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Yeah, the way that this case is being reported on is really irritating. While he technically did use a special GrapheneOS feature to wipe his phone, the criminal charges would have…

Similarly, "Orlando" returns a bunch of results but "Orlando FL" returns none. It would also be nice if it suggested results before you finished typing. For example, if I've typed …

Feature suggestion: A filter to search for castles of a specific size (e.g. over 20 acres)

The average age of Congressmen has increased, but much of that can be attributed to modern medicine and gerrymandering and the incumbent effect letting existing Congressmen stay in…

Synonym functionality is good as long as there's an easy way to disable it, either globally or by wrapping the term in quotes.

One of HN's quirks, for better or worse, is that the lack of ability to downvote submissions encourages "controversial" content to rise to the top. On Reddit, if 500 people like a …

California has a similar issue where all beaches are legally supposed to be public, but owners of beachfront properties often have different ideas... https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/…

In my experience, liberal use of CDATA is often the only way to get third-party data-importing software to work correctly. Whether it's efficient is a far second to whether it succ…

I haven't tried using it with my phone, but this Arteck one has served me well on my desktop PC. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WDJNBT1

Huh, the more you know. I've seen Richard Garfield's name mentioned a bunch over the years, but somehow I've never seen this fact brought up before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R…

> What is fun? > Here is a list of things that make a game of Magic The Gathering fun to us. > No Discard. It sucks to have no spells to play. > No Land destruction. It sucks to be…

But ChatGPT has been popular since early 2023, and even before it there was no shortage of low-quality content on the web. If anything, this model being trained up to 2025 is a pos…

While we're mildly on the topic, one of my favorite old Flash games was the Nick.com trading card game. It wasn't really a game in the TCG sense, but more of a collecting/bartering…

Can confirm. The main reason why I don't sell stuff on eBay more is because of the high shipping costs and frequent scams. Facebook Markerplace has issues of its own, but if you ag…

Personally I just increase the specificity as needed. .thing .thing-container .thing html body .thing-container .thing.thing.thing.thing

The best analogy that I can think of is cruise control on a car. Do you need it? No. Is it nice to have? Yes. The strict "no tech" premise of these tractors feels comparable to som…

The premium plugins are arguably even worse. Unlike the free plugins, they're not reviewed by the WordPress.org team, and if you stop paying for them then you'll lose access to the…

Gmail's spam detection has some real headscratcher moments every now and then. Some days it'll mark legitimate transaction emails from major companies as spam even if you've been r…

The real embarrassment is how little effort there's been to limit/reform the pardon system since then. Pardons have valid uses, but it's wild that a single person can unilaterally …

Fast Food Tycoon 2 (AKA Pizza Connection 2) was absolutely amazing. I spent so many hours customizing my pizzas and filling up the competing pizzerias with cockroaches and woodworm…

Oh no, here we go again https://youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU

If you want your brand new phone to be filled with adware apps and obnoxious default settings, sure.