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My next words were "You know you sent that as me, right?" :)

I was working on some Windows Media DRM stuff and would get pinged with the really loopy support emails, most of the time not to have me fix them, just more of a heads-up. One said "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU ON MY PC EVERY MORNING GET THE FUCK OFF MY COMPUTER". I actually started to reply to this chap to see if I could get some sense, but a VP was nearby and saw my screen. They picked up my keyboard, wrote "FUCK OFF" and hit send.

I know a certain Hollywood fellow who paid to get his page written, massaged and inserted when he was up-and-coming. I didn't know that was a thing, but apparently some of the more well-regarded editors on Wikipedia take paid gigs. It's right there on their profile pages. I think some even list the pages they were paid to write. They're not technically doing anything wrong, they just know how to write the article and know all the rules for getting it through the editorial process without a hitch.

Here's an example of the tag the user has on their profile page to declare which pages they have been paid to write:

{{paid|employer=First Last|userbox=yes|article=[[First Last]]}}

This. I had one deleted because it needed more editing and I didn't get back to it in time, but you can just edit it and request it be put back, IIRC. It's like one button click.

I believe the new, new version of old Reddit that was demo'd last week is not live just yet.

Interesting. I didn't know that, thank you.

I've never met anyone who worked with him who had a single bad word to say about him. We should all strive to be Patricks.

Not only one of the nicest celebrities I've ever met, but one of the nicest people. His memory for people he met and minor details about them was fantastic. As absolutely as charming in real life as you could imagine.

The main reason to use H.264 in 2026 is legacy device support. Some devices cannot play H.265, but H.264 is playable almost anywhere, as a 20+ year old codec.

I was surprised that Twitter only lets you upload H.264 still, in 2026.

How are you determining that they have the same owner?

This sounds like the same hack that took over btdig.com -- some weird sort of region-based redirect that doesn't affect everyone.

[in fact, I just tried btdig.com and it tried to redirect me to the same site: guillible-thanks.com or whatever]

They just demoed an entirely new version of Old Reddit at ModWorld. Same front-end but runs on the New Reddit backend.