big spiders (lemmy.world)
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There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
(I did not write the text at the top, that’s just how I found the image.)
And no, the “Baghdad battery” was almost certainly not a battery....
Disclaimer: My cat is a sphynx. I do not shave him, I do not cut his whiskers. Sphynxes are pretty varied and will have differing amounts of fur in different places. If they have whiskers, they usually are short, blunted, and brittle....
A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China has become a celebrity on social media after reaching the final round of a maths competition, beating many others from top universities and raising questions about the education system....
Found this brilliant image on the funny sublemmy and had to post it here.
(The Egyptians invented the pulley, incidentally.)
Context for newbies: Linux refers to network adapters (wifi cards, ethernet cards, etc.) by so called “interfaces”. For the longest time, the interface names were assigned based on the type of device and the order in which the system discovered it. So, eth0, eth1, wlan0, and wwan0 are all possible interface names. This,...