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Works if manually restarted by an intern from time to time (lemmy.world)

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 13 hours ago

I mean, I have to say I've hastened my own demise (in program terms) by over-engineering something that should be simple. Sometimes adding protective guardrails actually causes errors when something changes.