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alias-dev··on You can't download this image
This does create a self inflicted Slowloris attack on the server hosting the image, so this site is probably more susceptible to the hug of death than most
alias-dev··on Amazon will monitor workers' keystrokes to 'combat data theft'
> Slightly tangentially to your comment, I believe that people tend to vote based on the fact they believe they either are, or will soon be, part of the one percent.

As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright: > John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. This helps explain why American culture is so hostile to the idea of limits, why voters during the last energy shortage rejected the sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who told them it was still “morning in America.” Nowhere does the myth of progress have more fervent believers.

alias-dev··on A tool that increased my typing speed
Or vim with a few plugins.
alias-dev··on How will the world vaccinate seven billion?
You mean consequences outside of drowning in their own fluids?
alias-dev··on How will the world vaccinate seven billion?
Well people survive vaccination, so there's that
alias-dev··on Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust
They use the 'directories' crate (https://docs.rs/directories/3.0.1/directories/struct.Project...) to work out where the data directory should be, then write out to a json file. See 'src/utils.rs'