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If you replace require_once with require what happens?
do you get an error message then?

the require() function will execute every time it is called.
the require_once() function will not execute every time it is called.
It will not execute if the file to be included is included before.

I don’t have much information about the code so I’m just following your last example :smile:


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could the adverts be stored as an image on infinityfree server and displayed in a link ? would that help ?

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I’ve been having an issue with my new huion kamvas 13 tablet, the display is black with a message “no signal” and the tablet turns off but the pen still works

I tried so many things that didn’t work and was thinking of returning it but then I found a youtube video with the fix

Watch this, its crazy but it works !

I guess someone who designed the PCB forgot to wire up the other side of the USB-C port :stuck_out_tongue:

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nice

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No, that’s not how ads work. The ads you see, both with and without ad blockers, are all handled through real time bidding.

There could be millions of different advertisers all running campaigns through advertising platforms with targeting rules for certain audiences and pricing directives on what they are willing to pay to have their ad shown to a particular visitor at a particular time.

Sure, you could put images on a server on a page and show it to people, but what you can’t do is:

  • Manage millions of ads for different advertisers with different rules.
  • Perform the real time auction to determine what advertisement to show for a page load.
  • Track the ad page views to charge the advertiser and pay the publisher and everyone in between.

If you don’t do programmatic ads, and just negotiate a contract like “this particular banner from iFastNet will be shown at this location from XX-XX-XXXX until XX-XX-XXXX for the price of $xxx”, then all you need is to serve an image with a link that you can click. But negotiating all of that is just not feasible right now.

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I laughed way too much at this

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So I found PHPMyAdmin’s max with my :star2: Special Coding Skills :star2:

It only shows me up to row 253250, even though there are at least 290000 rows in the table.

Deleting 31,000 rows only gets it to show up to row 284968, so that’s weird…


EDIT: So that’s why:

An error log entry was created, it was just error log entry number #295631 so PHPMyAdmin never showed it.

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so right now eu.org’s primary nameservers (ns1.eu.org and ns1.eriomem.net) are down, so i can’t access my domain on lunarwaves.net.eu.org :confused:

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Any direct .eu.org domains are still working fine. There are 7 total nameservers on the .eu.org base domain, and the 5 others are still working.

But the net.eu.org domain only uses those two nameservers, so any subdomains of that are down completely.

Most other extensions seem to be affected but still reachable. Although it is surprising how inconsistent most domains are setup.

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Sounds like the old 656 Farmall my dad has lol

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old but always relevant

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amazing project

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It’s not easy being a GPU :exploding_head:

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I’m having a hard time figuring out why blocking the adverts would affect the advertisers revenue ?

I would have thought they get paid when somebody clicks on the advert to view it so a person that installs an advert blocker is someone that would never click the advert even if it is visible

I’m obviously missing something here

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The scripts advertising platforms like Google Adsense use to show ads also include tracking abilities. They track statistics like how many users visit a certain site and see the ads, which for some ad platforms is part of determining how much to pay out to a publisher (site owner), even if most of those users only encounter the ads rather than clicking on them.
Most ad blockers however work proactively, by completely disabling the ad scripts from loading on web pages that have them. This means that the scripts don’t log those users, so if a significant portion of people using the site block ads, it can make a noticeable difference in that website’s revenue.

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Ah I see, thanks for the explaination

Time for me to write an adblocker that just resizes the advert to 1x1 pixel then :rofl:

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Another point of adblockers is preventing the advertising company from tracking you from site to site, so even if you did resize the ad, you’re still getting tracked by the advertising company.

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that’s true but its something I’m not really bothered about :exploding_head:

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It’s fully possible to make an adblocker that works reactively rather than proactively. That’s basically what Fadblock did for YouTube- let the ad scripts load, but then hid the ads themselves from view. However it was only made for blocking YouTube ads specifically, and it was just one shot in the long war between YouTube and the various adblocker developers.
The reason why adblockers that work that way universally aren’t prominent is because, as Greenreader pointed out, there are other reasons for blocking ad scripts, such as privacy. Personally though, I wouldn’t be opposed to a reactive adblocker that only removes the ads from viewing, especially if it would allow website owners and content creators to still get paid (though I have no doubt the marketing companies would not be happy xD).

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POV: you forget to do pacman -Syu for a whole month:

pacman:

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