ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

Ah, yes, I'm off by a lot then, thanks!

Interesting - how do we know it's 36 billion entries? I just estimated that it hadn't been used that much based on almost never seeing anyone actually use it...

Google shuts down a lot of things, and usually there is nothing to do and parts of the internet break forever. But...I feel like this is one that would be cheap and at least possible to mitigate without Google's help.

Crawl for all goo.gl links prior to the 2025 shutdown, cache and enter the link and the redirect link into a database, and create a simple open source in-line replacement extension for browsers that intercepts goo.gl links and replaces them with the real link. These are just URLs, so the database even for hundreds of thousands of entries shouldn't be huge.

I mean, I'm not going to do it, but...

Do you own stocks through Vanguard? Other index funds? Chances are your money voted for Elon's pay package, unfortunately.

As everyone said, the API change was a big deal. But for me, the cover-up was worse than the crime. I was a 13 year user (came over on the Digg boat) with over 100K comment karma. Reddit's reaction, and Spez's "landed gentry" comments, were so insulting I just couldn't support the site.

I thought they may possibly change in response to the boycott. But when Reddit started replacing mods with unqualified scabs, that meant the site content itself was definitely going to go downhill. It also confirmed that it was no longer a site that valued its users (who, as many have said, were providing the very thing that made the site valuable for free, purely in exchange for not being treated poorly).

At that point, why remain? Niche communities are the only reason I ever check back in. And like others, I'm seeing Reddit devolve into karma-whoring discussions that are just a battle of one-line snarky jokes, a huge amount of bot content, and reposts as a rule, no longer exception.

Conversely, there are people on Lemmy who actually want to read, think and actually respond. Pretty cool. I'm good with this trade.

I don't think there's an answer beyond "New Yorker."

The goal of a New Yorker cartoon is to make you go, "huh." That's all. I'd even go so far as to say punchlines or "points" are probably seen as gauche to New Yorker editors.

Huh... That's really not nice.

Maybe the command line version is consistent, but day to day I prefer not to do command line. I've tried like 5 different GUIs and they all have failed downloads, incorrect formats, and other issues just doing test downloads. I don't know why, but it's been a problem every time for me.

You should listen to all the yt-dlp comments, but I've always had trouble getting all the yt-dl variants to just download the best version and subtitles consistently.

I use 4K Video Downloader, and it's easier to use. It has a 30 video per day limit is all, which is more than I need.

The "aspirational brand" value is a bit of Apple-ception, though. The really, really, luxury-level wealthy people buying Vision Pro, to inspire the just really wealthy people to buy the Vision Basic or whatever it's called. It still is the price of the highest-end iPhone, and it's far less functional.

I wouldn't be surprised if they treated the Vision Pro as Apple's version of the beta product - top-down rather than bottom-up testing.

Yes, that's right. Not disputing that. Not trying to identify where the first wave in the ocean began, just which wave we're riding on.

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Right, I mean, I'm not saying it's a new idea. Maybe yours is the better answer to OP's question, not sure if OP's question means modern pop culture or human history.