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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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oddly specific (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 18 hours ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 143 points 17 hours ago (20 children)

Source.

This isn't a "tech article", it's an article about tech. This is a normie article from a normie news outlet for normie readers.

Also from the article:

A previous version of this article said it was "not clear why WhatsApp settled on the oddly specific number." A number of readers have since noted that 256 is one of the most important numbers in computing, since it refers to the number of variations that can be represented by eight switches that have two positions - eight bits, or a byte. This has now been changed. Thanks for the tweets. DB

[–] markz@suppo.fi 71 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That weird ass explanation with switches and "one of the most important numbers" still sounds absolutely clueless.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I liked the switches analogy! Generally about binary though; I agree it doesn’t connect back to the number of users application.

And yeah most important number…sounds like they were quoting an LLM.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

“Quoting” is generous.

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