Hacker News: PurpleFoxy

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 22:22:39 +0000

The problem is that you actually are spamming. Almost no one wants the junk that comes out of mailchimp. It’s just they are big and powerful enough to get their spam in inboxes rather than the spam box where it belongs.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 22:20:54 +0000

Honestly everyone could spam block mailchimp and their email experience would improve.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 22:16:10 +0000

Depends who is paying. If it’s your own project then 5 hours of your own time might not be worth that much. If someone else is paying you then both options cost money and the equation changes.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 22:01:33 +0000

No VPS has a shared IP address. The real problem is that the pool may have been dirtied by previous customers. But once you get a clean IP you can keep it for as long as you keep the service running.

I sent emails from a VPS for years without issues. I stopped purely because Fastmail had better software and cheaper storage.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Video uploads now available across GitHub"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 07:17:59 +0000

Linux distros by default don’t support mp4. I’d say those are more common GitHub users.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Video uploads now available across GitHub"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 07:09:57 +0000

GitHub issues are not stored in git. This is just video attachments in the text of issues.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Video uploads now available across GitHub"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 07:09:13 +0000

Webm and webp have become pretty standard usage on the internet now. Imgur, reddit and many other major sites use it by default when support is detected. Usually when I save an image in the browser it will be webp.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Video uploads now available across GitHub"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 07:02:37 +0000

Webm is one of the formats my screen recorder supports and seems to be the one my coworkers use. It’s pretty convenient since it works without having to install proprietary codecs and it even works on safari now.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Video uploads now available across GitHub"

PurpleFoxy — Sun, 23 May 2021 07:01:18 +0000

Blacklisted is the specific terminology for when a website rejects certain file types. I guess in githubs case it would be that webm is not whitelisted since only 2 formats are permitted.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Sixth grader expelled after Zoom provided possibly inaccurate IP address"

PurpleFoxy — Sat, 22 May 2021 22:44:18 +0000

This is possible. Many users can be sharing the same IPv4 using CG-NAT. I have found that when using mobile internet, every site that uses IP bans has already banned me for a previous users actions.

It’s incredibly irresponsible to take action against someone based on their IP address alone.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "64% would prefer to permanently WFH rather than get a $30k-a-year raise"

PurpleFoxy — Sat, 22 May 2021 21:57:06 +0000

I noticed that when running MS teams in a flatpak on wayland, it no longer has access to the mouse and keyboard input so it just shows me as online always.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants"

PurpleFoxy — Sat, 22 May 2021 21:44:20 +0000

The reward for Bitcoin mining is fixed. The work required is variable. If electricity costs globally shot up, there would be far smaller mining operations but the payout would be the same because the Bitcoin network adjusts its difficulty.

PoW is a beast that consumes everything it can.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

PurpleFoxy — Sat, 22 May 2021 02:40:59 +0000

“Straight white man” has become a buzzword now. Is there any evidence that any of these companies trying to ban politics were oppressing gay people?

As a gay person in tech I have never felt oppressed or heard anyone else report such a thing.

If Basecamp was engaging in this kind of discrimination then the story would be very different.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

PurpleFoxy — Sat, 22 May 2021 02:36:08 +0000

Keeping your mouth shut is no longer an option “silence is violence” and “not taking a position is a position” have taken over. The issue at Basecamp was that activists were harassing other employees to get them to make public statements on issues.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

PurpleFoxy — Sat, 22 May 2021 02:33:18 +0000

Agreed, as long as there isn’t some major issue internally (sexism/racism) that affects your ability to work, or the work itself is an issue (being made to create distasteful content for example) I don’t want to think about politics at all.

I don’t want to have outside matters pushed on me while working regardless of how much I agree with them.

I’ll happily engage in activism outside of work where people aren’t forced to sit around me every day.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Australia introduces AML mobile phone tracking technology to locate 000 callers"

PurpleFoxy — Wed, 19 May 2021 13:02:18 +0000

> About 50 per cent of calls to triple zero are made with mobile phones that are AML-capable. That includes Androids running version 4.1 and higher with Google Play services, iPhones running IOS 14.3 or later and Apple Watch GPS running 7.2 or later.

Something must be wrong about this statement. Android 4.1 came out in 2012 and almost every active iOS device runs the latest version. So where are these 50% of ancient phones coming from.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Paper Notes"

PurpleFoxy — Tue, 18 May 2021 01:20:56 +0000

I imagine the stats come out better when using something like an iPad for notes which replaces other electronics you would have bought.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact"

PurpleFoxy — Thu, 13 May 2021 08:15:09 +0000

Chia is another proof of waste coin. Not what we need at all.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact"

PurpleFoxy — Thu, 13 May 2021 08:13:52 +0000

I wonder if Bitcoin investors will start to work out what all those regulations they avoided were for.

New comment by PurpleFoxy in "Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network"

PurpleFoxy — Wed, 12 May 2021 21:41:25 +0000

For critical data like that, it would make more sense to just have a modem on board. 5G should make this more possible with increased device limits.