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Re:Et Tu, Signal? on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:51AM (#26724931)
don't lick your phone then, seriously, if you don't like a feature, do use it. Done.
Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:50PM (#26587636)
summary: people suck
Re:Dungeon Magazine on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:14AM (#25778114)
answering my question

this works:

wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_006/Dungeon_Ma...

I just wrote a quick scrip to increment the issues

mobi = "wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_{count}/Dungeo..." pdf = "wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_{count}/Dungeo..."

with open("grab_dragon.sh", "w") as file1: for index in range(200):

        str_index = str(index)
        if len(str_index) != 3:
            str_index = str_index.zfill(3)
        pdf_format = pdf.format(count=str_index)
        mobi_format = mobi.format(count=str_index)

        file1.write(pdf_format + "\n")
        file1.write(mobi_format + "\n")
Re:Dungeon Magazine on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:18AM (#25777304)
FWIW, I just donated $5 monthly to archive.org because of this....whoever did it, thank you!
Re:Dungeon Magazine on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:17AM (#25777280)
this is so cool; i see that there's a way to dl individual issues, but I was wondering if there was a way to bulk dl them? thanks in advance.
Re:AirPods Max on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:38AM (#25347602)
Having just bought a pair of DT 1770 pros, I will be really interested to see how these compare. Also, how they will interact with my DAC/HeadPhone amp.
Re:Against Netflix on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:47AM (#25277388)
bah
isn't everyone's kid a creative genius?
We Need a Hippocratic Oath for CEOs
Re:Console, the vital tool that Apple abandoned on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:48PM (#23680960)
another example of a) people with too much time on their hands b) the over use of hyperbole
Re:“Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari” on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:33AM (#23653124)
Steve Jobs is (or at least would have been) jumping up and down with happiness. Or more likely bitching about how long this took!
Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:30AM (#23478177)
why is this a bad thing? Often Wikipedia is responsible for publishing the info that google displays as the one zero-click result.

I just assumed that Wikipedia objectives include making all information easily available. So, by that measure, Wikipedia is succeeding or so it seems.

Wikipedia is not add driven and therefore how much traffic the site attracts really is secondary to meeting their knowledge sharing goals.

Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:02AM (#21583511)
If there are ads, then the content is not free.
Re:Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:02PM (#21390182)
How are they Communistcast? Clearly the represent the worst of capitalism unless I am missing something.
Re:Slick Olive Oil Label Designed to Deceive on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:42AM (#19076678)
Premium blended scotch is an oxymoron though.
Re:Ask HN: Is Quicken Safe? on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:40AM (#18598858)
Thanks, privacy is always a concern but also something I have largely given up on. Which is definitely sad. I just thought it funny that aa.online-metrix.net seemed pretty bogus. On well. I remember the days when software companies (I worked at one) had strong polices prohibiting their software from communicating back to the company without user's explicit consent. Those days are long gone.
yeah, by google and amazon.
Re:Microsoft acquires Github on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:39AM (#17228150)
Sorry, Nokia killed Nokia.
Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:10AM (#17226989)
> But that can change.

That's because change is the only constant.

Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#17226981)
as in slashdotted.
Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:08AM (#17226980)
as in being slashdotted