What I wanna know is, when making this picture did he have any way to guarantee it doesn’t go off by accident?

it’s a spectrum

If a fake laptop isn’t fake running Linux I don’t want it in my home.

According to https://joinmastodon.org/about :

Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit from Germany that develops the Mastodon software.

[…]

Mastodon, Inc. is a non-profit entity in the United States that supports the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S. donations and in-kind support.

Doesn’t seem like it was a move, just a different entity. Seems like there’s a bit more history to this if you want to look it up, for example the German GmbH lost its nonprofit status in 2024, strangely.

Brilliant

YourJokeButWorse

I know a thing or two on how it actually works and I found the post funny. I know it doesn’t make sense but it’s still funny.

Edit: to clarify (because it seems like you missed this point?), it’s about the recent downtime of AWS and of Cloudflare a few days later, each of which caused a huge portion of the internet to be inaccessible. The AWS downtime was caused by a DNS error (as ever), and I’m not sure about Cloudflare but it might be as well.

Forget all of these half-measures. The perfect way to write English had already been invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet?wprov=sfla1

Via RobWords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection?wprov=sfla1 the “Root cause” section might explain it well for you.

Yeah…

I wouldn’t say this is “what GitHub has become” per se, only a handful of unlucky projects need to deal with PR/issue spam. What @Zangoose@lemmy.world said is right, the Linux PR spam is largely inconsequential because GitHub PRs (or issues) were never accepted in the first place.

But then there Express.js, which receives loads of useless PRs because some terrible YouTube tutorials show kids how to make baby’s first GitHub pull request: https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+Readme.md So in a way this is what GitHub has become. This and the inescapable AI crap.

No.

A joke like this is funny once. The screenshot in the OP can be reshared endlessly (whether it’s real or not), and anyone trying to make another iteration of this joke is just spamming the project with useless noise. It makes work for maintainers.

Fortunately it seems like this hasn’t been a problem in this particular repository, unlike the Linux repository which received endless spam before GH gave them the tools to block it. But if this becomes a trend, Arch might need to deal with dozens of joke issues per week, and there’s just nothing funny about that.

Edit: just confirmed that the OP screenshot is fake, which is good. (Issue #4269 doesn’t exist yet and the number itself is two memes.)

Thanks.

What I still didn’t figure out about the comment I replied to is:

1. What is each row? They’re labeled I, II, III, IV. What’s being counted?
2. Why did they link to a home interior design website under “via”?

1000℅

Surely you mean 1000‰ (1000 per mille), not care of. How did you type that, anyway?!

… what

The last one, Kimi K2, has been consistently good as long as I’ve been looking at it. That’s pretty impressive.

The rest are hilarious!

That’s kind of the problem that targeted ads are intended to solve, in theory.

Without ads, how else are you going to discover stuff? How does an unknown startup make people know about its product? Word of mouth can only get you so far, and if you don’t have the reach you’re locked out.

Targeted ads make advertising cheaper, because you don’t have to waste money advertising to people who aren’t even in your target demographic. It’s supposed to make it possible for newcomers with a good product to establish themselves in the market without starting out with an astronomical marketing budget.

But as I already said, it only works in a dream. On TV or on billboards, you only see the huge budget ads. Coca-cola et al. But on the web with targeted ads, you get spam ads. So many fake products, scam websites, get-rich-quick schemes, etc etc, that the advertising space itself is devalued because just by having your name there you look like a scammer.

But what choice is left? If you’re a new company making a cool product, how do you make it so that people know about it? For a lot of cases, targeted ads are the only affordable option.

In a perfect world, I could appreciate the concept. At the end of the day, I do need to buy stuff, and I’d rather know about the available options. If I’m definitely not going to buy diapers but I’m definitely going to buy a new keyboard in the next month or two, I’d rather see keyboard ads than diaper ads.

But that’s only in theory. In practice, “targeted” ads are invariably sleazy scams. You bet I use uBO.

fucking finally!

Thank you, I have now been unwooshed

… four?