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I know it from "Stone walls do not a prison make": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Althea,_from_Prison I find when colloquialisms like this are used it's to make a point, like u…

Can someone explain why Python is included as part of the operating system to begin with?

That's as far as I read before deciding the author had no idea what they were talking about and closed the window.

How exactly does a headphone app have access to your alcohol use and menstruation history? Where is it pulling this data from?

If I remember correctly, the very first time you ran Windows 95 a little animated text box saying "<-- Click Here!" would fly across the taskbar to draw you to it. Coming from Wind…

Are there articles out there about how modern copy protection works? I'm interested in why there aren't Switch flash carts, or why there aren't shady companies with BD-ROM pressers…

I kept reading expecting The Machine to be a metaphor for local economies or something, but no, they want to actually build a Star Trek-style replicator that runs on a trickle of w…

In the last year I've only gotten 2 spam phone calls. So either Google Fi is doing a better job at blocking them than Verizon was, or the scammers that targeted me stick to known n…

I basically protect my phone number like I would my social security number. I was getting 5+ spam calls a day. Ended up changing provider and phone number to get away from them. I …

Was interested in this but from my reading of the docs it looks like it just queries a local instance of Wikipedia? So I couldn't ask "What's the weather today" or "Do I have an ap…

rtorrent has become my go-to torrent client.