 5 abortions would be covered.

Abortions are the woman's choice. It's their right. Whether you believe in them or not that's your own choice.

Seriously, read the annual report for the 2013-2014 year. Here's a link: Annual Report

> Does Reclassifying as Title II give the government free reign over our personal internet traffic?

No. Neither does it take it away. In other words, the US government is performing unconstitutional spying on all of its citizens currently and Title II doesn't stop this or make it worse. It simply won't be affected.

Title II, to my understanding, affects how internet providers have to treat the flow of information, not with the costs of providing that information or the privacy of the information.

If you're worried about internet privacy in today's world, please make sure to use tools specifically geared towards it, such as Tor and/or HTTPS everywhere.

If you just want the government to stop spying on you, call your representatives and tell them this!

However, Title II and government surveillance are completely unrelated.

yeah, I never used the redditgifts store, but the way that all went down sucked.

Reddit as a business never seems to have an actual plan going forward: see http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/upvoted.com

Oh the irony. I'm the mankini guy. I usually avoid cameras like a ninja, and this is pretty much my first selfshot ever, hence the quality. Never expected this.

Goes well with the themesong /u/naughtyoctopus made for me a few months back: https://soundcloud.com/naughtyoctopus/danishcunt

I use Chrome as my primary browser for personal use and development -- so I for one want to see this happen. I've worked on a Chrome extension on GitHub, but it's not finished yet (slyf is helping with some bug fixes!). Soon. :)

https, versus http, allows for more security with your internet communications. So if you put "https://www.reddit.com" into reddit's web address, or your bookmark for reddit, you will have all your reddit activity encrypted.

It's a great action-adventure shooting game, sort of like zelda except with a much more prominent story and more minigames. In a world where 80% of new releases are derivatives of something else, bastion does a fairly good job of standing out.

Also, one of the songs in the game that I don't want to link so you can enjoy it for yourself gives me an orgasm.

StoneCypher doesn't know what he's talking about, despite running around for a long time pretending he does. reddit has a lot of armchair programmers that like to talk about how dumb we must be.

In fact, nobody in that thread knows what they're talking about. We don't use recursion in building comments trees (and we don't use SQL in the normal sense either). We cache the whole structure serialised and modify it in place in memory

• https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/models/_builder.pyx#L23
• https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/comment_tree.py

>The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

...

>I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

--Winston Churchill, as Home Secretary in a 1910 Departmental Paper

Whoa, interesting and neat move from all of the drama at Kleiner Perkins. Welcome!

Just a reminder that you can add a manual HSTS entry to Chrome if you're feeling bold, that'll stop the initial HTTP request. I added some info at https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2ftv08/hell_its_about_time_reddit_now_supports_fullsite/ckcv873 describing what you'd do for imgur.com

Well, I figured out what it was supposed to do after reading through the other posts, but it doesn't take me to my profile. I guess "homepage" was unclear - it just goes to https://www.facebook.com (my news feed)

LICEcap does a [good job](/r/blog/comments/1wfh5c/important_reddit_announcement/cf1mpgt) out of the box and it's cross-platform. To me, GiffingTool feels a lot more bloaty.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/david-brock-fundraising-trump-233974

Can the admin bring attention to shills?

Reddit is one of the most trafficked website in the world.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com

Of course large groups will try to control it to sway public opinion.

I believe so, yes. I think I saw a comment from an IT admin saying that he may be forced to expand his blocks to all of Reddit from just the NSFW subreddits because of HTTPS.

Actually, that's what the core staff is busy with right now. However, we do get a lot of great suggestions and code contributions from the community, which is why it's often the fastest way to get new features into the codebase!

Not sure what that site is counting, last incident was 24 days ago when Amazon had another EC2 outage.

• https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/100757696218800128
• https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/100761791721775104

I am going to experiment with that, but the primary UI will be elements in-page at the bottom right. There will probably be two versions available -- one with the infobar API, and one with a more standard Chrome implementation. I'm developing the beta on GitHub and slyf has started hacking on it as well.

That used to be what IAmA was. Here is a post on MetaFilter from 2009 that still links some of the best early AMAs. It really is a shame it turned in to celebrity Q&A. I proposed fixing this by banning proper nouns from the titles, but no one listened.

