What do you see as advantages of postgres over mysql? I see these comments at work quite often and there isn't always much substance behind them

I suppose there's always the old fashioned way of using drbd with heartbeat

Almost everyone I spoke to this year had issues with the trains into Belgium. Cancellations, delays, strikes.

Strikes are normal when politicians wants to steal pensions.

In Europe it repeats every year. Politicians try to steal pensions, workers strike, politicians back off. In America I think the workers would roll over. I wish the workers good luck and I will tolerate the temporary transport disruption if that's the cost of not being America.

Was the Eurostar delayed, does anyone know?

My experience was good: on my way in Paris -> Brussels arrived 10min early, and on my way out Brussels -> Paris I had ~15min delay (apparently because Police had to board the train before Brussels).

Eurostar was fine for me. Getting to the Eurostar within Germany apparently sucked for some. But I took a later train and didn't have issues there either.

No, I don't think Eurostar was affected at all.

Worked for me from Amsterdam.

Not for me.

Trains coming from the east via Berlin->Cologne were significantly disrupted.

As usual, there is hardly a day that doesn't happen, and it got worse this year as they finally started some repairs on critical routes, suppressing many alternatives, or average speeds.

> I didn't want to read a Republican virtue signaling to his audience. I wonder if they were trying to sound Republican?

It would be very surprising behaviour for a British guy living in the UK

At least they email him and don't send the stupid "you have an important message, login to see it" email. No idea what those important messages are, I'm sure sometimes they were important

CRITICAL MESSAGE -- READ IMMEDIATELY

The automatic payment you set up has processed successfully.

And if the automatic payment doesn't go through, well, then there's nothing to report on so no email generated.

"hello we are your bank"

It's the same article without the pay wall

The article is already posted without the paywall in the submission description itself.

This really made me laugh, but at the same time "water bankruptcy" doesn't mean anything before this statement but bankruptcy did. The term was chosen to give the same kind of emotional reaction as bankruptcy

Whenever I login to LinkedIn I get "emails aren't getting through to your main email address".

1. That's by design, because you spammed the shit out of it. 2. Given that all I do is send them to /dev/null, HOW DO YOU KNOW?

They're checking to see whether any of the links they put in the emails are being fetched from their servers. It's stupid, but it works for most people.

I had a similar situation with SMS messages that were being sent to me with links informing me of status updates. These texts were useful, and I would go over to my real computer to check the web site. Then after a few days the text messages said "It looks like these messages aren't getting through to you, so we'll stop sending them." Which is also stupid, but it works for most people that load the web site on their phone from the SMS link. God help you if you have a dumb-phone.

You don't need the recipient to actually click on any visible link. Tracking pixels are the oldest trick in the book.

Only if people naively automatically load remote content. My inbox receives the bits that actually come in the email and nothing else. If you send an empty email with all images, you sent an empty email...

Probably tracking pixels in the emails

So they'd miss it anyway, my mail client is firewalled to only be able to access the mailserver.

I've been unsubscribed from a handful of newsletters because I don't read them. I replied to one and told them I did, even reached out on Twitter, but they still deleted me.

Even WhatsApp has it in the search bar

For me it’s just a multi-coloured ring like a gamer’s mood light, but it’s literally just slapped in the corner of the UI the same way a shitty Intercom widget would be.

Totally a thing a growth hacking team would do, injecting an interface on top of a design.

This is good timing actually. I've been self-hosting SimpleLogin for a while but was considering the lifetime subscription to Proton to get it (it comes with ProtonPass but I selfhost VaultWarden).

Last week I logged into my Proton mail that I'd used last year for some government contact to get the dates, and they'd deleted the account for inactivity. Ok, I don't pay, they're entitled. But now I see this and I think maybe I'll save the $150 or whatever it is.