thanks. I keep Firefox updated. the fact that changing the user agent gets the delay is pretty damning evidence

how do I find out more about this and what scripts do I need to make the sites faster again on Firefox

Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…

why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…

it also means don’t risk everything you have for a somewhat opaque promise of something better

hilarious. tx for sharing. updating to include the latest OS airlines tht constantly push ads or ai would be nice

out of the frying pan, into the fire

does it run Linux? I’m waiting for a good low power CPU laptop that I can install a standard distro on. preferably arch…

just leave them. i thought I would miss some of my communities. but I don’t at all… and the toxic right wing propaganda doesn’t make the front page ever.

api changes breaking my ad free client (reddit is fun) got me to leave. never going back

I wasted enough of my childhood waiting 15m for the game to load, only to crash after leaving the title screen. never going back to that authentic experience.

oh lol. been there done that. finally learnt it’s never worth your time to try and change someone’s beliefs.

so one thing I never got when. I was watching robocop was the danger of having mega corporations owning public services. I never gave it a second thought, and liked robocop cause hey robot cop action 😃

now we are living in a reality where billionaires and mega corporations own public services. it’s scary

there are plenty of low cost open access journals run by nonprofits and professional societies. however junior researchers when building their reputation try and publish in journals that are as prestigious as possible, without worrying about cost, apc, open access etc.

iwriting reviews is time consuming, unpaid, and doesn’t help the reviewers career. so it takes a while because reviewers are already busy and don’t prioritize writing reviews too much.

quality of the reviews is questionable. 10% of the reviews are through and provide valuable feedback. the remaining 90% are cursory “yeah this is interesting, publish it” or “not interesting/outside scope”.

very very few reviews find and report scientific errors

academic journals now only provide a service to authors. they used to distribute… but the articles are available free on the arxiv, pubmed, authors websites, etc. the peer review and typesetting journals do is a joke and no author will pay for that.

the value journals have now is mainly to the author, because the prestige of getting accepted by the journal helps with the authors career. publishers figured out that authors will pay for this, so here we are … 🙄

so back in the day we needed publishers for distribution. now with the Internet, distribution is easy. but prices only went up

associate editors and referees are unpaid volunteers. typesetting is also mainly done by the authors. but prices are high because the publisher wants to profit.

there are quite a few high quality journals that are fairly priced and published by non profit publishers. these are the only journals authors should publish in …