> Direct link to the indiegogo fundraiser for the lazy (and awesome!).

That site does IP-geolocation, and does it very, very wrong. Incompetently wrong. You should never derive someone's language preferences from someone's location. You should almost never (and certainly not in this case) present different language content at one and the same URL. You should not get in your user's face just because HEY! I THINK I FIGURED OUT YOUR IP IS FROM FOO! ERGO YOU MUST SPEAK BAR, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY IN FOO SPEAKS, AMIRITE‽ Well, done, Einstein. Have a cookie. Now STFU and GTFO! (You blithering eejit.)

And you should absolutely never do all three, namely derive someone's language preferences from someone's location, and get in their face with it, and do so at one and the same URL, – and on top of that also insist on shoving that language you thought you could so smartly autodetect from IP-geolocation down the user's throat even though the user's browser language is English. Guess what? If the user's OS and browser language is English, shoving moronspeak down their throat just because you think you're oh so smart to be able to detect that they live in (or maybe just access the public Internet via) moronland is probably not going to get you liked. But of course, a site that thinks it's smarter than the user and the puny user's preferences is probably run by morons too, so that all kinda figures.

/rant

(SCNR. I feel better now.)

I know this is all about physical school supplies, but I thought it may be worth posting to let teachers know that Basecamp - a web-based project management tool - is completely free for teachers.

https://basecamp.com/teachers

This is a $100/month value, and they can invite as many teachers and students to join and use the account as they like totally free of charge. This is a worldwide offer as well, there's no regional restriction, so schools in all countries can use it.

I know a lot of teachers that use this and find it really helpful, so hopefully it will be of some use to other teachers here. :)

Keep up the good work teachers!

The _hot method accepts a long for both ups and downs? Are you seriously expecting to get more than 2 billion votes in either direction?! Why not an int? You're not storing it like that are you?

They can never contain the photos, but they can make quite a bit of money from people discussing it, just like bloggers like HuffPo, Jezebel etc who can simultaneously condemn it while making money from discussing it. If I remember correctly there were multiple "gold" posts in that subreddit. Each thread had more gold posts than I can ever remember seeing in one place.

That gold went somewhere. The ad revenue went somewhere. I accept reddit's reasoning behind banning them, but I'd be interested to know how much money they've made from it, and what they'll do with it.

A "government" should be transparent, and all that...

Made me think of Nazi Germany, personally.Not to Godwin myself or anything, but...

https://books.google.com/books?id=C_fEBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA26&ots=rliN1bG-g_&dq=the%20most%20devoted%20of%20all%20men%20to%20our%20German%20Fatherland&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=fatherland&f=false

Actually, our very first flash sale we did with special surprises had Kentucky as the special surprise location.

Give this a quick read. SOPA has been shelved, but it won't necessarily be forever. Additionally, PIPA is still on the table in the Senate.

That's the thing as far as we know all evidence gathered from public court hearings regarding this suggests that such a "gag on canaries" isn't legal in America where reddit operates. As far as the CDN goes I'm pretty sure reddit uses cloudfare for their CDN and it would appear as though they have been served NSLs. So take that information for what you will.

>Another issue I had with it was that I would constantly be following user-posted links that went back to http://www.reddit.com/ - and I wouldn't notice until a long time afterwards.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

;)

• Install EFF's HTTPs Everywhere browser extension in your parents, friends and coworkers browsers. Make them aware everything they have on US cloud services is likely copied to US government agencies
• Install AdBlock too, to curb user tracking
• Explain what is browser incognito mode.

It's not perfect foolproof but it makes tapping much harder. Raise awareness!

Here are the cities ranked by views per capita:

Seattle 7.4 Vancouver 6.4 Austin 5.2 Toronto 2.2 Chicago 1.7 Los Angeles 1.4 Houston 1.3 New York 1.2 London 0.57

Populations were taken directly from Wikipedia "city" populations (these are within city limits, not urban or metro areas). It seemed like a reason thing to do given that I don't know what the geographic boundaries are for the Google Analytics stats. Feel free to refine it. Script.

