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by k1t 1y ago
Just seconding a vote for Utopia (2014), and also its (better!) predecessor The Hollowmen (2008).
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by k1t 1y ago
Occasionally you need to try restoring from your backups. Obviously a full restore gives you full confidence, and it goes down from there. Ideally try to restore about 10% of your content every month,but really it depends on how high stakes
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by k1t 1y ago
I think that's the classic US/UK culture split though. US is strict on language and nudity, but comparatively lax on violence (except blood). UK is lax on nudity and language (comparatively), but very strict on violence. UK being
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by k1t 1y ago
2.3 vs 3.2?
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by k1t 1y ago
Smells like AI and completely fails to answer the question. How is the IP address of the DoH server obtained?
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by k1t 1y ago
Thanks - I'll check it out then!
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by k1t 1y ago
What I'd really appreciate is a demo/sandbox version where I can try out the functionality without having to enter anything personal. I appreciate that you have a (generous looking) free tier and various screenshots - but it just
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by k1t 1y ago
I really want Matrix to succeed but it's not there yet, and not really making progress either. It's vastly more complicated than Signal.
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by k1t 1y ago
Unfortunately, while you're right, it has plenty of annoyances, there's no real alternative.
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by k1t 1y ago
Presumably it's just this meeting, filtering down the ranks: So in late May, Stephen Miller, a top White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Cu
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by k1t 1y ago
People generally hate things that try to steal their attention away from the thing they are trying to focus on. It doesn't matter if it's a scrolling marquee, an animated gif, some Flash, a movie, a popup, a cookie banner, etc...
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by k1t 1y ago
I think the article is a bit weird. To commiserate means to empathize with another's suffering, such as the getting dumped by your girlfriend example in the article. But the article launches (literally the first sentence) into "A
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by k1t 1y ago
It's an article about images that have been manipulated (to fool people). Photoshop is such a popular tool for image manipulation that it is a verb "to digitally alter (a photograph or other graphic) using image-editing software
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by k1t 1y ago
The fact that there's two of her.
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by k1t 2y ago
I assume GP was referring to mercaptan, or similar. i.e. Something with a distinctive bad smell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanethiol
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by k1t 2y ago
On 14 March a root certificate (the resource used to prove an add-on was approved by Mozilla) will expire, meaning Firefox users on versions older than 128 (or ESR 115) will not be able to use their add-ons. We want developers to be aware o
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by k1t 2y ago
Nobody said anything about providing a public API. Just provide a DB dump to this one guy.
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by k1t 2y ago
Yes, that's how it's described in this talk transcript: https://asciiwwdc.com/2017/sessions/715 Let’s say for simplification we have three metadata regions that report all the entirety of what the file
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by k1t 2y ago
In 1995 around 1 in 3 US homes had a computer.
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by k1t 2y ago
Dang did say this was on the todo list. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958364 Like others in the thread, the first time I looked at my list of flagged submissions, there were 20+ just random things on there that I h
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by k1t 2y ago
I think that depends on whether or not you consider 'color' to be the correct spelling? :)
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by k1t 2y ago
Personally, I would have, since it refers to the Referer header it seems like it should follow the same spelling. It would be like CSS having a "color" attribute, but then doing something like "default-colour".
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by k1t 2y ago
TV Pickup aka the Half Time Kettle Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
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by k1t 2y ago
If I say "no auto-playing videos" then I mean No Auto-Playing Videos. I don't expect you or my browser to start second guessing that with "oh, but probably it's OK on this site...?" I do recall a Firefox discus
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by k1t 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, no. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_ranks_of_the_United_K... There were ranks of Lieutenant and Detective Lieutenant, but only in Scotland and only until about 1950.
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by k1t 2y ago
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore all Management Decisions shall be made by a computer." - Management, 2 seconds later.
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by k1t 2y ago
The implication is that a lot of that money is wasted on lawyers. From the study: "Since 2013, employers have been forced to pay nearly $10 billion in PAGA court case awards, but because of the class-action nature of many claims and h
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by k1t 2y ago
they named their A.I. language model Claude — which, depending on which employee you ask, was either a nerdy tribute to the 20th-century mathematician Claude Shannon or a friendly, male-gendered name designed to counterbalance the female-g
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by k1t 2y ago
Is this the same Signal that threatened to "absolutely, 100% walk" away from UK if the Online Safety Act "undermined" their privacy? So I guess it didn't, and they'll find a reason why this won't either. A
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by k1t 2y ago
The Evening Standard was a newspaper that was available for free pickup at most London train/tube stations. Many commuters picked up a copy to read on their journey home. I don't think it was ever intended to compete with newspape

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