jonathan

u/jonathan@piefed.social
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on Pick one... · c/autism · 5 pts · 8d

I haven't saved a gif in years, but this one just captures the emotion perfectly.

Snap, I was in Austin too! Your friend may have been lucky, the cloud cover maps showed most populated areas covered with Dallas being a notable exception.

What does DNS have to do with anything? DNS isn't involved in this data gathering. Cloudflare uses DNS to enable proxying, proxying is how they gather OS data.

Statcounter's data is from visitors to pages with their JS embedded. That's their whole business model. No one said it was visitors to the Statcounter website iself.

Have you considered that you might not actually know what you're talking about?

Statcounter doesn't have sophisticated bot detection like Cloudflare. Look at Cloudflare's stats for the same period and filter for "likely human". The percentage craters back to reality. So while I think "The loading times on headless alone would give them away." is total bullshit, they can still be detectable using other heuristics and an awful lot of machine learning.

Isn’t soft power just capitalist colonialism without guns.

No it isn't.

In politics, particularly in international politics, soft power is the ability to influence or persuade others through the use of persuasive means, as opposed to the use of force or coercion, which is an aspect of hard power. This process entails the strategic shaping of others' preferences through the use of appealing, non-coercive, and attractive means, using culture, political values, and foreign policies to enact change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

on me irl · c/2meirl4meirl · 2 pts · 75d

This is !2meirl4meirl@lemmy.world, everyone is literally mentally ill. You're in good company.

You seem to be suggesting that the release date of a single emulator is the starting point? We're not supposed to count the prior years? No one tried before that? There's no prior art that people can build on?

Lots of projects started and were abandoned. A brief search and I can find at least 2 public projects started over 5 years ago, and many more abandoned efforts.