RegularJoe, regularjoe@lemmy.world

Kirk hears defeat?

This is a serious problem for the Internet. While there are sites like https://512kb.club/ (it features lightweight websites with content), but there’s not an easy way to learn about new or niche sites.

According to https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ from April 5, 2020 (yes, it’s 6 years old)

What 3.25 Billion Website Visits Tell Us About the Internet’s Top Traffic Sources

1. Search is the single largest online traffic source, driving well over 50% of most industries’ web traffic.

1. Google drives 8 times more traffic than all social media networks combined.

1. The average top blog gets 66.47% of its traffic from search, of which 99.77% is organic and only 0.23% is paid.

1. In almost every industry, Facebook still sends more traffic than all other social networks. The two exceptions are Design and Development (for which the top network is YouTube) and Crypto (for which it is Twitter).

1. The niche that is most reliant on Google is Health and Medical, with 87.85% of its traffic coming from search.

1. The niche that is least reliant on Google is Crypto, with 45.74% of its traffic coming from search.

1. Facebook delivers 65.36% of all social media traffic: more visits per month than all other social networks combined.

1. Instagram drives very little traffic: under 1% overall across all niches. Even fashion and beauty brands that were launched by Instagram influencers (e.g. Kylie Cosmetics) receive less than 5% of their monthly visits from Instagram — while search brings in about 10 times as many.

1. The niche that is most reliant on Facebook is Business and Marketing, which gets 13.52% of its traffic from the network.

1. Reddit drives over 3 times as much traffic to blogs as YouTube.

“Yeah, but it’s great for Limbo parties, once.”

Strait of Economic Infarction.

U.S. government spending on the military contributes $3.8 billion to Alaska’s economy, a figure larger than the entire Yukon economy.

Wow.

It’s the assumption that what works for me will work for you. Situations change. Markets change. Skill relevancy changes (ask IT workers).

As for university in Romania, I can’t speak to that. What I can say about it in the US is:

“Go to college and get a good job.” sounds great until you go to an elite school for a Sociology degree. Oh, you’ve got a law degree? The firm expects you to work pro-bono to establish yourself. Work for little pay while establishing yourself while paying off student debt.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-is-right-a-lot-of-students-at-elite-schools-have-student-debt/

and not just students at elite schools.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/29/nx-s1-5762975/competing-in-tough-job-market-college-grads-are-asking-is-there-anybody-out-there

https://fortune.com/2026/04/03/experience-creep-jobs-ai-entry-level/

Bottom line: have a couple of career paths/options.

For clarity the platform is called Snowflake.

While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, BleepingComputer has learned that the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud data platform Snowflake.

The headline is not calling the customers snowflakes.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=iranian+response+to+US+two+week+ceasefire

Piers.

It appears to be trying to walk the role of mediator.

Iran and Oman are reportedly drafting a protocol to monitor ship transit through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday, citing an official.

https://www.wionews.com/photos/iran-and-oman-draft-protocol-to-monitor-strait-of-hormuz-traffic-reports-1775144034617

A New Route Through Hormuz Sees Three Omani Vessels Slip Past Iranian Waters. The southern coastal route contrasts with the usual northern path running near Iranian waters

https://www.ibtimes.com/new-route-through-hormuz-sees-three-omani-vessels-slip-past-iranian-waters-3800812

These require subscriptions to read in full.

Oman grapples with its national identity as a neutral mediator after Iran’s attacks

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-oman-neutral-mediator-iran-attacks-national-identity/

For Oman, the Strait of Hormuz is a windfall and a burden

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/30/for-oman-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-a-windfall-and-a-burden_6751959_4.html

The Document Foundation’s official reply came from Italo Vignoli, a founder Collabora lists as having already exited TDF membership.

He has kept it short, confirming that the removals happened, pointing to TDF’s recently adopted Community Bylaws as the basis. Those bylaws include a clause requiring anyone affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with TDF to step down from membership.

Link to those bylaws from Jan 15

https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-version-1-of-community-bylaws/13472

Quote from that link [bylaws] above

Members involved in legal claims for endangering the Foundation, eg. by means of putting the charitable status at risk, or misusing TDF’s funds, or by damaging any of TDF’s assets, or by attempting to do any of these must relinquish their membership by means of notification to the MC. If the legal claim, in relation to the mentioned matters, involves a company/organisation then also their affiliated members must relinquish their membership.

Back to the original linked article:

The stated rationale is that past situations saw people put their employer’s interests ahead of the foundation’s, and the clause exists to stop that happening again. The specifics of the legal dispute between TDF and Collabora are not mentioned by either party.

TDF also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing “when the time comes.”

So without details, all the article really details is that this happened. The why is murky. It seems the TDF is trying to protect itself, but there’s no description of Collabra or TDFs legal dispute.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-weight-change-when-you-fart/527684

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/does-internal-gas-affect-your-weight

https://fartsound.net/blog/does-farting-make-you-weigh-less

“Technically, yes, you do weigh less after farting. When you expel gas from your body, you’re removing mass, which means your weight decreases. However - and this is a big however - the amount is so incredibly tiny that it’s essentially meaningless for weight loss purposes.”

You can be bored to death and amused to death, too.

A pineapple? It’s close to blooming?

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3787152/pineapple-blooming

Here’s a quote from that article

Galvin says the facial expression is a subtle cue from a digital-native generation raised on screens, fast content and online communication. “For many Gen Zers, constant eye contact doesn’t always signal attentiveness the way it might for older colleagues,” he explains. “What a Boomer or Gen X manager may perceive as checked-out might actually be Gen Z’s version of active listening.”

Sujay Saha, president of Cortico-X agrees. “Gen Z entered the workforce in an era defined by screens, social distancing and remote communication, and companies must now close the experience gap with empathy-focused onboarding and support, not judgment,” he told me.

Forbes has an article from a Ph.D. who claims it’s real.

The ‘Gen Z Stare’: What It Means And Why Employers Can’t Afford To Ignore It

By Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., Senior Contributor. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance.

Jul 16, 2025, 06:43pm EDT Jul 21, 2025, 04:07pm EDT

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2025/07/16/the-gen-z-stare-what-it-means-and-whats-underneath-it-at-work/

He was born in 1945 according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_E._Robinson

That puts him in the Silent Generation, as Boomers don’t start until 1946.

If none of us exist, how are you getting upvotes?