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As noted in the OP, “use by” and “best before” (etc.) dates are vastly different from each other. “Best before” is very often ad hoc like “a year from the date of manufacture”, but if you’re past a “use by” date on your perishable food, you should approach it skeptically.

Climate Town has a good video on it and why this system exists as it does.

You completely debunk the idea that “I don’t think the growth in “unknown” is the primary factor of Window’s decline in market share.” in the same comment you said it? Because what you said makes absolutely no sense in the face of the actual numbers.

I expound on the two points because you can’t just rest your argument on them and then limply, vaguely disclaim that it’s terrible methodology.

Those “last two data points” are two months. For OS X, there’s some upward movement the last two months (about 3%, which isn’t a lot given it spiked late last year from 8.3% to 14.07% to 8.2% in a span of three points), while Linux is practically flatlined with a very light upward incline just the last month.

To the extent StatCounter is useful to begin with, the Linux point is functionally meaningless while the OS X increase of a few percentage points may or may not be significant; trying to divine a trend from twitches in those two points is reading noise. Look at the “unknown” line, meanwhile, and see how it begins mirroring Windows’ decline around mid–late 2025. It rose from 11.3% in September 2025 to 21.5% in June 2026. That represents actual, meaningful, lasting change.

Okay, but StatCounter’s graph (edit: here) clearly shows that “unknown” is what’s cannibalizing most of that – and this is specifically measuring web traffic.

“Lemmy celebrates the rise of bots polluting web traffic stats because they didn’t bother to read the article beyond a misleading headline that reaffirms their biases.”

This man looks like he was engineered in a lab to be the villain of an iCarly special.

Birdemic 4 lookin’ 🔥

It’s okay: I’m a commielinguist and can certify what I said.

Is mixing those together where “commie” comes from?

Okay, I won’t, uh, “delusion at you” by reiterating what my lying eyes are reading. Promise.

Zero idea what you’re on about, but the post is classic doublethink, breathlessly holding that the middle class* was simultaneously a fluke and that its existence was designed and carefully puppeteered for decades – so controlled that it can now be carefully dismantled. And of course the elites designed the fluke™ because without it, they would’ve folded under a communist revolution.

* which is not even close to just 50 years old unless Friedrich Engels was talking about some other “English middle class”, but then I don’t think this author actually cares; they seemingly just pulled “50-year” out of a hat because it’s a nice, round number.

“It was a fluke, but also it was intentionally designed by ruthless, calculating elites to prevent them from crumpling under a revolution. The enemy is simultaneously strong and weak, sheeple!!”

Bethesda is hit particularly hard by the layoffs, IGN understands, with staff across its many development studios

It’s talking about the publisher.

That’s probably it.

and maybe some day we’ll find out that there’s something smaller inside quarks

I don’t think particle physicists in 2026 wake up in a cold sweat worried about preons. We are still taking measurements, but I don’t think theoreticians have any reason to invoke it – and IIRC its predictions have been outright contradicted experimentally.

Are any particle physicists particularly concerned with matryoshkas? Like what’s the context here? If this is about matryoshka brains, that’s not, like, a thing particle physicists specifically care about.

Unrelated to the question, but I think the other commentor got it right, so I’ll say this instead. If you’re doing GasBuddy, it would be amazing if you also added data to OpenStreetMap where applicable. We don’t keep track of the current price, because it’s supposed to be semi-static infrastructure, but we do keep track of payment methods accepted and types of fuel offered.

We keep track of other amenities too like compressed air and vac stations, but just adding the payment, fuel, etc. data to the existing station object would already be above and beyond and so appreciated.

That said, if not, it’s still cool knowing that you’re also out there helping to crowdsource knowledge.

It’s 20 words – 4 seconds at an average English reading speed of 300 wpm.

Fucking big deal. I can do that too. There’s a branch off the North Equatorial Current that takes you right there; surely something that eats me in Monterey Bay will show up in Hawai’i eventually.

Edit: Either this is a really tough crowd or one that didn’t pick up on the self-deprecating twist where I die and get eaten immediately into the journey.

I’m finna lose it 😭 this is peak contrition