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"Most of your friends will be AI"

No they won't.

How is it freeloading when they have literally offered it for free?

Also signed up. They can have my phone number. What are they going to do with it? Target advertising at me?

To be honest, I'm a bit past caring about companies selling my data. They've built up enough of a profile of me in my 30+ years of being online, I'm not getting away from that. There's a multitude of my namesakes online who are much more interesting and successful than me and I'm pretty well hidden generally.

This sounds interesting enough to me that they can have my phone number. In 10 years time I'll be living in a forest in a cabin, living off the land and staying well offline.

Essentially yes. I guess in a similar way US companies are required to care about GDPR, if they want to operate in other regions.

There's a bit more info here: https://www.copyrighted.com/blog/dmca-guide

Nice try, Cloudthread.

Yes, the design is fairly generic but if you can't see that someone ripped off someone here then you must be trying a bit too hard to not see it.

Why do you think this? I'd be interested as to why you came to this conclusion.

If we ban cars, we'll see less deaths on the road too.

I've been using protonmail as my mail email service for probably close to 6 years. Earlier iterations of the UI were obviously basic but it's perfectly functional now and works very well and certainly not for "occasional use". The web client UI is great and has come on leaps and bounds particularly of late.

The mobile app has some way to go but more than adequate for daily use because I'm using it daily.

Monstrous? It couldn't be any more simple, if you even have to go through the process of setting up PHP. Hosting options that support PHP are two a penny, probably literally.

If the OP open sources his QR code reader app then the "free" model is absolutely sustainable.

I don't know if it differs from various vendor releases of android but certainly on my Samsung S20, QR codes can be read without an additional app just by pointing the camera app at one. I seem to recall my Pixel XL did the same.

Love the concept of that but you'd have to have children's hands to play it. I can only see frustration and the thing being thrown across the room if I had one.

Is it? Why is that?

I think you missed the opportunity to re-enforce a few more times how much you dislike the genre of music in question. Just so the reader knows.

I'm not sure I'd refer to crows, a murder of or a flock of, in a beginner's textbook on the English language. I don't think crows are commonplace enough in every day conversation to justify their inclusion.

If I was needing to refer to a group of crows in this textbook then I'd refer to them by their proper collective noun, a murder of, because that would be correct.

"Gaming the system" is really NOT a cultural thing here in the UK. Not in the same way as described by the OP. Your two examples are not in any way, shape or form examples of gaming the system.

For me I like the feeling of cleanliness and freshness after having a shower in the morning before I start work. Clearly I'm not dirty or smelly after a hard day's work behind a hot Das Keyboard but l suppose it has become routine for me and unfortunately I can't abide the way I feel if I haven't showered for longer than a day.

A shame really because my inner hippy wants me to not be so reliant on showering and go for days if not weeks without bathing.

I like this project a lot and am inspired to do something similar. I'm a liveaboard boater in the UK, I have a 55 foot narrowboat with 350w of solar on the roof and a 550ah battery bank. I could probably run my own little server similar to yours pretty much 24/7 as when I'm not using solar to charge the battery bank, I'm using the boat's engine to recharge.

So not quite as green but during the months from April to September, the solar panels are enough to charge the batteries every day.

My modem/router uses 4g, it's a Teltonika rut950 that is using OpenWRT and has GPS built in which I've been keen to make use of.

I'm definitely inspired to do something like you've built!

And thank you too!

Thank you!

Going slightly off topic but I wonder if anyone can point me to a tailwind "starter kit" - ie. a project with everything in place to get going with tailwind, postcss etc.

Thanks!

With few exceptions, I can't think of a good reason to serve up regional dialects of English and I can't imagine anyone approving the translation of a site into UK, US, Australian, Canadian, Indian English or any other regional dialect.

English speakers are quite capable of understanding regional dialects and I would guess there are few instances when a user could be confused by a dialect not local to them.

Do we then have to go down the route of translating to northern English dialect over Scottish English? etc.?

No, you serve up whatever variation of English that is local to you. The rest of us native English speakers will get by just fine, unlike if I was on holiday in Mexico and was served up Spanish. I wouldn't have a clue.

Not an astronaut but a couple who had been working on the Antarctic (he was a driver, she was working in the kitchens/cafe/bar) during the summer season.

They had loads of really interesting stories and it sounded fascinating. They'd talked about how those who had done the winter season (24 hours of pitch blackness for 4 months) were all a little bit on edge and twitchy.

You certainly do hear creepy stories about hosts surprising guests by only having one bed. And more than that. Of course, if everything is mutually agreed then that's fine.

I was actually pretty surprised when I was speaking to another couchsurfing host how many women he'd hosted that he'd slept with. Perhaps I'm (or was) naive but it never occurred to me that people would use it for hooking up.

You don't need money to travel beyond your front door/neighbourhood but come on, you need "some" money to travel. You can't travel without a penny in your pocket.

I used to be very involved with couchsurfing in the late 2000s and early 2010s I had a high number of women couchsurfers, which came about from having positive feedback from other female couchsurfers, because like you they had their own bed and I wasn't trying to have sex with them.

It started being a concern because I began to think that people looking at my profile would assume that I was just looking to host women which wasn't the case at all. But from speaking to my guests, they said they chose me to host them because of the positive feedback from other female couchsurfers.

I do miss couchsurfing, I met some great and interesting people and have been thinking about getting back into it but have concerns about the direction couchsurfing has gone. I now live on a narrowboat on the canals in the UK and I think it'd make an interesting place for couchsurfers to stay.

Isn't the more interesting part of old web servers what it actually contains in the form of content rather than the technology?

I've been using mysql workbench for a few years now. Is free, works well, is cross platform and open source.

What are you talking about? It sounds great!

How is their feedback useful if no one involved sees it? They may as well have said nothing.