I find it wonderful that a human from around 1000 generations ago created art on a now extinct animals tusk. In a way they're able to communicate with us in such a distant future. Makes me wonder what we're leaving behind.
I opened an account at Skiff a few weeks ago and have used it in limited amount since then. But sending an email to my outlook.com address and my wife's gmail they both went right to inbox on first try. That was pretty impressive considering some long established email providers still go right to my spam at times.
Deliverability is a constant challenge for us to improve on. We have rate limits that do try to protect email deliverability. Things should be good today but it will always be something to watch.
@Amilich, what's your approach to companies wanting to use Skiff? I'm starting a company of my own and while I'd love to use Skiff, there are a bunch of blockers including email inbox warming. Without SMTP/IMAP support, no warming tool will work, and no API means no one can build scripts to do the same. This small case itself will be a blocker around adoption for companies right?
I feel bad for the beetle in this experiment. It must have spent a lot of its energy reserve to emerge out of the frog, probably to have been swallowed again.
Likely not. Animal trials are usually one use, to get the best data. And the animals in use get usually killed afterwards anyway. If you like animals, you probably do not want to learn too many details about it all.
This depends, I used to work at a biotech company and when the dogs there were retired from their trial, the employees would typically "adopt" them and try and give them another good couple of months.
They usually didn't make it very long but it's something. This was dogs though, so advanced stages of the trial, early stage vermin definitely didn't get the same treatment.
Side story: I did IT there and could access just about any building on campus, but whenever I had to go to the animal testing building to do whatever maintenance it was, I had a security guard escort and loom over me wherever I went. From what I was told they had an animal rights group infiltrate and attempt to release all of the animals a couple of years before.
I went to a vegan restaurant once and met some randoms in London, I think it was a meetup.com thing. And one lady was telling me how she would happily take a lead pipe and hurt people working in animal testing.
I was shocked that someone would would share their violent ideals with a total stranger. I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something...
And just to be clear, I definitely don't think hurting humans is a good idea.
"I mean I could have been an undercover policeman or something..."
If the police wanted to bust people hypothetically threatening other people with violence, they just have to look on social media a bit. But as far as I know, a vague hypothetical threat like this, would probably be dismissed by a court. I rather know, that there are many people walking freely around who do make not cague, but concrete threats to concrete people and the police usually says, they cannot do anything.
UK police has a multiple decades long history of infiltration of animal rights groups, though. They likely wouldn't try to act on a non-specific threat like that, because you're right it probably would get dismissed, but it's the kind of thing that certainly could trigger unwanted attention.
Especially would think someone with those kinds of views would be aware of the rather well publicised sordid history of UK police with infiltrating animal rights groups and been more cautious. Unless she was an undercover cop out fishing (I don't think it's likely, but who knows).
This was around 15 years ago, so maybe before the big recent stories about undercover-cops fathering children with their marks and vanishing etc.
I got the impression this lady I met was a little un-hinged / manic. Although more than capable of causing harassment to those unlucky to be in her path.
In the 1980s, Skinny Puppy was a popular band in the clubs and my social circles. Animal welfare was a real issue already. I purchased this album that was a fundraiser for the Animal Liberation Front, and really, my main takeaway from this smash hit song would be the horrors of Thalidomide and its devastating effects on the poor children and childbearing/pregnant mothers, in countries where the drug factories really didn't care about safety or humans or animals (I suppose that describes all of them).
I would always suggest decoupling domain registrar from everything else -- emails providers, DNS providers, other hosts, etc. Take care of your domain and be able to point anywhere, then the DNS provider to be able to again point to any hosts.
I've been registering domains since 1993 (when dot coms were free!). I use Namecheap almost exclusively now, except for very weird IDN edge cases such as emoji domains that most providers balk on.
Namecheap support seems good, even though they are working out of a warzone.
Avoid resellers / 'cheap' registrars like NameCheap, GoDaddy. DNS propagation, domain 'locking', etc. is so much easier to manage and faster using registrars who care about their business. Hover comes to mind, recently I've transferred everything to CloudFlare.
Ah! Will think over this. I have too many domains and I might need to pick a good one for some of the primary ones that I do not want to lose.
I have heard good things about Cloudflare as a registrar. In-fact, I suggest them to a friend who uses it. However, I user Cloudflare for DNS for most of my domains. SO, I won't move the domains registration to them.
I've heard through the grapevine that Namecheap will buy and resell domains based on what you search. does anyone know if there is veracity to this claim?
Anecdote - I've used their domain search tool quite a bit and I've never run into an instance of a domain suddenly being unavailable when I go to register it.
I hope my experiences continues. I have had, so far, no issues. In-fact, I have recovered quite a few lost domains, forgotten renewals etc with the help of their support team.
I have heard (know two founders) and I had experienced that domain grabbing-on-search with Godaddy! I won't go anywhere near them.
Netlify does not sell you DNS, it allows you to delegate your own zone to be handled by their servers. You can always log into your registrar and switch it back.
That said, you’d need to copy all the records you had set
I agree. Ever since I started working remotely, I've seen an increase in the quality of work I produce. This is partly due to having a quiet environment at home. Also partly due to having more energy to put into work because of having no commute.
I do think people should disable unnecessary notifications and setup blocks of focus time on their calendars.
