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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by chiph on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:01AM (#40829778)
Not when you're on a metered connection, or on a high latency one.

Don't make your customers pay for your sloppy habits is a good policy to have.

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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by fnord123 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:43PM (#40832595)
If the CDN returns a 404 or the origin server, then your satellite phone is still waiting.
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