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[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

but ML also can stand for Marxist Leninist and im sure has been the the way it was read by most early adopters

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The official and authorized use for the TLD is an association with Mali. It doesn't matter what hip new meaning us internet dweebs want to assign to it.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda funny considering they got the ml domain to mean Marxist-Leninist and then would get fucked by nationalization

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago
[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking the same thing lol

[–] porkloin@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, and q-tips aren’t for cleaning your ears.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference being that Unilever won't confiscate your Q-Tips for cleaning out your earwax.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lmao, sure, the ear wax cops are gonna show up at your door to raid your garbage cans for waxy cotton swabs

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I have a cat that does this already.. maybe I’ll get her a lil cop outfit (that she would literally kill me before wearing)

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

That's why I buy store brand cotton swabs

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, stop spreading this nonsense, it was never chosen because of that. It was used because it was free and the developers don't care about creating funny names with the DNS or for glorified expensive DNS.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 26 points 1 year ago

Or machine learning. There's at least one ML based project that got a headache out of this yesterday.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like after weeks of wondering why .ml, I should've figured this out by myself... Beware, sleep deficit is real!