Sal
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- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 days ago:
Looking through the archived history of the talk page, I can confirm that the claim on the wiki page is derived from the viral post, and not the other way around: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Archive_3#Chalchiuhtlicue…
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 days ago:
How did I miss that?!
My timeline is incorrect then. Since the post from sassymetischick.bsky predates the wiki edit, it is more likely that the wiki edit was made in response to this meme, and not the other way around. This pretty invalidates what I said above…
I still can’t find any evidence of this being an actual trend, but I no longer have a good guess about the origin.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 3 days ago:
Cuando quieras! 😁
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 3 days ago:
Yes, but that version is in German. That website also has one in English: annas-archive.org/slow_download/…/0
Let’s see…
Woah, interesting. The author is José López Portillo. I thought he shared the name with a former Mexican president, but, nope, the author is a former Mexican president.
The title of the English version is a bit different, but the text appears to be the same. It is a novel, and I can find no mention of the gulf of Mexico or of Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl in this book. To me it looks like a mistake in the citation.
The claim appears to come from this text (citation 1): scribd.com/…/Dioses-prehispanicos-de-Mexico-mitos…
Unfortunately, that book does not contain references nor is it stated where this claim comes from.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 3 days ago:
Hah, sure, let’s investigate 🕵️♂️
The term ‘Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl’ was added as a potential Aztec name to the English wikipedia page on February 15, 2025, by user ‘Mxn’.
The description of the edit is the following:
Frum says the Aztecs had no specific name for the gulf, which is plausible in a practical sense, but Fernández gives a specific religious name and is more of a reliable source on this topic
So, it is clear that the term was identified by user Mxn by performing an active online search.
If we investigate a bit further, we can see that the term Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl is described to be a name for the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ in the spanish Wikipedia: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl
This page was updated to include the description of Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl as the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ in September 16, 2018. I don’t have access to the citation so I don’t know if the citation specifies if this term is still known/used.
If you check the history you will find that the same ‘Mxn’ fixed a typo in this page on February 15, 2025.
So, from this sequence of events it is highly likely that the term ‘Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl’ was included into the Gulf of Mexico wiki page as a result of the user Mxn performing an active search for Aztec names for the Gulf of Mexico.
I can find no evidence of native people referring to the gulf of Mexico as ‘Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl’. I can find no mention of this becoming viral in Mexico.
I find it highly unlikely that:
- User Mxn added an obscure Aztec term to the Wiki page two weeks ago AND
- This same obscure Aztec term coincidentally began being used by Mexican natives, and this trend became popular enough to be noticed by foreign media but not by Mexican media
More likely…
- Mxn actively looked for a term and updated the English wiki
- Someone read the English wiki, thought this would be a nice story, made the meme
And this concludes my little investigation 🧐
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hello!
Yes, the !biology@mander.xyz community is a community for general biology-related content.
There are also more specific communities that focus in more specialized topics, such as such as !palaeontology@mander.xyz.
If you have an interest in a specific topic, feel free to create a community that reflects that interest. Some instances are very general while others try to limit communities to those that fit a range of topics, so it is best to create a community in an instance for which the topic is in scope.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- Comment on Supporting Mander 5 weeks ago:
An instance for nature and science related content. It is intended to be an instance to share photos of nature, scientific articles, ask about plants, science-related hobbies, etc. I make some effort to avoid politics and charged topics, although some small amount is tolerated, mostly because it is difficult to always enforce this without being too aggressive with moderation.
Here is the side bar:
An instance dedicated to nature and science. We follow Lemmy’s code of conduct. Please be respectful to each other. The main focus of this instance is the natural sciences, and the scope encompasses all of the STEM fields. Please keep politics to a minimum. When science is the focus, intersection with politics may be tolerated as long as the discussion is constructive and science remains the focus. As a general rule, political content posted directly to the instance’s local communities is discouraged and may be removed. You can of course engage in political discussions in non-local communities. As a member of the fediverse, you can create your account here and interact with any other federated community! To find communities all over the Lemmyverse you can use a community browser such as: https://lemmyverse.net/communities To fetch a community, simply copy and paste the community’s URL into the search box in Mander.
- Comment on Supporting Mander 5 weeks ago:
Hey! Thanks a lot for offering help with this, and I am happy to hear that you like it here :D
Financially: At the moment I am paying approximately ~$60 per month for the instance, which is an amount that I am more than happy to contribute to the fediverse in addition to donations to the dev team. If you have the means and want to contribute, my suggestion is to donate directly to the development: join-lemmy.org/donate
As for other kinds of help: Moderating a community (or communities) is a lot of help. Users are free to create their own communities or can reach out to me and I can make them a moderator in any of the communities I moderate 🙂
- Submitted 1 month ago to mander@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 3 months ago:
Haha So True!
- Comment on STOP. IDING. PLANTS. 3 months ago:
Careful. Big Taxonomy doesn’t mess around.
