Posting to unlurk myself. It’s… haaard to kick the habit.

0.96k — and 15 years. I’m a pathological lurker, send help.

https://archive.is/NQfbh

No, it’s a consequence of normies.

The original Reddit, like Slashdot, and Dig to a lesser extent, defaulted to a global community. These places started out by attracting nerds from across the globe. Nerdy communities are internationalist, and fluent in English. So there was a tacit understanding that English was simply Esperanto and that anyone could be from anywhere.

Slowly getting mainstream, Reddit started attracting randos. And American randos apparently associate English with themselves, completely lost to the fact that something like half of the planet uses it as a common language. So I sat and watched as the overall tone of the place went from a spaceship, to Chick-fil-A, Podunk.

Sauce: English as a second language and been there from the start.

I don’t think you understand. How do you know that the heavy majority of the users (of the early Reddit) were from the US? You are repeating the viewpoint that the place started out as US-centric — any concrete data here? Why do you think that the country where a web site was built in matters here?

I’ll reiterate: English is fundamentally different from Japanese because it is widely used as a second language.

It’s good data, but we know it’s been overrun by Americans.

Early on, the number was even larger.

This is something that we don’t know.

Early on, it was about random programming links and stuff that such crowd cared about. Then a bunch of people poured in and confused the language with the locality.

I’m arguing in good faith, since this is a new place and I’m (still) trying to foster discussion. Unfortunately, I could not find any published data on the visitors of the early Reddit.

So the best that I can do is offer first-hand account: cca 2006 Reddit was not US-centric. For that matter, almost no community on the Internet was, be it forums or IRC.

If a website is built in your country, isn’t it a safe assumption that the majority of users would be from your country?

This is complete nonsense. Why would it work like that? Are most of the Spotify users Swedish?

We’re just talking past each other.

People from the broader “west” look at the Internet, see a global network, and switch to English to maximize the reach.

(Certain) people from the anglosphere see the network is in English, and conclude it must be local to them.

Also this.

Xperia XZ2 Compact (2018) here. Running perfectly with LOS+microG.

But as the phone is starting to fall apart, my desperation is setting in.

Here’s how I run Firefox, for instance:

#!/bin/zsh

function r { for p in $@; do [[ -e $p ]] && echo --ro-bind-try $p $p; done; }
function w { for p in $@; do [[ -e $p ]] && echo --bind-try $p $p; done; }
function ln { echo --symlink $1 $2; }
function wdev { for p in $@; do echo --dev-bind-try $p $p; done; }

bwopt=(
  --unshare-pid --unshare-uts --unshare-ipc --unshare-cgroup

  --proc /proc --dev /dev --tmpfs /dev/shm --mqueue /dev/mqueue

  $(wdev /dev/dri /dev/v4l /dev/video*)
  $(r /sys/{dev,devices,bus/pci})

  --dir /var/tmp --dir /run/lock
  $(ln ../run /var/run) $(ln ../run/lock /var/lock)
  $(w /tmp/.{X11-unix,ICE-unix})

  $(r /usr/lib) $(ln usr/lib /lib64) $(ln lib /usr/lib64)
  $(r /usr/share)
  $(r /var/{cache/fontconfig,lib/dbus/machine-id})

  $(r /etc/{passwd,group,nsswitch.conf,resolv.conf,hosts,gai.conf,ld.so*})
  $(r /etc/{localtime,lsb-release,machine-id})
  $(r /etc/{ca-certificates,ssl})
  $(r /etc/{dconf,fonts,gtk-*,host.conf,xdg,mime.types,pulse})
 
  $(r ${XAUTHORITY} ${DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS/unix:path=})
  $(w ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/{ICEauthority,dconf,pulse,gvfsd,wayland-*,p11-kit,flatpak-info})

  $(w ~/.{mozilla,cache/mozilla})
  $(r ~/.cache/{fontconfig,mesa_shader_cache})
  $(r ~/.config/{dconf,fontconfig,user-dirs.dirs,gtk-*,mimeapps.list,pulse})
  $(r ~/.{fonts,local/share/{themes,icons}})

  $(w ~/down /tmp/swap)
)

exec nice \
  systemd-run --quiet --user --scope --slice=firefox.slice \
  bwrap --args 9 9< <(printf $'%s\0' $bwopt) \
  -- /usr/lib/firefox/firefox $@

Using this for about 5 years. Ran strace on a session to see what to allow access to. It’s got full access to /lib and too much access to /sys b/c I’m lazy, but it can not see any executables or most of ~.

I’m using something similar whenever I want to precisely isolate a program.