tiramichu

Scraping has multiple meanings.

Web scraping is a specific type of scraping, but data via APIs or even torrents could be considered a scrape, even if that data is nicely structured.

The commonality between them is they all have the implication that:

• the data harvesting is automated
• the data you harvest is not owned by you, and you don't have explicit permission to use it
• the scope of what you harvest is broad and not targeted at retrieving specific limited pieces of data

Any access patterns that broadly correspond to this could be considered scraping.

Especially because third-party servers often had multiple times the XP rate of the official ones which made them way less of a grind.

Still a grind. I can't even count the time sunk in.

Just less of one!

Ding ding! Nailed it.

Inflate apparent views across the board while simultaneously making it harder for creators to get paid.

Just pick an accent colour that isn't brown and get a rug.

The whole point is they don't care enough about you, the candiate, to put a human in the loop.

Same here.

I do actually like data, often. I'm a data person. But how much data I need depends on what I'm doing with it.

For my battery level, all I need is sufficient granularity to tell me:

• "it's full"
• "It's in the middle"
• "it's kinda low"
• "It's critically low"

Those are the things which will drive my decision-making and anything more is a distraction and subtle stress I don't need.

'Pull' also refers to a 'win' in a gamified gambling sense.

In the context of opening a loot box or a prize card deck in a gatcha game, the 'pull' is what you draw out, and so a "crazy pull" would be a very desirable, rare or extremely lucky item.

Which I really hate, because it means when you get into some specific interest, YouTube basically stops showing you anything else.

Hey YouTube! Those interests I was into last week, last month, I'm still into them! Please don't railroad me like that!

On the contrary, they have learned a lot.

They've learned:

• Spying and snooping is very profitable
• The general member of the public is happy to press accept on any EULA and doesn't care
• There are no consequences for bad behaviour

My pain isn't in the browser, it's with other apps that are still playing catch-up.

A lot of apps have added support now, but there are still edge cases. Animated webp being one. If i send that in a messaging app, usually all the other person sees is the first frame.

It's absolutely not the fault of the format, I agree, but still a cause of compatibility headaches.

One take is that 'normal' users get 'scared' by extensions and do strange things like break their file by renaming the extension away or think they can literally convert a file between types by changing the extension.

And so they hide it away.

But it's bad logic because breaking things by trying to do weird stuff is how any of us who are technically literate became that way in the first place; by fucking around and finding out.

The frog is boiled slowly