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Background music is awesome

The US Navy's WW II floating drydocks in the Pacific were wild - whole battleships and aircraft carriers lifted up, fixed, and sent back out. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world…

Loved loved loved that show, a definite must-watch for a young nerd back in the late 80s. Thanks Stewart.

I've been grabbing macOS builds of Chromium from the Playwright project ( https://playwright.dev ) The download URL follows this template https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/ch…

I got curious as what happened to the other 4. Wikipedia lists them as extrusion presses being scrapped in the 90's and 2021 in Maryland and Torrence CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Yeah, I was just doing this last week with an old HP Elitedesk 800 G2. This Youtube really helped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhq0bsWJEOw And there's more here: https://www.me…

I think you're right about the first part...a passkey being tied to a single account on a single site. But not the second: on Github for example you can have multiple passkeys for …

Try "The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYdAT0v4DHs (Scott Manley) https://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/2nwj2-03.pdf

Yes, absolutely this for the content-side. Especially in the tech world, it would make sense for r/php to be hosted and run by the offical php.net guys, r/laravel by the laravel.co…

I thing orgs like that already exist, see: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/ and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rip-medical-debt-forgiving-medi...

Yes, the have datacenters in Virginia and Oregon - seems to just be AMD servers though (no Intel or ARM). Been using a couple VPSes in Oregon, pretty happy with them.

I had a huge amount of fun back in those days messing with QuakeWorld and Quake2, learned a ton of stuff. One project was embedding a Python2 interpeter in QuakeWorld, along with a…

That'd be tedious and error-prone if had schemas with maybe dozens of tables. Now you've also got dozens of views to manage and keep in sync with the underlying tables. I work with…

I was looking at the Github repos for Sonic, and a PHP library for working with it: https://github.com/ppshobi/psonic/blob/master/api-docs.md and I'm scratching my head over: what'…

I always liked the way he formatted his C code - opening and closing braces on indented on line by themselves, the code inside the braces indented the same amount. Appealed to my P…

Hah, the location of my house is interesting - that'll be fun asking for a pizza or a fire truck sent to "corrosive filth ....."

> (1) Why would the state residents vote for a state legislature that takes away human rights from them? A lot of voters wouldn't have a problem if they're going to take rights awa…

Running CGI scripts.

Yes, I'd like to see 3 images: A) the original image before it was downscaled to 64x64, B) the 64x64 input to the upscaler, and C) the final upscaled image. So we can compare A and…

Ah! I had that game as a kid, loved it! The actual paddle buttons on the side made it much better than a 2600 for that type of game. Don't remember what happened to it - maybe it d…

Burgum's not a typical pol when it comes to IT stuff, he was the CEO of Great Plains Software which Microsoft bought for $1.1 Billion, was then Senior Vice President of Microsoft B…

I’ve been able to send to gmail and iCloud ok, but outlook/office365/hotmail has been a no-go, even after going though their self-service system to open up your IP address.

I’m pretty sure every site I’ve setup to do TOTP only allowed one authenticator. I got burned using Google Authenticator when I had to replace my phone, because there was no way to…

PayPal? All I've ever seen in there is TOTP and SMS

"... between five and 10 minutes to set up and connect ..." I took that to mean unboxing, hooking up cables, etc - not just link establishment