Someone must have left the irony on.

tl;dr: he's on a 1+1 contract.

A lot of words to just say that.

Yes. They try and minimize it as much as they possibly can. I've seem them claim on here that nobody was killed and that nothing happened at Tiananmen square.

SMS was free when I started using WhatsApp, but MMS wasn't, so I think that was part of why it took off in the UK. You could finally send pictures and videos and have read receipts and typing indicators and group chats. Plus it was instant and reliable where SMS always felt slow and unreliable.

Also it worked on WiFi so you could still use it at home where you might not have had the best phone signal.

It became popular when you had to pay for it. It was a one off fee on iPhone or an annual recurring fee on Android, that's how much people wanted to get away from SMS.

Probably worth noting that BBM was very popular at that time too but it was exclusive to BlackBerry phones so the concept wasn't new, but everyone that started moving to iPhone and Android after blackberry wanted the same messaging experience, and WhatsApp provided that.

I'll never really understand why the north American market didn't make the jump like everyone else did, because WhatsApp provided so much more, it wasn't just about cost of messaging.

I still use Reddit, maybe more in recent times actually. I don't like the platform and the app is a massive pile of wank, but there's more "normal" people there who don't spend every waking moment hating America or going on about Linux. I still use Lemmy nearly every day but it's more morbid curiosity now.

This isn't my experience. I'm way more focused in the morning and then it's all downhill after lunch. By the time it's the evening I have zero motivation to do any code.

"you don't need types, just use unit tests!"

The team did a test and found that not enough people who were born on the 22nd bought anything and UX wanted to make the list shorter, so it got removed.

Latest BBC news is citing possibly at least 10,000 so far. This is an absolutely massive disaster.

Did she even know it was there?

I don't know why people can't just write the full words, it's not like it takes any time to write "I guess".

It's amazing how many cookie consent banners aren't compliant. There has to be a button where you can clearly reject all, where it has equal look and feel as accept all. By default all non required cookies must be disabled, but the fact we can turn off the legitimate interest options shows they're not required, and so they're not compliant.

Basically every banner should have a reject button that's just as clear as the accept. I'd you're going through any extra effort to reject then it's not compliant.