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mjr

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  • Cloudflare goes again

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  • We just want this sheet to work as sold. It's arguably evil, but boss decides to use it anyway, then it doesn't even work right. Like, what was the point?

  • Cloudflare goes again

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  • Didn't know the difference between their ? and their unwrap, it seemed.

  • Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook

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  • Correction: they think they've won, but only because they're clueless.

  • Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook

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  • Hilarious truncated headlines are hilarious.

  • Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook

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  • What do you use instead for online social groups? Do you ever hit a group or business that's only on Meta apps, whether fakebook or whatsapp?

  • Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook

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  • Though I’m not sure why they want a bunch of videos of 16 year olds…

    Do they have pizza restaurants with secret basements in Aus? /s

  • Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook

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  • [Users] who believe they have been wrongly categorised as under 16 can ask for a review and submit a "video selfie" to verify their age. They can also provide a driver's licence or a government-issued identification.

    Because uploading your image and ID to Meta isn't a security risk at all, oh no.

    Why are governments helping Meta and friends harvest their citizens' data? Evil or clueness?

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • Check your autorenewal failure alerts go somewhere you'll react to.

  • GrapheneOS needs you, nerd

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  • Yeah, said that, or "you'll work on this as a contractor" as contracting isn't classed as being employed by the hirer in some countries. The confused language makes them look like they could give you tax and social security problems, which might deter some good people.

  • TIL the number of pedestrians killed by drivers in the U.S. rose by 70 percent between 2010 and 2023

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  • I holidayed in a village in France and got around fine by a mix of bus, bike and train, and it looked ok to do that if you lived there and worked, but most of the locals still drove because there were occasional journeys where cars really helped and once you decide to sink €000s into a car, it's then cheap to use it for each extra journey instead of wait for a bus or train, or take time to pedal or walk a bit to stops.

    So I think it could be possible even in villages, but some services will need making easier to reach without cars.

    I certainly know plenty of places where local governments aren't even trying, of course.

  • Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

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  • Could be a Wisconsin resident away on a trip longer than intended, wants to check schedules before deciding to ask a friend to drag some of their bins to the kerb and back?

    What's the benefit to WI in denying them access?

  • Looking for a PeerTube instance that actually accepts new users

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  • Same. I've tried two, looking to upload transport and design videos. No answer, stuck after confirming email address.

    Eventually, I'll set up a host and a donations account, but it's a faff I've not got time for right now.

  • How can I do blog to epub on Manjaro Linux or Firefox?

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  • No, but could you feed the website with mismatched tags through something like tidy first? That error looks like maybe it's expecting xhtml and getting html. Maybe the site is declaring one, then using the other. Lots of software won't care because it's a pretty common error, but some panics.

  • Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

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  • Thank for elaborating my comment, but I never said never, only that it's usually better to avoid it.

    And yven if you think it's provably impossible to get an Error back now, someone or something may change an underlying function behaviour on you in the future and invalidate your proof. There are ways to limit that with version control and pinning and so on, but it's easy for an assumption to be overlooked when merging in new versions of things.

    So yes, I agree, better to use ? at least here, but like all guidelines, there may be times where you break it, accepting the risks.

  • Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

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  • They used .unwrap(...) in production, which can escape notice until there's an error, then it panics. It's better to always handle the potential error, or at least use ? to pass the error back to the caller.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • safe or just safer?

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • Is any national dictator's army yet doing the "two steps forward, one step back" march to appear less scary?

  • Why do so many services require email configuration?

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  • That depends who's hosting it. There's few good reviews of email hosting out there at the moment.

  • Why do so many services require email configuration?

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  • Even if you self-host, other people's mailservers still interact with it, unless you only chat with other users you host. And some of the big webmails variously get really pernickity about your DNS, DKIM and more, or they deploy some pretty obnoxious countermeasures against your server with little explanation. So I'd say it's more often both than not, no matter what you do. If you think it's not being a pain, there's probably an unpleasant surprise in your server logs or coming soon!

    It's still often worth self-hosting, but that's more big webmail really sucks, even ISPs often don't set their mailservers up well and it's often an early casualty of ISP managers looking for costs to cut.