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  • Our .fyi predates the lemmy instance by a few months. The owner thought the domain was funny and bought it a while back, but had nothing to do with it so it just got used when we decided to get a lemmy instance up. So I assume at least some of them are random domains people already happened to own anyways.

    But the main reason is the one people already mentioned and its because they are cheap and you can get funny names.

    .ml, .ee and .me are howevet not obscure. They are country TLDs (Mali, Estonia, Montenegro).

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  • For what is worth you are always welcome to create a fallback on our (iusearchlinux.fyi) instance as far as I am concerned (but hopefully thats never needed). We are pretty small but not defederated by anyone as far as I know. But I really hope you guys figure this stuff out together and get something sorted, because NCD is one of the things I miss the most from reddit.

  • Honestly I can't give you a proper answer here. I never actually thought about it before so I just looked up the Slovenian law about it (I don't speak German so I didn't bother with the Austrian one) and I couldn't find anything that specifically says that the snow poles must/can't be there between XY dates (just a bunch of stuff about how they gotta be positioned). If I had to guess it is a mix of these things:

    • Aesthetics
    • Visibility
    • Giving the road workers something to do
    • It is how it has always been done. Before these combo bollards became a thing and in places they still haven't replaced the old ones they still add/remove a full on wooden snow pole next to the bollards every year.

    There might be some other reasoning for it too, but this is what comes to mind as possible options.

  • I am a big fan of the Slovenian/Austrian combo snow pole+bollard. I think they are such a clever thing for places where it snows enough to cover the actual bollard and doesn't require workers to drag around a bunch of snow poles every winter, they just gotta pull them out.

  • Bollards, roads signs and other road signalisation. It is honestly a problem.

  • Huh, there is? I gotta go look at the settings, thanks for info!

    Edit: found it, but looks like it is an all or nothing situation (either it emails all admins or none) and there seems to be the same setting for reports too.

  • Sadly I haven't gotten an answer for you as I would like to know as well, but I would just like to add that also the option to see applications to join the server (and notifications for them) seems to be missing from apps (Connect and Jerboa that I tried) as well.

  • I mean in code. Not sure how many programming languages are gonna accept "colour". Or maybe they do and I am wrong, tbf I never thought about it till now.

    When it actually comes to the English language that's a different story.

  • The image mentions British so I just mentioned Birtish. I am not American or even a native English speaker so don't come at me. Also I hope the Czechoslovakia part is a joke.

    Your comment double posted btw.

  • The American is how it is supposed to be.

    The British one has the "color" changed changed to "colour" due to British spelling of color.

    The Spanish one has an upside down semi colon because in Spanish you write questions like this: ¿Is this an example question?

    The French one is because the French number system makes absolutely no sense and to say 99 you have to say quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (meaning 4 x 20 + 19).

    I hope this helps somehow.

  • I haven't because I am waiting for my GDPR data request to be fulfilled (been waiting over 2 weeks already). I have deleted all comments and posts already, but once I get it I will finally delete the account too.

  • A friend owns it and it has a funny domain. Bonus of it being smaller is that it didn't have any performance issues yesterday/today.

  • Not that many sadly and from my understanding you need to be invited by them to join. There is 240 currently if it loaded and counted them correctly for me. They have a list of them here. It works for me because a lot of them make exactly the content I am interested into, but might not work or you or anyone else depending on taste.

  • I actually pay for Nebula already and it has been great so far for me. I use it a lot more than Youtube and you don't need to sift through a bunch of garbage to find something decent to watch. They just need to add more content creators.

  • Spent 2 hours with a group of people trying to do finish it, just to end up failing the last step after getting all the rules correctly. I give up.

  • I would suggest pouring a healthy dose of holy water over all over the computer to try to get the demon out.

  • Just run the file, there is no chance there is anything bad in it. People wouldn't do that on the internet. Also don't forget to checkmark every field so you get all the useful additional software the bundle with it!