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by efreak 5y ago
As far as backups for future generations go, I'd hope archive.org has a backup of it all, regardless of whether or not they make it available. I certainly hope they have a program for keeping copyrighted (or otherwise private) data b
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by efreak 5y ago
Steam does emails correctly when it comes to login/registration; your email address is just a contact method for your account, and you can have multiple accounts with the same email address. IMO, the only client-side validation that wo
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by efreak 5y ago
For Android, I actually prefer RedReader with ImgurViewer as an external image viewer. Both are open source apps RedReader: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader and https://play.google.co
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by efreak 5y ago
Sail not a _serial_ murderer though. You'd need a few more people for that.
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by efreak 5y ago
> What if Intel wanted to sandbag existing products to promote new ones? IANAL, but I'd guess that this is maybe similar to Sony removing OtherOS in a firmware update, and that you could sue Intel for it. Or maybe not, since you can
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by efreak 5y ago
Wouldn't plugging in a small appliance (electrical toothbrush, phone charger, alarm clock, etc) be enough to tell you if a socket is live? Why have an extra device unless you need to do actual tests (ie, check what the voltage/cur
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by efreak 5y ago
Tell Voice to send your messages to email, and they'll be searchable from there. Use a query to ensure that you're searching text messages from Voice based on from address or subject. It won't help with searching messages tha
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by efreak 5y ago
Now defeat squat captcha: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/squat-captcha
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by efreak 5y ago
Looking this up led me to some interesting unrelated facts about gif animation: 1. animation isn't technically intended by the gif format [0]: > Although GIF was not designed as an animation medium, its ability to store multiple ima
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by efreak 5y ago
I have considered removing SPF rules on my personal domain, as every time someone spoofs my donation to attack corporate emails, their antivirus will incorrectly bounce them all back, at which point they end up in my inbox due to my catch-a
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by efreak 5y ago
Knowing only the name Eris Free Net, and none of the history, this doesn't mean anything to me. I have no idea if this is a network that's free of Eris, or a free network named after Eris. While I have a vague memory of a server n
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by efreak 5y ago
I stopped buying from Newegg. Firstly when I made two identical orders once (I intended to get two hard drives, only got one, so ordered the second a few hours later when I noticed), they _silently_ deleted one of them with no indication of
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by efreak 5y ago
How is PIA related to any of this?
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by efreak 6y ago
Try winevdm[1] or ntvdmx64[2], which I believe is based on leaked Microsoft source code. I've successfully gotten Tetris running on win10x64, and I'm happy enough with not needing dosbox+win3x for it. 1: https://github.
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by efreak 6y ago
If you're on Android using an app like Materialistic to browser HN, like I am, use a reader-mode-only app like Reedy to open your articles; since it only parses html and doesn't run scripts, it will work on every site that sends t
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by efreak 6y ago
Just a note: it would be nice if the color changing of the shapes at bottom left could be disabled, perhaps by tapping/clicking them. Reading the site on mobile, my eye keeps getting drawn to them, distracting me from what I'm loo
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by efreak 6y ago
This isn't just pixel phones anymore, and it hasn't been for a while. You can also tell that it's not a person sometimes (specifically extended car warranty for me) if you have a cheap phone like mine, because you can hear th
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by efreak 6y ago
If my banks are all willing to use my Google voice number, then any other site should be willing to as well. And yet, most websites that want a phone number won't take it. My GV account is in use for WF, Discover, PayPal, Steam, and it
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by efreak 6y ago
So the old music player isn't still included by default. It should still work just fine on modern android if you install it, and there's plenty of foss media players on fdroid (ie not Google-dependent), most of them thin wrappers
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by efreak 6y ago
Neither do uppercase letterforms. Uppercase individual letters aren't emphasized, that's just grammar, much like Hebrew's final letters that are only used at the end of words (I'm guessing these indicated the ends of wor
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by efreak 6y ago
IIRC, Google sites doesn't actually have static sites.
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by efreak 6y ago
Microsoft removed the file type manager in Vista(?), so it's no longer as simple to change what software opens arbitrary file extensions. You now need to have a file with the extension you want to change the default for, use 'ope
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by efreak 6y ago
＞ Because by their definition, All ads are tracking ads. John Gruber has an ad at daringfireball.net, currently for a company called Simris. IIRC the ad is pure text, not loaded by a script, and does not track you. Other blogs (usually secu
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by efreak 6y ago
I vaguely recall there was some project a while back to get firefox running in the frame buffer. So the xorg dependencies can possibly be removed/replaced. Dbus is probably also not technically required to run firefox. For removing xor
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by efreak 6y ago
Why does nobody else benton the feature that local rss readers can't duplicate: the full history of the entire feed starting the first time it was indexed. Start up Google reader and for most feeds you've got the full history fr
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by efreak 6y ago
My understanding was that was a caching issue and you couldn't actually do anything. Unless maybe I'm thinking of the wrong thing?
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by efreak 6y ago
There's a few books here: https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/27i3y8/are_there_any... Daily science fiction has a few very short stories, including this one: https://dailyscienceficti
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by efreak 6y ago
You might well be undercounting there, according to a 2016 study[0]: > Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on th
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by efreak 6y ago
Some services work in exactly this way; it's like using a magic link to log you into a website in the browser from an app on your phone/computer.
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by efreak 6y ago
How is that a hack?

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