Two9A

@Two9A@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a carpenter⁩ ⁨⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny story: I built the staircase heading up to my loft, and spent days sourcing the perfect planks for the risers so I’d have exactly 13 steps.

  Forgot to account for the loft’s floorboards and beams, now I have a 13.25-step staircase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Content not viewable in your region So succinct, so poetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of civilization costs $5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ecosia seems to have done better: this appears to be a bit from “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, a Netflix show.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Her slumber is now complete.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We somehow get the Pogues more than both, which annoys me mostly because it’s only tangentially Christmassy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You gotta rizz 'em⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the tide is turning on the use of slop imagery. Comments calling out generated images are getting downvoted here, and over on Mastodon AI images are getting faved/boosted more than previously.

  Is the neo-Luddite battle lost? Did convenience win out over environmental concerns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.

  So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it’s a good day. Here’s one from the day job:

  ASCII art of a fist, with the headline “DO NOT ADD TO THIS LIST UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OR YOU WILL BE PUNCHED.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a short story (more of a novella) by Stephen Baxter on this exact topic, for what it’s worth. Touching Centauri: e-reading.mobi/…/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post Office accidentally leaks names of sub-postmasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  This was on PM earlier, they were interviewing one of the named postmasters: she only found out about this leak when The Mail called for a quote.

  As she said herself, there’s accident and there’s incompetence; this leans heavily to the latter.