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WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

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Charles Fulton 22h ago

I really do appreciate all the thoughtful, helpful replies here :)

Charles Fulton 23h ago

Listen perl folks, I just want to know how to iterate a hash reference, and it took three searches and six StackOverflow discussions for someone to say "oh yeah, you put a % in front of the variable."

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Adam Kent 1d ago

Fun* thing I just noticed, the bulleted list markers in the Qantas "you got breached" email? 717kB PNG file.

Charles Fulton 1d ago

Went down to New Hope for the first time today. It's touristy, but there are some fun things. MagiKava (https://www.magikava.com) is an instant recommend for tea and/or witchcraft.

I took a few photos, and I'm really pleased with how this one came out of the Bucks County Playhouse. It's in an old mill on Aquetong Creek, and I didn't realize until now how clear the reflection is.

Gallery: https://galleries.goodbyeplease.com/album/Albums-New-Hope.html

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Charles Fulton 1d ago

@vwbusguy sounds like you've got it working (and I'm really curious about mod_md) but I do have notes on getting dehydration working with Apache. Old, but this is still my setup: https://blog.goodbyeplease.com/2019/02/03/Using-TLS-ALPN-01-on-a-Raspberry-PI/

Using TLS-ALPN-01 on a Raspberry PI

I run Nextcloud on my Raspberry PI and I have a certificate from Let’s Encrypt on it. I set this up a couple years ago with certbot and it’s been fine. I don’t expose port 80 in my environment so I’v

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Charles Fulton 1d ago

@gangrif the trouble with propaganda is sometimes people believe it, but in this case the lie is so specific that hand-waving it away may not work

Charles Fulton 2d ago

Still working on my Japan photos from 2000. My host family arranged an overnight trip to Kyoto. Here's Kinkaku-ji (the Golden Pavilion).

Charles Fulton 3d ago

Andrew (Television Executive)3d ago

Is there a good video store in Philadelphia? A good toy store? Best record stores?

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zeldman 5d ago

Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*

It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....

(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)

Hat tip: Dave Martin

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

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