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First line even before the main article

Summarized: Key Takeaways

1. The Sargasso Sea is the breeding ground for all freshwater eels, where they travel thousands of miles to spawn and then die.

There’s also the term ritardando in music for gradually slowing down, but at least that’s typically abbreviated to “rit.”

In that bog there was an idiot

Rare idiot, a picklin’ idiot

Idiot in the bog

And the bog down in the valley, oh!

So it’s the ancient Roman blacksmith’s version of Benchy. Got it

🤤 Anyone else feeling oddly ready to eat all of a sudden?

Wikipedia hasn’t been updated, confirmed definitely not dead

Well @zuck (and @mosseri) are from Threads and, like @Mastodon, it makes sense a lot of people would first choose to follow the top leaders. I imagine the majority of those are actually legitimate users, though the Threads bubble also very quickly popped, so who knows how many are still active

This feels like a Henry Stickman option

The C programming language also descends from the B programming language (though B’s lineage unfortunately goes to BCPL, not A)

You may enjoy !theowlhouse@lemmy.world!

You should check out !theowlhouse@lemmy.world

Yup, @TechConnectify@mas.to

Relevant xkcd (which tbh is also a high risk site for this kinda stuff)

Only 6,000 blinks? That’s nothing but a watered-down scam-in-a-bottle preying on the naïve drivers trying to buy blinker fluid for their very first time. It has to be good for AT LEAST 10,000 blinks before I’d even consider putting in my car

There’s a new protocol for smart home devices called Matter, that let’s them work across ecosystems (so for example smart lights set up with Google Home could be controlled through Apple HomeKit via Matter). Thread is part of how Matter devices communicate with each other (instead of e.g. WiFi or Bluetooth). The new iPhones can directly use Thread instead of needing another devices to act as a bridge to “translate” the commands

A fairly niche addition, but definitely not useless. And a big plus for those into smart home stuff

They call me the king of the spreadsheets

Got 'em all printed printed out on my bedsheets

“Weird Al” Yankovic - All About The Pentiums

Worth noting, for those that aren’t going to bother reading the first line of the article, this is ABC the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not ABC the American Broadcasting Company

Fun fact: The “unsinkable” actually came from its sister Olympic, after it came out relatively unscathed from a collision with the Hawke (Wikipedia link)

Fun fact: Between the 3 ships of the class, Olympic was the only that survived to retirement. Britannic was sunk by a mine in WWI after less than a year in service.