I'm sure that there are very good free-as-in-freedom frameworks to make a responsive site (trust me, I use them at work all the time), the only detail that deters the FSF from using it is the fact that many free software advocates disable JavaScript in their browsers. Why? Because said scripts are more often than not non-free software, or else are not correctly labeled - their project to detect properly labeled free-as-in-freedom JavaScript is used by very few sites, most of them from the FSF itself.

And yet you are directing your words at me as though you believe that you know me. A more reasonable person would have said

> Many people would rather post on Reddit...

in light of the fact that you don't know anything about my opinions or beliefs, and can't reasonably claim to have any evidence as to whether I back them up with actions.

Here, I'll make up a word for you: inactivists. I think it works better than "slacktivism", because the latter term reminds many people of the popular team collaboration tool.

Zelak is correct. Chomsky has been asked questions much like this in the past, I think his answer can be gleaned from his summarizing of Adam Smith:

>Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is. But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be.

He doesn't come out and agree with Smith, but I think it is safe to assume he is at least sympathetic to that viewpoint. In other words, it isn't that the people are inherently stupid, but that they are being actively made that way by their social circumstances. Once you remove the implicit assumption in your argument that this comfortable stupidity is something inherent to those people, the argument that we might as well take advantage of its existence falls apart. Instead, we see that they are being made stupid and this is subsequently used as a justification to continue the process of making them stupid.

Great interview. I've been a fan of Norvig's since the first edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. I'm glad to see such a level-headed person in such an important place.

As for his question, do I get what I'm looking for from reddit: I was surprised by the cultural aspect of reddit, the fact that links are interesting inasmuch as they and the conversations they generate contribute to the reddit culture - either by reinforcing it or making it evolve. I had to adapt my expectations to enjoy it, but I do. I do fear an ultimate sclerosis (or does consanguinity bring hemophilia?) because perpetuating the accepted behaviors through downvoting has become the norm. I'm not sure how this could be improved, though.

Lol I'm not dying on any hill here, mate. My side isn't the one editing user comments on the 4th largest trafficked site on the internet. That's not a hill I'd die on or try minimise.

/u/sparserlogic deleted your first comment:

>Oh goody, bias from the mods now.

???

This isn't news.

Reddit was one of 83 companies to come out publicly in protest of the NSA.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/stopwatching-us-launch/

While Comcast aren't the saint in this dispute, it'd be wrong to say that Netflix/Cogent are blameless as people are suggesting

https://groups.google.com/a/measurementlab.net/forum/#!topic/discuss/vcQnaZJO6nQ is straight from a horses mouth - a cogent employee - that they were deprioritising traffic (and fwiw Jason Livingood, for people who don't know, is a Comcast exec) - but is noticeably silent on how Netflix traffic was treated

When I type in www.reddit.com it goes to http://www.reddit.com. Is there a setting in firefox or chrome (or an add-on) that will try the https first when leave it off?

edit: looks like https everywhere

> and even domain addresses located outside the US

For example, Youtube has the domains youtu.be for URL-shortening purposes. And .be is the top-level domain for Belgium. Which is the "real" domain name, youtube.com or youtu.be? According to the reddit blog write-up, the laws don't say.

So if someone uploads an infringing video to YouTube and starts charging users for it (something YouTube supports -- remember when 'Friday' was $2.99 to watch for about a day?), and if someone links from Facebook to it, does that mean the copyright owner can get Facebook to block all of YouTube? I'm not a lawyer, but as the bill seems to be worded, maybe! Or maybe Facebook just has to block the link to youtu.be but not to youtube.com, even though they go to the same IP address?

Yup, checked my user page that day, nada. Got tired of the whole thing eventually and took off.

Google says reddit.com has 12M viewers, and they distributed ~250K spores. Simple math says that 2% of the users got spores to give out. Assuming nobody who had a spore to give received a spore, at most 4% of the population was able to participate.

Or if you go with the conservative user number (2.4M), it works out to 10% and 20%. Still pretty bad to exclude 80% of the user base.

