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TIL that the first person to receive a speeding ticket was going 8 mph.

According to Guinness World Records, the first person charged with speeding was Walter Arnold from Paddock Wood, Kent. On 28 January 1896, Arnold was seen going 4 times the allowed 2 mph speed limit in his Benz. The constable pursued him on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s (roughly £260 in today’s money), of which 10...

I'm so thankful for this alternative.

I admit to spending too much time on Reddit during my work day as a distraction. It’s a problem. What’s worse is that Reddit has become so full of uninteresting content that I spend most of my time downvoting things that aren’t at all relevant to the sub they’re posted in. And with a lot of the front page subs being...

learned more in few weeks than in few years in other social media

I have learned more in the few weeks about self hosting, rust, flutter and other things in lemmy, mastodon and fediverse than in the last few years in Reddit and other social media. Maybe learned more in hacker news. It’s awesome here and love the people here who are wonderful and knowledgeable and teach me patiently without...

number of innocent newcomers asking "what is this sublemmy about?"

Many an innocent bystander passing through here, asking “what is this sublem about?” I think this question deserves to be escalated to the highest level. What are the chinesium turnbuckles that tenuously hold this rusty, fraying cable to the next cable? What holds up the saggy clothesline that is NCD? What keeps us from...

Confused - Tailscale allows me to reach the original IP Address of my nas

Is this supposed to happen? I thought it assigned a special ip and that’s the one you use. For me I’m able to access my original local ip address outside my network, and from the provided tailscale ip. luckily when I turn off tailscale I can’t access either.

is there a way to see the front page or list of communities of an instance without getting out of the instance you're currently in ?

For now, I can only visit a community from another server by searching or opening a post from that server, if I open it in the post’s original server or if I open their site, I’ll be in another lemmy instance and I’ll have no account there, so I can’t really interact....

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