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They periodically update the back-end code to try new things, and they A-B test, so that some users get an update and others don’t. Then they monitor their logs, and maybe even social media, to try to determine who’s seeing what and when, and if anyone’s having trouble.

They may even generate a pop-up asking you if you’re having trouble, and especially to tell you that you have to watch ads.

Anything that works in their favour will be rolled out to everyone. And then the good people (person?) at UBlock Origin (which is the one you should use if you’re going to use UBlock) work their butts off to find a way around it, in a never-ending arms race.

Anecdotally, I recently noticed that one of my accounts/profiles that has UBo wasn’t able to load more than 2 seconds of 360p video. I thought that was it for my viewing. Was getting a “null” tooltip on the settings cog and everything. Then I force-reloaded the tab and everything was alright again. They’d clearly changed something on the back-end for me and I was using an outdated interface (a day old! the humanity!) that couldn’t handle it any more.

But back to the topic of ads: One day they might find a way to completely lock out ad-blockers. That is the day you learn to use the stats for nerds right-click menu on an ad video. From there you can learn the video ID of the ad and visit it directly. That way you can find the advertiser’s account if not also the comment section, where you can leave a comment telling them exactly what you thought of their ad. Maybe also give it a thumbs down.

Eventually the cowards will turn off their comment sections, or else YouTube will prevent people from finding specific ad video IDs, but that’s what other social media is for.

Got a turboencabulator ad in the middle of your Elsa vs Spiderman binge? Let Encabulator Inc. feel your wrath.

Be sure to include something like “as a result of seeing this ad when I didn’t want to, I will not be buying or recommending your products for the period of <however long>” and then do your best to follow through on that.

They can make us watch the ads on their platform, but they can’t make us like it.

Phil Attely, harvester of souls.

Yeah. They took benefits from working age people with physical and/or mental health problems to pay for it. I’m kind of glad I got rejected in the first place for the one they’ve cut, because that probably means I would have been one of those to lose it and it would have severely messed me up.

Am I annoyed anyway? Yes. But I try to remind myself that the current administration inherited a financial black hole.

Keeping the old folks onside might prevent them from voting for the fascists the next time around. Assuming they’re willing to forgive the slight, anyway.

I’ve read enough clothing labels to know that that should be Baumwolle. Tree wool. Because of course cotton is “tree wool” in German.

Wiktionary’s page for ‘olive’ has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.

Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olive#Translations

“France considers requiring Musk’s X to get users to lie about their age”

FTFY

Ah. The usually implicit topical “this” didn’t even occur to me because I thought, er, this, was about objects. $_ isn’t used for those in Perl.

I suppose there might be some parallels with the implicit nature of $_ in non-OO contexts in Perl versus this in OO contexts in Javascript, but, at least to me, that feels pretty tenuous.

As at least one nautically themed childrens’ book surely has it: C is for crab.

Coming at programming sideways feels more like a Haskell or Prolog thing, though.

At the time JS was created, Perl didn’t have a this. A lot of the docs and books suggested using $self but a reference to the object would be passed as the first parameter to all class methods and you assign that to any name you wanted.

It’s only very recently (as in the last year or so) with a new class system that Perl has hard-coded $self for that purpose.

In before this hotline is closed down or subverted.

What I hear for the last panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnY2SWZTvk

It’s older still. The original Flash version of “Crabs” came out in 2006.

Probably the son of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jFTzhdZF4

it commutes

Maybe the behaviour with regard to type conversion, but not for the operation itself.

“13”+12 and 12+“13” don’t yield the same result.