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Junior devs when the joke involving silly image that holds everything together gets reposted for the 100000th timeā¦
(Coconut was first btw)
Was the coconut thing even real?
No
The image existed, but it was never important to the program working. Just an unused asset that fans had fun with.
If you have Steam and TF2 installed you can navigate to where its at and delete it right now without issue. The story was made up by fans for fun, no devs involved. The coconut texture was added during Team Fortress 2's Man Vs Machine update but then never used for the intended purpose.
Before coconut there was tomato. And it was real
This isn't even about that lol, no claim at all that the image was important, just that it was brought back by popular demand
TF2 coconut-ass tweet
The coconut coffee bean jpg
Except didn't the coconut image brick the code when removed, so they had to add it back in?
no, that was just a hoax that started at some point
Iāve always suspected that coconuts were a hoax invented by Big Desert Island.
so it went something like this:
Dev 1: Hey, there is this random egg file in here... lets remove that silly thing.
Dev 2: Yeah thats unused, nuke it.
Marketing: Brag about it.
Dev 1: Shit... fails to compile or package and we dont know why...
Dev 2: what changed?
Dev 1: We deleted the egg file... thats it!
Dev 2: Well put it back! 18kb is cheaper than days of troubleshooting through the spaghetti code.
Marketing: Our bad... eggs are good.
What actually happened:
Marketing 1: Those TF2 Coconut Memes sure are reposted a lot on programming subreddits. This is a demographic very interesting to our product.
Marketing 2: Yeah lets invent a similar situation for our product and hope it gets a similar loop of getting reposted every few weeks.
Thank you for pointing this out. It's all marketing
Perfect pic for some automatic tests. It is just that those test pics should not had been part of shipment..
Brought to you by big egg
the green one? Man those things rock... but only crazy people spend that much on a grill.
Every time you install opera the price of eggs goes up.
kinda hate how a company that runs predatory lending apps in Kenya, Nigeria and India has managed to maintain just a "quirky fun" image to so many people, NGL.
Seriously? I didn't know that.
I donāt get the appeal of this browser. Also, whatās their business model?
Data theft is the model
Browser ricing is the appeal
And people still somehow swear by it, even though other than basically RGB taking up CPU usage, it does nothing special.
You can tweak how much ram edge uses too, doesn't seem to work very well though... The limit is more like a suggestion
Operas ram and CPU limits are also pretty much just suggestions
being "relatable" is their marketing.
Browser ricing is the appeal
What does that mean?
It means people only download it because it "looks cool", because functionality wise it does nothing special.
And as pointed out, it's basically spyware/data theft.
āRicingā is a term that car enthusiasts use to refer to visual modifications done in arguably poor taste. āRiceā is a backronym standing for ārace-inspired cosmetic enhancementā. So, theyāre saying the appeal to this browser is visual customization which makes little to no practical difference.
I don't know about the meaning of the term in the car world but in tech, ricing very much does not have a negative connotation. In fact, there are entire subreddits dedicated to it like r/unixporn
My kids think it's a "gamer browser".
Well yes, that's how it's marketed
It's just chrome with a paint job. Basically every browser for the past decade is either Chromium (Chrome) or Firefox in a trenchcoat.
ladybird
Aspiring to be a browser.
one day it will be finished mashallah
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/A6RBTCzVMV
I actually didn't know the real etymology
Ty for the curiosity
Lets be real here. Data theft is pretty much all the browsers at this point. The only difference is which regime you want your data sold to.
Sunny side up by the looks of it
Gaming Browser šš„µ
It's also predominantly chromium in a fancy suit, so if you are using it to get away from chrome, you are failing to get away from chrome.
When Google continues building a browser engine that makes it impossible to block ads, there is not a damn thing any of the chromium based browsers will be able to do to overcome that.
Using Google's javascript engine and rendering engine ensures your browser will die when Google wants it to, since those are the actual difficult parts to making a modern web browser.
Browsers -> Enshittified
Search -> Enshittified
YouTube -> Enshittified
Gaming -> Enshittified
Social media -> you better believe it
It's joever we're cooked
That's funny, I don't see any ads on my Chromium-based Brave Browser.
Right, because "when" implies a future and not a present, and it's presently not the future.
They make most of their money off of high interest loans in Africa. The browser is just the cover.
Ā I donāt get the appeal of this browser.
It comes with a free picture of a fried egg.
I asked one of my friends why he uses it and it has an awfull feature that makes sound when you type, has weird AI shit an he thinks it looks cool.
Gamer.
It's Chinese spyware. That's their business model.
You have to mention the classic xkcd that shows what developers have to deal with from their users
As a developer of a B2C product I feel this in my bones. But it also means people care about the product. Nothing is worse than making a change and there is no pushback,
I am a simple man. I see XKCD. I upvote. I spend the next 2 hours randomly rereading various ones.
... Complex men do that too. So do simple women. And complex women. And trees. Everyone. Except Dave.
Except Dave.
And Randall. But that's because he lives them.
The ALT text is the real joke
It's already been reposted enough, now you're lazy ass piling on...
finally my computer can run a bit faster with those saved 18 kb
18kb well spent
Haha cool egg, now delete the spyware
This was posted a month ago. Get better material.
You can tell it's been reposted 5 million times because of the color distortion
I'm not gonna trust anyone to build a browser if they see two full yolks in a pan and says "a fried egg."
Oh yeah, I forgot. Programmers can only count to 1.
They should've just deleted the picture and not told anyone
TF2 coconut ass picture
++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
dev: "oh there's an egg photo here, let's delete this"
*production server get nuked"
Imagine all that space saved just for a fried egg. Classic Opera move.
you're the weirdest bot acount ive ever seen.
I got curious so I went and looked. For anyone curious, they had 1 comment 10 years ago when the account was created, then no activity until 4 days ago.
Easter eggs, literally
chromium but wholesome chungus 100
,,,,,,
I agree with popular demand
Cool. Still runs on chromium tho
That's a load-bearing fried egg. You can't just cut that out.
// egg DONT UNCOMMENT THE EGG
I was helping out a friend on his side hustle one summer and this was a project like a dozen people had messed with and added stuff to and the sheer number of comments saying
ādonāt delete the empty line of code below this comment or it will breakā
āBreaks if you uncomment this lineā
ā Iām not getting paid enough to fix this but donāt optimize anything here or it will kill itselfā
At that point, you just add a comment "For everyone that attempts to fix this code not believing the above warnings, add yourself to the tally once you fail: 0"
See what number it eventually gets to.
I was messing with something related to old references that were taking up too much memory and stumbled into some chaotic spaghetti and in my attempt to make sense and cleanup whatever was happening I broke half the code in that project because someone was just throwing shit at the wall till they stumbled into something barely functional.
You get the code functional first then optimize it "later"
For those who come after š«”
What accursed language/framework was it where comments and empty lines are parsed/compiled?
The Language That Shall Not Be Named
Ah I was a bit vague and Itās been a few years but from what I remember there were a ton of lines of code just commended out so ābreaks if you uncommentā was followed by some chunk of spaghetti commented out so if you tried to compile it would break. But I have no clue why the blank line caused stuff to break if deleted that project was full of peopleās dirty spaghetti filled laundry.
We use pixel values as part of a hash algorithm
DO NOT THE EGG