Webster's 1913 edition had "Etym: [Named from Americus Vespucius.]" in it. Sure, but what's that name mean? Per https://www.etymonline.com/word/America#etymonline_v_10975 , it's kind of interesting:
> Amerigo is Germanic, said to derive from Gothic Amalrich, literally "work-ruler."
"Work-ruler". :terrythinking: "Negotium populo americano melius quam otium committi."
> The Old English form of the name has come down as surnames Emmerich, Emery, etc. The Italian fem. form merged into Amelia.
:otacon:
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> What the fuck is scrumble?
It's Agile Development Methodololology. According to Wikipedia:
> Daily scrum meetings are intended to be less than 15 minutes in length, taking place at the same time and location daily. The purpose of the meeting is to announce progress made towards the sprint goal and issues that may be hindering the goal, without going into any detailed discussion. Once over, individual members can go into a 'breakout session' or an 'after party' for extended discussion and collaboration.
That's how it is supposed to work, but at most companies, they call the daily progress meeting a "scrum" but it's really just people trying to impress their boss or to make it look like they worked instead of screwing around all day.
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nostr:npub1lareccazvjjjn9x7cprulux8lhlc3n969la32fc96ld68ccjv67qguq5vr What is falling over?
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> what does it mean by "this user has chosen not to be visible"¿
There's a link with help text if you click on that.
> there was a user labled an admin ive never heard of before too
Yeah, admins are not cleared, just new ones are fetched.
> Tell me howndoes this info help you¿
Besides the stuff I said? Like knowing if an instance is down and when it went down is already a very useful feature. Knowing who the admin or being able to read the about text without having to load a bunch of JavaScript and click around, that's useful: I wait for one page to load, not for a page to load and then JavaScript to run to draw some links that I click and then wait for another page to load. What admin to talk to if there is a problem, how fast fedi is growing, etc. "Wildebeest" was a Cloudflare project to create a "serverless" fedi instance, you could see how many of those exist at http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=&software=wildebeest®istrations=&onion= , for example. This kind of thing is pretty useful.
> what would one trouble shoot
Well, for one thing, you can see if an instance is up or down or if it's just your connection. Or like I mentioned with the RSS feed for FSE, I can use that to tell when FSE goes down. We were able to check the impact of the activitypub forkbomb with it by looking at who had collected peers of that type. It's hard to tell what anything is going to be useful for before you have it, right?
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nostr:npub1ch8nj9yu4676fnwkzacu28mt4y002ezeryqyuhzfnzjw560sq5fqaysw60 weird thing about plermora, i notice even if you have reject deletes enabled, it still seems to process those requests to a great extent then just drop them
nostr:npub106dam65ww9ztdqj26xvh08dyuc7lj7nmkrtrujwsmyq2n6g3r33saq3m89 Yeah, it loads the actor from cache at least, and it apparently tries to fetch the referenced objects (like the post that was deleted).
nostr:npub1ajw6axeack23437kedc8pkwghneenrkh9ljfxxgxumr6t6k4rtvqecaj8d I mean...
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nostr:npub1qq7hl5sl6z0l0ahk8f6a4uv5mkvlama7dyvucdmtwdva2zg24xnqyafedr That is an image of a butt.
nostr:npub1xe588rjuszrvhk7mdsdjphvm8rjne4uau7kalapjua5l6ca2fd3sqgxg59 I was mainly curious so that I could ensure that I never went to that website by accident.
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nostr:npub1ch8nj9yu4676fnwkzacu28mt4y002ezeryqyuhzfnzjw560sq5fqaysw60 terrys been unofficially mascoted wowy wow
nostr:npub1xe588rjuszrvhk7mdsdjphvm8rjne4uau7kalapjua5l6ca2fd3sqgxg59 Where did this image come from?
nostr:npub1xe588rjuszrvhk7mdsdjphvm8rjne4uau7kalapjua5l6ca2fd3sqgxg59 Zero /pol/ memes happen while programming. Richard P. Gabriel said this:
> I'm always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken research worker and a well-studied mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler. Who'd have guessed sophistication bought such noise?
It's more like you talk to the machine, no ugly caricatures. (It's pleasant when the computer is nice instead of balky and obtuse, it feels wrong to install things that make the computer act that way.)