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Microblog Memes

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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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  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Or when it's bothering you that it's 256 and not 255... aren't we counting 0 anymore? :/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Or when it's bothering you that people forget the difference between counting and indexing.

You can index to 255 in an 8 bit number, but your count is still 256 when you get there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If there are two things I hate in this world, it's off by one errors.

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