They seep through pixels like digital rain, These marketing phantoms I’ve fought to contain. Year after year, I’ve built higher walls, Watching their banners break and fall.\

Remember the pop-ups? Those crude ancient things, Now evolved to whispers and algorithmic strings. I’ve written my scripts like spells in the night, Armed every device for this endless fight.\

My children watched closely as I taught them the way: “See how they hide? See how they play? These aren’t just ads, but digital thieves, Stealing attention through artful deceits.”\

Now my blockers falter, my filters grow thin, As smarter ads find new ways to slip in. They masquerade as content, as friends in the feed, Planting their hooks with invisible speed.\

Yet here in my failing, a victory glows— My children’s resistance steadily grows. They code better shields than I ever could, Understanding the battle as I hoped they would.\

Let the ads come with their siren songs, Let them think they’ve proved me wrong. For in labs and bedrooms, a new guard rises, Building defenses full of surprises.\

I may not see the war’s final day, When ads are finally kept at bay, But I’ve lit the torch, shown them the fight, And they’ll carry it forward into the night.\

So come, clever ads, with your targeted reach- You’ve helped me my final lesson teach: That freedom online’s worth fighting for, And my children will guard that digital door.

I saw this the other day and almost posted it, but it’s fake unfortunately

Original photo is from 2018/19 and the guy just has a plain gray shirt

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-latinos-for-trump/

Not yet, but it looks good so I def will be lol, if you like recipe origin stories you’ll love his channel. His videos are all about historical recipes and their origin, his website has just the recipe text for when you’re actually cooking it https://www.tastinghistory.com/

The C/C++ fandom is…something else. For many, C is perfect for every use case and everything else higher level from C# to JavaScript is nothing but inefficient waste for programmers who aren’t good enough for something like C lol

See also: Let’s roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for…reasons

Yea I reread it and I may have misinterpreted it slightly, but the point still stands, .ml is no different than Hexbear even though they’d like us to think that to avoid a larger defed movement like what happened to Hexbear and grad. .ml still has an underlying desire to drop that mask and go full Hexbear wether it’s on their Lemmy instance or spun off to a mastodon instance on mast.lemmy.ml lol

However, the kids who play these games, donate, and urge other kids to do the same, are all being exploited three ways to Sunday.

Hate to break it to you, but most kids dgaf about “the cause” I bet the “donation” unlocks a weapon or hat or secret bonus level or something and that’s what they want

A scummy company is a scummy company, doesn’t mean the children are being exploited per se, they could literally have an in-game sign that said “Give me a robux and you can get this hat for your character” and theyd probably get kids to pay for it just the same

God damn Wayne, let’s get him!

You should look deeper into their account, you clearly haven’t seen their Tankie comments and Tankie pro-Trump memes lol

Yes. Like I said, I crosspost em when I see em, not based on how popular I think it’ll be.

In this case I saw it an hour after posting, but there are plenty that I’ve done that are just minutes apart

False, that appears to be hiddenlayer posting to all 3 major programmer humors

I only do .ml to here as part of a small ongoing effort to direct content away from a tankie instance to other instances. I don’t even crosspost based on how “hot” they are, just whenever I see them.

I didn’t even know there was a .world programmer humor, why did they use the exact same .ml version logo lmao

least pirate it.

Don’t gotta tell me twice lmao

It’s a shame really, Sony is one of the last of the prolific single player AAA producers, everyone else seems intent on shoveling multi-player crap out and maybe doing SP as an after thought:(

Frfr, I was worried there for a sec lol

Wish you the best @preston@possumpat.io I just started posting to the !startrek@possumpat.io here so I hope this is just a small blip and you’ll be back online soon!

It’s the little sacrifices that make a good parent great lol

Yea, but there’s always an article about how AI Z is actually inaccurate or inefficient in X for Y reasons

I think some articles focusing on the human cost (mental health in this case) is good too

I get jealous every time I hear about this lmao

Ig Photons Be Free wasn’t even written by an actual hologram, we were lied to! SMDH

probably some ancient mayan rites…lots of goats

My favorite part LMAO

Organized religion is a cancer now, maybe it had a purpose a thousand years ago, but now it’s long overstayed its welcome