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I guess they've never heard of select-and-drag? Which isn't universal, but is common. And should be universal. I use it frequently. So many one-time-password forms break it in vari…

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This is a fantastic claim. I've been making web pages since the '90s and using web browsers just as long, and I can't think of a single instance of this. Perhaps it existed and I n…

I've thought a little bit about this, and I agree that always on is a big part of the problem. I think if I were the time lord, I'd aim for crippling wireless computer networking. …

I can't answer for Americans for a whole, but I live in the USA and I pay with credit card by default. My personal reasons: * Cards are convenient. No need to go get cash, no chang…

What prevents it is that the web in 2026 is very different than it was when OG pagerank became popular (because it was good). Back then, many pages linked to many other pages. Now …

For one piece of anecdata: I drive a hybrid with a weird size/shape 12V battery. (It uses the traction battery for starting, so only needs a smaller 12V for e.g. accessories and si…

IME the modern web is not amenable to user scripting like it was ~10 years ago. Then, most things were a simple static HTML document, more templated then generated. Now virtually e…

For Greasemonkey proper (which has always only been a Firefox extension) the big pain point was Mozilla's forced migration to new extension APIs (2015: https://blog.mozilla.org/add…

A penny is less than 3% copper (since 1982).

Receiving mail correctly at the address on the label isn't a problem with the post office.

This is an appropriate usage of the word "variant", and applies to anything that can have several varieties.

Sibling already mentions this, but the wording of the article almost directly but not quite says it's "Spy vs. Spy" based. I'm not aware of an official link to document this but ht…

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=restaura... Similar in Google trends, but https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... Much smaller differenc…

For a concrete example: https://www.gentoo.org/support/rsync-mirrors/ Gentoo's package manager most typically updates over rsync.

I discovered this back in 2015 (by the version history) and put together a "one sheet" (two sided) version of the rules. The side with the card effects is especially useful. https:…

With so little context in your question I'll reply with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project I remember using this in the late 90s (maybe early 2000s). A linux distro…

Because this misunderstanding and limitation is so common, BitTorrent has workarounds in place. See https://superuser.com/a/1548724

> 5. America's Test Kitchen - a youtube channel. FWIW It's a TV show (slash media franchise; see: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/ ) that happens to have a YT channel. I primar…

I'm honestly guessing here because I'm not an insider and I don't naturally understand what's going on with this made up word, but I think it's: 1. Name is "coq" which is pronounce…