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No! Stop! I've been using SponsorBlock since the last time you posted about it! It's amazing! It works for damn near any YouTube video I wanna watch, it works without any intervent…

> Windows 2000 also served as an alternative to its successor, Windows XP, for several years. XP included some features that were controversial at the time. These included an Inter…

This but unironically. I can get C code from the 70s to compile in GCC but I can't get Windows programs released twenty or so years ago to run in Win10. Open software will always b…

If only the world was rational enough that this would end Fox News's claims of credibility.

There's an interesting article on Paw Patrol by Walt D[1]. It's a bit extreme at points (calling Paw Patrol "everything Trump’s Republican Party is pushing on the United States") b…

I don't really see how master/slave is such a controversial issue in the computing community. The name change doesn't really affect anything either way, so if it makes people feel …

Exactly. > There's something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ just to feed their families while we comfort…

That's unfortunate for the jailbreaking community (as mentioned in the article, 13.5.1 patches out the kernel exploit used by unc0ver to jailbreak). It's a shame Apple has to be so…

It's odd to highlight that Forth is 50 years old, considering C is 48 years old and still in very heavy use in operating systems development.

It's a social thing - and a particularly stupid one. If you're ostracized by your peers for having the "green bubble" you're not gonna have great luck asking for the class notes or…

Complete and utter bullshit. A look at the homepage for William M. Briggs tells you the kind of person he is - it seems every article he's shared repeats obviously incorrect nonsen…

Don't get so ahead of yourself. Even people in relative poverty, in many cases, have new(er) iPhones, and HEIC is default on my SE, the budget iPhone model from 2016. In high schoo…

I wish Microsoft would officially release the source code for Windows 7 or even XP. I use Windows 7 now (with AV and common sense) and although slower it's a marked improvement fro…

In any other world, this would be newsworthy. Even after Donald Trump, this would be newsworthy. But Elon Musk tweeted that we should open the country up in the middle of a pandemi…

I have experience using Wordpress; in sixth grade I tried out the Wordpress editor and felt writing HTML was easier. I admit it's popular with less-savvy users and with companies w…

I've only ever seen userdir URLs hosting static content - ideally, static HTML with lesson plans or a resume or something. Why would anyone host a web application on a userdir? Thi…

Ah, Hacker News, where you get downvoted for making a joke. (to be truthful this comment didn't really add anything, which makes it fair game to downvote, but I still got a bit of …

I finally found an option in Firefox to change things around, but it still only changes the font and not actual foreground/background colors.

If I recall, Netscape or one of the other early browsers used to have an option to change the default font/color of text and the background in its settings. Nowadays you have to us…

The intent is for users to style it themselves.. or it was, until browsers stopped having that functionality.

> (though admittedly I don't spend as much time on it as I should) It's pretty much just a howto and link repository for myself and my friends right now. Still mostly a work in pro…

Hell, I still write the HTML and push it to Github where Github Pages and Cloudflare put it up on the Web for me. I've never seen any reason to use Markup when I can just Mark my t…

I guess it is more aptly called bigotry. I was thinking along the lines of cloneship being a physical property of someone that's inherent to how they're produced (like how a newbor…

Having both pirated GOG games and then later bought the same games because I liked them so much, I can confirm it is easier to pirate games. GOG is DRM-free, which is excellent whe…