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Note "2021"
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Can't agree more, but my opinion is sentiment-biased. I was a paying customer back when Opera had ads-infested free version (and these were some huge banners on low-resolution screens) and an ads-free paid version. Browser tabs were a
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> I've always found the Macbook Pro keyboards to be "fine," I haven't bought a (non-phone) computer made by Apple since, and due to, the MBP 2017 keyboard fiasco. It was the single most shitty and unusable keyboard I
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Recently discussed and very much relevant: "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429291
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>> If you hate the format of these kinds of article > You mean long-form articles? I think the grandparent meant blabbering to get to 3k words.
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> vetting procedure that regularly checks pension beneficiaries against the death register to prevent ineligible payments. According to the Department for Education (DfE), which oversees Teachers’ Pensions, death register entries may be
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I wonder which mail client the execs were using. If Outlook, their messages would be already harvested by 700+ companies[0] and another leak wouldn't be an issue. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38441710 [0]
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> poorly worded Or intentionally obfuscated "we were hacked".
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Not Linux but I checked out of curiosity and FreeBSD has an archive[0] with ISOs as ancient as 1.0 (released in 1993). [0] http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-relea...
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Saving Linux(cheapskatesguide.org)
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This site's cookies seem to be issued for some 2 months. You can extend cookies' lifetime in Firefox globally and per-site but a cookie can (and in most cases should) be invalidated on the server side.
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Funny that the site tries to load some garbage from googletagmanager.com
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1) I enjoy figuring out how HN works over time by noticing certain patterns. Still haven't figured out (please don't spoil) why I can't downvote certain comments in threads where I see both arrows on other comments. HN feels
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I always have a sense of pride and a feeling of respect for us as a human race when reading about V'ger. It's astonishing that we were able to send a space probe, designed and built to be so robust that it's still doing its t
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> Is there any one individual or group responsible for HashiCorps switch to BSL? IBM, would you choose to trust statements[1] posted from a throwaway account [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579504
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> It's been sitting for eight months at room temperature in a plastic bag, I think we can pretty safely assume it was in bad shape. At some point there were no bacteria which could decompose big fallen trees. More and more fallen tr
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recently discussed w/ 159 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522650
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> The firm says it "will pursue all legal options to protect its customers ..." Wow.
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> takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet Apple, Blackberry...
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> The Kubernetes project currently lacks enough active contributors to adequately respond to all issues and PRs. > This bot triages issues according to the following rules: ... > /close
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> Amazon has been happy to rake in commissions for years from dodgy products sold by third party sellers (...) and then turn around and blame the marketplace sellers when the inevitable happens. They've also been happy with making i
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> I think it was a mistake for Github to name the whole product "Actions" and then re-use the same word for a specific component within system. You're right: - product is called GitHub Actions - your workflow (consisting o
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> It is a common misconception that a DNS TXT record can only contain 255 bytes I got a flashback of a long-ish email exchange with a certain DNS parking provider, related to publishing public 4096bit DKIM keys...
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Why the downvotes? Parent linked the mirror as OP's link returns 502.
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> Ian's post is pretty incisive, although I've read so many of these over the past 15 years or so. And the prescription is always to go back in time. My take from this post is not "go back in time" but "restore
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> Legal troubles? Wouldn't be surprising - these services were basically stealing content from other sites and replacing original ads/tracking/spyware with their own.
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Final log excerpt: > Vacation? I don't need a vacation!
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90% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google/Alphabet which can be loosely translated as "Mitchell Baker's salary is paid in 90% by Google" and "Mitchell Baker (indirectly) works for Google". Mozilla is not
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I don't eat sugar and consider stevia healthier than artificial sweeteners but still processed.
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How does Huel help avoid processed food?

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