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I very rarely refund anything, but when I do, I send a single email that I want a refund and if it isn't done promptly I will chargeback. It's usually the best customer service I g…

I live in Thailand, many expat accounts have been closed down, making it very hard to pay bills etc. in the country. That will form part of the 3 million. Huge overreaction that wi…

I was researching CAPTCHA solving services yesterday that run on cheap 3rd world labour. I couldn't imagine a worst job than solving them all day.

I'm fairly young and I remember this debt ceiling brinkmanship happening several times in the past , turning out to be a nothingburger. Is this time any different? (Genuine questio…

I use this pixel feature all the time, it does make it a bit too easy to snooze the alarm though. You want a bit of friction.

No, especially the element of having goons back home to coerce the family sounds like actually slavery. I double check these days. Westerners try to make charity cases out of peopl…

So we have an individual that has travelled overseas to earn more money than he would be able to make at home, to better support his family. That is not a slave and calling it slav…

On the last point, I must be missing something obvious, but why don't those workers who have their passports taken report them lost/stolen and get a new one from their embassy?

I bought a lifetime Plex subscription in 2016 and it's still working

Just today I needed to run some software only available in .deb and only on Ubuntu 22.04. So whipped out an old laptop that had Ubuntu installed and ran sudo do-release-upgrade to …

This would be a valid way of thinking about it, but programmers aren't generally judged on their meeting attendance but rather their code output. More meetings == less code == wors…

It's a weird focus comparing it with how the internet developed in a very wild west way. Imagine if internet tech got delayed until they could figure out how to not have it used fo…

Also available in the UK, Interactive Brokers margin loan. The interest rate is 1-2% p.a.

Down for friends and I in the UK.

I believe ISP level blocking in the UK can already be easily bypassed simply by not using your ISPs DNS servers.

As an Australian Dev living in the U.K. this is absolutely terrifying. I'm compelled to somehow deploy a backdoor at whatever company I'm working for if they have a single Australi…