It’s a bit redundant since the O stands for “Optimization”, but it means Search Engine Optimization. Basically structure your stuff so it shows up in more searches (use popular terms in your profile, make posts with key phrases, fill out all the fields).

I’d say all of the ones I’ve bothered to try work? Some of them have annoyingly low pressure, where I’m almost kissing the spigot, but none have been undrinkable.

You could self-host GitLab, though if you’re looking for exposure it’s probably not the best.

Well, nobody’s looking at my photos and thinking “That’s guy looks tall”, unless they say add “for an Asian man… sorta,” so really this is just saving us all some time.

It’s easy to have inexplicable experiences when you are bad at explanation!

Every once in a while I try to play Dear McCracken and sing through the last part. The way I start ugly crying means I can’t put it on a playlist where I’ll actually pay attention to the song.

I run Ghost on my website (reilaos.com) though I don’t really use it in a “blogging”/journaling style. It’s mostly posts related to writing, computers science, game design.

My eagerness to actually use it will increase once Ghost’s support for ActivityPub spreads to the wider world.

It’s a little bit of a generational/cultural gap, I think! Like how Ok. and Ok... are fully normal to boomers, but anyone millennial and younger are going to read that as being short, or as an ominous trailing off compared to the neutral, no-caps-no-punctuation kk or ok.

I think children up through the younger end of millennials are just more likely to give neutral-to-lightly-positive acknowledgement in other ways, like 🫡or ✅ or 🥰 or 💯. 👍 is reserved by some for lower enthusiasm or even a restrained, mild annoyance.

Depends on who’s saying it and to what, and in what manner (message reaction, its own separate text).

“Hey who wants pizza tonight?” in the group text.

Bunch of👍reactions mixed in with some 🍕 and 🕺

That’s normal and people agreeing with you.

“Hey could you pick up some toilet paper on the way home?”

👍 reaction.

That’s a neutral kind of acknowledgement.

“Hey man, that was pretty fucked what you said back at the party. I think the others want to talk to you about it.”

“👍”

That’s rude and dismissive, and not just an acknowledgement text.

It’s like 20x too high as it stands going by p/e ratios compared to the rest of the auto industry. Like 5-6x too big compared to tech companies. It’s wild.

Poor comparison, honestly. Only like 5% of Windows users will only have a vague notion about what a registry is and a fraction of that would have messed with it under duress. By comparison, nearly all Linux users are expected to learn a handful of commands with strange abbreviations and arcane symbols to perform otherwise basic tasks. That’s not some unsubstantial barrier to be dismissed.

Domesticated microraptor. It would be cool as hell, and also imply that we’ve somehow resurrected a dead species.

Yeah, the attack surface of a locked-up bike is much larger than that of a bike being ridden?

If you don’t want your phone stolen off the bike, a removable bike computer still makes more sense, I think.

It’s not really that important to the joke, since I’m pretty sure you can also replace keywords like ‘if’ with the preprocessor. It’s just that preprocessor macros are typically (style, not syntax) ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES.

It’s just another clue that that block isn’t actually an if-block, since C is case sensitive and ‘IF’ wouldn’t actually work.

They used a macro to make ‘IF’ (which is distinctly not ‘if’) map to ‘while’. So it’s really a while(1) loop, which will repeat forever, or until the program is terminated, whichever comes first.

Someone’s just being silly.

Have their usage rates reflected their lack of trust? Unless it has, I doubt companies care.

No; jealousy paints a target on your back. I’d rather people wish well for me and feel that my victories are at least indirectly theirs.

Failing that, I’d want others to be unaware of my existence.

Link Alligator would actually be a fun name

One site forbidding you from directing traffic to another isn’t disrespecting you. If it’s something so groundbreaking that others need to see it, screenshot it and post it. You don’t need to directly link it.

The ability to shapeshift doesn’t really get affected by this caveat, so that remains about as appealing as it was before.

Taken to an extreme, one can get a controllable/turn-off-able biological immortality and at-will violation of conservation of matter/energy.