Sal
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- Comment on I found Sal. 1 week ago:
Ahh thanks! Great to go back to those days. Really miss recording that show.
- Comment on I found Sal. 1 week ago:
The end of what? When I go to that video on Youtube I enter a continuous ‘live stream’ with no end.
- Comment on I found Sal. 1 week ago:
Are the mods just going to sit there and do nothing while jared doxes me!!!
That ‘every episode compilation’ is great! Skipped through it trying to find my appearance (no success yet) and found many skits I have never seen before.
- Comment on Can we get a lichen/lichenology community? 2 weeks ago:
No need to be approved! Please, 100%, would love a Lichens community!
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 2 weeks ago:
That is perfectly understandable! The Internet Archive is a worthy project to donate to!
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 2 weeks ago:
That would be awesome! But, of course, always be mindful of your own needs first and it is OK to pick. The fact that you are supporting something through donations is already cool of you. Wikipedia is also a great project to donate to.
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I have a generally positive opinion of the devs even if I disagree with some of their views. Moderating is not easy, and especially not when you get into heated political territory - that’s why personally I “cheat” a bit by dissuading politics within this instance ;) A small select list of mod actions is not something that sways my opinion. It is tricky to process some reports and sometimes we can make bad calls.
But it is true that this context will affect someone else’s opinion differently, so it is good for others to be aware of some of this context before deciding to donate.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mander@mander.xyz | 33 comments
- Comment on Plans to update? 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes it is also just good or bad luck. This time I got lucky. Last month this instance had about a month of problems because the image hosting provider’s services came down unexpectedly and they took over 3 weeks to fix the issue. I think it is a good idea to have accounts on different instances - and even better - one can create a single-person instance and use that to interact.
Thanks a lot! I appreciate the gesture of donating but it is not necessary, it is not expensive and I have not gone through the process of setting up a donation system. My recommendation in general is to donate to the development directly if you would like to support the lemmy ecosystem: join-lemmy.org/donate
- Comment on Plans to update? 3 weeks ago:
It is done now :) Sorry for the delay!
- Comment on Instance will be upgraded to v0.19.11, expect several minutes of downtime about 30 minutes from now 3 weeks ago:
Done!
- Comment on Plans to update? 3 weeks ago:
I will upgrade in a few minutes. From what I have read it might take several minutes.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to mander@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on This place is back online! 1 month ago:
AAAHHHH 😭 Such a relief. This was stressful.
The websites makes use of Contabo’s object storage service for storing and serving images. Earlier during the month, I got an e-mail saying that there would be a 12-hour downtime window due to a migration. Alright, no problem.
A bit before this users reported problems with uploads. I figured this was related to the migration.
After the “migration”, images still caused problems due to some “administrative rule” preventing uploads. I sent messages daily to Contabo. At first they were responding that “their engineers were looking into it, that this was related to the migration, and that they had no time estimate”. OK, I can be patient…
After a few days I lost some of my patience and pressed them more often, until they started sending me generic messages and eventually saying that “the problems were already fixed” and suggesting it may be some configuration error on my side.
This is where it got stressful, because my knowledge of the implementation of the images back-end is superficial. So… That meant I would need to study the details and either fix it myself or show proof that it was their fault.
These past few days I have tried to do some reading and tested configuration changes, but I am the kind of person that puts too much on their plate and I have been quite busy, so this has been an additional stress point.
Today, images suddenly started working (until it came down again due to some logs piling up). This tells me that it was not a configuration issue and it was with high probability something on Contabo’s side that they fixed today. Uploads are working as well now. Contabo support never shared any information about the specifics of what went wrong, so I don’t know.
This doesn’t mean that I don’t need to study the details, but at least now the pressure is lower. My plan now is to do some studying on how images are stored and served and once I have a good understanding I can migrate the instance to a dedicated server. I will also look into techniques for making a server more resilient when things do go wrong.
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 1 month ago:
Yes, it is pretty frustrating.
I keep sending them messages every day. Today’s reply:
This is connected to the migration and there is no ETA currently.
Not very happy with them. I am looking into how to move the images somewhere else.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 months ago:
Thanks! <3 Cost is not the issue. The reason why I selected this option was because it seemed a good choice at the time. Moving the image database around is a bit of a hassle so I chose to just keep it as it was even after learning of other options. Last time it took several days of downtime to move the images over because the transfer speed into/out of the object storage is very low.
If I would have known that this would happen now, I might have taken this opportunity to move all the images over. But I was not expecting this amount of downtime. Now I worry that trying to move images from one place to another when the object storage is acting up is risky, and also I am busy.
I sent another message to support this morning and received:
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please note that our technicians are working diligently on this matter, there is no ETA.
Sorry 😓
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 2 months ago:
I hope so!!
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 months ago:
They are cheap. But I think that at the current total cost I would be able to improve performance while keeping cost about the same by migrating the instance to a dedicated server instead of a VPS + object storage.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 months ago:
Only that I am frustrated at the object storage provider (Contabo), and now I see why their reputation is not great. Their reply was that they sent a warning about the “12 hour downtime during March 10th”… but obviously these effects have extended both to before and after this “12 hour downtime”. At least I got confirmation that this problem is due to their migration.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 months ago:
I contacted support this morning as the issue persists. They confirmed that it is related to their migration, but they have not been able to give me a specific time for when it will be resolved.
- Submitted 2 months ago to mander@mander.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 months ago:
I think it is the object storage provider… I see that there is a scheduled migration for 12 hours March 10th, but I suspect that they may have already started moving things around.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 months ago:
Thanks. I have not changed anything recently. I am also blocked from uploading. Not sure yet what the problem is, I am looking into it.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 months ago:
I think the difference in time is too big. Also, in the talk page’s archive it is stated that the wikipedia was updated because of this meme, and not the other way around. This is from the talk page:
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 months 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 months 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? 2 months ago:
Cuando quieras! 😁
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 months 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? 2 months 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] 2 months ago:
Hello!
Yes, the !biology@mander.xyz community is a community for general biology-related content.
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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.
