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by callahad 4y ago
I worked at a company that used Fastmail for ~150 employees. In my personal experience, the email side was rock solid and support was both responsive and helpful. I miss Fastmail's extremely fast web interface and handy features like b
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by callahad 4y ago
> twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Didn't SourceForge make its platform F/OSS
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by callahad 4y ago
In the UK, https://www.which.co.uk/ fills a similar niche to Consumer Reports.
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What's interesting is Diablo Immortal's monetization introduces a level of indirection compared to Diablo 3's Real Money Auction House (RMAH), and I think it's sufficiently distinct to avoid the same fate. In D3, you cou
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by callahad 4y ago
I sincerely enjoyed my eight years at Mozilla. Like any large organization, they're far from perfect, but my colleagues' hearts were in the right place. https://www.mozilla.org/careers/ Similarly, I just left
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by callahad 4y ago
> Scotland has its own sterling banknotes, but they're actually printed (issued? both?) by private Scottish banks. So does Northern Ireland! Ulster Bank, Danske Bank, and the Bank of Ireland all print their own Sterling notes here
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by callahad 4y ago
Frustratingly, the Emoji 5.0 standard includes flags for Scotland, England, and Wales... but not Northern Ireland, due to this issue. https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-5.0/full-emoji-list.htm...
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The aligned parties are split roughly 50/50 (37 unionist seats, 35 nationalist seats). Both lost ground to unaligned parties, which now control the remaining 18 seats. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-irela
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by callahad 4y ago
> the Ulster Flag is used to represent Northern Ireland in pretty much every kind of context. ...except within Northern Ireland itself :)
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by callahad 4y ago
In Belfast it's mash or chips with the meatballs.
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by callahad 5y ago
Nope! Much like Node allows you to run JavaScript without a browser, there are plenty of standalone WebAssembly runtimes which don't need a host JavaScript runtime.
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by callahad 5y ago
Sure, superficially it sounds like Java. But hey, Java was really damn successful for a very long time.
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Hubs itself is open-source; you should be able to find whatever library it's using if you dig in the relevant repos. > the verification link does not authenticate the browser that it opens from your email, but rather the browser th
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by callahad 5y ago
> At the three star joints your dates purse gets its own stool. I'm not even joking. We encountered the purse stool at a one star restaurant, Eipic, in Belfast. Genuinely wondered if the little stools were made solely for holding
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by callahad 5y ago
Same boat. I just flashed GrapheneOS onto my Pixel 3a over the weekend, and the process was stunning compared to the days of CyanogenMod on my Nexus One. Notably, Graphene offers a WebUSB-based installer ( https://grapheneos.org
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by callahad 5y ago
For context, a Twitter bot was recently banned for automatically replying to Wordle tweets and spoiling the next day's word. Preventing that would improve the gameplay experience by defending against malicious disruption.
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by callahad 5y ago
It's still early days, but as far as I understand it, one of Suborbital's explicit goals is to commoditize wasm-backed FaaS platforms: https://suborbital.dev
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by callahad 5y ago
Deezer has been pretty staunch in their advocacy for "User Centric Payment Systems" ( https://www.deezer.com/us/ucps ) where your monthly subscription gets proportionally split between the artists you stream, r
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by callahad 5y ago
Worth noting that the majority party in Parliament, the one pushing this nonsense, switched en masse to Signal two years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/tories-swit...
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by callahad 5y ago
Just a joke. There were plenty of rumors about an Apple phone around that time, but it was generally referred to as the "iTunes Phone." And the mockups were significantly more hideous: https://web.archive.org/web&#
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by callahad 5y ago
43 Folders was Merlin Mann's celebration of David Allen's Getting Things Done productivity system. It was very, very popular with the MeFi / Digg / Lifehacker crowd back then.
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by callahad 5y ago
Firefox also had native support for RSS: detecting feeds, rendering them reasonably, even subscription via "live bookmarks." Removed in 2018: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks
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by callahad 5y ago
The progression from international to multinational to transnational corporations is also a prominent theme in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
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.org is controlled by a non-profit and I believe it has reasonable controls on price increases. (Private equity recently tried to obtain .org and jack up the prices, but the acquisition was blocked by ICANN https://arstechnica.co
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by callahad 5y ago
Black Friday seems to be pretty widespread: many German retailers like https://www.galeria.de/ or https://www.mueller.de/ advertise "Black Shopping" today, and it seems common enough in the UK as
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It genuinely is far more invasive and frustrating than you'd expect. I'm a dual US/UK citizen, living in the UK for four years. I have been turned away from local banks for being American. I have also had American banks and b
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by callahad 5y ago
What's wrong with requiring qemu?
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> Firefox gets hundreds of millions from Google alone in royalties, that is not enough to build a web browser? Empirically, it is not. Even Microsoft gave up that chase. Browsers are staggeringly complex and expensive to build. Which
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by callahad 5y ago
They've not stopped updating that page; it just takes longer than you would otherwise expect to get final numbers, prepare the reports, run them past auditors, etc. The 2019 statements were published in October of 2020, so I'd exp
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by callahad 5y ago
Discord and Blizzard games (maybe others?) let you choose your own username, but then assign a four digit disambiguation code to everyone, which seems like a decent compromise.

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