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Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:27AM (#50273186)
Why would you assume those are the most prominent search results, when they just said they were difficult to find?
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:22AM (#50149378)
> I regret getting a .io domain for my email and website; with the price increases, it's not far from $100/year.

$50 on Cloudflare where I have mine, so only halfway to $100, but still pretty expensive.

Re:Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:03AM (#50115521)
> Heck, I fondly remember my DOS days when directories and files were easily distinguishable, since the former ones were always written in CAPS.

That must have been the conventions of some third-party file manager (Norton Commander?), because DOS stored and showed everything as uppercase, both directories and files.

I finally gave up on using catch-all, and now only allow e-mail to addresses @mydomain.com that follow a certain pattern. If someone were to specifically target me and look closer at all the addresses I use, they would quickly figure out the pattern, but I see no reason why a spammer would do that.
*@mydomain.com worked fine for me for about 15 years, then suddenly spammers started doing exactly that, sending e-mails to random addresses. I would get countless copies of every spam message, addressed to completely random combinations of characters @mydomain.com.
I used to accept *@mydomain, until spammers started sending spam to completely random addresses. Suddenly I received hundreds of copies of every spam mail, addressed to random combinations of characters @mydomain.
Re:Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:15AM (#50087272)
The length of time someone can serve in a leadership position doesn't make them a "ruler" in the same sense as Trump, Xi or Putin. The political system they operate within matters a lot.
Re:Ledger Nano X: the spy implant on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:00AM (#50087083)
Surely just knowing someone's account number can't be enough? Sweden's biggest bank uses your national identification number (equivalent to social security number) as your checking account number, and Sweden's national identification numbers are public information.
Re:Teach My Little Sister How to Drive on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:15AM (#50072142)
Every statement seems to need a disclaimer of honesty these days, usually in the form of "ngl".
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:56AM (#50071843)
Here in Sweden, 70% of bank branches have closed during the last 20 years, mainly due to the rise of digital banking.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:55AM (#50055060)
Calling your own opinion objective is not a good practice. This is very much something you can have different opinions on.
I did some hopeful googling, and curing aphantasia seems to not be a real thing, unless you believe in magic. I'm disappointed.
Re:Reasons to Dislike AI Coding on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:16AM (#49990692)
It's still available here: https://archive.org/details/usetypes.

The original URL has been dead for over five years, so I don't know why a blog post from yesterday linked to it.

Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:21AM (#49905128)
But if it is placebo, obviously he wouldn't notice any placebo change for local models, since he KNOWS he is using an immutable local model. That comparison only works if he doesn't know what model he is using.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:02AM (#49874525)
That's like going to the pub and concluding that 100% of people currently alive are at the pub, because everyone you see is at the pub.

No traveler is going to observe me sitting alone in my apartment (hopefully).

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:44AM (#49874416)
We've always used metaphors like that when talking about computers, without anyone having any complaints.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:30AM (#49874348)
I just tried googling "fentanyl fold" and switching to the video tab, and zero of the first ten results were AI. They were also mostly not from YouTube. I also tried the same search on YouTube, and no AI there either among the first ten results (I didn't bother with the Shorts). I don't know why we get so different results.
Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:35AM (#49797793)
> people that cannot give a fuck about writing coherent thoughts down

That's clearly not the type of people they are talking about. For some people expressing their thoughts in words is really, really hard. It doesn't mean they don't give a damn. Just like being in a wheelchair doesn't necessarily make you lazy.

A fork implies that it builds upon code from another repository. I wouldn't use the word fork to mean "inspired by". I think it takes away from the effort that the author has put in. Anyone can create a fork of a project with the click of a button.
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:35AM (#49639285)
> Competitors may have copied most of the form factor

Is this satire making fun of how Apple often "invents" things that has been on the market for years, or did you mean to write "Apple as usual copied from competitors"?

Re:My Feed, My Way on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:47AM (#49608998)
Instead of spending 45 minuter discussing back and forth whether Tim Burton is still alive, we can take five seconds to look it up, and then move on to more interesting topics.
Re:Creating Backup Storage Sucks on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:21AM (#49546530)
What does your practice recovery run look like? I've got backup set up, but I don't know how to best test it. For example, do you restore everything from Hetzner, or some random sample?
> How overworked would a doctor need to be to hallucinate you told them about microdosing psillocybin when you never said anything of the sort

From personal experience I can tell you that it does indeed happen. Not specifically micro-dosing psilocybin of course, but of a similar nature, and completely made up. Not sure how it happens.

> WFHers are happy without forcing RTOers to work in the same manner. RTOers are only happy when they force WFHers into the office.

You're completely leaving out that WFHers are forcing the RTOers to work in a completely different (and in my opinion worse) way to accommodate the WFHers.

> WFHers want to be left alone to do their jobs. RTOers need others to be around them to do their job.

Or RTOers want to be able to collaborate with their co-workers while WFHers want to sneak away to do laundry and make it impossible to communicate with them in an efficient manner? I don't need them around just to work, I need them around so that I can have a dialogue with them, instead of sending a message that may or may not be answered this week because I have no idea if they are even "at work". I'm exaggerating, but I hope you were too.

Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:19AM (#49359988)
But they are on different keys on keyboards, annoyingly, leading to one "ÖÆØ" key and one "ÄØÆ" key on Scandinavian keyboards (not to mention the horrible "½§§§½|" key!).
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:30AM (#49359571)
I have no experience with newer IKEA furniture, as my old IKEA furniture seems to last forever.
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:31AM (#49359121)
That fits, because "knorr" is Swedish for a pig's tail!
Re:ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:45AM (#49282865)
Does the Chrome app have access to your local files, like when you're working on a code project?
Re:CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:52AM (#48815185)
I just opened CoMaps. The first thing that happened was that it zoomed out from my previous location in another city, and then zoomed in on my current position.

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