In 2019, The North Face faced consumer backlash and apologized after its marketing agency surreptitiously added photos featuring its apparel to Wikipedia articles on popular outdoor destinations.

The North Face - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face

Edit: they also sent a cease & desist to The South Butt a decade before that

“Hi I wasn’t paid six dollars on Fiverr to post here” (does increase costs obviously but marginally for high-margin/volume products)

IDK bout fighting vigilantes with vigilante justice though, isn’t there something he could be charged with if he’s breaking laws?

Ahahahahaha one of the best I’ve seen thanks

Tangentially, this reminds me of some advice I read on whole home water filters. Get this one or get that one. but get it from a local business who’s been in your area for years and years. You will have a problem with it. You are going to need someone to call. And they say, just plan for that from the start.

If the article were written 10 years ago I would’ve just assumed they had used something like:

https://fotoforensics.com/

Maybe OC

Whohhh was gonna say top level comment’s wrong but…

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch

First pronunciation’s super “epic”, second’s what we know

…hmmm OK, this is indeed a little more epic:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epic

But come on! Listen back to back! I’m not linguisticy enough to know exactly but that ə is certainly not an i… just wouldn’t recognize the difference in many contexts I’m thinking

Anybody hold onto all their old electronics just in case in spite of the financial/resource “waste”?

lol!!

What’s the modem clone about?

:D great fam

Aha, shrewd…

Thank you

In the end, we opted for a simple strategy, sidestepping GitHub’s aggressive vendor lock-in: leave the existing issues open and unmigrated, but start counting issues at 30000 on Codeberg so that all issue numbers remain unambiguous. Let us please consider the GitHub issues that remain open as metaphorically “copy-on-write”.

Do you know anything about the referenced vendor lock-in?

You got me curious about something…

Oxford English Dictionary - Aura, 2.c.

[year] 1870–

A supposed subtle emanation from and enveloping living persons and things, viewed by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual, serving as the medium for the operation of mesmeric and similar influences.

”Peculiar substances can be charged with the efflux or aura of the human being.”

P. B. Randolph, Seership! (1884)

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Proposal :)

That’s so cool, the integrated quality levels

We can still pass flash drives around, at least until ID requirements come to file systems, ports, and peripherals.

Variously better and worse than a ban from both Uber and Lyft.