If you're down to try something lightweight and a bit retro, I'm going to shamelessly plug BZFlag. It's a multiplayer 3D first person shooter straight out of the early 2000's. It's free, open source, and runs on pretty much any computer, plus the community is pretty interesting. I guarantee your money back if you're not hooked after 24 hours ;)

http://bzflag.org/

I taught high school math back in the day. One aesthetically pleasing thing you can put on your wall is the unit circle on butcher paper. Go basic or posterazor one; then when the kids actually cover it, have them make prettier ones for you. There are also some neat Einstein quotes you can posterazor, as well. Just to tide you over :)

I got mine:

Hollywood Nudes in 3-D coffee table book (amazon.com). 1950's pin up girl photos, several in the old school 3D.

I make a custom 3 dial clock on my CNC mill: https://imgur.com/QQySJ

90% complete in the photo. I shipped it out Saturday morning, so hopefully it will arrive Wednesday or Thursday.

Assuming we all get paid minimum wage and only browse reddit at work (ಠ_ಠ), that's 65.23 million dollars wasted (spent?) a month!

When was that sampled? Because here's how long all that is put together, assuming the bare minimum for each timeframe is met by each of those views. (1027 years, if you're lazy.)

where did you get that false information that used to be true but hasn't been in some time.

You didn't even look, you just took another user's word for it.

9,988,573 bottles of beer on the wall, 9,988,573 bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around — 9,988,572 bottles of beer on the wall!

And football is a bit too large. This is just 19 races in a year, which makes it easier to follow. I don't want to watch 90 minutes of television multiple times a week. This is simple. And it involves machines, which makes it much more interesting for me.

And I use the HTTPS Everywhere addon. So if I link to Wikipedia or Google they automatically are the HTTPS versions. (Well, other sites as well, but those are the two I link to the most.)

Hmm... I was directed to ADrive on another forum. 50Gb free, max 2Gb per file. I haven't used it, but it may be something that you're looking for. Pity that you have to pay for a desktop client.

Note: I haven't used it, so I don't know how reliable/secure it is.

Well in that case, come visit us at r/losangeles, also be sure to check out the Reddit Guide To LA. It's a fantastic resource for those who live here or plan on visiting.

> PLEASE do something to improve this.

You want to know why you lost the election? ^^^

While you were all calling them 'ignorant', 'deplorable', ect... Telling them, 'no your insurance only went up a little, you're wrong." They were out doing simple math. "If Trumpy has 30 out of 59 counties in Important State Y, does Trumpy get all the Electoral votes?"

Yup, he's our President, lol.

But consolation prize is we aren't going to war with Russia like the Dems wanted. So....We got that going for us ;)

TL;DR: Making a sale is all about Getting to Yes. And you HAVE to know your BATNA.

> It's somewhat cliche in SF to talk about technologies that are "disruptive", but I have to say it. Bitcoin is the most disruptive technology in the history of the world.

You know, a lot of people use that word to invoke Christensen, but so few seem to know what it actually means. Disruption is not when a technology gains widespread adoption, or changes the way people act. That's "innovation". Disruption is a specific type of innovation, one that involves a new entrant to an established market undercutting the competition by offering a simpler product at lower profit margins.

Bitcoin is definitely inventive. It solves a very difficult problem in a particularly elegant way through a novel combination of technologies. Bitcoin is questionably innovative: it has seen very little adoption and has done very little to change the way society as a whole acts, but there is still plenty of time for that. Bitcoin is absolutely not disruptive. Money and economies are slow ideas, and bitcoin is not winning against the banking system by having better UX or being cheaper.

If it does win, it will do so by being absolutely better at certain applications than the current banking system. It may well end up being a hugely innovative system, one that even some disruptive businesses are built on top of (see, for instance, Changetip—undercutting Paypal for micro-donations on cost while offering a less feature-rich product).

I would seriously recommend reading The Innovator's Dilemma instead of assuming that the clichés you hear in Silicon Valley have anything to do with how innovation works. Better yet, read The Lever of Riches by Joel Mokyr for a very detailed look at how and why different inventions have been innovative, and why others have not.

> I again request you all formally bring it up at your next staff meeting.
> Surely that won't be too much to ask.

Did you read _Getting to Yes_ last weekend, and you're trying out some of the tactics?

This is a little late reply but being a Nepali I know disease outbreaks are inevitable. Something like Life straw would save a few hundred lives.

