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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s what the packaging says.For years now, Amazon’s plastic bags, bubble-lined mailers, ...

An often overlooked cost of using cloud services is data egress. This is the cost of sending data out of the cloud provider's network to the public internet. I've compiled a list of egress pricing for major cloud providers to help you understand the costs: Cloud Provider Free allowance 1 TB of egress overage Cloudfl...

Published on 15 Dec 2023 · Filed in Explanation · 304 words (estimated 2 minutes to read) Building on the earlier article on automatically transforming Git URLs, I’m back with another article on a (potentially powerful) feature of Git—the ability to conditionally include Git configuration files. This means you can c...