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Not knowing what a VPN doesn't exclude you from using one. Many workplaces use VPNs and it's likely that public internet access points (such as libraries, lounges, restaurants and …

Their privacy page has some notes on this > We do not participate in, or co-operate with, any kind of blanket surveillance or monitoring. (We also point out that Australia does not…

The original comment said .biz when they may have ment .bit

99 percent invisible has a podcast discussing this issue with a designer who takes the opposite position. A main point is that a simple, reproducible logo is ideal. http://99percen…

Value is only realised by completed features, so a developer that can deliver completed, value producing features by themselves is a good thing. Teams should aim to have compositio…

Australia is an island so it has a fairly unique biodiversity. For international flights bringing in fruits is a concern since it can introduce pests that don't otherwise exist in …

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Mosquito surpression is an ongoing effort. For now it is free, but it will transition to a subscription service at some point.

> According to the report, Instagram Stories has more than 200 million users per day, with that number being measured by people updating their story or watching a friend's. I wonde…

Emirates have tourism advertising as well as, funnily enough, advertising for the entertainment system your using right at that moment.

Anecdotal, I know, but I was on a flight a few months ago where the wire for the hand held controller for the entertainment system had gotten so hot it burnt my hand. I'm not sure …

Ah, I was unaware that there could be multiple IPs on an A record, thanks for that. If I'm understanding this right though, the extra IPs would just be for redundancy and resilienc…

> if we just look at the three top 35 sites tested in this post, two send uncompressed javascript over the wire, two redirect the bare domain to the www subdomain, and two send a l…

Waterloo is pretty good in encouraging their students to pursue and monetise their ideas. They quite fancy being able to brand themselves as a university preferred by accelerators …

Yes, I tend to do something along those lines when I don't want to be tracked. To the original point, it's an annoying extra step to have to do but not unreasonable enough to stop …

I get annoyed by it too, because sometimes I want to read an article but don't necessarily want fb to continue serving those articles to me. I don't really know what happens inside…

I have recently switched from flask + psycopg to sanic + asyncpg for my http APIs. I'm pretty happy with the results and the transition was pretty smooth, it only took a day each t…

Possibly, however large enterprises might lock CI/CD down and manage it centrally. In those cases they're likely running Jenkins and Blue Ocean looks a breath of fresh air for the …

Self driving cars won't make financial sense in a lot of regions. The driver plus bring your own vehicle model is a mostly operational cost model where the cost slides based on reg…

What do the various static site hosts offer in terms of analytics? I can always add in some javascript analytics, but with the prevalence of ad-blockers and tracker-blockers it wou…