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> Video games of yore were actual games you could buy and play with friends. While this is _true_, it's hardly a good-faith interpretation. The original Mario Bros was around $40 o…

In that case you can use the simple Mozilla API (all code in pwsh) irm https://product-details.mozilla.org/1.0/firefox_versions.json Will output a table of latests Firefox versions…

> maintaining a separate, hidden outline of DOM elements mirroring what’s on screen. Is there any analysis on the efficacy of this approach? This is always my first thought in thes…

> I guess it still will be the best browser to download Firefox ```cmd winget install Mozilla.Firefox ``` Should always work out-of-the-box now.

My bank sets the default to "Standard (1-3 Days). Many forget to click the checkbox. I have also heard: "I only do instant when I need it" implying some implicit cost/limit they fe…

While researching Wero initially, I was confused too that no APK is offered. Maybe we can change that.grbn

> How would you even pronounce wero as a native English speaker? Thankfully, only about 2% of the EU population speaks English natively. [0] https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/ebsm/api/p…

Wero is such a valuable asset for Europe and couldn't have come at a better time. It's built on the excellent SEPA system, which standardized bank transfers and "Lastschrift" in Eu…

At face value: yes of course. The relevance of this story does not come from a obvious "wrong" in the support of political value X. Infact Mullvad is clearly politically active, su…

In my experience: Everything™ works, except Google pay unfortunately.

> Crypto where the OS (or a website) can ask the card: "Is the holder of that card over X years old y/n?" and the card would just answer with a binary yes no question without expos…

Like nixOS?

While this would solve the technical problem at hand. It lacks any safeguard against a very simple workaround of sharing your certificate or even posting for everyone to use. Fulll…

Unsurprisingly this is also today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260404.html

How so? Since when is slop-producing ad-machine social media the only access to speech, press and association?

> Why is that problematic? They don't have your private keys and their "level of access" is equivalent to any other certificate authority that your browser trusts. Let's Encrypt co…

> Just like C++ never killed C, despite being perfect replacement for it I think c++ didn't replace C because it is a bad language. It did not offer any improvements on the core ad…

Let's encrypt supports ACME. Here are hundreds of ways to obtain a certificate: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/#other-client-op...

> so that they don't have to do const $=document.getElementById, ``` const window.$ = (q)=>document.querySelector(q); ``` Emulates the behavior much better. This is already set on …

> Actually, for Robotics hardware is a solved problem. I understand the sentiment but this couldn't be further from the truth. There are no robotic hand models that get close to th…

PayPal and Apple pay take a significant cut of the transaction. CC is a lot less and bank is mostly free of TX fees. Most users don't know/don't care, so given the option, they wil…

You can use ReVanced on Android to block the ads in the YouTube app

> Be careful. It is trivial for others to take advantage of such selfless kindness. What harm does is do? Altruistic kindness is not affected by the response. That's the point. Bei…

> Which is why they’re so bad at maths for instance. I don't think LLMs currently are intelligent. But please show a GPT-5 chat where it gets any math problem wrong, that most "int…

Or they could just tell you. Imagine talking to someone over and over again. They would tell u to get on with wherever you promised them.