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The “zero sugar” usually means they replace the sugar with something worse (that’s often also a laxative).

I’m a software developer. For me, “alpha” means somethings that’s still buggy, unfinished and unfit for wide availability.

Chris Barnes, is that you?

It’s ironic that even negative comments count as engagement and will most likely be a net positive for the creator.

Good point. Same thing with music for example.

You should be able to replicate at least some of that locally. If you can’t work with GitHub down for a couple of hours, then it’s a poorly set up project.

This kid is going places.

Good luck with either of those…

Imagine someone going like “Yeah, cool”, then scrolling past you - but IRL.

People are onto something though - there’s been a noticeable shift from social media just showing you your feed in a chronological manner to it showing you personally tailored content that shuffles on each refresh and aims to hook you into endless doomscrolling. I understand perfectly well what’s an algorithm, but good luck explaining to people that it’s not that specific thing.

There has been something similar for years: a page that basically says “Yeah, nah, we don’t have any information for that, but you might be interested in a totally irrelevant something else”, but phrased in a way that gets it high in the results. What’s astonishing is that Google doesn’t punish those pages.