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by mgbmtl 6y ago
A lot of people unfortunately seem to bite on those "SEO experts" kind of emails. I had a few clients ask me if they should give it a try, since, "why not, it's cheap".
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Stating the obvious: but hopefully to a place other than Github, since forks would automatically be removed as well.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
You can use a voip number that forwards sms (ex: voip.ms). You don't need to setup VoIP, just setup SMS forwarding to email. That's what I did initially for my kid on an android tablet, and always did for my data-only phone.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
There's an uBlock filter "ublock annoyances" that filters most of those annoying "open in app" messages. Pretty useful for reddit/imgur.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
OK, so the compiled files are free/MIT, but the source files (MJML) are indeed proprietary. Interesting compromise.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
License here says MIT: https://github.com/hunzaboy/codedmails
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Wouldn't that be a token problem, which could happen in a text version as well? I used mutt for over 10 years, and gave up a few years ago. Having clear emails also includes having a good design. Regardless of form, most companies go t
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
In Quebec, changing your last name is not permitted since the 70s. So when non-English-speaking people use the same family name, we tend to assume they are siblings.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Marriage is on its way out in many places. In my region of Canada (Quebec), less than 50% of couples with kids are married. That number keeps going down every year. (There are some automatic protections in the event of a separation.)
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the number of shell users has grown exponentially in recent years. I wouldn't be surprised if most users wouldn't know them. However, the more one uses the shell, knowing those emacs shortcuts really helps (no
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
There's a catch-22 in there, a touch of cynicism, which I understand. However, ideally you want well paid employees who are not exploiting volunteers? I doubt there are many stats on this, but my experience is that most nonprofits don&
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Can't you still run KDE apps under Gnome, even with Wayland? I use a few. Some of them look better with the "QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland" environment variable.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Yep, I agree. Drivers seem very unrepresented, except for a few lawsuits, which some could argue may not represent the majority (there is little data).
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
This could be said of most topics. At the end of the day, lawmakers need to weigh studies, polls and legal precedents, to build a vision of what kind of society we want.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Would you pay $5/mo to support it, even if it were fully public? or only if it goes private? I'm pretty sure a "good enough" alternative would pickup the visibility, such as w3schools, and many won't be able to just
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
I work at a small cooperative. We do contact management for non-profits (from large professional associations to small activist groups). It's an area where Salesforce is present, but there is a huge potential for growth, especially out
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Not judging, but around me, it's usually rare to drink milk after the age of 8 (my kid stopped liking milk around that time, and most of their friends too). We do eat a lot of yogourt and cheese. The province use to over-produce milk a
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Interesting bits: "No personal data was ever shared externally with our partners or any other third parties." Advertisers uploaded lists with email/phone, and Twitter matched them to users. In any case, it does not help paran
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
At some point (but probably in more than a few years), IPv4 users will be the new IE6 of the Internet.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Fun in Quebec: a 14.975% tax rate¹. The tax can be rounded per line item or on the total. ¹ it was so that the effective tax rate remained the same when Quebec stopped taxing the federal tax, which was pretty annoying for software.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
I agree, but it's not a legal requirement, it's just how things usually work. Here's a counter example: http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/travaux-parlementaires/projets-lo... - tl;dr: Quebec abolished the
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Changing the law takes a fair amount of time, and it would unlikely be retroactive. Not to mention that if everyone is doing it (and it doesn't go against the Charter), good luck legislating against it. Historically, predatory behaviou
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
ublock origin on Firefox (android) works well.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
That sounds scary if used by companies who rely on advertising and, when they get hacked, extortionists.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
I hate to rant, but there is a weird sense of entitlement in many comments. An assumption that software should "just work", be completely bug free, have the best design, have developers quickly responding to bug reports, etc, whil
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Yet advertising isn't necessarily speech, and nothing says it should be part of democracy. For example: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-ap... Billboards advocated that they had the right to fr
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Ads give more power to those with more money. It's not a leveled playing field, at least in the US. Many countries limit spending on adverts (or campaigns in general) for this reason.
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
I help manage a Gitlab instance for a FOSS project with around 800 users, and we had spammers post spam on personal repos 3-4 times in the past 2 years. It can be hard to catch (I keep an eye on the latest new projects).
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
I haven't tested it with Stripe, but according to their docs, yes: https://support.stripe.com/questions/find-the-type-of-card-a...
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by mgbmtl 6y ago
Have you tested this? Prepaid cards usually don't support subscriptions, which is a way of avoiding that. (I work with handling online payments, and tried this before, but it failed for my test-case)

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