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Re:I Stored a Website in a Favicon on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:05AM (#48607974)
A neat improvement would be to make the decoder into a bookmarklet. This would avoid the overhead of serving the script. Of course you would rely on the user having the bookmarklet installed, but when you serve HTML you also rely on the user having a web browser installed.
Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @12:52PM (#48110884)
The main board of my 3D printer short-circuited and caught fire once. I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't around, but I'm not leaving my printer running on its own without supervision.
Thanks a lot for this tip. I don't know how one is supposed to find this setting.
Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:52PM (#32965533)
It's not so simple. The developers are not necessarily available for this kind of support. For example, I maintain an FOSS library, but I already have a full time job, and I'm not interested in working more hours. Unless someone hires me to work full time on this library, there is no chance that I provide paid support. I suspect that many other maintainers are in the same situation.
Re:Health Effects of Coffee on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:44AM (#23611751)
I do. I really enjoy an expresso after lunch, and sometimes one in the morning when I arrive at the office, but it's really for pleasure and not addiction. If I don't have access to good coffee, e.g. when I work from home, I don't drink coffee at all.
Re:The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:47AM (#22222776)
On portuguese keyboards, ~ is a dead key. You have to type ~<space>.<enter> I'm not sure whether that's superior.
Re:Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:14AM (#20583410)
I gave up ordering online because where I live they deliver the goods in disposable shopping bags. They even use more bags than I would because they separate the products by type. But I'm glad to see that in other places they seem to be smarter about it.
I don't know why some people want vegetarian food to taste like meat. I enjoy eating meat, but the best vegetarian foods that I had did not taste like meat at all, and it is how it should be. It's like with sugar, if I want to avoid consuming it, I don't replace it with sweetener, I just don't put the sugar in and enjoy the untainted taste of the other ingredients.