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I've had a Samsung fridge for years and it works really well. Don't know about anything else though. Here in the EU I tend to prefer Electrolux/Frigidaire and Bosch.

Good to know they haven't changed a bit since I was banned, 17 years ago.

This seems to be the norm with many american tech companies. They abruptly cast you out with a vaguely worded template explanation, no one will talk to you or explain to you what happened. Appeals are rejected.

Spamassassin with a 7.5 threshold and other measures like DMARC checks has worked surprisingly well for me in recent years.

I think there have been several attempts, but their government is cracking down on protests very swiftly. Many of them also have restricted information/are being outright gaslighted.

We don't have much visibility over what's going on in Russia that's not government controlled, but it seems to me a lot of people over there are against this war.

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally...

EDIT: https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1497944821679501313

Anecdotally, yes, but I doubt most users deliberately make themselves unprofitable. There're millions of kids who just want to use voice chat and share meme gifs. Plus Discord has been gating a lot of features behind Nitro in recent years, and they make a lot of money from Nitro/Boost purchases (it's hard to tell since they're privately owned but they might make close to 200 million this year). I suspect they can stay afloat without VC funding (though they keep getting it anyway). And their valuation is really high.

Both google and outlook can drop your mails without delivering them to the recipient, but you can find the rejection error code in your MTA logs. Though it's true that microsoft just rejects everybody and google might not reject you at all, at least outlook has a procedure of sorts these days. I do not see any form at postmaster.google.com that I'm allowed to access.

Microsoft:

1. Set up on https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/

2. Read everything at https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/pm/

3. Make sure everything is fixed, then use the link to the form hidden under Troubleshooting > "Sender services, tools, and issue submission" (the link's label is "here") to contact support. Make sure all fields are provided, including a website. It may take a few days to get a response. You may have to try multiple times until someone actually helps you.

Google:

Pray

I wish I knew. I have a user google keeps blocking for spam (not even marking, outright blocking) while at the same time their reporting tool say the user doesn't send enough e-mail to google for any data to be displayed (the user's domain generates less than ten e-mails per day, many/most of which not to google).

They're not discontinuing them for now. You already can't create new URLs, but they will be deprecating the service "in the future". What does that entail?

It's legally mandated in the EU.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

I lived in a forested area as a kid and the copper wire was always breaking for various reasons (falling branches, old deployment, temperature and humidity, etc). The ISP would always attempt to reduce the speed and leave it at that. It took a lot of effort as well as personally locating the breakage to get them to come and repair it properly (and it still took forever).

Am I the only one who keeps my wrists straight while typing on a regular keyboard? Always have. You don't have to make the mistakes depicted in the article, regardless of which direction the keys are facing. And I hate "ergonomic" split keyboards, since there is an overlap between the keys I press with each hand, depending on how they're sequenced, meaning such keyboards decrease my typing performance.

Mouse distance while using keyboards with numpad is a real problem, though, and I've suffered from tennis elbow associated with mouse use.

Yeah, I'm getting a lot of "old man yells at cloud" vibes from the discussion here. Most of the criticism makes no sense or is contradictory. Discord is searchable; discord is archivable by a bot; discord threads and channels are optional; IRC is no different; communities can be run in whatever way their owners want. The platform is pretty stable and does voice and video better than just about anyone else.

Though I think we can all agree the server bar UI is absolute garbage unusable by anyone in more than a dozen communities and needs to be punted into the solar core.

(To be clear, I do loathe communities with a hundred little channels, most of which I never even look at, and I do mute aggressively, so there are definitely client-side features missing in that regard, but I'm not blaming the community moderators for their absence.)

Amazon is criminally negligent at least, and I'd say enabling the deception in practice. They do scummy things like censoring (rejecting) legitimate negative reviews and letting sellers reassign positive reviews from a product to a completely different one.

I find the page visibility API, supported by every browser including Firefox, just as creepy. Perhaps even more, since most users don't know it exists and gave no permission for it to operate. Websites have no business knowing if I'm looking at them or not, and making assumptions about what I want them to do when I'm not.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...

Check out this website. It has a ton of different natural soundscapes (some only accessible to donors though; one time donation), all of which can be independently configured to your liking, and there's a button that makes the sliders randomly change over time too.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/rainyRiverbankSoundscapeGe...

By default speedtest only reliably measures last mile speed, since it defaults to the nearest server it can find. That data has its uses, but it doesn't tell the whole story, and is often misleading. Backbone, stability and practical latency tend to be much bigger issues, which are not represented here at all (last mile latency is represented but not even accounted for in the ranking, nor is upload bandwidth).

You could make a much better index using speedtest by taking several measurements for each ISP using near and far nodes, and using weighted averages accounting for upload, download and latency.

Good to know you're moving towards putting the annotations back on the side, but please deploy that for Firefox users too.

It makes some sense if you consider it a representation of the way you'd speak/read the sentence. If you read that sentence out loud, regardless of where you put the question mark you'll have to intone the quote as if the quote was a question, due to its context. So it functions "better" as a reading hint. (Though I'd also prefer to have the punctuation outside the quote.)

I care about privacy, that's why I didn't move away from Firefox years ago (or as of yet). But ideally I would prefer not to suffer from privacy or usability issues...

I agree with this opinion piece. Firefox is a product strangely hostile to its core userbase. It's almost like they've been deliberately trying to sabotage themselves for years. I don't use it because I approve of all their stupid pigheaded UI choices, I use it because it has been the least bad option despite those choices. That might not go on for much longer, though.

I would be furious if, being a legitimate user (which I am) I was blocked and then told to "contact my ISP" about it.

Science's Biggest Names! It got a chuckle out of me while reading.

> Sure, purists may argue that storing XML inside XML as a string or bytes is ugly

Ho ho ho, they really haven't looked at a lot of XML.

So is Funcom, Riot, Epic, Miniclip... They're harder to avoid than Nestle...

Speaking as someone who has been running MTAs for more than 15 years - Microsoft has been breaking e-mail for years. They are an order of magnitude more awful than anyone else, and no one should have their e-mail with them for any reason.

See also (recent): https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/ho...

> Avatars have no legs; nothing below the waistline

This is the biggest mistake a lot of VR developers made and are still making. People want to look cool in VR. They don't want to look like flying blobs (unless that's their actual chosen aesthetic). This affects their platform and purchase choices to a degree that many don't seem to fully comprehend.

It's the Ibi~~~s... (nsfw language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE

EU countries have real ID with biometrics though...

> safely drop non-DKIM mail

Yes, but the customer will blame you when e-mail from a misconfigured MTA doesn't arrive (from my experience running one).

If only we'd had DKIM from the start, preventing thousands of broken servers from being set up in the last twenty five years...