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You know how films and TV show different, fake UIs when a character works on a computer? GUIs and their elements are copyrighted.

Distrowatch.com is a site promoting use of Linux and BSD. "eject" is a Linux command which attempts to safely disconnect removable media. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble…

Around 2015, I authored my résumé in LibreOffice, and I sprinkled in an assortment of bullet points. Some were indented. I used open squares, filled squares, open and filled circle…

For removable media, I believe that finishing up with "eject" would be the safest way to ensure that all writes were committed to the hardware.

Speaking of managing at scale and splitting well: the reverse lookup domain name corresponding to the address 4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab would be b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.4.0.0.0.3.0.0.0.2.0.0…

> Châteauneuf-du-Pape That reads more like "[The] Pope's New Castle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-du-Pape_AOC In fact, Avignon was the site of the Apostolic See a…

Well, the headline promises A Wild Claim!

Couple things here: The GP describes resolver software, which corresponds to item 6.3.3, not a caching server. This does specify the same behavior. In RFC terminology, "MUST" > "SH…

Sending SMS costs $$$, and the gateways are closely-guarded. There are bad actors hammering on logins to elicit SMS codes, and Zelle is charged for the service according to that vo…

"Here's a nickel, kid." http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/eta/doc/dilbert.gif

Brahmic scripts such as devanāgarī, Gurmukhī, and Bengali are noted for joining glyphs with a long horizontal line across the top ( shirorekhā ). However, other examples such as Ta…

Stopping at red lights can add 10-15 minutes to a motorist's cross-town journey. So does the Pythagorean Theorem. What can you do.

No, they use a proxy to a virtual private server. Depending on the nature of the proxy and exit node, it may have a uniquely bad reputation, or is collateral damage from other bad …

The last time I set up DNS at home, I decided to use a fictitious and undelegated subdomain under my ISP's domain name. This structure did not create any "extra" problems in the sh…

The sort of compound words which we're discussing appear by a process of synthesis : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language See also: agglutination https://en.wikipedia.o…

This example was performed on the block-special device, so there is no filesystem. dd uses a default block size of 512 bytes, according to the manual page: calling write(2) directl…

Other currently reserved TLDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Reserved_doma...

We are still working with yes/no questions. While perhaps a landlord may reply with more information, I would phrase them as open-ended: "What can you tell me regarding dog ownersh…

I hosted a friend from Catalonia who was amazed and bewildered by the variety in shelves full of crisps: Chee-Tos, Doritos, Pringles, that sort of thing. And that was in a corner g…

> bend over backwards That is literally a valid movement of the tongue to produce a retroflex [ɭ]. In contrast, Spanish phonology lacks retroflex entirely.

In 1980, Rogue for Unix was a dungeon crawl game that coincidentally used the same keys as vi for navigation. Even today, Nethack and vim are widely revered. Nethack takes vi train…

That currently applies to photos with animals deliberately triggering the shutter. I would hesistate to say "it's established" without more than one precedent in US case law. Howev…

What if the quality and quantity of rewards were linked to the engagement metrics on the selfie posts? Wouldn't that be a better approximation of our current addiction? * More like…