A lot of the companies that were in the list of companies to boycott also sell products to Canada. I'm going to be mailing letters to them to let them know I plan to stop giving them my business. I think it'll be good for them to see that they're hurting their profit margins outside of their borders by supporting SOPA.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjisu18X6s7lPtAsIQg5Ol3KJjymPT2az1kasQVwGiw/preview?pli=1&sle=true

and

http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nolvw/list_of_tech_companies_that_are_involved_with_sopa/

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> Europeans and east asians are enjoying regulated, non-discriminating internet access

Incorrect. In Europe we already have fast-lanes and other "bad" things and it's stills work fine.

• [Triple play](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_play_(telecommunications) providers already distinguish between data for their premium services (TV and Calls) and Internet data. This means that tripple play providers can stream with the highest quality video stream and with less costs.
• Cell phone data is already billed according to data source because a lot of cell phone data providers don't bill Spotify data

> For years now it has been much more advantageous to run online services out of europe

Depends on a lot of variables than solely bandwidth costs. http://www.zdnet.com/top-10-countries-in-which-to-locate-a-data-center-7000015971/ Asia seems the most expense for bandwidth, Europe and USA are not far away.

> U.S., where it's owned by a cartel.

The cartel in USA was created by the government. The USA government made it legal (in many cases) that when the first cable company reached a certain area they could can claim monopoly. They also they made (on the other cases) legal for ISP to arrange among themselves non-competing agreements (you make business in that place and I make business in the other place). This regulation doesn't solve this problem.

> Google.. Netflix

These two companies have vetted interests in this subject. Since they use the Internet infrastructure, which they don't pay to use, to reach the Internet users they want this to stay the same. It's the Internet rules and it's fine this way. But these rules weren't designed for heavy bandwidth services like Netflix.

Also, both companies already have and pay for fast-lane access. They invest on their private network infrastructure so they can be physical closer to the Internet users and so reduce latency and improve network throughput.

This is how shit gets handled: http://www.zdnet.com/change-your-passwords-comcast-hushes-minimizes-serious-hack-7000026118/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2095445/comcast-gets-hacked-downplays-potential-dangers.html

NOT fucking banners and begging for donations and e-mail addresses.

> “In December 2011, Randy Komisar, a Senior Partner, told [Pao] that the personalities of women do not lead to success at KPCB, because women are quiet.”

Irony, it is delicious.

thumbs.reddit.com is a piece of ancient history which was made obsolete a long long time ago. The reason it doesn't have a certificate is that it's directly talking to Amazon S3. We deliberately moved thumbnails, subreddit images, and subreddit stylesheets to *.thumbs.redditmedia.com to avoid sending session cookies for static file requests. S3 is a fantastic service, but it has rather high latency (500ms vs 50ms); I highly recommend reuploading those images to the new system so you can take advantage of the CDN's performance and proper SSL certificates.

With technology-related things, sure, but going to the front page of /r/ELI5 right now, many of them probably work better for 5 than 86.

This, for example, and very much so this.

HTTPS stands for HTTP-Secure. Most websites in the world have HTTP://www.yoursitename.com. What this change for Reddit will do will be to change all Reddit websites to HTTPS://www.reddit.com It is a more secure way of accessing the web (which you would access by the normal HTTP protocol). The problem with the standard HTTP is that it is open to snooping and eavesdropping by whoever wants to - basically people can see what you've been doing more easily.

HTTPS is encrypted, thus it's harder to get in. It's like someone trying to access a suitcase... if it is open and unprotected (or can easily be opened) then it is HTTP. However, if it has a code and is always locked, then it is harder to gain access to the contents unless you know the code yourself - this is similar to HTTPS.

It won't change the basic functionality of Reddit for the end user. The user will still be able to access reddit and its subreddits easily (however 3rd party content may be blocked).

There are addons, such as HTTPSEverywhere, which force all sites to use HTTPS (provided the website owner has given the web server the ability to host HTTPS websites)

Hope this helps (was more ELI10 than ELI5, but tried to keep it as basic as possible)

Happened a long time ago I think. This is my post when I called it out some time ago... I'm glad that now this opinion is becoming mainstream. Sadly I haven't found a good reddit alternative yet, but at the second I do, I'll jump.

I don't get something.

