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I've got a coin that answers questions. You have to give it a heads or tails query, then flip the coin, and it returns an answer. It's incredible. Now, it doesn't get the right ans…

Pacman can escape more easily now that there's only one ghost.

It's illegal for us to steal from you, so we won't invite you inside.

The problem with anyone using my face to identify me is that it's hard for me to leave home without it.

I've noticed that the apple news ads target sensitive issues. The retirement one is a good example of that. I've seen ads that appear to already know my financial status and health…

I did, I don't want the hassle of anything being blocked, and I don't want to upload identity details as they have the potential for misuse. I notice that some tech companies claim…

This is a good moment to try to take Microsoft customers, as they're putting a lot of machines out of support.

The interfaces look like they wanted to be graphical, as they have windows and drop down menus, and they wanted to have multi-tasking, as they implemented the overlay tools in Borl…

The world-wide-web is becoming more and more only-your-country-web.

I noticed that some of his choices contributed to his problem. I haven't been forced into accepting AI (so far) while I've been using duckduckgo for search, libreoffice, protonmail…

I've always wondered if the burning batteries and electronics in the drones have any significant environmental impact when compared to conventional weapons.

Any self respecting alien would send the signal every 42 minutes.

I think it worked as defined, it hogged the POST requests?

I think I heard that moving from 99.99% unavailability to 99.999% unavailability costs ten times more.

Do we lack a captcha here?

On the website there is a demo, when you spin the wheel, it scrolls a screen on the right. The demo may be blocked by an adblocker.

I tried a similar phone app years ago but it crashed almost every day, which made it impractical. I'm not sure why it should work now as phones aren't designed to run continuously …

I bind mine to virtual desktops, but I have the same applications on each desktop all time, so the workflow is quite similar.

That looks really cool. I'd need more help for the next steps - a game loop that runs the game at a consistent speed on different processors, and a sound library.

I like gnome: it works, its easy to use, it looks pretty, it's free, and it doesn't feel like it's being run by a corporation that wants to control what I do. Sure there's some des…

It is valuable, you can tell because companies like Google and Facebook have no intention to automatically forget old data, instead they are intent on keeping it forever. I expect …

One thing to think is that new ways to use data will be created in the future. Some companies (e.g. Google) by default will capture multi-gigabyte decades-long records of informati…

I don't know the answer, but here's some of my thoughts: Identify the things you can help with, and the things you can't. Reserve your energy for the best opportunities to make a d…