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scgtrp··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Or, in other words, "we want to make reassuring promises to make the bad PR stop, but in a way that carries minimal legal weight".

That is not as reassuring as people seem to think it is.

scgtrp··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
It's... a wordpress site. You can just go edit pages. They even have a nice easy web UI for it.
scgtrp··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Why there, and not on the pricing page?
scgtrp··on Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”
I think you mean IMAP. Protonmail supports SMTP (the mail-sending protocol; it needs to to interoperate with other mail servers) but not IMAP (the client side mail-reading protocol).

SNMP is something entirely unrelated, afaik.

scgtrp··on Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail
I have idiopathic hypersomnia, or "you're more sleepy than you should be, idk why".
scgtrp··on My own phone number is now spam texting me
> do people not use multiple phone numbers in USA?

Not really, no. Dual SIMs are kind of a niche feature here, and most users I've heard of do it with a US SIM plus one for some other country they travel to frequently.

Curiosity: what are the use cases for two SIMs from the same country?

scgtrp··on Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
Costs aren't always direct "pay this much to participate in this thing" costs.

Having to arrange separate transportation home because you stayed after school past when the buses leave is also a cost.

scgtrp··on Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do
Ugh. No.

Don't have children with the expectation that they'll take care of you. You don't get to decide other people's life goals for them.

scgtrp··on Fengari – Lua for the Browser
I'm pretty sure you're agreeing with them. Current Lua does this, which is wonky:

    > t = {}
    > t['a'] = nil
    > t['a']
    nil
    > t['b']
    nil
scgtrp··on You can change your number
One big thing Signal is bad at for me is using from a computer.

They have a desktop client, but it's just a weird thing that proxies through my phone in a sort of bizarre backwards self-hosting sort of way.

scgtrp··on Not Another Framework
We had that already! In the 1990s!
scgtrp··on Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go
If (you're into microoptimizing things and) all you care about is whether they're mobile, you can leave out `Type=caller-name` to save a whole one cent per lookup :)

And if you're doing this before you try to SMS them, you can skip the lookup entirely, if it's a landline you'll just get an error back.

(I work at a company that uses Twilio heavily and it's full of this sort of microoptimization)

scgtrp··on Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
It's art in a kind of modernist "what even is art? Is this cardboard box art?" sense.