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.”

How big will the canvas be this year? There was a fair bit of whitespace last year, but even with minimal notice limited only to Lemmy, it was almost the perfect amount for everything to fit without overlapping

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

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 !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

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