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1. 691.▲
   by rovr138 5y ago

   Or unlimited aliases - service@example.com - anotherservice@example.com And they all land on the same inbox and you don’t have to worry about those services that still don’t allow +
2. 692.▲
   by rovr138 5y ago

   What guarantees it’s intact?
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   by rovr138 5y ago

   Thank you Ted. I wanted to also mention that I appreciate what you and everyone at Namecheap do and the transparency when fighting things.
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   by rovr138 5y ago

   Since you’re closer to this and this has been asked in other comments, Is there a reason for doing this besides ‘we can’? Not sure if there’s something we aren’t seeing or aren’t privy to.
5. 695.▲
   by rovr138 5y ago

   “Because we can” They have a monopoly and they’re allowed to do it.
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   by rovr138 5y ago

   There's another article linked to from this one that has, > The whole point here is that Verisign gets richer while ICANN does all the dirty work. All this while ICANN will receive additional funding ($20 million) from Verisign over
7. 697.▲
   by rovr138 5y ago

   The link is not just about the amount, A section, > There are about 152 million domain name registrations .com today so Verisign will make about $82 million more in the next year following the price increase out of thin air. > Verisig
8. 698.▲
   by rovr138 5y ago

   The topic is around stickiness of software. What does your monitor have that make it sticky?
9. 699.▲
   by rovr138 5y ago

   Pinephone. I believe the idea is that anything with blobs can be hardware disabled.
10. 700.▲
    by rovr138 5y ago

    They also did say ‘software’.
11. 701.▲
    by rovr138 5y ago

    Do we know it’s not? Is it illegal for them to switch to using it for advertising in the future? What I know is that they collect huge amounts of data and we don’t have protections on how that can be used.
12. 702.▲
    by rovr138 5y ago

    To know they can interact with it. If the field is optional they might just skip it to not type. Not everyone can hover over it.
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    > As against all the awesome tables OSes and applications on competing devices? Not them, but my argument would be compared against a full desktop OS. I love the form factor and for smaller things, if I had a full blown OS, I would be ab
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    I wonder how this is affected by the last ruling, “US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [pdf]” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27382752 - from a couple days ago. If they don’t block acces
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    I have no idea if this is true or not... and that worries me. I think it's not, but, maybe?
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    As long as you also clarify that their consumers must be following the news where that's announced. With us technical people it's more likely, but not necessary for others that may have just heard 'use a vpn' and went to
17. 707.▲
    by rovr138 5y ago

    If you turn on your VPN, they can do exactly that. You’re just trading one for the other and that new one might not even have to follow the same laws.
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    Was this an issue with things preinstalled and trying to install your own or with trying to use your own after installing your own? Wondering if it was really an issue with 2 interpreters or more of an issue with how the system works. More
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    Cost of testing is simple. Just launch the tests. Regarding deprecating and moving away from Python 2, this has been discussed ad nauseam and the issues have been recognized around it. By the way, this wasn't a language issue, but an
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    So... $ /usr/bin/python WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended. This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7. Instea
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    /usr/bin/php --version WARNING: PHP is not recommended PHP is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS will not include PHP. PHP 7.3.24-(to be removed in future
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    Don't forget Spotify, WhatsApp desktop client, Skype, discord,
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    I think that's one place where it's divided and contended. People here are pretty vocal and critical of electron.
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    I have no idea on where the 15GB either comes from. I also use pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv and my ~/.pyenv is not close to that.
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    Sure, Microsoft... And how many versions of .Net Express are there installed on computers? . I'm a developer, not a user. I develop for multiple platforms and targets. Not just one OS and implementation. That's why I, as a develop
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    >Or it would be, but it would be hopelessly out of date I think you need to define "out of date". Out of date for me means not receiving security updates and stale. I think you mean not the latest version and stable for me is b
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    > That's absurd. How come? It's pretty practical. I'm a developer. I deploy to multiple targets so I have them all. I test against them. Simple enough. To talk to the point of the link here, what I distribute to MacOS I on
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    While it may have been a happy accident, it's a pretty big market. Precovid, on any conference I went to, professional or academic, the amount of Apple laptops was insane. I'm sure they're running things locally or on Linux s
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    Python developers I know get their interpreter installed. This is vs people in college I know that are dabbling in Python or people starting with it on a professional setting. I currently have over 5 different python versions installed to b
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    by rovr138 5y ago

    and if they get pissed, they can also remove the package and break thousands of code bases essentially instantly.