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@ Sal @mander.xyz

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  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • Our relationship is built on tiny hills to die on. Of course, it is always playful 😜

    She will use a common grammatical construction in Spanish ("a por") that became technically correct in Spain (where she is from) long after the conquest. I am from Mexico, where that construction is not used (we don't insert the "a" before "por"). So, when she uses "a por" I act like I don't understand and argue that it is not in the spanish her ancestors taught mine.

  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • I will know what they mean, but if I notice it is 12:01 I will absolutely take the opportunity to respond as if they meant 1 minute ago

  • What is the smallest hill you would die on?

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  • The split between "Today" and "Tomorrow" is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.

    This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about "tomorrow". Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven't had breakfast today??

  • Consolidating space communities?

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  • It looks like that account was deleted by someone with access to the account. Most likely by the account owner. When a user deletes their account there is no form to fill in a reason, the data is just wiped.

  • Consolidating space communities?

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  • Great, added. Thank you!

  • Consolidating space communities?

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  • Awesome, thank you! I have added you as a moderator.

  • Chat, is this true?

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  • I think the difference in time is too big. Also, in the talk page's archive it is stated that the wikipedia was updated because of this meme, and not the other way around. This is from the talk page:

  • Chat, is this true?

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  • Chat, is this true?

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  • How did I miss that?!

    My timeline is incorrect then. Since the post from sassymetischick.bsky predates the wiki edit, it is more likely that the wiki edit was made in response to this meme, and not the other way around. This pretty invalidates what I said above...

    I still can't find any evidence of this being an actual trend, but I no longer have a good guess about the origin.

  • Chat, is this true?

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  • Cuando quieras! 😁

  • Chat, is this true?

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  • Yes, but that version is in German. That website also has one in English: https://annas-archive.org/slow_download/24154814bfe1e676d79509c3db1f74a4/0/0

    Let's see...

    Woah, interesting. The author is José López Portillo. I thought he shared the name with a former Mexican president, but, nope, the author is a former Mexican president.

    The title of the English version is a bit different, but the text appears to be the same. It is a novel, and I can find no mention of the gulf of Mexico or of Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl in this book. To me it looks like a mistake in the citation.

    The claim appears to come from this text (citation 1): https://www.scribd.com/document/703207646/Dioses-prehispanicos-de-Mexico-mitos-y-deidades-del-panteon-Fernandez-Adela-1992-Mexico-D-F-Panorama-Editorial-9789683803061-cbee5

    Unfortunately, that book does not contain references nor is it stated where this claim comes from.

  • Chat, is this true?

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  • EDIT: As indepndnt mentioned in a comment below, the OP was posted on February 14, which pre-dates the wikipedia edits. So, my conclusions below about the timeline are not valid.

    Hah, sure, let's investigate 🕵️‍♂️

    The term 'Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl' was added as a potential Aztec name to the English wikipedia page on February 15, 2025, by user 'Mxn'.

    The description of the edit is the following:

    Frum says the Aztecs had no specific name for the gulf, which is plausible in a practical sense, but Fernández gives a specific religious name and is more of a reliable source on this topic

    If we investigate a bit further, we can see that the term Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl is described to be a name for the 'Gulf of Mexico' in the spanish Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl

    This page was updated to include the description of Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl as the 'Gulf of Mexico' in September 16, 2018. I don't have access to the citation so I don't know if the citation specifies if this term is still known/used.

    If you check the history you will find that the same 'Mxn' fixed a typo in this page on February 15, 2025.

    So, from this sequence of events it is highly likely that the term 'Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl' was included into the Gulf of Mexico wiki page as a result of the user Mxn performing an active search for Aztec names for the Gulf of Mexico, and finding this connection between the term an the gulf by searching on Wikipedia. This information did not come from recent news about the term being used by natives.

    I can find no evidence of native people referring to the gulf of Mexico as 'Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl' more frequently or at all. I can find no mention of this becoming viral in Mexico.

    I find it highly unlikely that:

    • User Mxn added an obscure Aztec term to the Wiki page two weeks ago

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    • This same obscure Aztec term coincidentally began being used by Mexican natives, and this trend became popular enough to be noticed by foreign media but not by Mexican media

    More likely....

    • Mxn actively looked for a term and updated the English wiki
    • Someone read the English wiki, thought this would be a nice story, made the meme

    And this concludes my little investigation 🧐

  • What if there was a health tracking device that you swallow?

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  • What's the weirdest defense you've seen used to justify belief in God?

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  • Only those who complete life without believing in a God pass into the next stage of the simulation.

  • Opinion on the Matrix protocol

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  • I have used XMPP for some time now and I tried Matrix for a bit, but have stuck with XMPP until now.

    I found it practically very easy to set up a prosody XMPP server in a raspberry pi. In XMPP you have the core standard that is kept quite minimal and then you can extended your implementation using XMPP extension protocols (XEPs) in a highly modular fashion. This approach of building on top of a light core using well-documented extensions I like very much.

    With Matrix, JSON is used instead of XML. I think that JSON is a nice format when trying to look under the hood at how the message data is structured. XML is a bit of a pain to look at in my opinion. And I think JSON might be more efficient in how it moves the data around. So, that is a big positive for me. But I Matrix appears to be more focused on being feature rich than on having a flexible modular structure. While it does have extensions, successful extensions do have a chance of being eventually integrated into the core protocol. This makes the core feel bloated to me, because I have very minimal requirements.

    In terms of security, in XMPP you start with the core and then you select the type of encryption that you like (OpenPGP, OMEMO, etc). OMEMO encryption has plausible deniability built into its design, and for me, plausible deniability is a property that I consider important for messaging. The modular approach to XMPP also means that these are choices that one gets to make in an active manner, and the protocols are open protocols that come from outside of XMPP. With Matrix you get their encryption protocol as part of the core - it is a protocol that they designed and that you need to accept to use their tool with encryption. It is probably a good protocol, but I don't think it has plausible deniability built in, and that's a choice you did not get to make.

    As for moderation, I don't know. Do they mean moderation tools, or the actual absence of moderators and unmoderated communities? Because the latter is more a property of the people using the tool that the tool itself. You can have your own private communities.

    If someone asks me, I could recommend Matrix but would rather recommend XMPP, depending on what they are looking for specifically.

  • What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?

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  • Snowden's Permanent Record book was a strong motivator for me.

  • Hexbear.net now at 710$ (Update: it’s now 2345$)

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  • I find it strange that they are out-bidding each other like this when there are over 8 days left. I am not too experienced with bidding, but I thought that the normal strategy was to maybe place a placeholder bid if there is no activity, but more generally one waits until the last second to set a reasonably high bid. Going on a 1v1 with fast out-bidding over a week early seems bad for everyone except the seller. Perhaps someone can explain.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • Someone needs to explain to Musk how to debug with the JSON so that the ipv6 GUI does not overflow into the git API front-end

  • Ask my guinea pig anything, and I will let her crawl on the keyboard to answer.

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  • Teach me a new tongue twister