First, according to the media, obesity is an epidemic in the Western world. There are hordes of mammoth lard asses roaming the streets looking for donuts and intravenous high fructose corn syrup.

Second, a lot of Redditors supposedly fall into the category of "fat desk jockeys who spend their days shovelling Cheetos into their mouth as they try to play Minecraft without getting their massive FUPAs in the way of their semen-encrusted keyboards."

If both of these things are true, why is the largest available size only XL? Shouldn't us fatties have an option for at least a XXL?

Perhaps using coloured coins to create a Reddit specific coin on the Bitcoin block chain is a better idea. Rationale.

Please consider this instead of creating yet another altcoin.

'Local businesses' simply won't advertise on reddit simply as there's no way to target ads to a specific locale.

I know a few companies who would be more than happy to advertise on reddit as the demographics fit them perfectly. Unfortunately they are UK only businesses and something like 93% of their ad spend would be pissed up the wall showing ads to non-UK redditors.

I know it's possible to target specific smaller subreddits (IE /r/unitedkingdom), this isn't really a solution though as by far the vast majority of people who click ads aren't registered members so will never see ads displayed soley to those subscribers.

Advertisers REALLY need a way to target IPs from certain countries.
IE, display my ads to any subscribers of [/r/pics](/r/pics) who are from a UK IP.

This shouldn't be too hard to do, a simple geoIP lookup to get the country code whenever a users IP changes would be enough.
There are no end of pre-built python modules which already do this.

It also kind of annoys me when I see ads for US only brands & offers, this would also help reduce that problem.

I'll check that out sometime when I get a chance. I'll trade you: this is great if you're interested in Kentucky history and Southern culture.

If you're referring to this one, then yes, I did in fact pick up a lot of Android from that class. However, I've been working at reddit for a while.

I started the app with zero knowledge of Android development. It's been quite the ride.

Came here to post this. It is a very wothwhile cause and has fantastic momentum building at the moment. Please help Keselo's post get noticed!

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40% of Reddit's users are from other countries (source), but 100% of their charity donations will go to the USA.

I know, I should be used to it - US companies ignore their international customers all the time.

I solve that in the Reddited extension by letting them choose always check, never check or only check for a user defined list of domains.

Also I've found that Reddited is good for informing users whether a web-page has been submitted before.

If everyone had it then the number of re-posts may drastically plummet.

Do they have graphical previews too? I tend to look at that rather than the title now. (Tab Sidebar's page shows how this looks -- it's the extension I previously used.)

1: Could you make it so that mods can set a custom message to be displayed to all participants at the start of a chat session?

I think there's some fear that this feature might be seen as an official part of a subreddit and therefore the mods' responsibility.

This way they could set messages like "This chat room is not protected by the subreddit moderators, use at your own risk!" or "If anyone is trying to sell you X here, report them and leave the room!" etc. which I think would greatly alleviate the issue.

2: Have you explored the idea of making the Reddit chat system run on the Matrix protocol?

Currently, Reddit chat is yet another chat app with no obvious security or privacy measures in place and is incompatible with anyone who doesn't have a Reddit account.
If it ran on the Matrix protocol, E2E encryption could be built in and you would be able to use your Reddit account to communicate with everyone else in the Matrix fediverse.
This would be especially useful for subreddit-wide chats as Matrix can bridge chat rooms to many other chat apps like Discord, Telegram and IRC.

Maybe say, "Yes, this is a nerdy thing. But it's a political issue which affects non-nerds as well."

Maybe add, "The point is to stop stuff like this: http://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-faces-net-neutrality-complaint-for-facetime-over-3g "? Or share the picture the admins posted?

Indeed, they are using GANDI.

To work around the current situation, if for whatever reason Reddit does not want to change CA, they can: - issue their certificate with a 3 month expiration (like Google is doing), - AND vote for the SHA-2 support in the GANDI wishlist.

wiki and archive.org are really important charities, they're enabling literally billions of people to get access to educational, informational and cultural resources they'd otherwise never have been able to access - it's helping rich academics and uneducated peasants alike.

