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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

Weirdly I remember too many horse memes from old internet communities.

uk.misc had a years-long habit of shouting "HORSE" after someone turned up trying to trace some Canadians who "moved to Burton-on-Trent and stole my HORSE".

uk.music.folk would shout "HORSE" too, but for a different reason: whenever the old "ah but is this really folk music" argument was trotted out. It was a reference to Louis Armstrong's "all music is folk music - I ain't never heard no horse sing" (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/all-music-is-fol...).

And back in the early days of OpenStreetMap we had a running gag about horse=yes, after early finding-our-way attempts at the tagging folksonomy resulted in 70mph highways in Britain being tagged with "horse=yes" because, yes, legally you were allowed to ride a horse on them.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by IncRnd »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

It's almost like this was put together as a joke.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by blackshaw »

avar wrote: post #56
blackshaw wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iceland is amazing, I highly recommend a visit. If you can forgive the self-promotion, I wrote a "things I wish I'd known" post about visiting Iceland which might be of interest to anyone planning a trip there: https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/iceland

A correction to "Unless you have a 4x4 it’s illegal to drive on certain mountain roads": Legally you can drive on whatever road you'd like in whatever vehicle you'd like, but coverage in case something goes wrong is probably not included in your rental company's coverage. The "4x4 only" signs you referred to are meant to discourage tourists who don't know any better. Depending on the road, weather, your driving skill…

I stand corrected! Have changed the post to say "discouraged" instead of "illegal".

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Post by [deleted] »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by alxlaz »

Hamuko wrote: post #10
ethbr0 wrote: post #4

In case you thought they took the easy way, behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/710288765/5e14861065 (linked on site)

Is the audio beyond fucked or is it just my machine?

That's what most people say the first time they hear it but if you give it time, Icelandic metal will grow on you, I promise :-D.

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Post by Msw242 »

charles_f wrote: post #87

I wish my country would build outhorsing centers, but horses are confined to their stables. Bunch of social safety-net cheque grabbing lazy asses

Whooooah there! Ass is a slur that is offensive to many horses' donkey partners and mule children.

Let's be respectful, not negative neigh-sayers

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