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Ah yes, I see what you mean. OP has posted content from Ten Epstein Revelations You Might Have Missed, which is the article that I see after the Israel/X story.

You scrolled past the (annoying) “read more” button and are now on the next article.

Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I’ve seen on Lemmy for ages

Bad news on the backbone
I couldn’t scan a single ASN

I’m trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like “berckben”? Pronouncing ASN as “a-sone”?

In the other post, you claim you’d ordered them from Etsy. Is it your Etsy shop? I’m struggling to see how both can be true.

edit: FYI, this shop is OP’s shop

Found them! This lets me cheat and figure out the ones I couldn’t name (or knew I’d got wrong like Digital Ocean that I thought probably wasn’t Commodore 64).

These are really consistent, do you print them yourself?

It’s power + volume down for me, but a good top, thanks. Looks like it works even when the phone is (biometric) locked.

[he wrote] a sequel to 1984.

I didn’t know this bit of his story. Anyone read it? I’m assuming it’s not very good/coherent but perhaps he was as gifted a writer as he was a coder.

Element Effects

Zodiac sign elements create elemental affinities and oppositions:

Boosted Combinations (tasks thrive under compatible elements):

• 🔥 Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) × CPU tasks: 1.5x boost
• 🌬️ Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) × Network tasks: 1.5x boost
• 🌍 Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) × System tasks: 1.4x boost
• 💧 Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) × Memory tasks: 1.3x boost

Hang on - Aquarius, the water-bearer, is an air element? I’m beginning to think this astrology stuff doesn’t make much sense.

I like that water is responsible for memory, like how homeopathic medicine works.

This is a crazy mess.

The subject of “worse reimplementations of native features” reminds me of trying to find an event for the (2012?) Olympics. They didn’t seem to have a search, but they did have an infinite scrolling schedule page so I held down End until the page had everything and used the native search. No results, even when I tried something that I knew was at the top of the page.

I noticed the scrollbar was acting weird and looked into it. Turns out that they were removing the parts of the page outside of the viewport and loading them back in when you scrolled.

I suspect it’s because they were finding their bloated page was slow on some devices so put in this terrible hack, but it broke basic browser features.

I only wrote code for !advent_of_code@programming.dev which is so different to my usual tasks that it feels like a break.

I’m thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.

For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of patents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.

Edit: patents not parents 🤦

“We are a technology licensing company”

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

Still being tested in nightly atm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422891

Firefox does seem to be clearing out their old bugs (another example is MKV support) but perhaps it’s buses arriving together and not due to some policy.

We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later.

Oh come on guys

edit: they’re up now

Our local wizard who casts these spells is @mykl@lemmy.world

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That’s almost certainly from a Brit.

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  // disguises it.

Could be either.

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