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The details are quite real, and they make the image far more comprehensible. Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it thro…

You're talking utter nonsense. Get a picture of grass, save it as a JPEG at 15% quality... It still looks like grass. Then run it through jpeg2png... The output looks like a green …

It just blurs out the details. I'd rather have a sharp image with artifacts.

What does bigfoot have to do with conspiracy? Doesn't bigfoot qualify as folklore/urban legend/pseudoscience/hoax/mythology? Is there widespread belief the government is actively c…

That happens, and worse. I've lived in multiple areas that have had their zip code changed. Area codes, too, sometime more than once.

I've implemented it, too, and didn't run into any problems. User inputs the zip code, if there's multiple city matches, they select the correct one from the drop-down (or you auto-…

If you purchased $50 worth of items and got charged $75, wouldn't you dispute it?

According to Dennis Ritchie, the name is an allusion to the DD statement found in IBM's Job Control Language (JCL), where DD is short for data definition https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

You forgot the "sudo" before "tee" > write stdin to a file that doesn't also write it to stdout You mean like "dd of=/path/file" ?

> it didn't take long for ssh to take over the world That doesn't seem to be accurate. Wikipedia says, by the end of "2000 the number of users had grown to 2 million" > everybody w…

Borg is available for download as a standalone binary, easily dropped onto any Linux system even with very limited privs. And in the repos of every distro easily installed and kept…

You'll find something like BorgBackup will be far more efficient than rsync.

Even back in 1996, OpenBSD emphasized security. By 2000 they claimed "Three years without a remote hole in the default install!" at the very top of their website. Qmail was release…

I believe your recollection is off by several years... What you're describing is PuttyGen. According to Wikipedia, the first Putty release was in 1999. Archive.org doesn't have any…

In 1996? OpenBSD and Apache had been around for a year. PGP had been around for several years. HTTPS was used where needed. SecurID tokens were common for organizations that cared …

Work life is quite a lot different for a working-stiff than it is for a CEO. In large part, their company is an extension of themselves. Work whatever hours you want to. Private pl…

> developers of free-ish as in freedom products OWE it, not only to themselves, but their community to be as profitable as possible Wikipedia seems to do just fine without. Commerc…

Doesn't seem to like double-quoted search strings: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data Single-quotes don't seem to work (doesn't chang…

Why should a delivery driver pay the toll for the road to my house, and not me? Why should I be able to exploit flat-rate product pricing like that and skim some money from all cus…

> This is just a general argument against constant prices for everything though. Maybe EVERYTHING shouldn't BE "constant prices". Maybe where there are practical alternatives to co…

> As soon as enough people who are willing to pay the toll saturates capacity you end up with the same issue (“just one more lane bro”). Increase the toll prices to reduce congesti…

> the whole modus operandi for desktop environments is not made with e-ink in mind It used-to be in the DOS and terminal days, and it wouldn't take much to get us back there. Shut …

I call BS. NOBODY ever LIKED to type on T9. Maybe you well-tolerated it. Maybe you got reasonably good at it. But not LIKED. There's a reason text messaging really took over when s…

> Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. Source? Wikipedia article says nobody has a clue who he is/was: http…

I've seen things going the opposite way. It's only recently that an average person could jump on eBay and get assembled low-level electronic module/boards for cheap, and assemble i…