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lurgburg | 5 years ago | on: Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records

> You physically can’t put an IP address into an MX DNS record

Per TFA,

> some mail servers do configure an IP address. Many mail servers are lenient when it comes to this misconfiguration and will deliver mails nevertheless

I.E. people can and do put IP addresses into these things. And any actual example is a complete rebuttal of claims of impossibility.

Standards don't have any cosmic significance. If people use a thing in a manner, then it's also that thing.

lurgburg | 5 years ago | on: YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

This policy ("send a picture of your black skin") sounds like what they found they needed to do prevent black voices from being drowned out on a site so overwhelming white as reddit. If they'd found white people were capable of recognising that maybe bpt wasn't about them I doubt they'd need that policy.

lurgburg | 6 years ago | on: Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral

My argument was narrow: to counter "seems to be a new thing". The argument of "the scale of these fires is unusual, but if there is an unusual cause, it's an unusual amount of arson, not unusual climate conditions".

If a single act of Arson was the only fire started then it still wouldn't make sense to attribute the fires to arson alone, because arson can start a fire but for it to grow it needs dry fuel. Which is created by drought. Which is linked to climate change.

And of course arson trails behind legal and illegal burning off and lightning as starter of fires anyway [1].

I mean like sure if we were able to somehow eliminate arson and burning off we would probably have less bushfires.

That doesn't change that the scale of these fires is straightforwardly linked to climate change. Fixating on these miscellaneous factors distracts from the broader, more critical issue.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENuS0AHUwAERccK?format=png&name=... (from https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/12533/Answers...)

lurgburg | 6 years ago | on: Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral

> people deliberately starting them seems to be (seems to be a new thing)

No?

https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/media-centrenews/arso... https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statisticshisto... https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/e...

Arson is certainly a thing that happens but isn't suddenly drastically increasing for no reason.

What is increasing is the rate at which those acts become extensive bushfires. Which is caused by drought drying out the land (increasing fuel). Which is linked to ... yep, climate change.

lurgburg | 6 years ago | on: Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent

And in the case of Japanese, the extra field seems to be utterly essential, because the same characters in Kanji might be pronounced in radically different ways.

http://www.localizingjapan.com/blog/2011/02/13/sorting-in-ja...

  There are four Japanese women whose names you have to sort: Junko, Atsuko, Kiyoko, and Akiko.
  This does not seem difficult, until they each show you how they write their names in kanji:

      淳子 (Junko)
      淳子 (Atsuko)
      淳子 (Kiyoko)
      淳子 (Akiko)
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