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  • Organizers for Kid Rock’s ‘Rock the Country Tour’ are begging for grace after attendees slammed the MAGA music festival over muddy conditions and extreme delays on day one.

    The tour, which is a 7-show small-town festival celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary, kicked off on Friday, May 1, in Bellville, Texas. Organizers pleaded for leniency as festivalgoers slammed the tour for having ‘the worst event management’ amid calls for refunds. Kid Rock is expected to close out the show on Saturday, May 1.

    The complaints came after attendees were left stranded in the rain for hours on day 1 of the MAGA music festival.






  • This is a serious problem for the Internet. While there are sites like https://512kb.club/ (it features lightweight websites with content), but there’s not an easy way to learn about new or niche sites.

    According to https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ from April 5, 2020 (yes, it’s 6 years old)

    What 3.25 Billion Website Visits Tell Us About the Internet’s Top Traffic Sources

    1. Search is the single largest online traffic source, driving well over 50% of most industries’ web traffic.
    1. Google drives 8 times more traffic than all social media networks combined.
    1. The average top blog gets 66.47% of its traffic from search, of which 99.77% is organic and only 0.23% is paid.
    1. In almost every industry, Facebook still sends more traffic than all other social networks. The two exceptions are Design and Development (for which the top network is YouTube) and Crypto (for which it is Twitter).
    1. The niche that is most reliant on Google is Health and Medical, with 87.85% of its traffic coming from search.
    1. The niche that is least reliant on Google is Crypto, with 45.74% of its traffic coming from search.
    1. Facebook delivers 65.36% of all social media traffic: more visits per month than all other social networks combined.
    1. Instagram drives very little traffic: under 1% overall across all niches. Even fashion and beauty brands that were launched by Instagram influencers (e.g. Kylie Cosmetics) receive less than 5% of their monthly visits from Instagram — while search brings in about 10 times as many.
    1. The niche that is most reliant on Facebook is Business and Marketing, which gets 13.52% of its traffic from the network.
    1. Reddit drives over 3 times as much traffic to blogs as YouTube.









  • I think they’re going to need to back pedal some ideas. Ideas that are “for your benefit” such as, your user folder linked to one drive (so you’ll always have a backup) is also a cash-grab (“oh, you only have 5 GB of space. We’ll sell you more!”). This needs to be opt-in.

    Windows 7’s market share has surprisingly increased to about 9.61% in 2025. This rise is likely due to users hesitating to upgrade to Windows 11 as support for Windows 10 is ending.

    You can say that’s only 10%, but how much is that in lost revenue?



  • “Wick started his talk by saying that it looks like everything is great with the Flatpak project, but if one looks deeper, “you will notice that it’s not being actively developed anymore”. There are people who maintain the code base and fix security issues, for example, but “bigger changes are not really happening anymore”. He said that there are a bunch of merge requests for new features, but no one feels responsible for reviewing them, and that is kind of problematic.

    –OOF.