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>extra room That excuse as been thoroughly debunked, since Apple no longer includes a headphone port on iPads either. It was purely a financial move to sell their own wireless head…

Cloudflare has never been anti-censorship. This kind of service fits them like a glove. They're going to love being the moral police.

>a fun nerd term It absolutely isn't. Lots of things have dead man switches, like locomotives and heavy machinery, and they're named as such.

>Not if it is in an airplane. Even less so if it's on the space station. Or on a Mars rover. But we're talking about cars. Something a lot of people like to mend for themselves.

A mechanical switch is easy and cheap to fix or replace. A touch screen is the opposite. It cannot be repaired, only replaced. A switch can usually be cleaned easily, to restore it…

EU probably felt they were justified in their meddling. Meanwhile, we have been eating Danish cinnamon pastries for who knows how long, and by some miracle have not died. And if de…

Significantly less. This feels like somebody setting up a GoFundMe to pay off their credit card debt. They paid their CEO an absurd salary, and now they need more money. That sound…

Try arguing with less snark. Every comment like yours attacks the strawman that the CEO and employees should not get paid. Nobody is saying that. But I'm absolutely not going to do…

If you want to do anything with GPS modules, some fine and talented people have done the hard work of interfacing with, and parsing the output of a lot of different receivers, and …

In 2013, instead of solving real actual problems, the EU were upset that danish cinnamon rolls might have too much cinnamon in them. The ban was avoided by a reclassification of th…

That link is an abomination while also being paywalled. The proper link is this: https://www.ft.com/content/8695c459-effd-4b54-8d96-69d8e614f... ...but also paywalled. This one is …

Unblocked: https://archive.ph/mVxhG

You're right, I don't know what I was thinking with that comment.

Per recent postings on HN about /dev/urandom, wouldn't it fine to use data from that, rather than bothering with AES output. /dev/urandom should be cryptographically safe.

I've gotten a few of these, and I don't really see the point. I got one from my phone company, assuring me that I would not experience interruptions. Well okay then - I wasn't expe…

>"Do not use Facebook to sign in" Aside from being good advice generally, I doubt anyone who's concerned about the violation of privacy Zoom engages in, would have a Facebook accou…

Google is an advertising business. Their software is ad-ware. I'm baffled that people are still surprised when Google acts maliciously.

Blocked in Europe. https://archive.ph/xVj1D

How so? I just looked, and they have both .deb and .rpm packages available. I once spent two-and-a-half hours having two wisdom teeth removed, and afterwards I got an infection in …

>"The preference change will be remotely applied to Firefox 74" No thanks. How do they do this, and how do I stop people from being able to remotely "manage" my Firefox install?

I've been baking for years, because despite all the fancy cuisine that exists (and I do appreciate that too), there's nothing quite like fresh warm bread with a generous layer of b…

I did this just the other day. I left out about 20% of the normal wheat flour, and added some whole wheat flour. You can't substitute it 1:1, so experiment a little until the dough…

>Why does Netflix publish articles on paywalled websites? Maybe nobody there can figure out how to set up a web server? Maybe they get a kickback from Medium subscriptions? So many…

>Where did we go wrong?! I think JavaScript is what started the downward spiral that ruined the web. It's what enabled the shoehorning of the web browser into an application framew…