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"This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind."
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OP is protesting against Amazon providing infrastructure for selecting targets for the IDF to bomb. I'm not aware of Amazon providing services to Hamas, so that the OP is not protesting there isn't that surprising, nor does it imply that OP isn't protesting against Hamas attack.
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Comment · 3 years ago
thanks for the feedback, you're right, the "url safe" isn't the main focus (well, shouldn't, it's just that it's the last issue I had ;)

For further context, we are working on online campaigns (petitions, sending emails to elected representative...) and everything has either ids (numbers) that we generate (a campaign, a action, a supporter...) or given externally (eg. the elected representatives or vote reference).

Most of these ids are in the 1k to 100k range, that happen to often be the same range as the number of actions taken or emails sent) and mixing these KPIs and ids on the same lists happen to be confusing for users.

It might be that we shouldn't try to put these ids in lists and summaries, but they are super convenient there sometimes and unavoidable when exporting to excel, so dxid was my solution to work around our potentially poor ux design ;)

Comment · 3 years ago
Hi,

It's solving a tiny problem that annoyed me for many years: find a way to have unique keys for entities that don't have an obvious one without displaying their primary key as a number.

base 10 is not the best representation here.

feedback welcome!

Comment · 4 years ago
"I have spent my own personal money to pay for the curl server and I've spent my own (spare) time on its maintanence now for over twenty years"

So some of the hosting is paid by him directly

Comment · 5 years ago
If you live in Europe, you might want to sign the European citizen initiative banning biometrics

Reclaimyourface.eu

Comment · 5 years ago
A patent is granted to something new, here the goal was to show that the patent is void, because it was already existing before the patent was (wrongly) granted. It doesn't matter if it was invented less or more than 20 years ago, or even that the original invention was patented.
Comment · 5 years ago
You are comparing relatively empty trains with hypothetically 100% full planes

It's the same with the wsj, they are comparing a 100% occupancy rate of the plane with a 20% for the car (a single passenger)

Assuming the consumption of a train doesn't change much based on how many passengers, you can travel by train for carbon free, as the 56 mpg won't change if you are in the train or not

Of course trains should be electrified, but take the train today already, the higher the occupancy rate, the better the averaged mpg will be

And who knows, it might change how the fret trains seems to always have the priority over passengers ones and finally make it a pleasant experience

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