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Mike :nixos: | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Does anyone here know how to go about telling Meta/Facebook they are completely wrong in blocking...
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7726a17f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ca83e289 Time for an alternative domain that goes to the same place?
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7726a17f | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 I'd pay $10+ per month for a setting in amazon.com for my mother-in-law to be able to shop, go through the motions of buying things with a delivery date 7 days into the future. after that, it'd just show it as returned and never charge her. 'Cuz she's therapy shopping: when stuff shows up she asks my wife (her daughter) why it showed up, doesn't remember it, doesn't like it and ask to please return it.  #amazon
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Stefano Marinelli | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 A few days ago, someone asked me for advice about a slow website. 
Upon analysis, the server wasn...
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7726a17f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @5f9bb1a8 I've built some bespoke beasts for special applications. Gotten paid well for them ($400k USD+). The client will pay for "life support", but they don't want to pay for ecosystem evolution.  In more than one case, what we built in < 6 months was supposed to fill a temporary need until ____ (Oracle, SAP, IBM...) "Did It Right". In one case I know of, still running, that was 9 years ago and runs critical infrastructure for a country. Even RedHat stopped support. Sigh.