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laurensr

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    This reminds me of the Little Book of Calm, discussed extensively in the Black Books TV series.

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    /joke But it doesn't have Perl's brevity: https://imgur.com/a/CfRqh5X

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    Thanks for pointing that out! My ISP, (Orange Belgium), does not support IPv6 yet!

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    Unfortunately towel.blinkenlights.nl is permanently dead

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    Comment #46540153

    I see them less and less. Recently an acquaintance got hearing aids and when asked about the T functionality (to listen to induction loops) they didn't even know about it.

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    Comment #45609512

    Meanwhile some ISPs are still not offering IPv6, such as Orange Belgium.

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    The most absurd limitation in Postman is a limit on how many times your team can run a collection. Locally, on their machine. Let that sink in: on YOUR LOCAL machine. https://learn…

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    What we really need is a community-driven alternative without lock-in. Many other use cases are covered by great FOSS products, but somehow API clients are abused as a sync cash co…

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    I've been using Bruno lately. It can use any directory as a collection, and I use git repos with my team to sync collections. https://www.usebruno.com/

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    In my browser the ads cover the actual content. User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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    Imagine governments allowing money for gold that's present but locked away. And later for gold they don't have!

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    Video presentation at https://ftp.fau.de/cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2024/h264-hd/38...

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    In the sixties, hexavelent chromium was used as a rust inhibitor in cooling towers in a Hinkley PG&E compressor station. It caused ground water contamination affecting the health o…

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    The lengths we have to go to make a device at this price point do what we want is... reMarkable

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    And then there is FATCA and CRS : when opening a bank account for my non-profit I had to answer 15 pages of questions related to me, other directors and the non-profit itself. I'm …

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    Mattermost published ± 2000 266 bytes docker images on 2024-07-24

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