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Obviously you couldn't have.

I'd really love Godot to become more user friendly. I especially like the scene/level editor of Unity. Hope the influx of new users and money will make that software even better.

You can choose which to keep in the web interface. That's a feature preventing data loss. You can choose to just delete all of these files but that would mean Syncthing might use the wrong data.

Why not use the better product? Resilio was one of the inspirations IIRC. Syncthing became really good a while ago, I never had data loss with it after they 1.0d it.

Hope he gets well soon to be able to continue eating stuff from his feet. Or maybe that's what caused it? We should definitely study his lifestyle to maybe figure out a pattern.

Jokes aside, he's a very important figure for computing as a whole, but also a very interesting and quirky personality. Wish him the best.

Most of my friends are kind of interesting and unique. I don't really hang out with people who are NPCs or boring. What would I have to talk about with them?

A more thought provoking question for me would be which boring people I know. Some stereotypical 'beer, BBQ and cars' guys come to mind. I couldn't live my life only doing work and those boring-ass hobbies. They're not even real cooks or car mechanics, they just like to grill cheap meat drenched in marinade and own an expensive car and talk about it!

I really think a lot of people here are blowing this out of proportion. I don’t see how whether testing if red or green is better is “evil.”

That's not what I have an issue with. I specifically told you which behaviour I find acceptable and which I don't find acceptable. If you didn't read that, I'll just repeat it for you:

Depends on how you define spam. A few personalised emails (maybe they were missed? happened to me) with an opt out button, an opt in button and a personalised landing page are nothing crazy.

However it becomes crazy when you track mouse movements, send twelve mails in six weeks, employ ‘dark’ surveillance marketing tactics and relentlessly bite the leg of anyone who remotely looks like they can be pressured into a contract.

the question is which method for getting IPv6 addresses they support. Is it router advertisements / SLAAC or DHCPv6? You can configure your EdgeRouter accordingly.

Nice, sounds good that you allow unwilling customers to opt out easily. Didn't expect that one.

Amazon emailed me 15 times this week alone.

But you're already a customer. They didn't cold mail you and they respect opt outs. I suspect your company doesn't have a simple 'I don't want these emails' link.

LinkedIn Emailed me 50 times in August.

Because you enabled notifications. Again, they didn't mail you without having a prior relationship with you and you can easily opt out.

Don't act like you're better than those two companies just because you send mails just like them. I don't think that cold calling or mailing people is wrong, just predatory practices like you described.

Don't be discouraged to discuss this further though. Just because people have a different opinion than you doesn't mean that either party is right or wrong.

Why not stick them in a git repo?

Because the benefit gets lost if there are lots of autogenerated config files. Someone else said 'stick only the files you write yourself in the repo' and I guess that's a better idea than to stick all of them in a repo.

That's the way. Thank you.

Anyone who knows me well enough to actually “personalise” an email would just call.

I would be way more wary about someone I don't personally know selling me something via phone than via mail.

it does support IPv6 going through the tunnel.

How?

Most businesses do not spam potential customers

Depends on how you define spam. A few personalised emails (maybe they were missed? happened to me) with an opt out button, an opt in button and a personalised landing page are nothing crazy.

However it becomes crazy when you track mouse movements, send twelve mails in six weeks, employ 'dark' surveillance marketing tactics and relentlessly bite the leg of anyone who remotely looks like they can be pressured into a contract.

So sending a few emails is fine in a business context, but @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works's company is way overdoing it.

None of it is crazy if you know how to do it, same with fixing a car, building a cabinet, coding an app or cooking a meal.

I personally know how most of that works, but as a software developer I would refuse or tone it waaaaaay down if someone wanted me to code something like that. Most of that is unnecessary and evil, and probably illegal in some countries.

If I had to code something like this I would have a call to action button with a signup for more info and possibly a personalised email with a personalised landing page. You don't need to surveil someone to know if they are interested in your product.

Thank you for the insights into your industry.

But good to know that there's a line between that and EU mails. Glad the EU legislated that away.

You don't need to lose respect for people who are brainwashed by capitalism. They don't know better because it's normalised for them all the time. If you berate them, it won't make them change their ways or see that they're doing harm.

Mailing people out of the blue is probably a good way to get new customers. How else will people know? SEO is always tricky, advertisements are often blocked, calling a company or sending some mails might get better results. However, twelve mails is clearly overdoing it and there should be a functioning opt out button even out of those mails.

I guess a better way would be to go to conferences of your target demographic, but that would require effort.

It’s a common request to get a list of users subscribed to a newsletter.

It also may be commonly illegal in some countries.

Why versioning and not backups? I get the part of commit messages, but that's hardly worth the effort for me. If I have a config file which works, I usually keep it that way. And if it stops working, my old documentation is outdated anyway.