I did look it up after posting, and thought this one explained it better:
https://nic.moe/en/

What is moe?

The word “moe” (in Japanese: “萌え”; pronounced as “moh-ay”) is a slang word rooted deep in the Japanese Otaku culture. It has often been used to mean a particular type of “adorable” or “cute” towards fictional characters, people, animals, etc.

My laptop doesn’t have stickers all over it, but this could be my gateway sticker.

I think that’s the first time I’ve seen the .moe TLD outside catbox. What even is it, I just think of the bartender from the Simpsons.

Have you seen the footage of scientists feeding them from their own arms? Nooope, not for all the tea in China.

I’m currently living somewhere hot enough that the little pricks are a bother all year round.

I enjoy the contradiction of middleend

Given that the internet is a series of tubes, it’s a better mnemonic since the pipe connection will help you remember it.

Shouldn’t 2 be where 1 normally is, etc and 8 be at the top?

edit: I see you’d posted a similar one a few days ago and that had the same thing. Off by one, an evergreen programming error!

It’s a pretty old issue (and you can find others complaining online over the years) and my current machine is running Gentoo Linux, so I’m not trying to fix it any more.

I barely know er!

On my Windows 10 laptop, Task Manager virtually freezes the whole system for about four seconds when you switch tabs.

The first version of PowerToys was released for Windows 95 on 17 November, 1996 as a download on Microsoft’s FTP server at the time.

Well wadaya knows?

I like that it wasn’t a proper installed thing, just a bunch of executables in a zip file.

Yeah, I was confused too. Perhaps they didn’t see any problem and instead of realising the page had been edited after I commented they just downvoted.

Back to that article, I wonder if they were trying to add links into their footnotes and that broke stuff. They seemed to have fixed it by deleting them all, but that’s quite a lot of content gone.

E.g. after pairing up the broken footnotes with their endings that stayed in the main text you can see these:

How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration. “No user accounts, by design”: https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html

“Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software” (because you don’t need a manufacturer’s permission to install software on your computer).’ — Pluralistic: Darth Android: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/

The author seemed to struggle with their CMS, but you can get the gist.

Ah good, they’ve fixed it now. The version I saw, for reference.

To show that the word brainwashing comes from an article source, not their own editorialising.

I think that the little extra work to have separate services is a small price to pay to have the kind of top notch user experience that you can only get with a dedicated tool.

Besides, it’s cool to have a load of different services. Most self-hosters seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next thing to install.

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Love it.

Interesting stuff about the plugs, thanks.

I did quickly fact-check myself after posting and my brief reading suggested that it was possible to break the port, motherboard, or the peripheral, but that it was rare and more likely to cause corruption and/or crashes.

E.g. some anecdata in https://superuser.com/questions/172420/is-it-safe-to-hot-swap-a-ps-2-keyboard and https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/50883/why-some-computer-peripherals-should-not-be-disconnected-without-turning-off-thi

But we’re talking about Lego, which is from Denmark. Correcting the quote is at expanse of the joke/relevance.

And when the bits feel off the end and you had to wind them back on with a pencil.