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Re:The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is the Loss of...
on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:39PM (#41140324)
What a load. See https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/jonathan-haidts-book-the...
Re:Otis: Tropical storm to category 5 hurricane in 24h
on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:27AM (#38009122)
Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:37PM (#31067104)
I use https://speedof.me/ and https://testmy.net/. They match my QoS limits when QoS is enabled in my router, and match what I'm paying for when QoS is disabled.
Re:The Evolution of Web Design (2016)
on Sunday May 19, 2019 @11:08AM (#19953651)
I couldn't get past the first heading: "NASA and the Space".
Re:Fucking Color Picker
on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:56AM (#19652750)
ColorMania works great and is 774 KB. http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/colormania.html.
Re:WordPress 5.0 introduces a flexible block-based content editor
on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:39AM (#18627132)
As long as the traditional editor remains an option I won't mind. If they force it on us, that could be a problem. I try every new version of Gutenberg for posting on one of my sites, and so far I've had to switch back to the traditional editor every time. From the Wordpress 5.0 welcome page: "Support for the Classic Editor plugin will remain in WordPress through 2021... Note to users of assistive technology: if you experience usability issues with the block editor, we recommend you continue to use the Classic Editor."
Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:49PM (#17201986)
YouTube is the world's greatest repository of culture. And shitty comments. But mostly the culture thing. And Facebook is a bulletin board. No competition.
Re:Robocalls Flooding Your Cellphone? Here’s How to Stop Them
on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:23AM (#15026881)
I was just poking around in the settings for my new Android phone and found Settings > Applications > Phone > Call blocking > Block list > Block anonymous calls. Would that be helpful at all? I haven't tested it myself.
Re:Ad blocking is under attack
on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:28PM (#14991483)
uMatrix rocks. It can take a few minutes of fiddling to get a complex site working, but it's totally worthwhile.
Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial
on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:25PM (#14991432)
No stats needed. Just go through the bug list for any software. How many of the bugs were introduced by the people who maintain stable packages?
Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial
on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:36AM (#14989486)
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I see it differently. Where do new bugs and vulnerabilities come from? When the main developers add features or make changes to existing features that go beyond fixing bugs.
From the point of view of many server administrators, using the latest versions of everything is inherently risky. What they want to use is a stable, solid version that has all the latest security fixes.
It's unlikely that these opposing viewpoints will ever be reconciled.
Re:A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattl...
on Sunday August 06, 2017 @08:42AM (#14941062)
Stopped reading after the third word.
Re:Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (...
on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:20AM (#13866865)
Re:Tool of Hope: A Sober Alchemy to End My Helplessness
on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:08PM (#13798651)
Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt? I think they meant Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Re:Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018
on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:43AM (#13205266)
Gibberish. How did this end up on the front page?
Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi
on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:55AM (#13166146)
Interesting, but not really all that useful for people who don't have loads of money. The rest of us have to make do with consumer grade crap, or do the extra work of finding good hardware and installing useful firmware into it. I'm running an Asus RT-N66U with Advanced Tomato and it works beautifully. Of course, I don't live in a mansion.
Re:The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:13AM (#13150571)
Literally the first letter of this is a typo. Sad story though.
Re:Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them
on Sunday October 02, 2016 @08:04AM (#12621992)
This seems similar to Master Password (http://masterpasswordapp.com/).
Re:Cron checker
on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:54PM (#12108959)
I love this. Thank you.
Re:Comodo CEO Forum Post on Lets Encrypt Trademark
on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:25PM (#11965333)
Wow. So much wrong with that. I was already planning to switch from Comodo to LE for one client, but now I'm going make sure none of my other clients are using Comodo certs. Sorry, Comodo, but you're just hastening your demise with this kind of behaviour.
Re:Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related quest...
on Friday June 17, 2016 @11:59PM (#11927036)
CodeNewbie Slack community. http://www.codenewbie.org/.
Re:London may elect it's first Muslim mayor
on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:57AM (#11634872)
Agreed. However, if you're going to correct someone's grammar on the Internet, may I suggest that you use correct grammar yourself, per http://grammarist.com/usage/as-per/.
Re:Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:28PM (#11592356)
And what happened to Atari?
Re:Cracking BurgerTime, a 1982 game on a floppy disk
on Sunday January 03, 2016 @10:26AM (#10830882)
Nice work! Kind of hard to believe someone would go to all that trouble now, but fun is fun, right? I remember at least one game that was less fun to play than it was to remove the copy protection. Some of my old articles about removing Apple II copy protection are also posted on archive.com, like this one: http://archive.org/stream/computist-scan-14/issue14#page/n9/...
Re:How Google Is Bankrolling Friendly Academics
on Thursday November 26, 2015 @06:23AM (#10632469)
So Google is just doing what every other corporation does. This is the reality of business today.
Re:DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked
on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:41PM (#10322501)
As opposed to all the ones that worked?
Re:India blocks Colgate patents for spices
on Monday July 20, 2015 @08:31AM (#9915538)
Javascript required.
Re:It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF]
on Sunday June 21, 2015 @07:34AM (#9753006)
It really is still everywhere. For example, you can use ^S to pause your PC's POST display if you're fast enough. The Windows command line still uses it. And so on.
Re:An Apple ][ Emulator in JavaScript
on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @12:50AM (#9603001)
Did you find a solution to this? I had no problems with sound the first time I tried it, but since then I'm getting what you described.
Re:Advertising Shits in Your Head
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @09:00AM (#9481109)
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.