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You don't know what an email looks like

crispyporkbites — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:05:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mailpace.com/blog/what-an-email-looks-like/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266363

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New comment by crispyporkbites in "The Undeniable Street View"

crispyporkbites — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:43:40 +0000

If you talk to a Ukrainian, they will tell you that the war will end when they win the war. I.E. they won’t stop fighting until the Russians are gone.

So if the regions remain under Russian control, the fighting will continue. Given Russia couldn’t conquer Ukraine first time round, it seems unlikely that they will be able to support a sustained campaign against a country that isn’t going to give up, until it’s over. Most likely outcome is that Russia attempts to hold the invaded territory for a period of years and eventually leaves when it becomes untenable for Russian leadership

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff"

crispyporkbites — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:07:38 +0000

Why apply that standard to scooters and not to cars? Parked cars are strewn all across the road, taking up much more space. Some sit in the same place for weeks.

The road outside my house is about 3x car widths across, there are private cars parked on either side (2/3rds of the total road space) for the full length of the road. Only one car can fit down the road at once, and pedestrians have limited pavement.

Why get so upset about a few scooters on the pavement, when there are cars literally everywhere in the way

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff"

crispyporkbites — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:01:09 +0000

Agree. Cars are a menace to society

New comment by crispyporkbites in "U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy"

crispyporkbites — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:01:38 +0000

Don't know what Giphy has, but creating and sharing a gif from a movie would be fair use and not subject to copyright.

You're not going to watch a movie in gif format, and it would be a derivative anyway.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "PeerTube 4 RC"

crispyporkbites — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:52:25 +0000

It took me a long time to find it, but this is "the" search engine for PeerTube:

https://sepiasearch.org/

This could be a reasonable entry point for a non-technical user who just wants to watch videos. If you layer in recommendations system, trending etc. and have a default "Instance" for users to join, Peertube could start to compete with the user experience of YouTube

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Tracking Crucial Metrics of Earth's Global Warming"

crispyporkbites — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:21:10 +0000

+6 degrees above the 30 year average in the north pole this year

I knew it was up but that is a LOT

New comment by crispyporkbites in "“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs"

crispyporkbites — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 08:22:51 +0000

NFTs are obviously a bit silly, BUT, it would be nice if things bought on platforms like Steam, Roblox, Amazon, iTunes etc. were transferable to other games/platforms.

The platform providers would still need to agree that a specific blockchain / NFT is actually the source of truth, and so it's not really trustless. But the internet itself isn't perfectly decentralized either. I could see a future where developers could enable web3 support in their games/apps and allow importing assets, identities etc. between platforms, which would be nice.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "A Set of TailwindCSS Based Transactional HTML Email Templates"

crispyporkbites — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:55:39 +0000

Tailwind is popping up everywhere these days. I’m sold on it, but it seems a large number of people really don’t like it…

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo"

crispyporkbites — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:12:58 +0000

Johnny Knoxville was 29 when Jackass 1 came out- wow!

New comment by crispyporkbites in "NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative"

crispyporkbites — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 18:36:32 +0000

Yes but it’s unusable in 99% of apps, so it doesn’t matter how technically brilliant it is

New comment by crispyporkbites in "The World’s Northernmost Town"

crispyporkbites — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 06:35:34 +0000

Woah, 4 degrees Celsius temperature rise since 1970. 7 degrees warmer in winter. That's a lot, no wonder it's changing.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Wildland – open data management protocol"

crispyporkbites — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:20:15 +0000

Or the now defunct tent protocol https://tent.io https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol) from the team that made the also now defunct Flynn https://Flynn.io

New comment by crispyporkbites in "What's in email tracking links and pixels?"

crispyporkbites — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 20:54:14 +0000

If it's just one or a handful of emails, or a small image, attach the image and use it's Content ID to refer to it in the HTML of the email:

pretty much all email clients support it

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Show HN: Assetroulette – Randomized Assets for Webdesign"

crispyporkbites — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 17:16:43 +0000

Once I had a developer use a Meme image as an API response in development.

It was funny, but it was surprisingly hard to explain to stakeholders during demos that this was not the real API response. I think I fielded questions from at least four annoyed/confused people asking why the image was there and insisting that it must be changed before we go live.

I even got follow up emails asking for timelines on when it would be fixed.

So sometimes it's better to just use a real placeholder or something realistic.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin"

crispyporkbites — Fri, 28 May 2021 11:59:47 +0000

I don’t think that works at all? Your buddy would have to mine that specific block to get the reward, which is based entirely on chance. You’d also have to spend as much on the POW electricity and hardware to have a chance of getting reward anyway.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars"

crispyporkbites — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:38:28 +0000

Nice- but personally I prefer Identicons e.g.

https://idbloc.co/blog/product/update/2019/05/09/toggles-ide...

These are basically a hash in visual format.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover"

crispyporkbites — Tue, 25 May 2021 18:50:15 +0000

I think the unbounded optimism / arrogance is that life as is will continue indefinitely, or just get better and better.

That might happen, but climate change is one of very few things that will stop it (others being nuclear war, asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, solar flares and other disease)

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover"

crispyporkbites — Tue, 25 May 2021 18:47:39 +0000

No but if we keep polluting at this rate, in 500 years civilisations will crumble. If food supply chains fail we’ll see a bunch of wars break out and a global chain reaction that will destroy massive amounts of progress.

Most likely we’ll land back at the Middle Ages- it’s happened to pretty much every civilisation to date so it’s unlikely ours will be any different.

If anything given our global scale it will be worse.

New comment by crispyporkbites in "Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover"

crispyporkbites — Tue, 25 May 2021 18:07:24 +0000

In 500 years? It has to be 50 or there won’t be any societies to power in 500 years