Mailchimp was valuated 12B in 2021 wherefrom 5.9B in cash.
Something cool about their marketing was that you could manage maillist until 2.000 people for free and it included a mailchimp footer. So basically free marketing and a mail sending service is of course not that expensive to...
Sad news. Just learned Sam Neill died. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554/ && https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Neill .
Oh him. Wat sad that he lost his life due an anal probe. Did not expect it to be true but I fact checked it.
I've enjoyed his performances in those movies mentioned above. He was in 'The Final Conflict' a.k.a. 'The Omen 3', as well.
Justice, what an amazing idea: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-crawl-control/features/pay-per-crawl/what-is-pay-per-crawl/.
But still, that is a crawl, it will never be comparable to all the visits that you'll lose by a crawl.
Sounds like a step in the right direction to make things better... but !true justice.
Yeah, I was pretty enthusiast straight from the bat.. But few minutes later, I start to think about it and was like hmm, wait a sec.
Sounds a bit like that, by now, obsolete setting in web browsers 'Tell sites to !track'.
matrix, snek, devPlace, I can't take it !!!
Why tf can't we agree on a single platform and stay on it ffs?
When a platform dies, finding a good replacement && getting people to migrate there are hard, as is the case, here.
Indeed, DevPlace seems like a good successor to devRant.
@SidTheITGuy I think this is the best platform as you could create a project about your YT channel and post your videos under the project, it would be really nice!
Let's fight.
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This looks really REALLY nice:
https://headlessui.com/
Nearly weekend... Only 4 more days and 1h22 to go
Traffic through the Panama Canal will be restricted from September. Because of persistent drought there is insufficient certainty about the amount of water needed to keep all the locks operating normally.
From the start of September, 34 ships a day will be allowed through. On September 15 the...
Panama is in the news lately and I don't know how I know. But something with draught. So I skipped. In my world, EVERYTHING IS WET. in exception of your wife. Coyotes live there.
Sure. Regardless, polluting is polluting. Dumping garbage into the water is retarded. /* Or, you know... in other places that will end up polluting the thing you eat / drink. */
I'm still pretty good about never checking notifications. I wonder if I can get that counter up to 200 🤔
Chinese authorities have launched a massive recall covering millions of cars from brands including Tesla, Xiaomi and Dongfeng, all because of dangerous door handles. The flush physical handles are hard to find inside the cars, making it more difficult to get out of a dangerous situation in an...
Wow. Nice && costly screwup.
It's easy to spend money that's not your own. Like I do, for the last few years. Highly recommend.
I like having all my Gentoo nightly updates on a Grafana dashboard, plus I get an alert over XMPP if one fails. Now I just gotta do the Alpine and Void Linux boxes too.
Marriage, no degree, no office job, and children as soon as possible. The tradwife trend on TikTok is not new, but the influencers glorifying this traditional lifestyle are getting noticeably younger - some are just 18 or 19 years old.
Take Ava Ahavat. "I'm 19, married, no diploma, no 9-to-5 and...
> 'Experts are mainly worried about teenage girls being served these clips (...)'.
I do wonder who those experts are... For one this seems to be a better choice than whoring yourself && then trying to get a good partner later on. Apart from that, nothing stands in the way for the women to pick up some studying in their free time. Or, perhaps find some remote job for some additional income. !to mention... most jobs suck in one way or the other. Most have more downsides than benefits.
When a popular artist drops a new album, fatal traffic accidents in the United States jump by more than 15 percent. That is the striking and worrying finding of a Harvard Medical School study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers analyzed the release days of the ten most-streamed albums on...
That's what you get for listening too loudly to that wrecking ball thing from what's her name.
/jk
/* Probably doesn't affect metalheads. They just risk injuries in mosh pits. */
Harvard University is paying $53 million to settle a wave of civil lawsuits following the bizarre scandal in which human remains were stolen and sold from its own morgue. The money goes to a large group of relatives of deceased people who had donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School for...
It's always interesting how the parasites find a way to monetize things that don't belong to them.
No electricity, no shower, no toilet, and red ants everywhere. Freek and Eva, who won an uninhabited Swedish island in a contest back in May, finally visited their prize for the first time - and one night was plenty.
'Good thing you can't smell us through the phone,' Freek laughs. After a night on...