- Comment on I feel like laying an egg. 3 months ago:
Hahahahaha
- Comment on Whenever I follow an external link, I'm not logged in. 4 months ago:
I have tested this and it happens with other instances as well, so it it is not mander-specific.
I am not sure why this happens… In my browser I even get fully logged out when I do this, unless I return to a previously open tab where I am logged in. So, maybe it is related to the behavior of the authentication cookie. Not sure.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 months ago:
🙌 ❤️
- Comment on Honey 4 months ago:
Hmm… Some lichen make use of orobatid mite labour in order to disperse the cells of their photobionts. Are those still ok?
- Comment on posts blackholed on the onion instance 4 months ago:
Thanks for pointing this out… I am very sorry that this happened. I have not tested the .onion front-end much.
Sorry for missing this post, I was traveling during holidays last month.
The server that is serving the .onion front-end is running only that service, and so I doubt it is ever under heavy load. I am not sure if this was a problem with the onion network itself, with the front-end, or the instance. When I looked into options I could not find examples of Lemmy instances using .onion front-ends and I picked the one I did because it does not require JavaScript.
I will make an effort to use the .onion site myself more often and I will look for other options.
- Comment on I constantly get errors loading images. 6 months ago:
I have changed rate limits / timeouts that I can control, but I still see that this happens when I clear my browser cookies and load the front page. I agree that it is quite bothersome. I will need to dive deeper and get in touch with the object store provider again.
- Comment on I constantly get errors loading images. 6 months ago:
Thank you. There was a different error that should have been fixed yesterday (a “too many requests” reply from the object storage provider). But this error is different, and I am not sure yet why it happens. I will change some settings that could have an effect. Please let me know if it happens again!
- Comment on Lots of 429s and broken images from mander.xyz 6 months ago:
Should be fixed now!
- Comment on Tell me Y 6 months ago:
Good news! Just got a reply from them and they have increased the connection limit. They did not specify what the new number is, but hopefully it is high enough to not be an issue for the foreseeable future.
So, if you do run into other similar reports after this comment I would appreciate it if you tag me again.
- Comment on Tell me Y 6 months ago:
Thanks!
Cost is not the bottleneck in this case… The problem is that I am rather ignorant about the options and their benefits/limitations. Moving the images the first time was painfully slow because of those same rate limits, and I expect the next migration to be the same, so I want to make a better choice next time and would rather find a solution with the current provider 😅
- Comment on Tell me Y 6 months ago:
Thanks for the heads up. I am still trying to resolve this without a migration… I will try again to get a response from them as they have not replied in a week.
- Comment on Lots of 429s and broken images from mander.xyz 6 months ago:
If I am not given the ability to improve the rate limits soon I will need to find a different object storage provider. The migration will bring down the instance’s images for several days so I am trying to avoid that…
If anyone knows of a good and reliable object storage provider with better limits, I would appreciate the recommendations.
- Comment on Cats are liars. 6 months ago:
This is the current status:
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The instance is serving the images via object storage. Specifically, I am making use of Contabo to save and serve the images.
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I now know that the default limits are 250 requests / second and 80 Mbit/s: help.contabo.com/…/103000275478-what-limits-are-t…
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It appears to me like when the requests are exceeded, the “Too many requests” error is triggered and it takes a few seconds before the requests are accepted again. This can happen if few users access the front page at once as this will fetch all of the thumbnails and icons on the page.
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I have been in touch with Contabo’s customer support via e-mail. But they mis-understood my original e-mails and thought I was speaking about increasing the maximum number of images that can be stored (3 million by default). I have clarified that I want to increase the rate limit and have been waiting for their response for a few days now.
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The other solution would be to move the images to a different object storage provider. The migration is also limited to the 250 requests/s and 80 Mbit/s, so it will require turning off the images for 4 - 7 days while all the images are moved… Since I am not familiar with the policies of other object storage providers I would also need to do research to avoid falling into the same trap.
So, I am hoping that Contabo’s support will get back to me soon and allow me to increase the rate limits, as this would be the most straight forward approach.
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- Comment on Shitposting as public pedagogy 6 months ago:
And you are doing a great job at that! 😄
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing. I agree that it is a good one to pin!!
- Comment on Old AF 6 months ago:
I have been reaching out to the object storage provider to see if I can increase the rate limits… Unfortunately I might need to change to a different provider to overcome this. Since the migration takes several days, especially so because of those same rate limits, I would rather avoid this…
- Comment on Hogs 7 months ago:
That’s an error I had not seen before, but I also just encountered with this specific post. I will investigate, thanks.
- Comment on Cats are liars. 7 months ago:
This error is a rate limit from the object storage provider. I did not know of this limit when I chose them, and I still have not found a way to change the limit. I will send them an e-mail. If the limit can’t be increased, one option is to pick another object storage provider, but the migration takes days.
- Submitted 7 months ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
