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Two9A

@ Two9A @lemmy.world

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  • advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space

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  • So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect "ad-unsafe" works that wouldn't get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.

    So we tore the ads back out, traffic's recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we're doing better without ads than we were with ads.

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    my youtube algorithm kinda sucks rn, recommend me some

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  • Each show is unique, from what I see in the comments. I feel like he's not doing the traditional 'write a set' thing, but he works backwards from an idea ("America feels like a Dollar General nowadays", for example) and has the ability to conjure an hour of almost shaggy-dog-story material on the spot leading you to that endpoint.

    Rare talent.

  • I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink

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  • So this came up with this user a few days ago, and apparently ð fell out of use later in Old English and its usage was merged into þ for hundreds of years.

    I remain unconvinced.

  • Real Talk

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  • Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it's a good day. Here's one from the day job:

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • So there are multiple people in this thread who state their job is to unfuck what the LLMs are doing. I have a family member who graduated in CS a year ago and is having a hell of a time finding work, how would he go about getting one of these "clean up after the model" jobs?

  • What's something incredibly useful you can buy for roughly £100 or less?

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  • My leatherman was a little over a ton That thing must be huge!

  • ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'

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  • In landfill, but not as raw material. If you didn't already know how to make bronze, for example, you'd have a hell of a time making new bronze based on old contaminated remnants.

  • ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'

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  • The argument has been made that, even if another intelligence arises in 100 million years, there are multiple problems for them: the Sun will be burning hotter by then, easily accessible raw material will all have been used up (Cyprus is no longer covered in surface-level raw copper, for example), we'll probably irradiate the surface on our way out, etc.

  • NSFW

    [CW Dead Bird] Birds aren't real

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  • That was kind of the author's point: that HTTP is so broadly specified, and at that point had so many unnecessary RFCs extending it, that you could halfway-sensibly write a hardware control protocol by HTTP alone even if that was a terrible idea.

    Source: I wrote the tea-brewing extension to HTCPCP, which takes it another notch into the ridiculous.

  • Based on the torah, this is what the earth looks like

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  • Appreciate the linguistic lesson, thanks. I've always run on the modern Icelandic definition.

  • Based on the torah, this is what the earth looks like

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  • Appreciate the commitment to use of the thorn, but you know þ and ð are different sounds, right?

    "þrough ðe Earþ" etc.

  • Infallible Code

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  • I've actually written exactly that before, when I needed to check the lowest bit in an SQL dialect with no bitwise operators. It was disgusting and awesome.

  • the universe about to have a little minty b

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  • Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

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  • Would you happen to be willing to throw work to random out-of-work devs who aren't in your city? I may know a couple over here in England...

  • Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky

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  • Mm, reminds me of the old world of IRC. I still remember fondly when I asked for help installing FreeBSD, and got banned with a message of "try linux".

    So I did, never looked back. (Until I got a Mac at least, which counts as a BSD.)

  • Shortest license agreement ever.

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  • For real though, the shortest license is probably the WTFPL:

    1. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

    Might've used it a couple of times myself.

  • Post Office accidentally leaks names of sub-postmasters

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  • This was on PM earlier, they were interviewing one of the named postmasters: she only found out about this leak when The Mail called for a quote.

    As she said herself, there's accident and there's incompetence; this leans heavily to the latter.

  • Israel using trebuchet to fire flaming projectile at Hezbollah

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  • "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.

    Snopes says this sentiment was actually expressed by Einstein, though perhaps not in this exact phrasing.

  • After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby

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  • As I understand it, the prophecy is that when the state of Israel is fully unified once more, and the temple of Solomon is rebuilt, Jesus will return and the second battle of Armageddon will commence.

    End of the world, rapture of the believers into Heaven, the whole bit.