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Hmm, most of the comments I read add interesting tidbits about the life of an arborist and the costs of removing a tree that people might not expect. I wouldn’t say that the commenters don’t understand the joke, I for one appreciate the extra information.

Nice video, thanks for the recommendation!

On the point of the Tesseract dev AdmiralPatrick accusing db0 of death threats … they might be confusing this with the April drama we had this year on Lemmy, see this comment and post which summarizes things.

Basically, an admin on anarchist nexus (AN) changed their name to “Murder all Zionists” which MrKaplan, a lemmy world (LW) admin, understood as a death threat and caused LW to defederate AN without discussing this issue with other LW admins or announcing the defederation. Db0 seems to have some kind of alliance with AN and sided with them, hence I guess AdmiralPatrick interpreted this as db0 siding with death threats lol

Just to provide some context here. ^^

I guess it’s just a pattern to easily get a number between a and b, going (b - a + 1). Or maybe this is just vibecoded lol

Seeing (100 - 1 + 1) definitely bothers my brain lmao

Looking closer, the whole calculation bothers me now. Why do floor() + 1 instead of just using ceil … arghhhh

This is quite sad tbh. While it was a pretty bad idea to quietly bake in a blacklist with no configuration options, no one should be harassed and getting death threats over this! This whole rant is quite stupid too, I hope the tesseract dev calms down.

Also: purposefully DDOSing a server as some kind of petty revenge is just disgraceful.

Obligatory mention for devs, make sure you still spent time outside of your projects. Don’t force yourself to work on stuff and end up neglecting irl stuff like the tesseract dev did!

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It’s good that OG directly linked to the toot but I always hate when dates are cutoff. This toot is from 2024 when Google started introducing manifest v3 which prevented ublock origin from working, hence many people were looking for alternative browsers and Brave was one of the more popular ones. While I would not recommend Brave, I’ve heard the crypto rewarding program is opt-in and the affiliate link injection was removed soon after getting backlash.

Brendan Eich is still an ass though, and Brave has very bad business practices. Only recently Brave announced a 60$ (free on Linux though) minimalist variant that removes unwanted features like the crypto rewarding program, Brave VPN and AI chatbot which are built-in for the default browser variant.