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  • My server is set to power on after losing and retaining power, but it's not super reliable if the power only flickers (or flickers a lot in a short period of time), so I have a smart plug. If my server's offline, I just toggle it and it's back after a few minutes.

  • Totino's Pizza Rolls

  • God forbid someone have red, curly hair

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  • Sounds like the health reasons were good then

  • Could've been the alcohol

  • I think you're overthinking this, and extrapolating limited data way too far.

    For one, of course historically rich countries are going to be hosting more technology. Tech is expensive, and less developed countries are called that because they're less developed, which includes electricity grids, internet, economic power, and so on.

    Another issue is that just because a Mastodon server is hosted in a particular country, doesn't mean only people in or from that country can make an account there. Sure, there are some servers that want to keep their communities specific to their local area, but the vast majority have no restrictions. Anyone from anywhere can sign up.

    If you're trying to figure out how to make it so historically poor countries have the most servers instead, you're going to have to figure out how to fund and manage infrastructure expansion.

    It feels like you're coming at this with the assumption of "every country has the resources to spin up hundreds of social media servers, but they're just not interested", which is kind of a weird conclusion to come to after recognizing the historical impact of colonialism and the privilege differences it's led to.

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  • Bridge rectifiers are physics now?

  • I mean technically it's possible to have different sites on http:// and https://, since the conventional ports are different (80 and 443), but it'd be a pretty weird thing to do.

    Edit: I just visited the links and the http:// one does indeed go to an xkcd-style site, while https:// has some dogecoin tracker with a broken SSL certificate.

    Edit again: the SSL certificate is for dogecoinaverage.com, so I have a feeling this person just misconfigured their nginx or Apache instance.

    Yet another edit: the maintainer's Mastodon is linked on the xkcd site, which links to their GitHub, which includes the source for the Dogecoin average site: https://github.com/Two9A/dogecoin-average. Definitely just a weird misconfiguration.

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  • What did I miss?

  • The good old "make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it" strategy of making money.

  • That might explain why the title says "nearly"

  • NT 3.1 came out before 95, and isn't a single version (Windows 11 is still Windows NT). If you include NT as a version, you can't include 2000, XP, or anything after.

  • Contrary to the memes, Linux does actually sometimes try to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot

  • Time Machine (which is an excellent feature on macOS btw and isn't advertised nearly enough by Apple), but Recall sounds more like an automatic clipboard history that saves more than just text and copied images, not something that lets you roll back to a previous state.