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by firefax 1y ago
there's also an apng standard that almost noone makes use of despite not being patent uncumbered like gif is and it does a good job compressing more "pixel art" or line drawings in the way gif does. (tends to be a bit less ef
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by firefax 1y ago
Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/ ) is pretty useful and ad free. You can use the !wt bang command on duckduckgo to query it directly. It will bring up English definitions of words in other common languages like German.
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by firefax 1y ago
Your grandpa sounds like a smart guy.
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by firefax 1y ago
>wait you're telling me to develop i need the developer version?! big if true
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by firefax 1y ago
When I feel like it.
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by firefax 1y ago
the original fratire-ist
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by firefax 1y ago
I check the voicemail and return the call when I am making calls.
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by firefax 1y ago
I don't think it's bad for your brain.
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by firefax 1y ago
>Ummm... You don't want to receive calls and texts? not really
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Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the first memes(cbc.ca)
4 points by firefax 1y ago|0 comments
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by firefax 1y ago
>Hampster Dance that's the stuff
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by firefax 1y ago
I'm surprised how few people don't put their phone in airplane mode when not actively making a call.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite funny things from the old internet?
7 points by firefax 1y ago|6 comments
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by firefax 1y ago
This is the phone equivalent of those screens on gas pumps that blare ads. Unlike a gas station, it's much harder to switch phones :/
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by firefax 1y ago
Prominent in funeral rites eh? I'm a fan of goth girls.
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by firefax 1y ago
People sometimes want less "desirable" locations because there's lower cost of living -- raising kids in a home with a yard vs a condo or apartment.
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by firefax 1y ago
As I said in my previous statement, the journalist said that they made their assessment using only things like satellite data and that folks like NSA/CIA might have a different take but it would not be discussed in public due to the na
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by firefax 1y ago
They were saying on NPR this morning that DIA doesn't incorporate all sources (eg: no HUMINT/SIGINT from CIA/NSA). It might be where based on things like satellite photos they cannot draw certain conclusions that are unable t
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by firefax 1y ago
bowl of
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by firefax 1y ago
Jokes aside, at least your examples were formed prior, unlike ISIS the payment system :-) >In November 2010, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon officially announced a joint venture known as Isis, which planned to develop a near-field commun
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by firefax 1y ago
>isis-online.org Heck of a name for a think tank.
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by firefax 1y ago
Apply elsewhere before you get fired IMHO. I had a bad manager. As in verbally and physically aggressive. When I did the "correct" things: formally register my disability (autism) with my employer and file a complaint with HR... t
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by firefax 1y ago
it's hard to stay anonymous and say anything of substance, doubly so when you start linking handles
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by firefax 1y ago
Do you drink alcohol? I once felt this way, and as COVID fell I decided to abstain. Suddenly, I was open to trying healthier foods, I'd go on long walks, I shed about 50lb and learned a lot of things I'd struggled with back when I
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When Tyranny Takes Hold (2016)(newyorker.com)
3 points by firefax 1y ago|0 comments
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by firefax 1y ago
Is "PET" the "Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium"?[0] Looks like it became a "symposium" in 2008[1] if we're discussing the same thing. The one PETS I went to, Dan wasn't at, but Caspar Bowden j
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by firefax 1y ago
>The ninja party was not even great. I believe you. By the time I was cool enough to have my pick of parties, I ended up having a massive panic attack during the crowd crush at the bar at some Rapid7 event and ending up pissing off the p
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by firefax 1y ago
Focus less on those who helped you, and more on helping others. The first time I went to Defcon, I felt lonely and lost -- it was the first year they had those cool electronic badges, and at the time they were only given out as entrance tok
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by firefax 1y ago
I haven't been able to access my gmail in years -- iOS apparently doesn't back up TOTP generators when you back up your iphone, and the so called "recovery codes" did not work. (I even went into an encrypted volume to ch
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by firefax 1y ago
My head canon is that Gregor was a source for the CIA who got lucky the USSR collapsed.

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