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platesmead

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    Comment #49508654

    I suppose I'm wondering that since domestic cats are already well introduced, perhaps removing them can also have unforeseen negative impacts to the environment!

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    Comment #49508646

    Okay, reading car plates. Again, campaign to make it illegal.

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    Comment #49506410

    If cats are killing wild animals that happen to flourish in human environments, is that such a loss to biodiversity? (Genuine Q. I don't know anything about what biodiversity folk …

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    Comment #49506336

    "Doxxing is bad except when it's against people I dislike"? If people don't want CCTV, campaign to make it illegal.

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    Comment #49506263

    Are they counting the loss due to human-induced reduction of biodiversity? E.g. wiping native land and replacing it with houses/cities/roads. Humanity has a cost on nature, that sh…

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    Comment #49506133

    When I want to debug reachability concerns, it's a shame that I can only use ping/traceroute between the non-NAT peers, and then have to SSH to my reverse proxy to do yet another p…

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    Comment #49472485

    That post advocates for passthru terminal persistence, and instead letting your host terminal/WM be the multiplexer. hrdx looks great, but as it does it's own multiplexing, I'm not…

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    Comment #49459203

    Great. I have a few IPv6-only hosts, and having to workaround GitHub being ipv4-only was a pain, especially during turnup, since my host config is stored on GitHub.

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    Comment #49394831

    I have a Kobo Clara. I'd one day like to mod this. Is there any indication that I need to avoid updates to prevent updates locking it down?

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    Comment #49372876

    > How readable and accessible is this book? It took me about 20-30 re-reads of the first page to understand it. The rest of the chapter was then a bit easier. I gave up after that.…

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    Comment #49372848

    > This is because they aren't trying to display pain, even if it is real, they are trying to show the referee that a foul has a occurred, so they perform the act of "footballer in …