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Re:Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @12:05AM (#45177264)
Maybe technically impressive but please don't use this on your websites, it looks like shit (the effect in general, not this specific implementation)
Re:Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @08:50PM (#44968022)
Obvious to anyone using the site or aware of is ratings, including the author, but it is good to see some analysis as evidence.
Re:How much do electric car batteries degrade? on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @08:20AM (#44961223)
Please don't do this, you aren't adding anything to the conversation
Our greatest ally.
Re:AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:17PM (#44831984)
I am banned from all Amazon sites and services for turning on 2FA.

I was getting constant fake SMS messages about a failed login attempt, turned on 2FA thinking it was a good idea, 2 minutes later banned completely for 'abuse'. My case will not be heard or reviewed.

What has Ofcom go to do with American Republicans
Yeah, a communist State would never
Re:I saved a PNG image to a bird on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:41PM (#44751831)
The longer compilation videos are because of sleeping viewers. You can cram them with as many ads as you like.
Re:High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++ on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:13PM (#44428473)
If the problem is in the installer then this can't be 'fixed', affected installers should be fingerprinted as malware.
You're probably asleep but the site is down.

>This site was suspended as it reached the limits of the Free plan

>Beeban Kidron

early life check?

The oil painting Death of the Dragon by Evelyn De Morgan
Does the video get stored on your server at any point in the process?

Might be worth calling that out either way.

Mushrooms. You need to leave them gill side up in the sun for a day (behind a window is fine).
Re:CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:54PM (#43428839)
>NetAuthAgent has had a bug for years where you cannot connect to an FTP server if your username contains an `@` symbol.

Basic auth and FTP had a username password schema like

ftp://[email protected] and even

ftp://username:[email protected]

"hacker news"
Re:NIH insiders reveal process stalling grants on Sunday March 02, 2025 @05:13PM (#43235778)
In isolation, I would bet that people from both ends of the political spectrum could read this as about the other and be in complete agreement.
>majority of america is very dumb

This attitude is another reason he won.

The "Here's what showed up" is unnecessary; he bought a container of Chinese electric excavators.
Re:Updates to H-1B on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:31PM (#42458449)
My understand is that it comes down how likely it is that the employee could be bought/blackmailed/corrupted. A person with a drug (or gambling) habit could be blackmailed or might need more money to fuel their addiction, making them susceptible to a foreign power buying their support.

Same reason for homosexuality in the past when it was illegal/scandalous.

Re:Political bias can subvert your rational thinking [video] on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:43AM (#42048882)
Veritasium very often changes the title and thumbnail of their videos shortly after release. Whether it's to squeeze some more views out of a video or because of some metrics they take note of I don't know.
Re:Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @05:49PM (#41240223)
Their scrapers are already being blocked as malicious, same as all the other freeloaders.
People can project politics onto anything, but art does not need to be political.
Ah yes, those famously irrational, illogical and xenophobic farmers. Idiots that they are, they barely keep us with the ability to throw away vast amounts of food while still becoming morbidly obese. Those bumpkins, those peasants, I bet they don't even know what a B-tree is.
Re:Four Months with Ada on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @07:42PM (#40733530)
How did a 404 link get submitted, bot?
You're correct, the page title and URI are correct, someone is editorializing the headline here.

>NCA uncovers corrupt officials who helped wanted criminals to circumvent international Red Notice system

Don't believe your lying wallet.

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