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I consider it a subscription because it is collected directly by the BBC and spent by the BBC.

Taxes, on the other hand, are collected by the government.

For me it’s groups. Several IRL groups I’m part of (sports/recreation/hobby based) use FB for coordination.

What a strange thing for your friend to say.

You're being intentionally dense. No, people don't accidentally post pictures but they often do post them with the intention of showing a certain thing, e.g. profile picture, something for sale, something related to hobbies, household repairs, whatever. All of thse are posted with intent to include a certain object but may include background info that the poster did not consider.

As a developer, I say Air all the way.

Never noticed any thermal issues at all. It barely gets warm for me.

Make sure to get at least 16GB RAM.

I think of SQLite on the server as something that you would use when running in a traditional server (VPS or dedicated host) setup rather than an orchestrated, container-based one.

You say CDN but you're really talking about static web servers in general.

[Expose] has completely lost any spatial determinism

Could you elaborate on that?

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/

Test code by running it.

Test a rocket by launching it.

To date, no Starship has been recovered after flight.

This is irrelevant, as none of the flights included any plans to recover the Starship. The objective for each flight has been to dump the vehicle in the sea at the target zone.

Intermittent fasting?

APIs are not scraped. Web sites are scraped. APIs are simply used.

I hear what you are saying but that's kind of an established-music-industry centric view. There are all kinds of musicians, not just "recording artists" in the 20th century industry mold.

What makes an artist "legitimate"?

I like how you called it ChilledCow to show how OG you are.

The link in question (linked from the the sumbitted link) is `porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network`. That's hosted by bsky, isn't it?

Government cannot take money from a crypto wallet because of cryptography. They could only do it if they compelled you to hand over your secret keys against your will. They also may not even know you have a crypto wallet since it is not registered in your name and is very easy to hide.

On the other hand, government can sieze funds from your bank account by seeking a court order or whatever legal instrument is needed in your jurisdiction.

If Apple wanted to implement a simlar feature, they would just do it. They wouldn't buy a 3rd party app when they could just do it themselves.

The value proposition of these kind of third party UI apps is that the developer cleverly figured out how to manipulate Apple's APIs to do something Apple didn't really intend. Apple themselves can just write their own private API to do it, they don't need the clever hacks.

I use Uptime Robot for this: https://uptimerobot.com/

I just configure it to access some endpoint on the API server. It checks it every minute and if it fails (non 200) it pings me.

You can also set it up in more complex ways but this is easy.

Then you have a fun programming challenge.

GNU/FSF's opinion on informal licenses (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#informal):

Informal license

An “informal license” means a statement such as “do whatever you like with this” or “you can redistribute this code and change it.”

In the United States, these licenses are supposed to be interpreted based on what the author seems to intend. So they probably mean what they appear to mean. That would make them non-copyleft free software licenses and compatible with the GNU GPL. However, an unlucky choice of wording could give it a different meaning.

However, many other countries have a more rigid approach to copyright licenses. There is no telling what courts in those countries might decide an informal statement means. Courts might even decide that it is not a license at all.

If you want your code to be free, don't invite gratuitous trouble for your users. Please choose and apply an established free software license. We offer recommendations that we suggest you follow.

Oh no that won't fly at all. People around here really like "proper" licenses. And they'll tell you about it.

What are other people using / moving to for Mac app crash reports?

Auto symbolication was (is, for now) a great feature of HockeyApp / App Center.

I guess the plucky upstart password manager team has one problem to solve, the entrenched web services team has its own ways.

It's interesting that there is such a focus on distractions and entertainment. It almost reads like "I attempted to operate my iPhone blindfold for 24 hours". What would a similar experiment be like without a smartphone being involve, I wonder?

If you don’t already know, you’re the target of it.

Yes very much so. I maintain an established Mac app and it's almost entirely Objective-C (and the bits that aren't are in C and JavaScript)

At least .yu was completely terminated. Wheras the confiscated .eu domains are now being re-listed for anyone to register! Anyone can now claim my old email address and I can do nothing to stop it. This is what bugs me the most about the whole thing.

Only idiots would compain about passport control queues. It's nothing like the .eu domain issue at all. A costless administrative accomodation could easily have been made.