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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:44PM (#17397102)
You can change the universal background color to anything :D that is just a guide

heck, I'm using a black background nowadays, trying to mimic blackboard color ha

Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:08AM (#17371495)
there's an extreme method of doing 'light text on dark background', like my guide below

http://unexistance.blogspot.com/2014/09/of-firefox-solarize....

in which all background & foreground color are of your choice. been using it for 5 years at least

Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:21PM (#16364263)
the relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/1810/
our most probable future :D

but the prices of clothes & dishes needs to keep going down to be feasible... and ideally easy to recycle

Re:A PDP-11 emulator in the browser running Unix V6 on Monday December 25, 2017 @08:46PM (#16006585)

  FALKEN'S MAZE
  BLACK JACK
  GIN RUMMY
  HEARTS
  BRIDGE
  CHECKERS
  CHESS
  POKER
  FIGHTER COMBAT
  GUERRILLA ENGAGEMENT
  DESERT WARFARE
  AIR-TO-GROUND ACTIONS
  THEATERWIDE TACTICAL WARFARE
  THEATERWIDE BIOTOXIC AND CHEMICAL WARFARE
  GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR

  SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Re:Apple's Growing Bet on Hardware on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:20AM (#15977044)
Apple as hardware company is common sense among HN crowd :D
Re:A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet on Monday December 18, 2017 @08:05PM (#15956965)
so, that means going with IPv6 will bring back p2p networking? or do you see it's already too late?

p/s: it's more than relevant, it's eerily accurate in predicting our current situation

Re:REST is the new SOAP on Saturday December 16, 2017 @07:02AM (#15939164)
alternatively, use a bookmarklet to remove floating div... name the such as '1. rm float'

then, it's only alt-B -> 1 away, in Firefox

I have exactly ARPAnet in mind when I said "Or it's just the nature of tools?" :D

I should've worded it better, good natured here means good-intention, in which there will be bad intention that we will probably NEVER see (C&D, military secret, etc...)

In this case, what's stopping the scientists and/or funder from misusing/weaponizing this implant?

p/s: guess I'm biased when it's DARPA, since it's US military complex... but hey, I'm enjoying the Internet :D

I've always thought whenever DARPA funded something sounds good, there's a catch, like "yeah, let's publish the good-natured stuff... " and in this case, "make sure the implants can be used in other part of the brain"

Or am I just delusional? Or it's just the nature of tools?

Re:Firefox 57.0 Released on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @06:14PM (#15700168)
I can relate to this, tho for me it was TiddlyWiki(-legacy), and UnMHT

you can use the ESR[0] release with the extension AND disabling auto-update, and use -no-remote paramater to run multiple instance FF...

So in your case, you can have two instance, one FF running ScrapBook, the other is new-and-shiny FF... I used this setup daily with multiple FF running at my whim, didn't feel clunky

p/s: ScrapBook sounds awesome, I myself did saves PDF version of website, where it still can be indexed/searched properly

[0] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

Re:Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:51PM (#15556224)
some 'update' since EA Spouse and corresponding lawsuits ~10 years ago

http://www.gameqol.org/igda-qol-survey/

those are more to 'reading' source codes to find the functionality you want, but I do get what you mean
Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:57AM (#15423996)
just using Firefox only... Set the color to always use your own colors, then change accordingly

whomever you want to take interest to, will pops up in 'Visited Link' color, the rest just normal URL

obviously works best in less-hyperlink sites like HN, wikipedia quite tolerable

YMMV :D

Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:50PM (#15413889)
fascinating :D

I do have my own system on following/starring PoI in HN, using no extension at all, so I can instantly know who's comment is more useful

no banning though, since valuable nuggets on knowledge can come from anyone

Re:How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf] on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @10:03PM (#15406277)
thought so, it's by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [0], quite active of Facebook :D he got other social account?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

and

I'm reminded by the movie WarGames when the nuke officers (not sure the actual designation) are replaced by relays...

I'm just glad the officer-just-doing-his-job expects systems to fail & trust hsi own judgment, instead of our current ever-increasing trust in machines

Re:The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:31PM (#15188968)
oooh what is this sun font you're talking about? is it available anywhere?
Re:One of the most complex wristwatches ever made on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:33PM (#15113875)
it seems modern smartphone/watch still can't compete with most complications[0]... Or am I not looking hard enough?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication_(horology)

Re:Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:27AM (#15062370)
previous company used it quite extensively, especially if there's a new feature the enterprise software that needs testing by the QA team

we did write the test by hand tho, very DSL-like & really targeted at non-programmer

Re:FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:33PM (#15042769)
man that is one deep hole I've fallen into :D very good reads

NOW I know win7 also phone backs home T_T

Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:19PM (#14975422)
how'd you report to DDG? tried reporting that !gi does not utilizes encrypted.google.com (which I think it should), seems like no dice
Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:17PM (#14975411)
awesome, DDG rocks

just tried !spi and it works as image search :D

Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:13PM (#14975383)
has cnet always been this bad? I mean you need JS to read the thing

and the whole article is on a floating div?

Re:uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:51PM (#14975286)
does not matter, happily 'stuck' using 12.x series :D
Re:Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:24AM (#14853836)
* reads wiki, dissapointed

anyway, favorite quote

They would work side by side. Betty looked up references, took down Claude’s thoughts and, importantly, edited his written work. She offered her improvements and added historical references. As Betty put it, “Some of his early papers and even later papers are in my handwriting...and not in his, which confused people at first.” And not just his papers: Betty was a full partner in the gadgeteering, too. In fact, it was Betty—not Claude—who completed the wiring for Theseus the mouse.

Re:Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:02AM (#14845033)

  https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Re:Tiny Apps on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:17AM (#14750497)
interested 10 years ago, still do to this day :D

great job Miles

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