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I can't downvote you, and being as dismissive of you as you are of these efforts would simply create more rudeness.

Instead, consider why a governmental agency might want to be as inclusive of as many users of its services as possible, and how your miniscule slice of the world, advantaged as it is, might blind you to that motivation.

They're testing against actual RUM data collected from the site and linked in the article.

The writers are Matt Hobbs and Andy Sellick, respectively Head of Frontend Development and Senior Frontend Developers at GDS. They may have considered alternative options.

Here's a previous article explaining why they did what they did:

https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2022/08/11/how-and-why-we-re...

The article goes on to explain that they are optimising for extremely low spec devices used by financially and socially disadvantaged users. The majority of their users load pages in less than 1s (likely due to caching and connection). Some users take 25s or more to load a page. It is for these edge cases they were testing.

I just read the "What is Pickleball" page on that site. Are we sure that Pickleball isn't just a made up sport?

Thats great! I tried filling in the quiz and submitting and encountered a Captcha that was partially formatted on screen so I couldn't see all the images, nor the submit button. No way to move forward at all.

1 https://imgur.com/a/DcZSFHd 2 https://imgur.com/a/FLc5YzE

I hope you get your site in order, it sounds like a promising market.

Why are you collecting email addresses to deliver the results of a self-reported test that would drive shopfront purchases? Just allow users to take the test online, deliver the results, steer them towards the products. You'll get their email if they order, no?

The live webcam at Kaihinmakuhari is tearing up the decks with rightous electrojungle at the moment.

JustWatch.com will do this.

Enjoy the map.

Don't die.

https://fungiflora.com/2017/10/16/psilocybe-semilanceata-loo...

Matt Anderson in 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwreHReBH2A

When I see on an empty white page:

> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

I know I have no interest in your project as you have no interest in communicating with me, only funnelling me into your recently launched startup.

I've had similar conversations, but they are eclipsed by those revolving around people asking me if I work for the company in question. (I once said yes, to see what would happen, and understood how easy it would be to swindle people who don't understand email.)

I also spent 10 minutes trying to convince a car hire company that the email was mine and didn't belong to a third party car hire intermediary.

What conclusions can we draw about concentrating web content in a few CDNs?

Let's hope they don't plan to widen it with nukes...

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-planned-suez-canal-altern...

Troy says: " At the time of publishing this blog post, all phone numbers beginning with international codes 4, 6, 8 and 8 have completed loading."

Interestingly, several cellphone numbers I know to be present in one set of leak data which start with international code 4 are not detected by HaveIBeenPwned.

Likewise.

That said, the actual files are in fairly shabby shape and quite tedious to clean for DB import. They may have missed thousands of records.

We used to write poetry and aspire to higher states of consciousness.

Anyway, nice in-depth article. The results will surprise you. Especially point 6.

There will never be an apology. A corporate apology is an admission of guilt. An admission of guilt opens it up to lawsuits. Through its litigeous nature, the US has evolved a culture whereby apologies and human decency are antithetical to survival.

Also three meals away from: revolution, anarchy, collapse. One of many great quotes that are regularly attributed to everyone's favorite, recent source. It's also been attributed to Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Lenin, Robert Heinlein. Earliest print paraphrasing Alfred Henry Lewis (nine meals).

It must have the ring of truth to it, to survive so long and offered as wisdom from so many sources.

You're right. We need to figure out how to do better than the mice.

Or Wireguard.

The absurdity of sitting in front of a frozen keyboard and trackpad for up to a minute before I can unlock the screensaver on a 2k machine has driven me spare. And now has driven away from these astounding lemons.

This is the last Apple laptop for me.

Form is content, content form. How you do anything is how you do everything. Errors in grammar and syntax indicate errors in thought and care.

I mean this kindly: I highly recommend you hire a copywriter to go over your site. The spelling errors and grammar issues undermine confidence.

>The freaking panic is already starting in my country too. People buying up food in 10x the quantities than the usual shopping visit, etc..

>I've gone shopping yesterday, when the virus was found in the country next to mine

What's the old saying? "You're not sitting in traffic, you are the traffic." :)

The Left Hand Of Darkness managed to be both groundbreaking and popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness

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All replicants will be detected.

Also, the wicked irony of them calling themselves Ethos Capital.

Tried registering a .EDU domain recently? Or a .NGO? There are plenty.

Addressed in the article - you did read the article, didn't you? - but:

a) brand entrenchment - it's difficult to get organisations to rebrand

But much more importantly

b) the entire ethos goes against the sociological and ethical values of the .org TLD and those who chose it to represent their entities.

Also the deal appears to have been done immorally, in bad faith, with timed offers based upon insider knowledge by individuals who stepped out of one job into another of conflicting interest.

Not everything is about individual prices.

Apologies. I didn't mean to sound condescending. It just seemed like a desire to do something so entirely at odds with the two approaches to online interaction (open, user controlled, non-hierarchical vs closed, corporate controlled and top down implementations) that it confused me.