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> That said, I thought that the rule in the UK was generally that the loser pays the winners costs

That’s generally true… but only happens after those costs have been incurred and probably paid.

There’s no guarantee the party suing will be able to cover their own costs and the defendant’s costs. That leaves OP on the hook for defence costs with the hope that they might get them back after a successful and likely expensive defence.

In that situation, I can understand why OP wouldn’t want to take the risk.


It’s great for you that you can move on so quickly, but I think it’s a mistake to assume others can or should. Your experience is not the same as others, and your situation isn’t either.

In my case, I have pets and a young child living with me. The dogs may get over the violated sense of safety quite easily, but my little girl likely wouldn’t. It’s imperative to her healthy development that I be able to provide her a safe, secure place to live that also feels safe and secure.

Call me selfish but that overrides my concerns for the chaotic state of other peoples’ lives: their problems do not entitle them to harm my family.


Traditionally you have both: haggis, neeps, and tatties (potatoes).


And even more traditionally, you have the whole with whiskey on top.


I wonder why they’re using Gateron switches rather than Cherry ones? Is it just about cutting costs, or is there a solid technical reason for using clones rather than the originals?


Demand most likely. Lots of people think the clones like gateron are superior to cherries.


Gateron are in no way inferior to Cherry. They struggle with the knock-off branding but have made some pretty popular switches in the past 5 years.


I love Gateron Oranges. I've had both Cherry Browns and the Gateron Browns, and I actually prefer the Gaterons. I couldn't give you a quantitative answer, but I swapped them into the same hot-swappable keyboard and I liked the Gaterons. I found the Orange Gaterons, and I am sticking with them.


I’m the opposite: I trust others to do it better than I can.


Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by “way more nuanced conditions about what exact font to load”? I’ve tried both approaches recently and found using Google to be quicker and less work, but didn’t find it more nuanced or specific. What have I missed?


Google Webfonts looks at the useragent (and maybe more?) of the requester and serves different stylesheets depending on that, changing if to load WOFF or TTF fonts for example.


If you need to support browser that doesn't support woff2, Google Font do that for you automatically.

Furthermore, Google Font subsets their fonts so that if you only use English, the other parts of the font that contain Greek, etc. won't load (via unicode-range CSS)


Quite the contrary. I work in a call centre and we’re intensely stressed by the constant, microscopic surveillance. Everything is watched and logged and can be used against you, and the targets they measure you against creep ever higher.


I use Freelists for a tiny mailing list I run and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Setup is a little strange, and some of the admin settings aren't entirely intuitive, but when it's up and running it's excellent.


I adore, and extensively use, Cloudflare's free services for a couple of hobby projects. I hope they don't substantially change them post-IPO.


But tinbucket, I’m pretty sure you just loudly proclaimed you would be happy to pay at least $5/month!


I'd actually love a subscription that covers multiple low-traffic domains.

Next to a few business accounts for larger projects, I probably have 30 low traffic sites which aren't much of a cost for Cloudflare. I'd happily throw something like 20$ per month their way to have them covered.


I'd happily pay $5/month if it covered all of my hobby projects.

I'm not interesting in paying to run just a single project.


I'd be the same as you. All of my hobby sites combined probably get 1,500 views a month. I'd happily pay the $5 to cover that.


They've been specifically bred to exaggerate characteristics that are not healthy. The predominant result is brachycephalism which causes breathing and heat regulation issues amongst other things. This is also why they can't give birth naturally.


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