First line even before the main article

Summarized: Key Takeaways

1. 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

“There’s no way we can give you the franchise if your trains are going to be that small”

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)

There’s also the term ritardando in music for gradually slowing down, but at least that’s typically abbreviated to “rit.”

If you actually read it, the emojis are just a silly little C2 frontend, the actual attack vector has nothing to do with Discord

“Okay Google, what is the Whopper burger?”

*bigender, not bisexual

There’s apparently a lot of bigender flags, but the original version per that site does match the ice cream

The API updated with Lemmy 0.19.4. The old way has been marked for deletion and they’ve now followed through on that, but a few apps (presumably including Sync) haven’t updated to the new way yet

https://lemm.ee/comment/12479585

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!

https://lemmy.zip/post/16821070

So it’s the ancient Roman blacksmith’s version of Benchy. Got it

Hey wait a minute, this isn’t !theowlhouse@lemmy.world!

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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

You actually can’t. I think you should be able to, but currently you can’t. You can post from Masto to Lemmy by tagging the Lemmy community in the top level post, but tagging in a reply does nothing

In fact actually you can’t even really crosspost from Lemmy to Lemmy. Posts that link to the same thing are lists as cross posts, but aren’t actually directly related. Text-only posts can’t be recognized as crossposts at all