Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.
The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”
The Reddit employee wrote:
Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.
I check Reddit like once a week since I started using Lemmy. I guess it will be down to nonce per week
i used to visit lemmy more regularly, but when .ee vanished there is less content so i visit later in the day.
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Nonce is used extensively in the context of cryptography to mean “used exactly one time”. Usually this refers to a random number that a server shares with a client to establish secure communications.
Excuse me if this a stupid question (I’m not a native English speaker), but isn’t that what “once” means?
The difference is small and pedantic:
“Once” means “A single time”
“Nonce” means “Used a single time”
Nonce carries extra information that something is being used.
Wikipedia claims this term dates to middle English:
OK, thanks for the explanation. So basically “nonce = used once”
thanks, interesting :)
That’s what it’s supposed to mean? Because that is not the context I’ve ever seen it used in.
Yeah I thought a nonce was a dumbass.
yeah that’s the only meaning I see it used with in the UK