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The map was housed in the Marciana Library in Venice. Unfortunately, nowhere on the internet did it mention that the map had been removed for restoration. This prevented me from seeing it in person, and perhaps I never will.
Naively, I thought that the library's website would inform visitors about such changes. However, the reality is that website updates often lag behind changes in exhibits. Lesson learned: I now call the places I want to visit to confirm their hours and current offerings.
In the case of fundrising and sponsorship, it assures to sponsors the legitimity of that campaign, because there is no conflict with other organisation or company using the same name.
I could go on, but I hope you get the point.
In Gitlab they are rendered nicely when visiting the .md file with the web browser. Github doesn't have that functionality yet.
Applesoft BASIC with Line Numbers
10 HOME: M$ = "MESSAGE"
20 FOR X = 1 TO 20
30 GOSUB 200
40 NEXT X
...
210 HTAB 20 - LEN(M$)/2
210 PRINT M$
220 RETURN
Applesoft BASIC without Line Numbers
HOME: M$ = "MESSAGE"
FDR X = 1 TO 20
GOSUB CENTER
NEXT X
...
CENTER
HTAB 20 - LEN(M$)/2
PRINTM$
RETURN
I imagine that they find their naming choices amusing.
So when you have good support/sales staff and most contacts are solved with self-service, what remains are contacts about complicated cases and inquiries.
I imagine that they always had a lot of contacts about optimizing spending, and policies to help and retain those customers accordingly, and now the percentage of time spent in those is higher, probably because the other types of contacts are now self-service.
In fact, the French data protection authority CNIL has issued orders to around sixty players that do not make refusing cookies as easily as accepting them. They have also fined companies such as Google and Facebook for making it harder to reject cookies than to accept them. The CNIL has ordered these companies to provide a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them.
Also, under GDPR, it is not legal for websites to make rejecting cookies more complicated than accepting them. In May 2020, the EU updated its GDPR guidance to clarify that cookie walls do not offer users a genuine choice because if you reject cookies you’re blocked from accessing content. It confirms that cookie walls should not be used. Companies such as Google have introduced new options to reject tracking cookies in Europe after their existing dialog boxes were found to be in violation of EU data laws.
Now what I don't know is if users outside of EU get the evil-twin version of those popups when visiting websites. My experience browsing the www is just not as bad as many people describe because I usually get a "reject all" button or when "managing" the cookies, they are all disabled by default and I can simply save the options.