https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Neat, I haven’t heard of this one before. I’ll likely use it in the future

Oh how could I forget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle

The word muscle comes from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus meaning mouse, because the appearance of the flexed biceps resembles the back of a mouse.

If someone has a better version of the diagram, please link it :)

Here are some more fun ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx

The term coccyx is derived from the ancient Greek word κόκκυξ[18][19] kokkyx “cuckoo”;[20] the latter is attested in the writings of the Greek physician Herophilus to denote the end of the vertebral column.[21] This Greek name for the cuckoo was applied as the last three or four bones of the coccyx resemble the beak of this bird,[18][21][22][23] when viewed from the side

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus

The earliest description of the ridge running along the floor of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle comes from the Venetian anatomist Julius Caesar Aranzi (1587), who likened it first to a silkworm and then to a seahorse (Latin hippocampus, from Greek ἱππόκαμπος (latinised: ìppókampos) from ἵππος (ippos), ‘horse’ + κάμπος (kámpos), ‘sea monster’)

Not as fun, but still mildly interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltoid_muscle

It is called so because it is in the shape of the Greek capital letter delta (Δ)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratus_anterior_muscle

The muscle is named from Latin: serrare = to saw (referring to the shape); and anterior = on the front side of the body.

It’s only tragic for a month, after which the other project gets abandoned because its unmaintainable or the vibecoder got bored and moved on to another viral idea

I’m not going to switch to something unless I know its going to be around when I need it

I was going to suggest covering them up, as a legal way to turn them off without physically dismantling, since they’re technically not college property. But that’s exactly what the campus staff did and Flock kept coming to uncover them? Lol wtf

I’d bet if this was a larger college/university, they wouldn’t have pulled something like this.

Something good did come out of this. It is a concrete example of how the company will behave if you sign a contract with them. Public officials and administrators will be more likely to care if they risk losing their power like this. It also makes it clear that you’re not paying Flock to “help” your own region, you’re doing it to help people in other regions.

Elgin Community College staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down. Within a day, Heinrich said, Flock rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment on the basis that the company had not breached their agreement.

College officials reached out again in December 2025 and said they would pay for the remaining five months of the contract — they just wanted the cameras taken down.

“We never received a response back from Flock,” Heinrich said.

That’s when things got weird. Heinrich said Elgin Community College staff began to cover the cameras using black trash bags and zip ties so that they would not be able to capture footage. But workers in an unmarked vehicle, which Heinrich assumed belonged to Flock, repeatedly removed the coverings.

This strange dance continued, Heinrich said, until Elgin Community College’s contract with Flock expired in April this year and the company uninstalled the cameras for good.

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Does it prevent the initial .gitignore from being commited too?

For example, what if a file name had sensitive information. It’s bad practice, but someone might want to ignore the file while also hiding the ignore rule itself.

/test/fake-person-first-last.json
/test/real-person-first-last.json

Someone might want to selectively omit the second file while keeping the first, but not show what they are hiding.

I was thinking manually written and scheduled posts, the only difference from now being that a post gets pinned on a particular day

Although someone would also need to make a judgment call about what community to give that extra promotion to, which might create unnecessary controversy

We could definitely do that over in !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, especially if someone is willing to help plan that out. Since Piefed has scheduled posts, it should be possible to schedule out posts for different communities

Maybe it’s time to use my Piefed account more, if only so that I can follow users that regularly post cool content.

Thank you for sharing these, I’m enjoying all of them

I recommend this site to compare all the apps across various platforms

https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I think Interstellar and Voyager are available on both android and Linux

Personally I would suggest picking different apps on each, since it’s all the same backend data. A mobile focused app may not behave as nicely on desktop.

You can likely also run some of the alternative UIs as PWAs or full apps, but I haven’t explored that yet

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Macron

It was at the after-school drama club of Lycée la Providence where she and Emmanuel Macron first met.[13] She was in charge of the after-school theater club he attended when he was 15 alongside her own daughter Laurence who was in his class.[14] Their relationship has attracted controversy, as she is his senior by close to 25 years, and he was a minor; Macron has described it as “a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself”.

In 1993, at the age of 39, she met the 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron in Lycée la Providence,[40][41] where she was a teacher and he was a student and a classmate of her daughter.[42] Brigitte divorced Auzière in January 2006 and married Macron on 20 October 2007.

This was a problem in !selfhosted@lemmy.world and they’ve done a good job of dealing with it. You could take a look at that past discussion to see what worked / what didn’t.

IMO there is an organized effort behind some of these new accounts pushing AI projects, and you need to deal with it in some form to stop them from coming