My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM
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My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 68 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #4 of 25, reached on Nov 2, 17:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 3, 20:51 UTC.
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You didn't miss much, the post was a long winded way of saying, "I almost over-provisioned a mail server because I forgot to check the actual memory usage of the old one first."
Sadly, this webpage considers my normal browser "outdated" (my safari is very up to date thank you), my other browser is vivaldi and also blocked, archive.org is blocked and ghostarchive is blocked and archive.is is also blocked, so the thoughts of the author will forever elude me. Though presuming from the title,…
All kinds of dodgy user-agent string detection. It blocks Firefox for Android normally: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 15; Mobile; rv:152.0) Gecko/152.0 Firefox/152.0 But not in desktop mode: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 3, 20:51 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM reached?
#4 on Lobsters · Hottest, on Nov 2, 17:21 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.
How long has My reflex of assuming our servers need ever-growing amounts of RAM been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 2, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (68 checks) since.