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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtomemes@lemmy.worldGIRL. NOT LIKE THAT.
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    1 month ago

    Oh no, it’s worse than that… we use the metric system to measure the customary system…

    The Mendenhall Order marked a decision to change the fundamental standards of length and mass of the United States from the customary standards based on those of England to metric standards. It was issued on April 5, 1893, by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall.
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    Mendenhall ordered that the standards used for the most accurate length and mass comparison change from certain yard and pound objects to certain meter and kilogram objects, but did not require anyone outside of the Office of Weights and Measures to change from the customary units to the metric system.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order

    Technically every unit in the US customary measurement system is just a weird conversion factor of an equivalent metric unit. At this point 1 yard was defined as 3600/3937 meter, which means 1 inch = 2.54000508 cm. By 1959 everyone finally agreed that this was stupid and redefined it as 1 yard = 0.9144 m (1 inch = 2.54 cm).

    All measurements in the US are based on standard reference objects provided by BIPM.










  • It is an absolute PITA to keep an email server on the “nice” list so your company’s email traffic doesn’t get spam filtered by every service provider, and the major services (gmail, outlook, etc) are all federating their spam filter lists so many times if you get blocked on one you get blocked on all. There is so much spam to deal with that the filtering is highly automated and there’s little human oversight.

    The point being, it could only take a handful of incidents reporting a company’s email as spam to ruin their reputation and result in email from their domain getting automatically filtered everywhere. So, you know, if they don’t support an easy way to unsubscribe then they are in fact behaving like spammers, so flag them and let them deal with having their domain blacklisted.