Ériu, Banba and Fódla are from Lebor Gabála Érenn, Ireland’s creation myth, and they each wanted the whole country named after them (and still can be, poetically). This is a mythologised history, not etymology.

Also, downvoting someone you’re debating with is extremely bad form.

The names Ireland and Éire both derive from Old Irish Ériu, which in turn comes from Proto-Celtic ɸīweriyū meaning “fertile soil”. The Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland, Ivernia, also comes from this same root

Not sure why you’re mentioning Ireland, did you think it was named after Kathy Ireland?

then unapproved by Lennart Poettering

No, you’ve misunderstood, here is a quote from your own source:

A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart

It was a reversion that Poettering rejected, the PR stands.

Also, there’s things like the Mediterranean that is much saltier than the Atlantic, despite plenty of water flowing back and forth. There’s sealife that’s only found in the Med, like the Mediterranean monk seal.

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Oh, thanks for telling me…

Bot is back online.

Ah yes, I see what you mean. OP has posted content from Ten Epstein Revelations You Might Have Missed, which is the article that I see after the Israel/X story.

You scrolled past the (annoying) “read more” button and are now on the next article.

Yeah ok, I guess that’s what’s meant.

I’d be interested to know how the patterns changed - perhaps requests moved to IPv6 which made grouping request origins harder, or maybe too many unconnected users were coming from a single IP and getting false positives (leading to bad UX and support requests).

Throttling efforts led to “brownouts” via 429 errors

Does this mean for the (ab)users, or for the repo? If it’s for the bandwidth hogs, then the brownouts are properly a good thing, as it’ll force people to pay attention to these otherwise unmonitored systems.

Also, if it makes the upstream service seem flaky and unreliable, it could convince users to set up the proper caching proxy just for self-interested availability reasons.

I can see some companies happily paying for access, as they’ll think it’s easier than paying someone internally to manage a proxy/mirror, especially as on-prem is unfashionable lately.

The Register article: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/

koverstreet’s claims on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/comment/o6tmlib/

I think maintaining two accounts is sensible as servers/instances die all the time. I’ve got my subscriptions synchronised between this account and one on infosec.pub.

Vogager gives you a baby icon (the new account indicator), which makes you seem very young indeed

Yeah, this is most wholesome and relatable thing I’ve seen on Lemmy for ages

Also there’s the style of delivery - old acting used to be very exaggerated and hammy, then there’s the kind of flawless but somewhat natural style that OP is talking about, through to today’s more realistic “mumbling” style that everyone complains about.

Bad news on the backbone
I couldn’t scan a single ASN

I’m trying to figure out what pronunciation or accent the author uses to have this rhyme. A heavy South African accent, so backbone is more like “berckben”? Pronouncing ASN as “a-sone”?

In the other post, you claim you’d ordered them from Etsy. Is it your Etsy shop? I’m struggling to see how both can be true.

I had to laugh - that lot have absolutely no clue when it comes to security. Even in a VM I’m not sure I’d trust running Clawdbot (or whatever it’s named this week).

On a Boeing, they’re zip ties holding them together

It’s a lot quicker than reading it! It’s nearly half a million words, over if you include The Hobbit/Silmarillion.

Someone was claiming that the early chapters (I think it was the Old Forest stuff, after they left the Shire) were purposely written in a dense, slow style to make the reader really feel the weary progress. I don’t think I believe that, but it’s an interesting possibility.

I’d assume that most people are familiar with the term Trekkie, but would have to use context to figure out Trekker (“you like long walks?”)

Whatever the intention, coining/identifying as a separate term suggests someone taking it quite seriously. I just consider them synonyms.