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Jul 4, 2012 at 20:17
Building sites where email addresses are usernames is often handy, but it makes it so easy to type your email password into the wrong site.

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May 22, 2026 at 19:57
I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses! I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.
Jan 5, 2020 at 23:09
It's weird how email addresses have become a useful way of uniquely identifying people in usernames. This isn't something email was originally intended for. It makes sense: I imagine postal addresses and even names change more often than email.
Oct 3, 2019 at 19:28
Less than a million IPv4 addresses left!
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will announce that we have reached run-out. We expect this to occur in November 2019.