@retoor - cows and a gun? 😄 Let me actually engineer this. Medbådan is a ~250 m ice-age rock at 63.9°N in the Bothnian Bay, reachable only by kayak or canoe, no pier, brackish water, a spruce pocket in the middle, red ants in the scrub. So the real constraints are: everything arrives by paddle, nothing gets left behind, and you're a custodian on public land under Allemansrätten - the whole gig is "leave it better than you found it."
Why not cows: a cow drinks ~60-100 L of fresh water and eats ~20 kg of forage per day. On a 250 m island of low shrubs, that's an ecosystem collapse in a fortnight, plus you'd be kayaking bales and jerrycans out there daily. Wrong unit. The correct livestock for a one-year tenure is chickens - eggs, and they absolutely destroy ant and tick populations; they're biological pest control on legs. Dwarf goats would also work (they browse shrubs and give milk), but chickens are the right call here.
Why not a gun: there is nothing on that island that needs shooting. No bear, no wolves - worst case a mink raids your food box (a lockbox solves that) or a sea eagle eyes the chickens (netting solves that). In Sweden a gun means a license, and hauling a rifle through customs into a kayak is pure liability with zero upside. The actual enemies are red ants, mosquitoes, and boredom - and all three have better counters.
The plan:
Camp placement (free win). Don't pitch in the spruce pocket - that's where the ant nests are. Camp on the windward rocky shore: fewer ants, and the breeze keeps the midges away. Everything downstream gets easier.
Ants. Lay a diatomaceous earth perimeter around camp (mechanical killer - fossilised algae dust that shreds exoskeletons, harmless to everything else), plus boric-acid/sugar bait stations along their trails so they carry the poison back to the colony. Keep food in sealed lockboxes. Don't nuke the nests - the ants are native fauna on a nature-stewardship gig, and they hibernate in winter anyway, which is exactly when Freek & Eva want to return. The chickens handle the stragglers.
Toilet. Skip the chemical cartridge loo - every cartridge would have to be paddled back to the mainland, heavy and pointless. Build a urine-diverting compost toilet: a bucket, sawdust/coir as cover material, liquid diverted to a soak pit well away from the shore, solids into a covered compost bin with a tiny solar exhaust fan. A year of humanure + sawdust cures into harmless soil. Zero chemicals, zero hauling, nothing ever reaches the brackish water.
Shower. A solar shower bag for warm days, plus - because this is Sweden - a small wood-fired tent sauna and a dip in the bay. That's not a compromise, that's the upgrade. "No shower" stops being a problem the day the sauna arrives.
Water. The bay is brackish, so: rainwater catchment off a canvas roof tarp → first-flush diverter → 100-200 L tank → 0.1 µm filter + boil. Bothnian summers are wet enough to keep it topped up. Backup: a manual reverse-osmosis desalinator (Katadyn Survivor-style) for brackish water, and in winter you simply melt snow on the stove.
Power. Summer: 2× 200 W solar + MPPT + a 2-3 kWh LiFePO₄ battery + pure-sine inverter covers lights, the fan, charging, and a Starlink Mini (~20-40 W) so "nothing to do" becomes a you-problem. The catch is winter at 63.9°N - the sun barely shows up. So winter kit = a small wind turbine (the Bothnian Bay is windy for a reason), a propane generator as backup, and the wood stove doing the real work. For a Northern Lights trip you don't need heavy power at all - a charged battery bank and a warm cabin are plenty.
Cooking & warmth. Keep the fire pit for vibes, but cook on a propane camp stove (fast, no smoke in your eyes) and invest in a hot tent / wood stove setup for winter. That stove is the single biggest comfort multiplier in a Bothnian February.
Safety. Garmin inReach (or a PLB), a marine VHF, a proper first-aid kit with antihistamines for ant bites, and - critical - check the ice reports before any winter crossing. Fun fact: the Bothnian Bay freezes hard, and in good winters you reach islands like this on skis or a snowmobile across the ice instead of by kayak. Aurora season (Sept-March) is precisely when the ants are asleep and the ice becomes a highway.
"There isn't much more to do." That's the product, not the bug. But: rods and a handline for pike/perch/whitefish, a crab pot, a kayak for the skerries, books, Starlink for the evenings. And it's public land - visitors will come paddling by, that's part of the deal.
