[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

Scott E. Fahlman proposed using :-) and :-( to mark jokes and not-jokes respectively in internet posts in 1982, and they (and lots of variations) have been in use ever since. IBM's Codepage 437 character set (as used by the original PC) had two dedicated smiley characters even before that.
There was no golden age of the internet where there were no emoticons.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

The English voice recordings for Cyberpunk 2077 were all done in London and LA. So it's basically sure that it wasn't Poland, and it's much more likely that it was LA than London in this case.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

Was meinst du? Youtube Premium? Wenn du da zahlst, spielt Youtube dir keine Werbung mehr aus. Dein Vorschlag hier lautet, dass der dominierende Browserhersteller Google Werbung von Drittanbietern unterdrückt und die Kunden vom dominierenden Werbeanbieter Google dabei schadlos hält und es entsprechend unattraktiv macht, bei anderen Anbietern Werbung zu buchen.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Und websites, die eh Google werbung einbauen, bekommen etwas geld, der rest eben nicht.

Ich bin kein Jurist, aber da garantiere ich dir, dass da die Kartellämter aber sowas von sofort auf der Matte stünden.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

but is a given that the more expensive the wedding is, the shorter the marriage might be.

So have a dead cheap wedding and the marriage will last forever?

[-] YMS@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Dann nenn es halt "geringfügige Verspätung" (wobei 5 Minuten halt schon bedeuten können, dass der Anschlusszug weg ist*, dann ist nix mehr mit geringfügig), aber nicht "pünktlich".

(*: Dem versucht die Bahn ja entgegenzuwirken indem die eigenen Fahrplanauskünfte und Ticketbuchungen Anschlussverbindungen mit weniger als zehn Minuten Umsteigezeit ignorieren. Weil man schnelleres Umsteigen eben auch mit einem "pünktlichen" Zug ggf. nicht mehr schafft.)

[-] YMS@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Well, you are right that Microsoft never applied this large-scale, nor does it currently run any underwater datacenters. But project Natick anyway ran for over five years, with the first prototype having been deployed in 2015 and the last one recovered in 2020. So apparently not exactly the definitive future of Microsoft datacenters, but much more than a photo op.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natick
https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/

[-] YMS@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Musk may be erratic in other things, but his preference for the letter X is a constant, just ask x.com (1999), SpaceX (2002), the Tesla Model X (2012) or X Æ A-12 (2020).

[-] YMS@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Die deutsche Regierung will Beschränkungen des Kurznachrichtendienstes Twitter mit ungewöhnlichen Maßnahmen umgehen.

Ungewöhnliche Maßnahme: Sie veröffentlichen Infos auf ihren eigenen Websites statt exklusiv auf einer kommerziellen Plattform. In was für Zeiten wir leben...

[-] YMS@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, an article with such a headline should be banned from all news-themed communities since 2016 at the very latest, when he proclaimed that autonomous driving is a solved problem.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I m sure I won’t miss this post in one month or even one day.

Well, maybe you won't, but others might. That was the great thing about Reddit. Found a sub that might be interesting? Browse its top content of the last ten years and you'll see. Have a specific programming question? Google it with site:reddit.com and you'll likely find a good discussion on it. Reading on old interview somewhere and wonder if someone ever fact-checked that one statement there? The guys at Reddit likely have.

Even before the blackout it already happened way too often that you stumbled upon an interesting Reddit thread just to see that one of the central comments has been deliberately deleted by its author and so the whole thing gets less helpful. Would be a shame if the system itself would further delete even more content.

[-] YMS@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good hints, but these events likely were not very relevant.
While Lemmy gained almost 200,000 new users in the last two days, the active users increased by less than 3,000, just about the same as pretty much every two-day period recently. So pretty much all of those new users are inactive. That's not hordes of Redditors coming over and exploring Lemmy, that's hordes of bot and sleeper accounts being created.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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