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PurpleFoxy
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Comment #27259181
The problem is that you actually are spamming. Almost no one wants the junk that comes out of mailchimp. It’s just they are big and powerful enough to get their spam in inboxes rat…
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Comment #27259158
Honestly everyone could spam block mailchimp and their email experience would improve.
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Comment #27259124
Depends who is paying. If it’s your own project then 5 hours of your own time might not be worth that much. If someone else is paying you then both options cost money and the equat…
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Comment #27259028
No VPS has a shared IP address. The real problem is that the pool may have been dirtied by previous customers. But once you get a clean IP you can keep it for as long as you keep t…
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Comment #27253025
Linux distros by default don’t support mp4. I’d say those are more common GitHub users.
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Comment #27253000
GitHub issues are not stored in git. This is just video attachments in the text of issues.
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Comment #27252995
Webm and webp have become pretty standard usage on the internet now. Imgur, reddit and many other major sites use it by default when support is detected. Usually when I save an ima…
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Comment #27252971
Webm is one of the formats my screen recorder supports and seems to be the one my coworkers use. It’s pretty convenient since it works without having to install proprietary codecs …
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Comment #27252967
Blacklisted is the specific terminology for when a website rejects certain file types. I guess in githubs case it would be that webm is not whitelisted since only 2 formats are per…
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Comment #27250916
This is possible. Many users can be sharing the same IPv4 using CG-NAT. I have found that when using mobile internet, every site that uses IP bans has already banned me for a previ…
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Comment #27250624
I noticed that when running MS teams in a flatpak on wayland, it no longer has access to the mouse and keyboard input so it just shows me as online always.
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Comment #27250538
The reward for Bitcoin mining is fixed. The work required is variable. If electricity costs globally shot up, there would be far smaller mining operations but the payout would be t…
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Comment #27242835
“Straight white man” has become a buzzword now. Is there any evidence that any of these companies trying to ban politics were oppressing gay people? As a gay person in tech I have …
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Comment #27242806
Keeping your mouth shut is no longer an option “silence is violence” and “not taking a position is a position” have taken over. The issue at Basecamp was that activists were harass…
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Comment #27242784
Agreed, as long as there isn’t some major issue internally (sexism/racism) that affects your ability to work, or the work itself is an issue (being made to create distasteful conte…
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Comment #27207986
> About 50 per cent of calls to triple zero are made with mobile phones that are AML-capable. That includes Androids running version 4.1 and higher with Google Play services, iPhon…
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Comment #27190320
I imagine the stats come out better when using something like an iPad for notes which replaces other electronics you would have bought.
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Comment #27139686
Chia is another proof of waste coin. Not what we need at all.
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Comment #27139669
I wonder if Bitcoin investors will start to work out what all those regulations they avoided were for.
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Comment #27135483
For critical data like that, it would make more sense to just have a modem on board. 5G should make this more possible with increased device limits.
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Comment #27116701
And then the tv bricks when it can’t access the network for 10 days.
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Comment #27094476
For someone who knows electricity basics, what does power factor mean and why is 0.5 bad?
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Comment #27082901
Sure, but it’s still worth explaining what X is to give people context. Also the majority of question askers tend to be the ones who came up with the incorrect solution or are tryi…
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Comment #27058475
They do moderate it though. They have spent a fair bit of time removing certain shooting videos.
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Comment #27048465
Because Unicode emoji started out with a bunch of crap they couldn’t ever say no to new proposals because someone will say “why do we need a man levitating emoji and not skin tone …