Oh man it sure would be nice if the feds had the power to regulate something like this /s

A previous version of this article said it was "not clear why WhatsApp settled on the oddly specific number." A number of readers have since noted that 256 is one of the most important numbers in computing, since it refers to the number of variations that can be represented by eight switches that have two positions - eight bits, or a byte.

Lol, weird way to say that 256 is a power of two, and computers operate in base two.

Rest in piss, Kirk lol

The real question: how do they make it past the dating stage?

Why are healthcare denials sent to and shouldered by patients? If you go to an in network facility, that place is vetted by insurer. So why isn't a 'denial' a matter between the provider and the insurer and transparent to the patient?

Lmao they went to Bluesky, a centralized (don’t get pedantic with me) social media platform controlled by Americans. Genius

Dang, the Land Rover was ahead of its time.

J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Weird Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane

ftfy

US government couldn’t give two shits if TikTok steals your data. They just don’t want a foreign adversary to.

Everything has been deleted, it sucks. Here is the main post from @[email protected] I saved before it was deleted.

Post Title: [announcement] this is officially the worst Lemmy app (at least for Markdown rendering)

Body:

Today, during lunch break, I was surprised to find a couple of notifications in by inbox, and I saw I had been mentioned in a some comments to this post in ![email protected]. Like it or not, this is a piece of news which can not and should not be ignored.

Here are a couple of considerations about it:

• Markdown rendering has never been a priority for this app, so less frequent features like strikethrough, superscript, subscripts, footnotes, tables, etc. are known to not be rendered well or supported at all, given that the library we are using does not support them either, and it is not thought to be customized easily (even for the simplest things like images and spoilers). I've had a talk with the maintainer of this library but he's some random guy who happens to maintain it in his spare time and no support could be expected;
• this project was born as an experimentation, it is clearly stated in the README. md and the technologies it is built upon (Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform) are not mature, non entirely production ready and ever evolving; which is something I enjoyed because it challenges me to keep learning, but again there are compromises to accept;
• 1, as well as all those who contributed so far with code/translations/artwork, have been working to this in our spare time, with no compensation, no formal commitment and no quality of service to guarantee whatsoever;
• the benchmark took into consideration just one aspect and not the totality of the features each application offers; it considered a limited set of apps (why were some included and some others were not); and the criteria on how points were assigned were not clear at to the time of writing they have not been disclosed yet.

Those who have seen my approach to this project, either because they have collaborated or because they have submitted feedback, know that I try to do my best to create a "decent" client for Lemmy, that I try to address everyone's issues and and make everyone feel important and feel at home in a friendly environment, as well as that I have not been hiding behind a nickname and have put my real face and my real name in my software, because I believe you should trust the people who write the code that runs on your devices.

I find myself in a very uncomfortable situation right now because, after revealing my personal information as the project owner, the current circumstances create a real damage to my public image as a professional and as a person. My coworkers, my managers, my employers (current and future) can see all of this and my personal reputation is compromised.

At the moment, I think I need some time to decide what to do. The most likely option would be to delete the repository, unpublish the app from the stores, and hope that, in the future, some of the forks people made in the past can be used to create something better in the future. Another option would be that the project continues but with a different leadership and no association to any personal account.

In the meantime, I want to thank one last time all those who contributed so far with code commits, translations, artwork, bug reports, suggestions, feedback and encouragement. It has been a pleasant journey the one we travelled together.

As always: Live Fast Eat Trash

Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

Not wrong there…

Repeat after me:

Eat the rich

fucking porn site

No need to be redundant

What took so long?!

Inaccurate

Exhibit A, why the robots will not take over

Ublock

Nerds stop recommending corporate crap: challenge: impossible

Can confirm. Earths total eclipses are wild. Most otherworldly spectacle I will witness in my life.