defulmere

Joined 8 years ago

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133
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55
Member since
Oct 23
Cofounder and chief wrangler of tech support and customer service for (((Opalstack.
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Comment · 10 months ago
... and then they go on to say there's no subscription involved.

At $99 every 2 years it might as well be a subscription.

Comment · 11 months ago
I've played it!

Back in the 70s a campground near Mandeville, Louisiana had a Killer Shark machine in a small arcade next to their pool, I spent the entire vacation (and way too many quarters) in there much to my parents' dismay :)

Comment · 1 year ago
SOCKS proxy over SSH?
Comment · 1 year ago
amen to that! I started using a Logitech MX Vertical mouse a few years back to deal with wrist pain. It helped with the pain immensely, but the switches in the mouse failed after ~6 months of use.

I replaced the Logitech mouse with an inexpensive vertical mouse from ProtoArc and haven't looked back.

Comment · 2 years ago
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'd expected a match on the section heading :\
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for providing these instructions. My usual way to get to some setting in Firefox is to use the search box but it seems that Mozilla is actively hiding this one by excluding it from search, ie if you type "advertising" into the settings search box then there are no results.
Comment · 2 years ago
Love the logo, the reverse checkmark as a "step" is a great concept.
Comment · 2 years ago
Currently self-employed with a web hosting company started with some former colleagues when the company we used to work for was bought out and shut down. We were fortunate to be included in a list of alternate providers that the old company gave to their customers and had an early influx of a couple thousand customers. As a result we've got a ton of customers who we've been working with for 16+ years.

I handle the customer-facing stuff, ie service and support. That sort of work has the downside of dealing with occasional negativity, but for the most part our customers are happy and capable of producing complex problems that are fun to solve :)

Comment · 3 years ago
> And yet after like 50 emails to parents with yahoo email addresses they are giving me errors because of "unusual volume of emails from your domain"

Scandalous, it's almost as if the established major providers have a financial interest in making it difficult for smaller providers and individuals to send mail using their own domains!

Comment · 3 years ago
T-mobile: (data breach noises)

Also T-mobile: Give us your bank account info.

Yeah, no.

Comment · 3 years ago
It looks like status updates on https://status.stripe.com are tweets.

The most recent updates are available on that page, but for anything older than that you'll need a Twitter account to read stripestatus on Twitter. Even their Atom feed is a useless river of "A status update was posted" titles with truncated tweet content and t.co links.

It's such a shame, Twitter used to be so useful for stuff like this.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Oatmeal: tastes like chicken.

Surely you mean tuna.

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