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Cold dark place filled with sadness and despair (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by canpolat to c/programmer_humor
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/536596

Link to post: https://social.kernel.org/notice/AXWwXVY5yDb8roPXsm

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[–] sotolf 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Transcription:

An image of a social media post:

Linus Torvalds @torvalds 10 hours ago

I'm clearly a master of SEO.

When I google for "cold dark place filled with sadness and despair" right now (with the quotes), google gives me exactly one result - my Linux kernel github repository.

I will call my new hobby "Reverse Emo Googlewhacking".

You're welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope Lemmy adds alt text like Mastadon and Pixelfed

[–] sotolf 2 points 1 year ago

That would be great yeah :)

[–] canpolat 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I didn't know that when one adds an image it would override the URL. Even though the post contains the URL, clicking on the title only shows the image. I included the URL in the post body, but it's not as visible, unfortunately.

[–] sotolf 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries :) Just transcribing for fun mostly, and as a substitute for having done it on "transcribers of reddit" for quite a while, and it's nice to be able to help people who may need a transcription :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You are doing a great work!

[–] mckean 5 points 1 year ago

Dang, you just broke the SEOoOooOo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fillde -> filled

[–] sotolf 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you :) Corrected

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Linus' anger management looks to be working out for him - that's four sentences in a row without any fucks in them. Keep on keeping it chill, big man.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Instead of the Internet consisting of 5 giant websites filled with screenshots of the other 4, I guess this is a win? A Lemmy post on the fediverse consisting of a screenshot of a Akkoma fediverse post?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, when I google this, I get Edgar Allen Poe’s the Raven.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Third of only five results for me

[–] GuybrushThreepwo0d 4 points 1 year ago

Only result for me is the repo. Along with the helpful prompt:

people also ask: how old is Torvalds? Why did Linus Torvalds created Git?

Very weird that the grammar mistake is part of the prompt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's still the 4th web result on Google as of 10am EDT on July 10.

[–] Beanie 1 points 1 year ago

No results on duckduckgo. It was on google, but it was the 6th result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

duckduckgo gives me no results at all for “cold dark place filled with sadness and despair”. So I guess it's either a more hopeful search engine . . . or just respecting the quotes properly. ;)