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Re:Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993) on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:37AM (#48370850)
Respected the process for getting on Fidonet. You had to figure it out, configure it properly and prove you were ready to go before you got a node number. No hand holding. Frontdoor and national mail hour.
Re:AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against that ar... on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:53AM (#47646207)
Murphy Campbell https://www.youtube.com/@murphydoesntmatter
Re:YouTube Is Down on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:45PM (#47056028)
It appears to only be related to the front page. Other pages load fine going directly to the URL.
Re:New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:49PM (#39646284)
Lingo seems like Wordle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0kie6dPjo

Maybe the copyright is on the colors on the game field?

Re:Running CP/M on the C128 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:09AM (#39602839)
I was unfamiliar with that model. UNIX machine. Here is more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_900

Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:09AM (#39469176)
Yes, it does. Family member in the medical field is experiencing issues.
Re:Radio station baffled after 200-foot radio tower disappears without... on Saturday February 10, 2024 @10:33AM (#39326843)
How do you know?
Re:CBC cancels New Year's Eve broadcast special due to 'financial pres... on Saturday December 30, 2023 @08:43AM (#38815197)
Unsure, but Google paid.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/google-online-news-act-1.70...

Additional Notification of 23andMe DNA Relatives Security Breach

Posted by pgrote on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:43PM
from the self-post dept.

We are following up on an email that we sent earlier this month regarding our ongoing security investigation. We learned that certain profile information – which a customer creates and chooses to share with their genetic relatives in the DNA Relatives feature – was accessed from individual 23andMe.com accounts without the account users’ authorization. While our investigation is ongoing, we...

( Read More... | 1 comment | 5 points | on HN )
Re:The Terrifying Possibility of Accidental Nuclear War on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:31AM (#37235568)
>because we had thermonuclear warheads and there was no point - and they told us that!

Agreed. No duck and cover. The transition was from "hey do these things to survive" to "hope you are in the blast radius".

Re:Journalists should be skeptical of all sources – including scientists on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:11PM (#36819835)
Sort of tossing the baby out with the bath water.

If anyone posited alternate origins except what was the accepted leading thought of the time, they were ostracized across many segments of society. It became one of the things you couldn't discuss publicly.

Many topics became like this during covid including your mention of school closures. Weird time.

Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:26PM (#36525508)
>Very often a headline is all someone needs or wants. That has value. Without anyone clicking through to the web site, Google is getting the value from the headline, and contributing nothing to the web site in return.

So the solution Google is proposing works out for everyone. Canadian news sites can ensure people go to their site for headlines and Google can no longer show information for those sites. The Canadian news sites should see increased revenue in terms of subscriptions and advertisements.

Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely on Thursday June 15, 2023 @11:55AM (#36342356)
When do replacement subreddits start forming? /r/picsnew or something.
Re:Reddit Blackout Tracker on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:24AM (#36293016)
I think that is the response to someone trying to refresh quickly. Happened to me after receiving errors.

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