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Re:Modern Font Stacks on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:40PM (#35172795)
Archive shows a different comment that is no longer present: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315144657/https://news.ycom...

Ask HN: How do you exercise?

There were several posts [1][2] related the benefits of exercise and the comments were filled with interesting discussions about different types of exercises and their benefits. I am curious to know how readers of HN exercise and how it has benefited them personally.[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515421 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206115

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Re:Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:22AM (#32580591)
Plex is implying the passwords were salted and hashed:

> all account passwords that could have been accessed were hashed and secured in accordance with best practices

Re:Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:57AM (#32580289)
I received this email at 10:42pm PST.

At the time, I could not find the disclosure on their website.

I'm glad they disclosed shortly after discovery, but not publishing it on their site is an odd choice.

Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

Dear Plex User,We want you to be aware of an incident involving your Plex account information yesterday. While we believe the actual impact of this incident is limited, we want to ensure you have the right information and tools to keep your account secure.What happenedYesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases. We immediately began an investigation and it does appear...

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:44PM (#31099644)
> Update: Mr Bali Hai sez, "I worked for Cray Research from 1984-1996, and I can tell you that the story of him tunneling under his house is largely a fabrication made up by John Rollwagen to enhance Seymour's reputation as a quirky, visionary genius (which he was, but not because he was digging tunnels under his house). What actually transpired involved Seymour having some excavation work done on his basement by contractors. As far as I know, none of them were elves.
the complaint in the article is around the serach engine's "search within site" feature.

Compare the following two:

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=we...

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web

Re:FreshTomato on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:16PM (#28527802)
For asus routers, there is https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/ as well.
Youtube Vanced is another ad-free client (albeit not open source) that you can login with your Google account: https://vanced.app/
Re:China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:12AM (#19439206)
https://e360.yale.edu/features/chinas_reforestation_programs...

Not only that, there are concerns around lack of biodiversity in the trees being planted: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160907125303.h...

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