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Thanks for answering the one thing I wanted to know about this. It wasn't at all obvious to me how this might be possible using DNS only. I guess it will work for some sites, but i…

Relevant previous topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120186 "Test your adblocker" websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem (brave.com)

Honestly, I think what TFA calls "Kagi’s implementation of Privacy Pass" is the integration of the feature into their server and clients, not the RFC (which they acknowledge), or t…

Exactly this. As a British English speaker that works a lot with the US it was an early learning. In British English a "scheme" has no negative connotations. It's commonly used in …

Not the OP, but I am opposed to the forced use of 2FA by GitHub for three reasons: 1) They are my repos. I should get to decide the appropriate level of security. 2) 2FA is often u…

[2012] based on the copyright. Note the disclaimer: "This course has not yet been updated to work with the Raspberry Pi models B+ and A+. Some elements may not work, in particular …

The 3A fuse is due to the way the UK wiring system works rather than what is optimal for this device. All appliances in the UK have a fuse where they connect to the building wiring…

Yes, the REM is the lookup table used in line 70. Because BBC Basic had a built-in assembler it was pretty uncommon for BBC programs to inline machine code as raw data (unlike some…

It is software-related, but also physical: pong with the bats moved by exercise bikes: http://lushprojects.com/cyclepong2/ It's been around more than 15 years in various forms now,…

4'17 mostly because I was laughing so hard. The captcha with the hononyms and the selection boxes where you don't expect them is genius.

I posted that rather quickly, so a bit more information for those who are interested (inspired by some of the comments on the thread). I found Paul's sim by chance and really liked…

Yes, Paul did the original as a Java Applet. I did the port to run in the x-compile to allow it to run in the browser. After that we cooperated on it for a while. I stepped back a …

And other home computer museums in Cambridge, Leicester, Derby, RMC (near Gloucester) to name a few.

I've contributed quite a lot to Paul's simulator, including doing the port so it runs natively in the browser. The photoresistor is just controlled by the slider in the side-bar. I…

I did the port of Paul's sim so that it runs natively in the browser instead of needing a Java plug-in (remember them) and made various other contributions. I haven't contributed f…

... and (2004) should be in the title...

Thanks for the tip which I will try. I agree with the OP and parent, IG used to be an enjoyable experience if you were careful about who you follow, but it seems that it's now in t…

It is more subtle that that. Patent holders who contributed to the 3G/4G/5G standards agree to make their standards essential patents available under FRAND terms. However, this doe…

As a classic MacOS developer back in the day, "publish and subscribe" doesn't mean what you probably think it does. It isn't like "publish and subscribe" in Javascript or similar. …

In reddit /r/piano there are a lot of similar questions, and as someone learning piano in their 50s is always amuses me. I self-tought to about an ABRSM grade 1 level before gettin…