> It's essentially almost impossible to create a Google account without giving up your identity, and your phone number often leads directly to your real-life identity. A process I've gone through a few times (though I…
There was x11amp, which got renamed to XMMS, which was later forked into Beep Media Player, which was later forked into Audacious. IIRC, the last time I used Audacious, the default interface was a…
> I don't know how honeywell of all companies is selling this Not really the Honeywell. I tracked the lamp maker down at honeywellsmartlighting.com. Honeywell International is licensing out the name, according to…
> I have never seen any case of searching for information in any belongings of the travelers, "I have never seen" is very different from "it doesn't happen". I'm pretty sure in many countries, border control agents do…
On one hand, at the price point of >$10000 for the whole terminal, it's quite possible that >$100 went into the keyboard. However, I suspect you're coming at this from the perspective of a coder or a gamer or some other…
(Not sure if you were saying this in your comment) I read somewhere that Weird Al always asks permission before releasing a parody song. IIRC, the same article/post also said that some other prominent parody artists…
Another didn't-do-my-homework mistake: Beware of buying one of the waterproofed models if you want to hack/mod your Kobo. On un-waterproofed models, the case is easily opened, and the main storage SD Card (IIRC - maybe…
The main thing I'd like to see HTML (maybe more accurately, without-Javascript) do is AI-bot protection. Browsing the web with Javascript turned off makes things much more tolerable on my low-RAM computer. Until a year…
The discussion here reminded me of the "Cruelty Scale" (https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale) It was originally created specifically in relation to text adventure games, but seems appropriate to a broader range of game…
> While the web has always been organized around intermediaries that shape what survives online and who sees it, This statement, from the sixth paragraph of the article, is something that I would have liked to see…
That's an interesting article/study. I've heard this claim before and I've suspected it came from "using phone one the toilet correlates to more time spent on the toilet, and more time spent on the toilet correlates to…
> Every bedroom of a rental is required to have a window in New York. I don't think you meant this as specific as it sounds -- I suspect this requirement applies to coops, condos, and maybe even if you want to get…
> I don't want personal care items that have internal batteries at all, because they'll eventually die on me while the device itself (brush heads notwithstanding) is otherwise perfectly functional. I'd much rather keep…
Green River, home of the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Green_River_Intergalac...) (I went to wikipedia to get some general context on the city of Green River)
There was Blip Festival in New York, 15 to 20 years ago. As I had family in the area, I went to most of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_Festival After Blip Festival NY stopped, there were some other festivals…
I seem to remember reading somewhere that, even at his worst, Linus limited his toxicity to professional-programmer kernel contributors (i.e. people who were employed by linux distros or hardware companies to contribute…
It's interesting that (in one regard) Sony is getting a PR win with the "StudioCanal has done this" narrative. Another perspective: In accordance with the licensing system that Sony and their lobbyists helped establish,…
I own a Nintendo Switch, and I've noticed that in the Nintendo store, old games regularly go on sale for in the ballpark of 80% off. Does that happen in the PS store?
I think they're describing a scenario where the cash was stolen by a postal worker or for some other reason didn't make the full trip.
I'm reminded of Chuck disabling a bomb by surfing to a malware-infested webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtpyR6WIlY
I'm guessing when you say "ask frontend developers" you mean "at job interviews". But I like to think you mean something like "at cocktail parties" or other social situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Systems_USA#Anti-union...…
That would be "60 year olds who have been office workers most of their working life" 60-year-olds who worked blue-collar for a significant part of their life, this is not so obviously true for. Also probably not true…
Okay, I'll bite: How many time has that happened? I'm definitely not an avid follower of such things, but I've never heard of that happening. I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen, but I'd like to hear/read details.…
sorta piling on here, but it's also worth noting that this problem goes away (and the article is quite readable) in a browser with javascript turned off (and no adblocker).
> It's essentially almost impossible to create a Google account without giving up your identity, and your phone number often leads directly to your real-life identity. A process I've gone through a few times (though I…
There was x11amp, which got renamed to XMMS, which was later forked into Beep Media Player, which was later forked into Audacious. IIRC, the last time I used Audacious, the default interface was a…
> I don't know how honeywell of all companies is selling this Not really the Honeywell. I tracked the lamp maker down at honeywellsmartlighting.com. Honeywell International is licensing out the name, according to…
> I have never seen any case of searching for information in any belongings of the travelers, "I have never seen" is very different from "it doesn't happen". I'm pretty sure in many countries, border control agents do…
On one hand, at the price point of >$10000 for the whole terminal, it's quite possible that >$100 went into the keyboard. However, I suspect you're coming at this from the perspective of a coder or a gamer or some other…
(Not sure if you were saying this in your comment) I read somewhere that Weird Al always asks permission before releasing a parody song. IIRC, the same article/post also said that some other prominent parody artists…
Another didn't-do-my-homework mistake: Beware of buying one of the waterproofed models if you want to hack/mod your Kobo. On un-waterproofed models, the case is easily opened, and the main storage SD Card (IIRC - maybe…
The main thing I'd like to see HTML (maybe more accurately, without-Javascript) do is AI-bot protection. Browsing the web with Javascript turned off makes things much more tolerable on my low-RAM computer. Until a year…
The discussion here reminded me of the "Cruelty Scale" (https://www.ifwiki.org/Cruelty_scale) It was originally created specifically in relation to text adventure games, but seems appropriate to a broader range of game…
> While the web has always been organized around intermediaries that shape what survives online and who sees it, This statement, from the sixth paragraph of the article, is something that I would have liked to see…
That's an interesting article/study. I've heard this claim before and I've suspected it came from "using phone one the toilet correlates to more time spent on the toilet, and more time spent on the toilet correlates to…
> Every bedroom of a rental is required to have a window in New York. I don't think you meant this as specific as it sounds -- I suspect this requirement applies to coops, condos, and maybe even if you want to get…
> I don't want personal care items that have internal batteries at all, because they'll eventually die on me while the device itself (brush heads notwithstanding) is otherwise perfectly functional. I'd much rather keep…
Green River, home of the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Green_River_Intergalac...) (I went to wikipedia to get some general context on the city of Green River)
There was Blip Festival in New York, 15 to 20 years ago. As I had family in the area, I went to most of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_Festival After Blip Festival NY stopped, there were some other festivals…
I seem to remember reading somewhere that, even at his worst, Linus limited his toxicity to professional-programmer kernel contributors (i.e. people who were employed by linux distros or hardware companies to contribute…
It's interesting that (in one regard) Sony is getting a PR win with the "StudioCanal has done this" narrative. Another perspective: In accordance with the licensing system that Sony and their lobbyists helped establish,…
I own a Nintendo Switch, and I've noticed that in the Nintendo store, old games regularly go on sale for in the ballpark of 80% off. Does that happen in the PS store?
I think they're describing a scenario where the cash was stolen by a postal worker or for some other reason didn't make the full trip.
I'm reminded of Chuck disabling a bomb by surfing to a malware-infested webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtpyR6WIlY
I'm guessing when you say "ask frontend developers" you mean "at job interviews". But I like to think you mean something like "at cocktail parties" or other social situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Systems_USA#Anti-union...…
That would be "60 year olds who have been office workers most of their working life" 60-year-olds who worked blue-collar for a significant part of their life, this is not so obviously true for. Also probably not true…
Okay, I'll bite: How many time has that happened? I'm definitely not an avid follower of such things, but I've never heard of that happening. I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen, but I'd like to hear/read details.…
sorta piling on here, but it's also worth noting that this problem goes away (and the article is quite readable) in a browser with javascript turned off (and no adblocker).