Felix

Dev memes || Software Engineer

[Felix @Felix_start]

Nimekaa kwa sidelines sana, its my turn.

[Felix @Felix_start]

@kenyagossips There is a dope one called Reemio Limited.

Here is their website
https://t.co/3Lb6BNTORd

[Drizzy @Drake]

Anytime you're afraid to try some new shit...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

[Felix @Felix_start]

@OCTOPIZZO, one of these fine days, mtupee joint album na Id Aziz.

Your chemistry iko top man.

[halaiki @bashirhalaiki]

If you enjoyed the Roast of @KevinHart4real then you are going to love these Roasts of Kenyan celebrities

Check out Roast House
and Hot Seat streaming on @showmaxkenya .

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You make a cancer-fighting chemical in your brain every night. It kills tumor cells and fixes broken DNA while you sleep. Only works in the dark. The hormone is called melatonin, and when you flip on the lights at 2 AM, your brain stops making it.

Melatonin is the sleep hormone. But it moonlights as your body’s overnight cancer patrol. It chokes off the blood supply to tumors and wakes up your natural killer cells (the white blood cells that hunt down cancer). Melatonin also flips on genes that order damaged cells to stop dividing. Researchers at Tulane ran an experiment where they exposed rats to dim light at night. Not bright light. Dim. The tumors lost their natural growth rhythms and grew nonstop.

The WHO classified night shift work as “probably carcinogenic” in 2007. Reviewed everything again in 2019. Kept the classification. Same risk category as UV radiation.

Your body’s internal clock controls more than when you sleep. It schedules DNA repair. There’s a repair protein called XPA that rises and falls on a 24-hour cycle, timed by your clock genes. When scientists knocked those genes out in mice, DNA repair went haywire and tumors grew faster. The same clock decides when damaged cells kill themselves off before they turn cancerous. Wreck the clock, you lose all of that.

Denmark started paying workers’ comp for this. In 2008, the Danish government said: if you worked night shifts at least once a week for 20+ years and got breast cancer, that’s an occupational disease. Between 2007 and 2011, 110 women got compensated. One was a flight attendant who did 30 years of overnight flights for SAS airlines. No other country has followed.

1 in 5 workers worldwide works night shifts. In the US, that’s around 15 million people, mostly in healthcare, factories, and trucking. The exposure tilts hard toward people who can least afford it: 20% of workers without a high school diploma pull non-daytime shifts vs. under 2% of college grads.

I’ll be straight with you, the science isn’t totally settled. A big 2020 analysis pooling 57 studies and 8.5 million people found no clear overall link between night shifts and cancer. But a 2024 study tracking how risk changes with time on the job told a different story: 9% higher breast cancer risk after 20 years of night work. 13% higher after 30. The lab evidence in animals is clear cut. The human data is messier, the way it always is when you’re studying something millions of people do in a thousand different ways.

[Kgoshi Ya Lebowa @Mothematiks]

Fastest bulls ever. Finish line is overrated anyway 🤭😀

[Toxic @Kieni_vic]

A blue whale’s anus can stretch to approximate 3 to 4 feet, making it the second largest asshole on the planet, just behind Johnson sakaja.

[RONG RENDE ™ @Wakadinali]

Poleni hiyo lightning na thunder mnaskia ni sisi tuko stu

[Vivian Wangeci @vivian_wangeci]

@njanja_dennis Kukuwa baddie na kutolipwa inaingiana wapi?

[Felix @Felix_start]

@_stayliquidd https://t.co/3Lb6BNUmGL is the place to go.

[Sean Williams @iArtSometimes]

1.5x version goes so crazy

[T·M ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ @mbarani]

I'm sorry but ???? �

[Odogwu#1 @yourodogwu]

Fast and furious BTS will marvel you 😩🫨🏗️

[The Raila Odinga Amolo Foundation @RailaOdinga]

I wish you all a Happy Jamhuri Day.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why VLC is free despite 6B downloads, because no one seems to get it.

VLC doesn’t make money because making money would destroy the only thing that made it reach 6 billion downloads in the first place.

The player grew through a specific distribution loop: tech-savvy users install it once, it works perfectly on every weird video file they throw at it, and they recommend it to everyone forever. IT departments deploy it across entire companies. A Reddit comment from 2009 still drives downloads in 2025 because the answer never changed.

That recommendation engine dies the second ads appear. Not slowly. Immediately.

The users who drive VLC’s distribution are the exact people who understand what ads mean. Your incentives just switched from “make the best player” to “maximize impressions.” They see it, stop recommending it, and your growth engine shuts off.

Run the actual numbers. VLC gets maybe 50 million active users daily across 6 billion total downloads. Typical video player ad rates run $1-3 CPM. Even if you served ads on every playback session, you’re looking at maybe $50-150 million annually at absolute peak optimistic assumptions.

Sounds like a lot until you realize what Kempf actually traded it for.

VLC reaching 6 billion people made Kempf the person who built the infrastructure everyone depends on. He runs a video consulting business. He built dav1d, an AV1 codec that powers modern streaming. Being “the guy who kept VLC free” opens every door in video technology. Clients pay him to solve problems because he proved he optimizes for quality over quick monetization.

“Former ad-supported media player executive” gets you exactly zero of that leverage.

The people celebrating Kempf’s ethics are missing the calculation. He didn’t sacrifice millions for principles. He rejected $150M in highly uncertain ad revenue to build permanent positioning worth multiples of that in everything else he touches.

VLC free generates more value for Kempf than VLC monetized ever could. The trade was never even close.

[OlafBresina @OlafBresina]

@PhilosophyAges Animation created by someone who's clearly never done pull ups and it shows

[Felix @Felix_start]

@iamjoseh_ How do you get to play Supersport Premier League in HD?
Kwangu only Skysports Main Event ndio iko na quality poa

[xydhpq👩🏾‍💻 @_Nyamburaaaaaa]

I love thick nyashed girls
Bro sisi ndio tuko 😭😭😭😭

[Reemio L @reemioltd]

@Kivutss Funny you should say that 👀 we’ve already built exactly that!
We heard the assignment loud and clear 😌
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