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Google will be prohibited from doing that under the DOJ's proposal.

I agree with you, but I go one step further: I am disappointed by OSM raster tiles and especially Google's digital tiles because even they show barely enough information, if you co…

Sometimes the alternative blows up in your face though.

I agree, I also dislike the term SQL injection. But the problem isn't that there is a query, there problem is that the source code of one program is constructed by string manipulat…

Do you mean you switched to self-managed GitLab, or you have a self-managed GitLab that you keep around as a backup plan?

It's closer to the truth than you usually get. They're having a bad day, it's completely true. It's the start of my day, but I guess this is the middle of the night for them. There…

Hold for me is pretty good. I've never used the phonetree feature, but I think it's often the case that I don't know which button I need to press: I have to listen to them all firs…

Isn't it entirely dependent on the airlines, what counts as one itinery? How could I contractually obligate them to something they didn't agree to be contractually obligated to? (B…

I can't believe they haven't started using three digits and an emoji.

Cookie disclaimers are not GDPR. They're also completely optional; you can have a fully functional modern website that stores state in cookies and not put in a cookie banner. Busin…

Yes please! Firefox used to have a fantastic feature where I could crash it, and it would have a tab that contained my previous session within it. It would be there forever, betwee…

If you want to go beyond writing a configuration.nix then you don't want a beginner friendly anything. Configuration.nix does at least as much as any user-friendly operating system…

> On the other hand, the goal is to get away with fraud, not to convince an international community who will likely look for any confirmation of their suspicion. Despite my joke in…

Thanks. Note to self: Next time I want to rig election results, generate a random integer between 54.2% and 54.3% of the vote and count it as the winner's vote, subtract from total…

Most countries with presidential systems and FPTP have third party runs to such an extent that it's impossible to decide who the first, second, third... party is. It's more than su…

Desert, n, stress on the first syllable, means a place without much rain, but it comes from the notion of being deserted so sometimes it just means an unpopulated area. To desert, …

In addition to the UK, it's almost certain that this had high level political influence between Australia's prime minister and the US president. I don't think the perspective that …

There's a fair number of apostrophes in fact. Here's an example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZSVi4GfuAgcUspm2A (Note that Google's database seems to lack the apostrophe in that name). …

See my comment sibling to yours for some concerns with `env $(cat file)`; I would have these and then some with sourcing the file even in a subshell. You can do whatever you want i…

Further addition, I haven't investigated dotenv deeply, but I suppose it would be a command that specialises in making sure the contents of .env are just environmental variables th…

env $(cat .env) my-cmd-wanting-dotenv would, though, wouldn't it? ETA: the main difference between `env` and `dotenv` seems to be that `env` gets its arguments from the command lin…

Forwarding traditionally looked like this: 1. I tell my email client from colimbarna@fine.server.example to send an email to eisenstein@old.server.example using my.correctly.config…

"Sed" is the name of a specific tool. It is not defined by the GNU tools, but has existed in some form since 1974, well before Perl. GNU sed and POSIX sed both support BRE and EREs…

Yes exactly, they match the end of a line, not a newline character. Some examples from documentation: man 7 regex: '$' (matching the null string at the end of a line) pcre2pattern:…

3.14 is about 0.00159 less than pi, whereas 22/7 is about 0.00126 greater than pi, making pi approximation day closer to pi than pi day.