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Notices by Roland Häder (roland@f.haeder.net)
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@LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @Michael Vogel It should be customizable, not all DNS servers are blazing fast. :-)
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German "Pfand" on bottles in English?
I'm currently looking for a proper translation for the German word Pfand. Here in Germany we have 25 EUR cents on some plastic bottles (not all) like soft drinks or even caned drinks (not all cans).
When we bring that empty bottle/can back to the supermarket and put it there in a machine for one-way-bottles/cans, then we can that 25 EUR cents back for each bottle (that has a proper symbol on it's cover printed).
dict.cc gives me a lot words for this: pawn, collateral, mortgage, pledge, deposit, forfeit, earnest, security, gage. I can rule out 2,3 and 5, 6 sounds strange. Any ideas which might be the right one?
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#Friendica needs to federate with other free-libre social networks such as #GNUSocial, #Diaspora, #Hubzilla and many more or else to less people are in each network (maybe I got you wrong here? Please correct me, if I think that you want to separate the fediverse. And no offense, of course. :-) )
Our biggest competitor in social networks is that #coorperate #Facebook #one-island thing and maybe a bit #Twitter (it is on sale as I followed the news). If FB is aquiring twitter, then there is basically only one large provider and we all know what that means.
Well, no more FB talk here. :-) I switched off registration on my social network instances because of #spam. Confirming email address doesn't stop them. There are spambots for ~ 400$ on ebay which can analyze confirmation mails for links. CAPTCHAs are as good as their implentation is and there are these "de-captcha services" out there. So the mice-cat game continues here.
Invite-only networks is good and helps preventing strangers/spammers from signing up but maybe not all of your relatives/friends/work-mates wants to sign up on your instance because "mostly are on FB" (that is what I hear mostly).
So I closed free registration and allowed signup by invitation (links with unique hash codes). Still no spam so far.