pwg

40 ms·

721.
by pwg 4y ago
Yes. Either buy a low cost USENET account from a commercial provider, or sign up at http://www.eternal-september.org/ and then use a real USENET client (which will be better for interacting with USENET than the awful inter
722.
by pwg 4y ago
The vast bulk of USENET spam is arriving /from/ google groups. A very effective spam filter is to simply killfile anything with an @google.groups message id. Sadly, that also killfiles the few real posters who use GG, so if one wa
723.
by pwg 4y ago
> Sometimes I wonder when I have to download 3 extensions to minimize windows or when it takes multiple seconds to snap windows FVWM2 here. It comes, out of the box, with the ability to minimize windows (and maximize for that matter), n
724.
by pwg 4y ago
> Can that possibly be true? Reality is, only a court can decide, and that will only possibly happen after some copyright owner sues (mostly likely sues the corporation behind ChatGTP) for copyright infringement, and the case actually go
725.
by pwg 4y ago
Mutt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client) ).
726.
by pwg 4y ago
Not difficult at all, but the counter claim has to come from the owner of the github repo, not just anyone. And we don't know what is in the mind of the repo owner, so we have no idea why no counter has been filed.
727.
by pwg 4y ago
From TFA: > First and most importantly, ads were still being served via the stream; it was just happening via whatever third-party client the user was using. The main difference here is the app being used, and honestly, is that really su
728.
by pwg 4y ago
> Not sure why Github caved - doesn't seem reasonably needed on the face of it... Because the US DMCA gives them little choice otherwise. If they receive a DMCA request that looks real [1], the DMCA leaves little room for the site
729.
by pwg 4y ago
You do realize that downvotes and flags are applied by community members, not HN the service, don't you. Both downvoting and flagging are abilities granted to community members once they achieve some threshold of positive karma. If yo
730.
by pwg 4y ago
> read receipts, typing indicators, etc. — as “Chat features.” Neither of the above are "features". A sender has no need to know when I read a text, and the sender certainly has no need for typing indicators.
731.
by pwg 4y ago
> When is Hacker News going to have an option for a dark mode. Browsers have the alternate name "user agents" for a reason, they are ultimately intended to be working for you, the user. Therefore, simply adjust your "user
732.
Reverse-engineering the interrupt circuitry in the Intel 8086 processor(righto.com)
80 points by pwg 4y ago|8 comments
733.
by pwg 4y ago
> If you less this txt file, your terminal plays a sound Actually, no it does not. My less displays the bell characters as ^G instead of showing them as raw. Whether you hear the bell, or simply see ^G, depends upon how you have less co
734.
by pwg 4y ago
> Does the copyright string have any legal significance at all? It does. At least in the US, if the work contains an explicit copyright announcement then an infringer loses the ability to defend via an "innocent infringement"
735.
by pwg 4y ago
> Cookie banner requirements Note that there is no "cookie banner requirement". What there is in the GDPR is a requirement to obtain consent before placing tracking cookies in a user's browser. The hated cookie banner is
736.
by pwg 4y ago
The thing is, the premise of the article (new owner of domain can serve whatever they like to existing links) also applies even if a shortener is not used. Take this URL from yahoo news that I just picked out at random: https://w
737.
by pwg 4y ago
Doubtful. Back in the day when my 'work computer' was a Pentium (Pentium 200MMX to be exact) playing a MP3 consumed 50% CPU. Note, I no longer remember if mpg123 was using MMX instructions or not. Given how much faster a Pentium
738.
by pwg 4y ago
For the few I have on FF Android, create the bookmarklet as normal, give it a name, and also give it a "keyword" string. Then, when you want to execute a bookmarklet on the current page, pull down to get to the URL bar (if it is h
739.
by pwg 4y ago
> Water vapor is a greenhouse gas and it'd be important to do the math to see how much better it is vs. other alternative fuels. With about 71% of the earth's surface covered by water, which constantly emits water vapor due to
740.
by pwg 4y ago
> Is there a solution to prevent all of these digital system lockouts? No full solution, but one reasonable thing to do is to never ever use the "log in here with X" SSO like logins. Always have separate logins for each servic
741.
by pwg 4y ago
> Problem has past: Around 2000, manufacturers started using GB (10e9) instead of GiB (2e30) that gives them some margin (7%) for chip defects It actually started somewhere around 1995 -- with mechanical disk makers all choosing to adver
742.
by pwg 4y ago
Most likely they produce a flash chip with an actual 16 GiB. But to reliably use that chip in a USB flash drive, the flash controller needs both: 1) some spare blocks to use to replace blocks that fail during usage. 2) some amount of space
743.
by pwg 4y ago
Depends upon what 'project' the project dir is for. As for format, mostly just plain text files, except for where other formats are necessary (i.e., datasheet pdf's for a hardware project dir, etc.). Various sub-directories
744.
by pwg 4y ago
A directory in a projects dir that is in my $HOME dir. Whatever is related to that project goes into that directory.
745.
by pwg 4y ago
From TFA: > Well, EU law requires you to use cookie banners if your website contains cookies that are not required for it to work. Ah, no. EU law requires you obtain consent from users before setting tracking cookies into their browser.
746.
by pwg 4y ago
> YouTube is the only one that's really done a good job Youtube's only done a good job is you use yt-dlp to download the videos. Watching on youtube the video gets interrupted multiple times for "commerical breaks".
747.
by pwg 4y ago
You are looking for sieve [1] or maildrop [2]. But to use them, you have to receive your email at a server where you control the mail delivery agent. Then you can setup rules to automatically sort your emails in any way you like. [1] http
748.
by pwg 4y ago
The canonical Unix method is to use tar in a pipeline to transfer them (assuming none exist at the destination): tar -cf - /source | ssh destination "cd /destination ; tar -xf -" However there are as many different ways
749.
by pwg 4y ago
> So, do normal people not feel like they’re going to throw up literally the entire train ride? No, no issues with the motion at all. And absolutely none of that onboard a cruise ship for me either. > But googling it says 1 in 3 peop
750.
by pwg 4y ago
If you give it a try, it would be interesting to learn the results.

More ›