If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview... but not for a while now. Doesn't matter if it's Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in.

Are they incompetent or is this a strategy to limit incoming traffic? 🤣

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Felonmusk

November 28, 2023 - Turbo Pascal turns 40

Turbo Pascal was introduced by Borland in November 1983. It's officially turning 40 years old this month.

Turbo Pascal was a milestone product for the industry, it started Borland as a company and it was the first popular Integrated Development Environment or IDE. It was a great product for the time, and its success was incredible.

You can read more about Turbo Pascal it in this recent blog post from David I, but also on Wikipedia and many other sources including blog posts of mine, including the talk I did this summer in the first Pascal World Congress in Salamanca.

At Embarcadero, the company continuing working on the successors of Turbo Pascal, we just shipped version 36 of that compiler. In fact when you read "Embarcadero Delphi for Win32 compiler version 36.0" (the version of the command line compiler in Delphi 12 Athens) the compiler version number, 36, dates back to the first Turbo Pascal. Not only that, we decided to dedicate the product Easter Egg to this great anniversary.

Via https://www.instagram.com/possum.mood/

Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped.

Via https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage

Here is a different source with slightly different results https://www.6connect.com/blog/global-adoption-of-ipv6-top-ten-countries/

For fun you can comment your guesses first :)

Via https://twitter.com/leohoratio/status/1328778709667602436

Image transcription of a Tweet by @leohoratio: my body is not a temple. it is a federation starship with critical hull damage and shields at 0%

Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

The correct answer is 1 - slightly more compared to how many AIs got it right.

The New York Times, June 30, 2023 https://archive.is/Wbbka

A majority of judges on Brazil’s electoral court have voted to block former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office for the next eight years, removing a top contender from the next presidential contest and dealing a significant blow to the country’s far-right movement.

The judges ruled that Mr. Bolsonaro had violated Brazil’s election laws when, less than three months before last year’s vote, he summoned diplomats to the presidential palace and made baseless claims that the nation’s voting systems were likely to be rigged.

Interesting to hear such things discussed at that level. Turning it off is suggested to get rid of compromised background processes that might be spying on users. Obviously, this only help against malware that isn't permanently installed on a phone.

Archaeologists in Bavaria made a rare find last week: during excavations in the Swabian town of Nördlingen, experts discovered a bronze sword that is more than 3,000 years old, the State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments announced Wednesday. This is so well preserved, "that it almost still shines".

It is an octagonal sword, whose octagonal handle is made entirely of bronze. According to a preliminary classification, it dates from the late 14th century BC and thus from the Middle Bronze Age, it said. Sword finds from this era are rare, they said. The experts also suspect that the find is a bronze full hilt sword, that is, a weapon that was used for fighting.

The now discovered sword comes from a grave with rich bronze grave goods. A man, a woman and a youth were buried in it. The possible relationship between the persons is still unclear.

The production of octagonal swords is complex, because the handle is cast over the blade (so-called overcasting). The decoration is made over an inlay and by means of hallmarks.

While there are two real rivets, another pair of rivets is only indicated. Despite the manufacturing effort and the lack of hilt marks, it can be assumed that it was a real weapon. The center of gravity in the front part of the blade indicates that it was balanced mainly for slashing. Made in Bavaria? It was noticed early on that there are two separate centers of distribution of the octagonal swords: on the one hand the southern German area, on the other hand northern Germany and Denmark. A comparison of casting techniques and decoration shows that some of the octagonal swords in the north appear to be copies of southern German forms, while other pieces could be genuine imports or the product of "itinerant craftsmen".

"Still the sword and the burial must be examined, so that our archaeologists can classify this find more exactly. But already now it can be said: the state of preservation is exceptional! A find like this is very rare," explains General Conservator Prof. Mathias Pfeil, head of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.

Via DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur), Translated with DeepL.com/Translator. All the English articles where bad, so I auto-translated the German source for you :)