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Re:Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK) on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:17AM (#49446517)
It seems to be showing a lot of school services here, which are taking priority over the buses open to the public.
Re:Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative on Thursday March 14, 2024 @11:33AM (#39705333)
The problem is that if you get hit with hivemind moderation in M1, then you're likely to see it rated as fair in M2. This is encouraged by the "Troll" and "Flamebait" options which can be slapped on any dissenting opinion.
They claim to have their own processes to count installs which would counter spoofing attacks. As well as being opaque to developers on how their installs are counted, this may be scooping up PII of users.
Re:Cookie Clicker saved my PhD on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:54AM (#36444395)
The HTTP and HTTPS pages give you different save slots, so you may have been switched between the two.
Re:Please stop sending me emails written by GPT on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:25PM (#36087148)
I asked Bing what he would say about it:

> The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. The artificial race has one really ineffective weapon, and that is imitation. - Mark Twain (paraphrased)

Re:Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study on Monday September 28, 2015 @02:53PM (#10292234)
This looks like the original story for the photo:

http://news.yahoo.com/beijing-marathoners-don-face-masks-bat...

So... it's not?

Re:The geography of American left-handedness on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:28PM (#10266472)
Landover is satire.
Re:Moonpig.com Vulnerability – Exposes customer data on Monday January 05, 2015 @06:34PM (#8841988)
It would probably be more effective to update your account with nonsense details.
Re:The Inventor of the Browser Tab on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:46PM (#7723171)
The linked "directly responsible" more or less meets my memory - MultiZilla first, Mozilla main later. The MultiZilla site of the time confirms it, the history links point to a 2001 start which would make 2002 in Mozilla itself reasonable.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010603123052/http://multizilla....