Normille

As someone who had a Twitter account several years ago but lost interest in it and haven't posted in about 2 or 3 years, I was under the impression it was just YASMS [Yet Another Social Media Site]. And that Elon Musk's…

As the title suggests: I've recently prepared a static version of a former WordPress site for the family of its deceased author, who want to keep the site online in perpetuity, in his memory. The WordPress version of…

Hoping the collective wisdom of HN can help me with this one: I'm currently archiving a site for a client which was built in WordPress [I know! I know!] by creating a static version from it. So I've used `curl` to…

Many aeons ago I read a short story in a SciFi anthology with the following plot, as I remember it: A man ingests Nanobots [?] which travel though his body, fixing disease and repairing damages, etc. Then they start to…

Does anyone else use Shift+Click? [0] If so, has it been working for you recently? For about the pst week, all I get is one of those irritating "Oops, something went wrong!.." error messages, when I try and view an…

I'm still looking round for an alternative to Google Workspace, when they get rid of the free tier for custom domains, in a month or so's time. My needs are pretty basic; I just want a reliable email service that I can…

*Yet Another Gmail Workspaces Alternatives Post I know alternatives to Google Workspaces have been discussed to death recently. And, after looking at a few of the options mentioned in other threads, I'm leaning towards…

I know uMatrix development has been abandoned for quite a while now [0]. But, at least up until quite recently, it continued to work on my Android browsers of choice [Yandex & Kiwi]. This is, sadly, no longer true.…

I'm suffering a flare-up of sciatica at the moment. So 'enjoying' a week or more of barely being able to walk the length of the room and unable to get any sleep. As I lie awake at night, constantly fidgeting to try and…

Anyone know anything about this. Pinboard's Twitter hasn't been updated in aeons and I don't see any reports on this elsewhere https://pinboard.in

OK. I know the whole "Don't log in and work on your computer as root" mantra. So spare me that. It's not something I ever do. However... The other day I had to login to my laptop [OSX] as the root user to change some…

I know we have a few online chess players here on HN. So this seems as good a place as any to ask. I just can't fathom how the Lichess ratings system works at all. I know the theory behind such things; more points…

OK. I don't want to be the playground snitch, telling tales on other people here. But considering I've had HN accounts shadow-banned into oblivion in the past, just for making a single off-the-cuff remark that was…

This has happened to me on a couple of occasions now, that I know about, and possibly other times I'm unaware of: The first occasion: I was waiting a response to an email sent via one of my accounts that uses Yandex…

I've run into this three times now, over the past couple of days. When accessing StartPage through a VPN, I get this message telling me my access has been blocked and inviting me to email them to explain how I'm trying…

Many of us who maintain servers will be logging into them via SSH. It takes a bit of setting up on the command line to create the key pairs to start with. But, once it's done, it's pretty seamless; we can login without…

It's that time of the year again when the tedious process of ringing round to get the best quote for renewing my van insurance is nigh and, as ever, a random thought flits across my vacant skull: Would a zillionaire,…