It will be near the top of the list of fonts since it begins with “A”. I think that was what they were getting at.

I think that kbin is very promising, but I feel like it is early days yet. Even if they don’t end up being the dominant platform, I feel like some of the features they are working on will persist.

YouTube is a great resource…it just seems weird how precarious it is. You have all these creators who have spent countless hours creating high quality content for them (and even more low quality content!) and all of it could go away in an instant depending on the whims of a large corporation. Sure, some people have managed to make a lot of money from their YouTube content…but not as much as Google has! They can change the rules any time they want and most of their creators have no recourse.

YouTube could disallow this kind of script any time that they wanted and what could Tom Scott do about it? I haven’t watched this video in a while, but I seem to recall it ties in with his thesis.

High quality creators (of which, Tom Scott is one) need to find ways to own their own distribution or at least get firm contractual control over the terms of its distribution. They are the engine that drive the YouTube economy and my guess is that most do not get to share in anything but crumbs of the revenue they bring in.

I was a piker and just hit the delete button without doing any of these things. Did I lose some history that, in retrospect, I might have wanted to revisit…honestly, no! I never went back and visited my old posts and (and I’m embarrassed to admit this), none of them were likely to have any value to future generations.

Some people post great, information rich posts about how to debug .NET applications or defuse nuclear weapons. I think my greatest contribution to Reddit was making a pun that once got 54 likes.

The important thing to remember is to delete your Reddit account (and hope that AskHistorians comes to the Fediverse eventually!).

If I am going to believe random articles I found on the internet (and, of course, I am), the reason is because SQL was originally called SEQUEL until the creators ran into a trademark issue… They changed it to SQL, but us old timers just kept calling it the old thing. Something about old dogs and new tricks.

https://medium.com/tableplus/how-to-pronounce-sql-properly-s-q-l-or-sequel-7203a5185676