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I was curious about this, so for anyone else who’s interested, here’s a KrebsOnSecurity article from 2019 about how easy it was to fraudulently register a .gov domain: https://kreb…

Tangent: this link looks like a right-wing propaganda site; I wouldn’t trust any information there without verifying it with trusted sources. > Thanks to the President’s decisive l…

https://archive.ph/2025.10.20-102309/https://www.wired.com/s...

Good gravy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4wh-Pbxgok

> (Just be careful, if your regular expression matcher uses backtracking, you might get pathological behaviour. Though memoisation makes that less likely to hit by accident in prac…

I've been seeing an increase in notifications from various service providers about changes to their terms of use, often including the addition of mandatory arbitration clauses for …

Can’t recommend highly enough: https://www.howacarworks.com/

Nerdwallet[1] is an excellent resource for comparing credit card options. My recommendation would be to get only no-annual-fee cards, and to get one with purchase protection benefi…

I feel like I’m missing something, so perhaps there’s an aspect of corporate taxes here that I don’t understand. I would expect a write-off like this to reduce the assets of the fi…

FYI, you can rent the press tools reasonably cheaply if you’re not a plumber by trade. I rented one for $80 for a plumbing project a few years back and it was worth every penny. A …

Whoa, take it easy, Cookie Monster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9PenLqJyHU

https://archive.is/YDHkv

By default, curl interprets braces and square brackets to expand into multiple URLs (similarly to bash and other shells). You can disable this, and use literal braces & brackets in…

https://archive.is/Bhs8E

Ours was almost completely unreachable for about 20 minutes, and is now mostly back online, except that ~10% of requests hang for ~5-15 seconds before being fulfilled. (This time i…

It's down again, for at least the past half hour. I submitted a support ticket at 15:56 UTC, haven't gotten a response, and as usual, they only updated the status page to indicate …

> Had he not become the most famous turncoat in U.S. history, his remains might have been interred in a grand or historically meaningful tomb, visited by thousands every year. Arno…

OK but did anyone saw a boat in half to prove the power of these adhesive tapes?

Reminds me of this classic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QyNgrZX9Nzc

It’s the T-1000 of corporations. http://www.phonenews.com/images/2007/1/colbert-report-roasts...

Incident here, but no details: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2218 API is back up now although dashboard login is still not working.