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Cake day: July 9th, 2025
  • ∃∀λ@programming.devtoGaming@lemmy.ml•This is basically me whenever people ask if I play videogames
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    8 days ago

    It doesn’t work that well anymore.

    After an edit to the Awareness article in April of 2024, switching the order of Philosophy and Psychology, the number of articles that lead to Philosophy this way had been greatly reduced, as Awareness and Psychology formed a loop of their own. In the months after the edit, there were numerous attempts to switch the order of the links leading to a discussion on the Awareness talk page. Following another discussion, the order was changed back in July 2026.

    Following discussions like Talk:Mathematics#Hyperlinks missed in the first paragraph about over-linking in the first paragraph of articles, some first links were changed or removed in July 2026. As a result, almost no articles continue to lead to “Philosophy” as of July 2026

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

  • ∃∀λ@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•Linux desktop use spikes to over 10% in North America for the first time. There is also a corresponding drop in Windows and OSX use.
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    2 months ago

    The spike likely represents Statcounter being too slow to adjust their methods of filtering out bot page views after some brand new web scrapers appeared on the scene hoovering up all the data for AI training. 10% linux market share would be a cosmic event. You would hear about it in mainstream media if it were really happening.

    Edit: I forgot about popular youtube channel Linus Tech Tips’ recent videos in which they gave linux their highest praise yet. One was published in mid June, another in mid July, and their most recent and most favorable to linux was published on July 22 (“My Experience Using the Steam Machine as a Desktop PC”). There have also been videos on the Framework laptops. Vibes tell me that there’s a trend of more people using mobile over desktop, so I would expect a higher proportion of desktop users to be the gamer or technically inclined type, enough to be influenced by LTT and give linux a shot, compared to 10 years ago.

    Here’s the data for the last 4 months.

       Date    Windows     OS X    Linux    Chrome OS    macOS
2026-04      66.39    17.04     2.94         4.42     9.21
2026-05      64.66    19.92     3.56         3.72     8.15
2026-06      59.08    24.06     6.14         2.19     8.53
2026-07      57.63    21.07    10.61         2.07     8.63

    The data looks noisy. You would expect the lines to have consistent, regular annual patterns. You can see that with Chrome OS which seems to have a dip in the middle of the year corresponding to when schools are out for summer vacation, and if you scan upward, it appears Windows has a corresponding hump at that time. But there are still unexplained extreme swings. The lines look smooth up until 2012/2013. Maybe Statcounter doesn’t have as many members/page views as it once did, leading to higher variance. We could see that if we had absolute numbers, but we only have percentages. That’s probably affected by the advent of the LLMs. Nobody’s going to the web anymore to find information.