The headline margin of error only applies at the centre (50%), and decreases towards the extremes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Specific_margins_of_error
Wikipedia says that for a poll with 1013 participants and the same headline margin of error, a 2% result would be ±0.8%.
It’s more likely that this is the crowd who deliberately gives the most absurd answer possible.
I’ll take ‘Violations of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act’.
It’s pretty common to own a domain but not actually host the email server; doing on-premises email is a security PITA and most providers simply blacklist large swathes of residential and leasable (e.g. VPS) IPs.
Unfortunately, if you get someone else to host your email, they often charge by the account, not by the domain. Setting up a new mailbox is therefore irritatingly expensive.
A catch-all email works well, though, and is free from most of the hosting providers. Downside is you get spam…
Jane@JaneDoe certainly seems more common than mail@JaneDoe.
I’ve certainly never heard of a chicken ranch, but plenty of chicken farms.
Yeah, I have no idea either, but it’s been around for more than a decade so it should be fairly easy to find a library that duplicates it.
I would be wary of AI-based solutions. There’s a risk of it picking up e.g. satirical/spoof sponsorships as actual ads, and perhaps not detecting unusual ads.
I’m slightly terrified of the day someone starts getting AI to reword and read out individual ads for each stream.
You definitely would have legal issues redistributing the ad-free version.
Sponsor block works partly because it simply automates something the user is already allowed to do - it’s legally very safe. No modification or distribution of the source file is necessary, only some metadata.
It’s an approach that works against the one-off sponsorships read by the actual performers, but isn’t effective against ads dynamically inserted by the download server.
One option could be to crowdsource a database of signatures of audio ads, Shazam style. This could then be used by software controlled by the user (c.f. SB browser extension) to detect the ads and skip them, or have the software cut the ads out of files the user had legitimately downloaded, regardless of which podcast or where the ads appear.
Sponsorships by the actual content producers could then be handled in the same way as SB: check the podcast ID and total track length is right (to ensure no ads were missed) then flag and skip certain timestamps.
Secondhand stuff can be really cheap if you know where to look, but the drawbacks are usually power and noise.
It honestly seems like these are questions that don’t need asking.
You’ve provided no context about what you like and don’t like, so you won’t get any kind of a personalised response.
What are you expecting to get out of asking this as a question, that you don’t get by simply going to Rotten Tomatoes?
This would be a waste of commenters’ time, and that’s why it’s being downvoted.
It’s most likely that it’s related to the original manufacturing. These will be machine wave-soldered, not hand soldered, and having quality vary across the board isn’t impossible if the setup/operators were less than ideal.
Local AdBlock (UBlock Origin) should be fine for anything browser based. It’s really only consoles and smart TVs, where you ‘own’ the hardware but have no control over the software.
They should for most purposes. YT has started to try and make it much harder to block their ads, which I think has made Pihole ineffective for that.
Connecting the Pi up to the TV and using it as the player should be an option.
It depends on the exact choices made by the developers, but generally the IP used by a user to make a post will always be logged - I think that’s now moving into legally required in some jurisdictions.
Mods/admins seeing that is a potentially different matter.
Seeing the IPs a user has used and what others have used them, or at least some sanitized version, can be helpful and I would argue is necessary before considering an IP ban.
Are there 50 other accounts on the same IP, and they all always post from that one IP? Either you have a really prolific sockpuppet, or you’re about to ban a whole college dorm or big office, and maybe generate a shitload of bad publicity.
Does the user post from a wide range of IPs already? Then there’s no point in issuing an IP ban; they probably won’t even notice.
It’s too easy to bypass an IP ban. That’s why providers have moved to tying accounts to things that should be harder and harder to replace - and more and more invasive. Email > phone > government issued ID…
Hate speech and cancel culture are usually considered somewhat opposites - cancelling is usually a ‘weapon in the toolkit’ against hate speech or whatever else you don’t like.
IP bans usually don’t work well on the modern internet. Many ISPs use CG-NAT with very rapidly changing IPs shared by many users. Places like college dorms are the worst.
Looking up which accounts stem from which IP is also a moderate invasion of privacy.
The usual issues with “banning the accounts that are constantly being used to harass people” are:
Clearly defining harassment vs legitimate discussion
Figuring out who’s actually being unreasonable - is one party being baited into responding, then that response is reported?
Having enough staffing
I’m not sure that there is any point in a fediverse platform. That implies you want interaction (e.g. comments) from other locations, and therefore need moderation etc. A local blog site with ‘share to Mastodon’ buttons (if they exist) is probably all that’s needed.
Does the exterior of the case get physically very hot? If it does, then your problem is that the case can’t shed enough heat. If the case is mostly cooler, or only has a hot spot in the middle, then it’s an issue with getting heat from the die to the case.
I would be looking at something like a 100x100x3 copper shim, to help with not just moving heat straight from the die to the adjacent section of case, but also spreading the heat sideways. Heat pipes would be nice but 3mm is too thin for a DIY solution.
Incidentally, there’s a reasonably wide range of connectors that don’t fit traditional identities. Some, like most USB connectors, have a situation where there’s a male prong in the middle of a ‘female’ connector.
Others, like Anderson Powerpole, are fully self-mating.
Doesn’t really affect my point.
The point of eradication is that once a disease is gone, you don’t need to vaccinate against it any more. You’ve probably never been vaccinated against smallpox, for example.
B key vs M key. Laptop likely needs a SATA M.2 using B or B+M keying, you have a PCIe x4 drive with M keying.