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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
MDN has fucking ads now????
(also, image uploads are back, weird how pict-rs sometimes just shits the bed)
image description
a fucking “ads by Mozilla” banner at the top of mdn web docs advertising mongodb’s LLM of all fucking thingsWell, it's still doing so for myself as I don't see any image.
shit. anything interesting in the network tab of your dev tools, if available?
Status: 400
Method: GET
Domain: awful.systems
File: 4ad24dq16-b1c0-4c48-fcb14eab5266.jpeg
Initiator: img
Type: x-unknown-content-type
Transferred: Service Worker
Size: 0 B
Not sure where I'm supposed to look for that tbh.
Other images are fine, weirdly enough, just not that one.
when I'm debugging fucked up web pages (too often), the way I approach it is by loading the entire thing with network inspector view open (to catch requests), then right-click inspect on the element or something close to it. from that I find the element name/path/whatever, and then dig around in the request view to see what happened
xD oh what a delight, the one thing missing from the complete gobshite of a "database" that Mongo is was an AI to mangle your queries
After this post I went back and read all the fallout from when they added and subsequently "paused" AI Explain and it was as entertaining as I remember (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
that tracks
it's one of their best places to start boiling the frog
mdn’s only job is to be better than w3schools but here comes Mozilla removing the value from another one of their own projects
also not pictured: there was a fucking side banner ad I didn’t feel like screenshotting too, of course
holy fuck I just realized the diabolical part of this horseshit:
I only know about the mdn ads cause my development browser doesn’t have an adblocker as a matter of practice (which I’m very quickly considering revising)
that, but also I meant specifically that it allows them to "build confidence" inside the company
"look, we've been running ads on mdn for weeks now, and no-one's complained! obvies we can put it on $xyz other places now too!" with a heavy subtext of "why are you being the one that's obstructing this?"
I possess no insider information whatsoever and I'll fairly confidently state that I think it's a fucking strategic choice. guess we get to wait 6~12mo to see how cassandra that statement is