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Watermelons are better at everything the apples are doing except perhaps a bit of weight and for making apple pies.


Can we see some discussions that got people perma-banned?

Confusing title, "self-hosted mail" and "self-hosted email gateway" are two quite different things :-/


Fair. I was trying to convey self hosted benefits without the downside of hosting your own MTA. I was also really in my head on the niche and assumed everyone else would get it from the snappy title. Not my intent to mislead.


My eyes first Spoonerized the title to "Hostporn, selfhosted porn gateway". I didn't get a full night's sleep last night...


What is stans and pols?


A stan is a supporter/booster of whatever. I do not remember the origin.

Pol here is abbreviated politician.


Comes from the Eminem song Stan, about an obsessed fan named Stan.


It's also a portmanteau of "Stalker" and "Fan" allegedly, although my first awareness of it was the Eminem song you mentioned.


from the eminem song stan (also possibly from super-fan)


Where's the "T" come from?


'T' is the second letter of the name 'Stan', the obsessed superfan in the song.


I had heard the folk etymology "stalker fan"


It's a reference to the name Stanley, 'stan' is the signature at the end of letters being read in the song


Stanley is a toponymic surname, a contraction of stan (a form of "stone") and leigh (meadow), later also being used as a masculine given name.


Cringespeak against whatever the poster is really really butthurt about.


Same with ISPs.


These awesome things will enable a higher human population. We are like a virus taking over the host organism and overdoing it.


In almost every wealthy country the birth rate has fallen below sustainable, meaning we're shrinking if life expectancy doesn't magically explode.

Viruses btw never reflect on killing the host :P


Like cancer


What is the average salary, the average tech worker salary, and the number of tech and other workers in Poland?


Do we know if and how cycles are defined in the regulation?


Fingers crossed the Chinese eventually figure out the screens are the mark of cheapness, and start demanding 100% physical controls.


I'm a bit confused.

Were you aware there is actually a law in China requiring physical buttons?

I think from next year it applies to everyone. Not only Chinese makers.

What were the other physical controls you were thinking of?


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