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Re:Is OpenAI Dead Yet? on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:36AM (#46778145)
That's an excellent question. My fear is that it's going to be a little bit like putting a towel on a pool-bed on the Titanic...
Re:Is OpenAI Dead Yet? on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:14AM (#46777449)
Tracking the demise of OpenAI through the news cycle
Re:How I See Numbers on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:30PM (#30653018)
That's very interesting! I see numbers as... The actual numbers along a line which is a bit more like stairs. The number 8 is higher up than the number 5. My own Rainman visualisation is that when I write a text I can _feel_ what others will feel when they read what I've written. Whether it's funny, sad or boring (or clever!) I can just read the passage and at the same time feel what my readers will feel.
Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:23AM (#25069545)
Regarding his identity; I used to hang out on #coders on IRCNet from the mid 90's to the early 2000's. There was a guy there called MostlyHarmless and I think both the age and nationality checks out. I haven't been there for ages and I am pretty sure that the channel was password protected but it would probably take somebody just a few minutes to check around there amongst the regulars to see if they're the same guy. Right now there isn't a user online called MostlyHarmless, which there always was back then.
Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:35AM (#11785568)
The same happened to the address that I gave to the D-freemium file-syncing service... Never used that address anywhere else.
Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:21AM (#11785229)
I can recommend reading the About-page...!

https://mailhero.io/about

Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:20AM (#11785225)
Thank you for the compliment about the copywriting! I did try to put effort into explaining what Mailhero actually does and to make sure that I explained why I made it instead of pretending to be somebody else. :)
Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:01AM (#11784551)
I am going to add that functionality soon. You will, of course, have to click the recaptcha for each message send... I hope everybody understands why. :)
Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @02:27AM (#11784276)
That was a nice tutorial! I did something similar too before creating Mailhero.

And regarding the confusion about stuff before the @-sign: I have gotten "Wow, you work here?!" a million times too... :)

Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @02:22AM (#11784261)
Another thing I am working on for Mailhero is to start publicly listing sites/organizations that have leaked mail addresses. This list currently includes Coca Cola, Adobe, Neteller and others.
Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:28AM (#11784086)
Yes, my bad! I did not expect my site to get hacker news'ed while I was sleeping and I hadn't scaled up the web server for that... You can try again now. :)

The really good news is that all mails are always buffered on another server, so even if the whole thing was to go down, all mails will reach its destination in a timely manner.

Re:Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email on Thursday May 26, 2016 @04:43PM (#11781398)
Looks like a good title to me...!
Is the Google Translate just about right?

"Since we have multiple requests from police services, for fraud, we get to provide this service until further notice a

Too bad the Machne people use such a service for illegal transactions."

Thanks! Feel free to try it out. :)

Uhm, what happened to mailfish? My minimal knowledge of the German language tells me that it wasn't something good...