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The Oscar-winning animated feature movie “Flow” was made with Blender.

Why would anyone entrust money to a company like eBay if they are this incompetent at something as simple as e-mail?

Should have registered as rei-are-incompetent-idiots@ instead…

Most RBLs are scams. No competent mail admin uses them to block mail ever.

Oh yes, so many websites are incompetent like that. And of course after registering with foo+bar@example.com they will happily send invoices to bar@example.com

The + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…

It's well-known that all commercial models are based on stolen content. That doesn't mean there is no filtering/censoring, just that the censoring likely depends on where it's happ…

In many countries it is mandatory to mark any form of compensated advertising as such. If your claim is true they might be breaking some laws here & there…

Using OCR you could reduce that to seconds.

While I do get a lot of mail, including a lot of spam, it’s not that bad. And the real problem is that most commercial companies make their legitimate administrative/legal mails lo…

I get those too, and I don’t even have any Microsoft accounts. So I assume at least some of them are not real. ;)

And for a company, not having to train people on all new applications at once might be what makes it _practically_ possible at all.

How can you _prove_ (“demonstrate”) that your software doesn’t contain malware or any vulnerabilities? They can’t do that for any of their own software for sure…

Not all "hostname lookups" by applications happen over DNS (or the DNS is done by something like systemd-resolved, which is often using encrypted lookups), so in many cases, depend…

WiFi works fine if there are drivers for whatever WiFi chip you have. Unfortunately there are no standards for OS to talk to WiFi devices like exist for many other types of hardwar…

It seems like this was implemented as a way to insert tips, and then abused to insert ads, so the developers involved might not have been aware of that part until later?

They reduce accidents in general, but bring us some “entertaining” new ones where a (usually) drunk driver crashes into the statue/fountain/whatever in the middle or uses the littl…

Before people believe the Tesla robot hype they should probably consider that Toyota has been making cars AND robots for longer than Tesla exists.

More importantly: it seems like Austin is mostly a typical US city grid of wide streets. Nothing comparable with an average old inner city, or narrow countryside roads with a ditch…

“Pump & Dump” has a very specific meaning here, something that is essentially a scam to cheat people out of their money, and not an actual honest attempt to create something new…

These AI crawlers already steal residential user connections to do their scraping. They'll happily steal your trust tokens too…

I know where the nuclear waste is stored here. Its storage is funded by the government for now (not included in electricity prices) and nobody can actually prove it will be safe fo…

There is a Belgian company that can use temperarure & other fluctuations in underseas power & cimmunication cables to detect nearby objects etc. I'm sure they are willing to help t…

They are not (necessarily) invisible, that depends on size & many other variables. Also, hypersonic missiles are perfectly vusible on radar.

Economic sense depends on individual/local circumstances also.