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Let's just say that if it wasn't for RSS, I wouldn't have seen this page.

When I opened it with ImageMagick it appears to be a transparent PNG. Very clever trick, as it seems to use Twitters black background when viewing an image to achieve the effect.

Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work.

I also hear they want to start doing binary blobs and ditch their open source drivers. Yay!

The way the GitHub page is set up is weird. Basically two different plugins are hosted on one repo. The root tree you linked to has the original client required plugin. Go under "S…

You could ask Eion about making his SkypeWeb Pidgin plugin for Adium, or look into it yourself. Here's the plugin I'm talking about by the way: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pi…

"third-party Skype client (e.g. to have support in Pidgin)" Funny because recently the old Skype plugin for Pidgin was re-written to utilize the new HTTP Skype. So now you have a n…

Quaddicted is a great site ran by a great Quake archivist/enthusiast (Spirit). He's helped keep back ups of Quake mods and maps and even written a java application to download and …

Doesn't seem to me that all of them removed...

Nice to see this, hopefully we'll get some more involved features like notification support and group chat. Still sad that Facebook never utilized XMPP chat to its fullest.

The "Slip and Slide" bit give me a good laugh. Interesting article, makes me curious about what exploits I have on my own site.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643678

Could you or someone provide a screenshot? I can't get the website to load.

I've heard about how SF has been some financial trouble, but isn't all this adware nonsense just going to hurt them more in the end? Surely some crowdfunding option could've been m…

I don't think "assess" is the word you meant to write haha.