Idk about the Romans, but pretty sure the Portuguese did report with surprise the existence of dark brown people in sub Saharan Africa during the age of discovery

I’m saying I have no idea what the Romans found when they conquered that part of the world. Wonder if there are any historical Roman records

Just to be annoying, first you could argue that Jews were a separate ethnic group with distinct characteristics, or that modern people in the Middle East are descendants of Turkic tribes that came to occupy Anatolia after the fall of the eastern Roman empire

Because GIFs are weird images, not weird videos

This sounds like a “yes, but I will not admit it if you don’t admit it back”

I’d also keep DNS, DHCP and routing software,detailed manuals about how IPV4 and 6 work, nginx and maybe Wordpress, lemmy, Peertube, and other federated software

Also, tip, pretty sure that in the default web interface there is a toggle to deactivate bot posts. These bots are often just reposting what is on Reddit to try to stuff lemmy with content, but I tend to leave them deactivated. Also, never forget that the best thing after staying in a pit like this, is to touch a bit of grass ;P

Think of federated services (namely lemmy) like a phone carrier. There’s a bunch of them, and you can call numbers on other networks easily, as they speak a common protocol. You (or your carrier) can always block either individual numbers, or entire carries. The thing here is, being a carrier (an instance) of lemmy is somewhat easy to do, and you can always switch carriers based on their moderation policies.

Hope this is a decent explanation.

Yes in the sense that mostly the communists inhabit it. No in the sense that, because it is decentralised, no one can force you do to a particular thing if you host your own instance

It’s not caching

I’ve refreshed five times

It was caching

In a situation where the people see the government as an adversary, what the people consider the truth and what the government does, will make them at odds

To quote just about everyone regarding sometning at some point in their lives: “ew”

Not just that, Nix as a language has an insane syntax. Who the hell dreamed function declaration like that