For those that don't know Archive,org is more than just the waybackwhen machine it's a huge repository of scanned texts, digitised images, videos and audio and it's all in the public domain. Most of the books on Gutenberg are created from books scanned and OCRed on Archive,org [then proofread and collated by the awesome people at distributed proofreaders, and you can be one - these groups need more than just money they need active participants...]

Internet Archive EIN: 943242767

Distributed Proofreaders Foundation EIN: 204682326

http://www.pgdp.net/c/

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-crowned-no-1-with-biggest-market-cap-2011-08-10

I was wrong, apple is actually the biggest company in the world by market cap.

Apple's market cap is over 330 billion dollars.

Microsoft's market cap is around 219 billion dollars.

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I would add to this some alternatives to iTunes on Windows for managing music on your iPod products. For the longest time I was using Floola which you can just store on your iPod as a single executable, but it unfortunately doesn't support the 6th gen nano, so I started using MediaMonkey which is not quite as minimalist but gets the job done.

But not by a factor of a whole 1. According to my quick estimates using this data, it would only go up by a factor of about 0.4.

Note: I am not a math person.

>..and Web companies have the same power.. what if google stopped showing all searches and only the ones they want. What if Facebook allowed fake ads and stifled real speach..what if... Oh, wait...

https://duckduckgo.com

https://www.startpage.com/

Besides easy competition, they don't make access impossible, or chain you to contracts or are roads to services. Google is more like Yellow Pages of the internet.

ISPs are more like highways and roads. Those are generally government-owned, letting you go anywhere. Corporate-owned ones would have toll booths, or even might be deconstructed if they have a reason, like they don't like the city it leads to. And unlike Yellow Pages, you can't replace a road. You're stuck, or be lucky to find another road to lead you there. Good thing there are many government-owned roads!

It's not actually a script but a user style.

You can use it with Stylus (apply to reddit.com).

It will show Rickroll links in red and if you roll over it will show a label RICKROLL, like this.

Alert: it can slow down page rendering a little bit, but I don't notice anything.

/RICKROLL/ a[href*=dQw4w9WgXcQ], a[href*=xfr64zoBTAQ], a[href*=oHg5SJYRHA0], a[href*=Wjy3o0FoLYc], a[href*=NZLOb2TD2X8], a[href*=Qi7ViyM5-WE], a[href*="latlmes.com"], a[href*="0uzB3M0vvdo"], a[href*=R390EId], a[href*=ub82Xb1C8os], a[href*=DLzxrzFCyOs], a[href*=j5a0jTc9S10], a[href*=bIepKs5plNM], a[href*=JVYJBHiGW44]{ color: red!important; position: relative; } a[href*=dQw4w9WgXcQ]:hover::after, a[href*=xfr64zoBTAQ]:hover::after, a[href*=Wjy3o0FoLYc]:hover::after, a[href*=NZLOb2TD2X8]:hover::after, a[href*=Qi7ViyM5-WE]:hover::after, a[href*=oHg5SJYRHA0]:hover::after, a[href*="latlmes.com"]:hover::after, a[href*="0uzB3M0vvdo"]:hover::after, a[href*=R390EId]:hover::after, a[href*=ub82Xb1C8os]:hover::after, a[href*=DLzxrzFCyOs]:hover::after, a[href*=j5a0jTc9S10]:hover::after, a[href*=bIepKs5plNM]:hover::after, a[href*=JVYJBHiGW44]:hover::after{ content: "RICKROLL"; position: absolute; background: red; color: #fff; margin-left: 1.5em; }

Either nav to https://www.reddit.com manually, or change it in account preferences so that reddit redirects you on login.

HTTPS Everywhere is an EFF extension that rewrites URLs to their encrypted versions automatically. This is a good extension to have anyway, but it's not specific to reddit.

HTTPS Everywhere may be the way to go.

Apart from that, I think that, provided you are logged in and have opted in to Reddit HTTPS, it will automatically default to HTTPS. Even if you physically type in HTTP://www.reddit.com/r/subredditname, it defaults to HTTPS (just tried it with /r/mildlyinteresting)

The best would be to decentralize the Internet using new protocols preventing companies from being able to compromise neutrality of the network. Many developers across the world are building technologies capable of this like ipfs or zeronet

However, deploying technology on such a large scale and make it a standard seems near to impossible.