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Lmao, I’m not even in the US. I just know that advocating against child vaccinations is objectively a bad thing.
Great memories of limewire but unfortunately its creator has gone full MAGA/MAHA, dropped all scientific knowledge he ever had by funding RFK Jr. and is even advocating cancelling child vaccination schedules.
Re:Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:32AM (#47334259)
I would have loved this for my road trips in the US. From the other apps it was never clear whether this was a restaurant or a gas station where it's next to the highway (a quick stop) or I had to drive a mile into a town and find it. Perhaps it has improved since then (this was 2015-ish). Congrats on building this!
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:54AM (#46158254)
Somebody at Cloudflare is stretching that initial investigation time as much as possible to avoid having to update their status to being down and losing that Christmas bonus.
"Teams for Consumers" The product name already is an omen on how "successful" this will be.
It's only a threat when non US countries demand it, otherwise it's just a safety measure.
On Serverless since 2018 and we still love it. One thing it had helped us with is deploying and managing customisation for some clients without affecting the wider product.
Re:AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:28AM (#42713031)
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i1uvjq/scam...

    French start up Find My Scammer carried out the investigation pro bono as the victim has literally no money left in her account, not even a cent.

    Victim had no experience whatsoever with social media before creating an Instagram account in 2023 to share holiday pictures.

    Victim was targeted after liking pictures related to Brad Pitt on Instagram.

    Victim was in the midst of a divorce before being contacted by scammer.

    Victim was groomed for months and months by scammer passing themselves as Pitt's mother, agent, etc, in addition to Pitt himself, using American phone numbers, fake articles, etc.

    Victim had no knowledge of technologies such as deepfake.

    Victim was lulled into a sense of security as grooming lasted for many months before she was asked to send money for the first time, thinking that such a scam would be more immediate.

    Victim has HIV and cancer, tried to end her life three times.

    French TV program which revealed the story accused of manipulating the subject matter and misrepresent facts to encourage ridicule against victim, has been pulled off all platforms.

    Scammer found in Benin, was tricked into clicking a link which gave start up full access to his computer, phone, information, living address, etc. Crypto wallet where the stolen money is stored found. All information in the hands of authorities investigating the crime.

    Scammer has over 30 victims. Also poses as fake Keanu Reeves.
Re:The Battle Line at Louvain on Friday November 15, 2024 @11:34AM (#42148436)
The correct name of this city is Leuven.
Re:The Battle Line at Louvain on Friday November 15, 2024 @11:33AM (#42148433)
They are wrong. This is like calling Gdansk, Danzig.
Re:I Lost $210 to a Stripe Dispute Despite Proof on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @11:27AM (#42116948)
Stripe notifies you of an issuer dispute raised through the respective scheme. They have no control except being a messenger back and forth between you and then customers issuing bank and the scheme. So not on Stripe this one. And this is coming from someone who absolutely despises Stripe. Especially you, Alan from Stripe.
The “also requesting you to share” clearly reads as an expression from a certain part of the world with a lot of outsourced tech.
Ah the typical “here’s a cool thing OP build but I’m using something better-reply”
Not to go full ad hominem but the author of this tweet is Dan Price, best to do some background research on him before trusting him to be calling out others for “don’t be evil”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/technology/dan-price-resi...

Not just pg, also the stripe founders have been fawning over Austen. They all knew it was a predatory “school” but backed it anyway.
> Your entire day captured, task by task.

Scary.

Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:42AM (#39398475)
Have you ever danced or even just enjoyed listening to Daft Punk?
Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:02PM (#38608356)
Whether they are right or wrong… after another setback how long do we think Sundar Pichai will stay in place.
Re:Silicon Valley's Laundry-App Race (2014) on Thursday November 23, 2023 @09:10PM (#38400026)
Style Theory still very much in business.
I’m voting for Dan McCrum, Elliott Brown, Maureen Farrell, Duncan Mavin and Bethany McLean to team up and write the book to end all books about corporate stupidity.
Re:Mass producing the most expensive rice cooker [video] on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:31AM (#38148239)
In that case it’s a pot you use as a rice cooker, not a dedicated rice cooker ;)
Re:British Airways B789 smoke in cabin, phone stuck in seat on Sunday October 22, 2023 @02:11AM (#37973212)
Less of an issue in economy seats seats but in new business class seats or suites there’s the possibility for a lot of crushing and grinding of the battery of the phone with the mechanical moving components of the seat.

I had it happen to me once but as instructed didn’t move the seat (had to move to another one for landing as it was stuck in the lie flat position).

After landing the maintenance crew had to completely dismantle the back of the seat but they found the phone. The pilots and crew were obviously a bit annoyed as they couldn’t disembark the aircraft with me still on board. But much better result than having to declare PAN PAN.

I think you missed some layoffs news about Stripe.
The symfony-cli is pretty sweet to setup new projects and add dependencies.
Re:Bolwoningen: Living in Spherical Homes on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:48PM (#36488343)
This website is as unusable as the spherical houses the article is about.
Re:WhatsApp corrupts DB, breaks App on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:25AM (#36445892)
Have you even read the comments?
Re:PhpBB on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:35AM (#36368131)
Wow, thank you.
Re:PhpBB on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:49AM (#36357463)
Modding phpBB and starting new forums using phpBB (and later Invision Community) got me into php dev and basically the job and career I now have.

Such a great product for building communities. It would be so good having this feeling again browsing forums on this software. The Subsilver theme was iconic and legendary.

Yes, let's keep ignoring the issues and point to something else, that will solve it! Not saying it's not part of it but let's not pretend downtown SF is a utopia.

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