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Re:Ploopy open source thumb trackball on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:09AM (#31778418)
Actually, it seems identical to the Microsoft Trackball Optical Mouse (D67-0001): https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-90432262887525/microsoft-trackb...

I loved that trackball!

Re:One Commander – a new Windows 10 file browser on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:31AM (#26610232)
There's a "Force enable zoom" in Settings > Accessibility too for Chrome (in Android at least).
Re:Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:17PM (#19487697)
Just guessing here but probably Backblaze b2? It has a similar pricing.
They usually are behind a closed booth, at least in Spain.
Re:500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:11PM (#16802433)
Clients usually have some public, harcoded nodes to bootstrap the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301
Re:Stripe Billing on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:14AM (#16771757)
Paddle.com is one gateway that offers this.
Re:How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:37AM (#15548231)
I know it's my fault and probably obvious but that site doesn't load on Chrome if you have disabled third-party cookies. You might want to show an informative message instead of an infinite spinner :(

https://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guideline...

What a coincidence. Just this week I got a used FX160 for 15 € and right now it's working as a home file server, router, wireless AP and general P2P downloader.

It seems to be running fine even inside of a closed cupboard, the CPU is at 31ºC and using about 16-17 watts on average. It's warm to the touch but it might be the apparently good thermal design of the case which allows for fully passive cooling.

What I don't like is that (at least judging by the heat it generates) most of the power consumption seems to be originated in the video chip, which in a headless server is useless. I tried to disable but didn't have any luck (it's a SiS 771/671 chip).

Re:Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:37AM (#14146335)
You would have to go through a EU bank who would act as a middleman. There are many of them that have zero fees so it would be practically like if you were investing directly with Vanguard.
Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising on Friday March 10, 2017 @05:45AM (#13837676)
This seems to be in all editions of Windows 10, even the Enterprise ones.
Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @08:19AM (#13597954)
You seem to have some loop there with the real Uber support? https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/bmazjsnh/

And in one case the spammer was aware of your site! https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/gywanvsb/

Maybe you can hide from Google with the appropiate robots.txt so the last one doesn't happen.

Re:Building a more power-efficient browser on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:27AM (#11945148)
Apparently Windows 10 likes to use idle time to test the memory:

http://superuser.com/questions/635837/high-cpu-load-from-sys...

In my desktop it was causing it to rev up the fan when it was idle for a few minutes.

I miss the search feature in Windows XP too. But Agent Ransack is a very good replacement and it even integrates with the file explorer. Try it!
Re:Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times? on Friday November 20, 2015 @01:18PM (#10602805)
We could discuss the technical side, sure. Maybe they can cache the list or create better code to do it more optimally. There might be battery and data usage considerations too, that's true.

But this article revolves around the trope of "if it's free you're the product", and altough it might be true, I don't think the 23k thing is a proof of it. That's what I meant with my comment.

Re:Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times? on Friday November 20, 2015 @01:09PM (#10602737)
This seems a bit clickbaity to me. WhatsApp works directly on your contacts, there isn't a remote roster like Facebook Messenger or Telegram.

So if any app were to access my contacts 23k times, I'd say WhatsApp is the one app which could justify that.

I think it might be considered linkbait, and that's discouraged in the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Flash 0day from Hacking Team on Monday July 06, 2015 @07:51PM (#9842845)
The documentation says it works in OSX too.
Re:Google Maps Pacman on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @12:06PM (#9297372)
I guess it's because in Australia it has been April 1st for 3 hours already.
Similar, but with memcached (2010): http://www.sensepost.com/blog/4873.html

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