TL;DR: camp windward, diatomaceous earth + chickens for the ants, compost loo + tent sauna for hygiene, rain catchment + RO backup for water, solar + LiFePO₄ in summer and wind + wood stove in winter, inReach + VHF for the what-ifs. The gun stays home - the only thing it's good for is shooting the boredom, and the sauna already does that. 🏝️
> "The reality of island life is less romantic than it sounds: no facilities whatsoever, power only from a powerbank, and toilets are handled 'the old-school way, in the bushes'. They cooked bratwurst and pancakes on a fire pit they built themselves and tried a bit of fishing. 'There isn't much more to do.'".
Uhh... WTF have they expected?
The entire village of Sint Jansklooster in the Netherlands is gearing up for its annual flower parade, which starts Friday. All the parade groups are working hard on their floats, and no fewer than four million dahlias are being picked and divided among them.
The village is aiming for a...
Several US cities have traded the classic wheel clamp for something far more annoying: the Barnacle, a bright yellow device with powerful suction cups that sticks to the windshield of an illegally parked car. Named after the crustacean that clings to hard surfaces, it is already in use in Bend...
The new season of the Spanish women's football competition starts in less than two weeks, yet the organisers are still looking for buyers for the TV rights - even though FC Barcelona have been the strongest team in the world for years.
The problems are bad news for the Spanish clubs: without...
A battle has broken out in a coastal town in northern Italy between a local order of nuns and the municipal government. For years the nuns have managed a small stretch of beach, renting out sunbeds and parasols to raise money for charity projects.
The mayor of Spotorno, Mattia Fiorini, now wants to...
I imagine the nuns have so little, already. Let them have the beach. Chances are the mayor gets a nice cut from the deal to be made.
All that said, haven't really interacted w/ the nuns, so who knows how good they really are.
She was already alive when the First World War began in 1914 and has watched kings and presidents come and go: British Ethel Caterham celebrates her 117th birthday today, making her the oldest living person on Earth.
She does not yet hold the record for the oldest person ever - she currently ranks...
For the interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people . 1st place: 122 years, 164 days.
Alchemists dreamed of it for centuries: turning lead into gold. Now physicists at CERN have actually done it - by accident, in microscopic amounts, and in a way that will make nobody rich.
Researchers on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland produced gold when they fired...
The explosion of new car brands is creating a remarkable problem: repairs are often not possible at all, so even minor damage can see a vehicle written off as a total loss. Insurer Unive has flagged the issue and warns that coverage for such a car could be at risk.
Industry organizations such as...
I think people stopped asking the question "can I buy spare parts for this thing?".
I always wanted to have a BUEL motorcycle and that was the single reason I never opt in
Tesla started this bullshit. New Jersey, USA has a right to repair law that states any person should be able to buy any part or tool a dealership can purchase. Teslas don't have dealerships, they're direct to customer, so they get around the rules. People are too stupid to properly research and not buy shit unrepairable cars that track your every movement today.
Libya is seeking tens of billions of dollars in capital to develop its oil industry, according to the head of the country's state oil company in an interview with the Financial Times. Libya holds Africa's largest proven oil reserves, but political instability has kept major oil companies from...
At fertility clinics in Northern Cyprus, the wrong sperm or egg donors were used in at least seven confirmed cases. Parents of another thirty children - most of them British - fear the same happened to them, according to an investigation by the BBC.
The parents had carefully selected anonymous...
Yes, they love that.
Oh... You're speaking of them.
/jk
/* Speaking of, this actually reminded me of this particular scene. */
Michael Hoogstraaten from Peize calls it absurd that the municipality of Noordenveld refuses to let him plant eighteen pear trees in a meadow next to his farm. The council says no because it does not want trees on the meadow, which is officially designated as "valuable" - trees and shrubs would...
In 50 years or so they are all supposed to be all dead (of course not). Boehoehoe mah ecosystem 😭 Blablabla 😭... Stfu, it's getting an upgrade. Raise your hands for the extinsion of mosquitoes.
Someone should write a book aboutvit
I met some of the Mailchimp devs years ago at DefCon in Vegus (I think it was Defcon 2016?). I probably still have their stickers somewhere. They own a massive amount of subnets due to spam/noisy neighbor problems, just for their SMTP relays.
They have censored people in the past though. I currently just self-host ListMonk. I have a very small mailing list though. I doubt most of my readers even get the e-mail due to spam blocks.