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First line even before the main article
Summarized: Key Takeaways
- The Sargasso Sea is the breeding ground for all freshwater eels, where they travel thousands of miles to spawn and then die.
D’oh! I always get those two mixed up… Too many "Space Shuttle C_____ Disaster"s…
Explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2950:_Situation
These are all infamous disasters now used as case studies for how NOT to do things
More details at the link
Finally, a use for my 1-bit bloom filter!
I mean in fairness to the first one, on most systems it is possible to turn wifi back on without turning off airplane mode (there is in-flight wifi after all)
Here’s the official birthday post: https://lemmy.zip/post/17065877
There’s also an overview of the first year at https://yearone.lemmy.zip/
lemmy.zip’s birthday is tomorrow!
In that bog there was an idiot
Rare idiot, a picklin’ idiot
Idiot in the bog
And the bog down in the valley, oh!
So it’s the ancient Roman blacksmith’s version of Benchy. Got it
Hey wait a minute, this isn’t [email protected]!
The TLD TL;DR is basically that domains don’t come out of nowhere. Just like how you need a lemmy.zip domain to be able to have the subdomains next.lemmy.zip or old.lemmy.zip, in order to have the domain lemmy.zip you must first have someone to run the .zip top-level domain (in this case, Google)
Like Forester mentioned in the other comment, you can have any combination of letters you want as a TLD, you just have to set up and manage all the infra for it (or find somebody else to do it for you)
🤤 Anyone else feeling oddly ready to eat all of a sudden?
It’s just your OpenStreetMap username, doesn’t have to a real name. You can set “your name” to be some anonymous gibberish if you’d like
Wikipedia hasn’t been updated, confirmed definitely not dead
Easier to just round up lol
Well @zuck (and @mosseri) are from Threads and, like @Mastodon, it makes sense a lot of people would first choose to follow the top leaders. I imagine the majority of those are actually legitimate users, though the Threads bubble also very quickly popped, so who knows how many are still active
This feels like a Henry Stickman option
The C programming language also descends from the B programming language (though B’s lineage unfortunately goes to BCPL, not A)