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Finding a web host, avoiding Cloudflare (lemmy.ml)
 

How the heck do I avoid Cloudflare when selecting a web host, please? I was considering getting a DigitalOcean "droplet" and running something in that, but I'm pretty sure they'll be inside Cloudflare's evil embrace.

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Controlling heating (lemmy.ml)
 

I have a (non-automated) gas fired boiler supplying my heating. It comes on before I wake up so the house is nice and warm for me when I crawl out of bed.

I also like the bedroom to be warm at night when I go to bed, so the radiator is on in the bedroom.

What I don't like is waking up in a room that's too hot.

So is there some way of controlling the TLV on my bedroom radiator, maybe turning it down overnight? I know I could just remember to turn it down when I go to bed, but the plain fact is that I don't.

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I would just like to say (lemmy.ml)
 

To many software developers who happen to happen upon this, the community "!enoughvowshspam" could read as "not enoughvowshspam" because the exclamation mark is often used as negation. I am quite amused.

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Can't update package (Linux+apt) (lemmy.ml)
 
Ign:10 https://apt.syncthing.net syncthing InRelease                           
Err:11 https://apt.syncthing.net syncthing Release                             
  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired certificate.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 82.196.13.137 443]

Anybody got any ideas?

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Github hiding repo URLs (lemmy.ml)
 

I hate github with a passion. I have a slightly different name for it that I won't use here because I'm a polite c**t.

They've sunk to a new low now though, in not displaying the URLs for git repos. Not if I allow their (non-free) Javascript to run, and certainly not if I don't. Maybe I'm not using an "approved" browser.

Well at least MS' reason for buying github are clear now - if people can't get at the code then open-source dies.

When I explained how the vaccine works to an antivaxxer, they asked about the thousands of people that died right after taking the vaccine. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Punch him in the face.

How Much Protein Do You REALLY Need? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Why on Earth would someone mix their systems like that (metric and imperial)? I suppose they might work for NASA and want to lose another robotic space probe (Mars Climate Orbiter).

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K-9 Mail replacement? (lemmy.ml)
 

I've been using K-9 for some years now. Today, some idiot (i.e. me) decided to update it through F-Droid. The new version is.... horrible. It feels like MS Lookout or some such sh...thing.

Can anybody suggest a replacement that just does basic email and doesn't have some kind of "slick" UI? Thanks.

What is the difference between ++i and i++? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Correct, but in theory ++ doesn't have to increment anything. You can create operators on your own classes, so you could create a ++ operator that shoots the cat instead of incrementing a value. C++ is great (and terrible) like that. Therein lies another difference, if memory serves me correctly - one of prefix or postfix may create a possibly unnecessary object (I haven't used C++ for several years now and so forget which one it is, and can't be bothered to find out or work it out right now), so is more expensive in terms of memory usage and CPU time.

There is (was?) a great book about C++ called C++ FAQs or something similar, by Marshall & Kline (I think) that goes into all this stuff and is a great read (it's the most readable textbook I've ever come across).

Caveat: my knowledge may well be out of date. The last time I picked up a C++ compiler in anger was around the turn of the century.