They did paste it correctly but in Markdown, you have to type three. The first one escapes the second, and the third one escapes the underscore and prevents the pair from becoming an italics flag.

1: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
2: ¯\(ツ)/¯
3: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Let’s say 2 people used TempleOS, Symbian, MS-DOS or some other extremely weird thing to load the website in 2023 and then 42 in 2024 because it gets referenced in a porn video or something. The relative increase bar of 2000% would dwarf the changes in major OSs’ usage even though the absolute number is miniscule in comparison. Yes, they get lumped into “other” but this kind of discrepancy is already happening with the somewhat exaggerated Linux increase: Windows actually gained 3x more users than Linux did in absolute terms but the Linux bar is 3x bigger.

Bar graph of absolute percentages before & after overlaid. For example, a darker outline rectangle for 2023 and a lighter filled rectangle for 2024. Or just two rectangles next to each other, as lots of business charts do.

The original contains lots of blank space. Yes, it’s realistic for a computer console to have a dense character grid but it couldn’t fit readably on my 240p feature phone. So I took the website version and modified the CSS to fit into 480p without antialiasing, then scaled it to 50%. (Yes, it would have been better to natively render it at 240p but I couldn’t figure out how to turn off subpixel AA that wouldn’t work on the phone screen (VBGR in landscape) - yes, I should have just turned everything B/W and added the amber tint in post but I hadn’t known about ffmpeg back then.)

https://files.catbox.moe/7sjeoe.mp4

If you can’t see video, paste it into VLC

I don’t like how the bar graphs, obviously supposed to show percentage points, actually show relative percent change.

Yes but I felt the need to include the evil/misguided minority of Germans, and I managed to do it without referencing certain 20th century events.

I have several at home

Printed circuit boards. Printing press. Graph theory. Theory of relativity. Homeopathy.

“Let’s use deuterium (stable) instead of tritium (t½ = 12.3y) so our nukes don’t expire in a few years.”

“Will it work?”

“No but it will be stable.”

“I can’t believe you haven’t been fired earlier”

Did you read the post? They’re actually being quite liberal given the anti-harassment policies of their host countries. Yes, the law that protects trans kids and other minorities from death threats and mistrial also (unfortunately) protects the 1% from death threats and mistrial.

We do have drive-through restaurants and even some drive-in supermarkets in the center of cities. I just missed my train yesterday because the bus got stuck in traffic. I really hate how car-brained my country is (honorable mentions to exceptions: Hradec Králové, Pardubice and the other few towns in the Elbe lowland that have embraced bike infrastructure to about the standards of an average German town)

An item on my bucket list has been to create a map with “gradients” (really just 1-minute rectsngular bands) of what time the high noon is in that location. This map is just a subset of that, coloring red the areas with an over-30-minute offset. I’d make one for January and one for July to account for DST on both hemispheres.

I’ll probably convert a publicly available timezone shapefile into a Plate Carée (or similar) projection SVG, create a “gradient” spanning the entire globe and then use it as texture for the SVG shapes, horizontally offset appropriately.

it only lasts for an hour

“Only”? The “industry standard” is less than a millisecond.

Show the academic world how many computational tasks the physical structure of that coin has solved in the 15 years.

I don’t want to desolder all the relays off this washing machine board to throw it away only to find out I needed a double optocoupler!

Don’t get me started on the broken or obsolete thrown away shit I keep around “for parts or that one time I might need it”

Well, last week I finally soldered the cut cables of the otherwise working basic (literally a transformer, bridge rectifier, fuse and voltmeter) 12V lead acid battery charger from 2007 I found earlier this year to charge a tractor battery, so that’s a plus

We’re not suggesting moving away from the HTTPS protocol. Gmail and other web email apps, as well as Word Online etc. still use HTTPS to communicate with their backend infrastructure. They are just registered in your browser as apps that can handle the mailto:// or ms-word:// URL schema. This registering most likely happens automatically when you have visited a page that supports the schema so fediverse:// links would continue working for Fediverse users - they’d see a prompt to open the link with their home instance’s web app (its web interface like the default web UI) or a dedicated web app they are already using like Voyager. What would need to change is just a minor thing: browsers would need to offer the default web UI of target instance as fallback: for example, even if you haven’t visited any Fediverse site yet, the link fediverse://lemmy.example.com/post/1337 will show “lemmy.example.com web interface” in the “Open with…” option list, redirecting to https://lemmy.example.com/post/1337.

And then internet trolls briefly pumped the coin again so the kid will always feel like he missed out on $3M.

People born deaf have trouble picking up language and their overall development is slower. Be patient.

The small text for accessibility:

the daddy gives the mommy a very special gift. The gift of a brother. Daddy has a penis, and Mommy has a vagina. He sticks his penis into her vagina, and Mommy has an egg. Sperm comes out of Daddy’s penis and that comes into contact with the egg. When this happens, the sperm enters the egg and it causes over time for something to develop inside Mommy. Nine months later, the gift is delivered. Timmy, this is where you came from eight years ago. Lorem ipsum […]

I guess it’s 2699 now