Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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oddly specific (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 153 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Source.

This isn't a "tech article", it's an article about tech. This is a normie article from a normie news outlet for normie readers.

Also from the article:

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. This has now been changed. Thanks for the tweets. DB

[–] wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 51 points 2 days ago (7 children)

One of the most important numbers? I'd argue the most important number in computing is either 1 or 0...

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

One is one of them

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