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Yes, by default DNS suffixes are appended to short unqualified names only.

There's a registry key

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient\AppendToMultiLabelName
  [default value - 0 (Do not Append Suffix)]

which resolver built into Windows (DNS Client) respects.

nslookup contains its own DNS resolver and does not rely on the resolver built into the operating system. The DNS (multi-label) query packets sent by the nslookup tool will append the domains listed in the suffix search order (or primary DNS suffix if the list is empty) irrespective of that registry key.

In summary, don't use nslookup to try to get insight into what actually happens when apps/services try to resolve names. ping is probably a better bet, at least it uses Windows resolver which honours the above registry key.

Signal introduced usernames about a month ago.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

per month

> So while costs are added on to the customer, it would result in a price raise resulting in lessening their competitive advantage.

Every business that sells goods/services in VAT country collects VAT and transfers it to tax authority. There's no any advantage or disadvantage for someone, everyone plays by the same rules.

To sum it up, businesses "do not pay" VAT (technically they pay, but then reclaim it at the end of the month). All VAT burden always falls on the end consumer. Wikipedia says, that VAT is similar to sales tax, but since I'm not too familiar with sales tax, can't comment on that similarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax

Businesses always pay VAT on purchases, and collect VAT on sales, but can reclaim the paid VAT if purchase was done for business purposes. This basically means that the ultimate wholly VAT payer is always the end consumer (person, not business).

There are English subtitles when video is viewed on the webpage. Don't know why yt-dlp can't find them.

Is there an easy/simple way to spot if the video I'm watching is monetized for the benefit of the creator?

On iOS Safari, Firefox Focus acts as a content blocker, but it doesn't block YouTube ads. Elsewhere, uBlock Origin blocks everything.

I'm clicking somewhat often on youtube ads, because there's no way to escape them without the content blocker, so you have to watch the ad anyway. So if I have to wait anyway until the ad ends, I just waste aditional click. But I never buy anything nor have any interest in the advertised product. I do this mainly for 2 reasons:

- waste the budget of annoying/scam ads in hope that in the future I'll see less of those

- support the content creator

> "How To Program" - Chris Pine

I think you meant "Learn to Program" (Ruby book)

> $200/MWh is $2/kWh.

$200/MWh is $0.20/kWh.

For disks with sectors of 4096 bytes, the formula is the same except the constants are accordingly 8 times smaller.

Regarding sectors of 520 bytes, usable bytes are still 512. Quote from the above referenced document:

> HDDs formatted with T10 PI (Protection Information) have 8 bytes added to the end of each sector. However, the user usable sector size will remain at 512 bytes or 4096 bytes. The 8 bytes of PI will increase the overhead of the disk sector density similar to overhead of ECC bytes in a given sector.

HDD sizes are set by manufacturers according to the IDEMA "LBA Count for Disk Drives Standard"[0] formula:

  LBA_count = 97696368 + 1953504 * (Reported_Capacity_in_GBytes - 50)

So, for 120 GB HDD:

  (97696368 + 1953504 * 70) * 512 / 1024^3 = 111.79 GiB
  (97696368 + 1953504 * 70) * 512 / 1000^3 = 120.03 GB

For 200 GB HDD:

  (97696368 + 1953504 * 150) * 512 / 1024^3 = 186.31 GiB
  (97696368 + 1953504 * 150) * 512 / 1000^3 = 200.05 GB

For 500 GB HDD:

  (97696368 + 1953504 * 450) * 512 / 1024^3 = 465.76 GiB
  (97696368 + 1953504 * 450) * 512 / 1000^3 = 500.11 GB

Doesn't look like powers of 2 at all. Are you sure about your sizes?

[0] http://www.idema.org/wp-content/downloads/2169.pdf

Can someone fix the typo in the title? Deliverr (with e), not Delivrr.

Official exchange rate is a useless measure, it doesn't mean anything (what's the exchange rate of a toilet paper?). However, real (black market) exchange rate is way worse than before the invasion.

Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1683/

Wikipedia link basically says, that ARPANET's resistance to nuclear war is a false rumor.

Yeah. Didn't know GitHub can render reStructuredText.

Apple Watch?

> I kinda recommend the Stargate movie first... [...] But I will say that if you kinda dislike it, continue on to SG-1 anyhow.

Thanks for pointing this out. Watched the movie as a kid, didn’t like it, and thus never even bothered to check out the tv series.

Though the announcement says May 1, couple mirrors already host release/install files:

https://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/OpenBSD/6.9/

https://openbsd.mirror.netelligent.ca/pub/OpenBSD/6.9/

There are valid use cases for spoofing caller ID.

It’s been a long time since I dabbled with Asterisk (IP PBX), IIRC, by default the call forwarding/redirection function uses metadata from the original incoming call. Let’s say, you’ve programmed your PBX that after 30 seconds of incoming call ringing, you want to redirect/forward the call (that is to make a new leg, and then connect them together) to your mobile phone number. I’m pretty sure, on your mobile phone you’d want to see the original caller’s number for incoming call, not the PBX’s phone number.

Some data points from Indonesia and Nigeria:

But a closer look at the data shows that 11% of Indonesians who said they used Facebook also said they did not use the internet. In Nigeria, 9% of Facebook users said they do not use the internet.

https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...

I think these are the 2 courses OP is talking about:

https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-simple-data

https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-complex-data

Actually, no. He didn’t even lost his initial 40k.

> He cashed out and got his initial money back, but then watched excitedly over the years as the 10 coins grew to be worth nearly 500,000 euros.

> Also, Lithuanian Ignalina power plant was using the water eventually getting into Daugava river, running through Riga, a capital of the neighboring Latvia. I can't see why Lithuania itself thinks it's ok to risk potential contamination of water of a neighboring country capital, but not ok when someone else is doing the same to them.

I guess under Soviet regime Lithuanians and Latvians didn’t have any say in the matter where the nuclear power plant must be built (or be built at all).

Tried both, Adobe Scan and Office Lens, and liked MS one more, because its default “auto” filter produced more legible documents (better contrast and brigthness) than the Adobe’s “auto”, IMO.

For European folks, currently the test flight is scheduled for:

2020-12-08 14:00 UTC (earlier time was 12:00 UTC)