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> While the web has always been organized around intermediaries that shape what survives online and who sees it, This statement, from the sixth paragraph of the article, is somethi…

That's an interesting article/study. I've heard this claim before and I've suspected it came from "using phone one the toilet correlates to more time spent on the toilet, and more …

> Every bedroom of a rental is required to have a window in New York. I don't think you meant this as specific as it sounds -- I suspect this requirement applies to coops, condos, …

> I don't want personal care items that have internal batteries at all, because they'll eventually die on me while the device itself (brush heads notwithstanding) is otherwise perf…

Green River, home of the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Green_River_Intergalac... ) (I went to wikipedia to get some general co…

There was Blip Festival in New York, 15 to 20 years ago. As I had family in the area, I went to most of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_Festival After Blip Festival NY sto…

I seem to remember reading somewhere that, even at his worst, Linus limited his toxicity to professional-programmer kernel contributors (i.e. people who were employed by linux dist…

It's interesting that (in one regard) Sony is getting a PR win with the "StudioCanal has done this" narrative. Another perspective: In accordance with the licensing system that Son…

I own a Nintendo Switch, and I've noticed that in the Nintendo store, old games regularly go on sale for in the ballpark of 80% off. Does that happen in the PS store?

I think they're describing a scenario where the cash was stolen by a postal worker or for some other reason didn't make the full trip.

I'm reminded of Chuck disabling a bomb by surfing to a malware-infested webpage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddtpyR6WIlY

I'm guessing when you say "ask frontend developers" you mean "at job interviews". But I like to think you mean something like "at cocktail parties" or other social situations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Netflix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Systems_USA#Anti-union... https://en.wik…

That would be "60 year olds who have been office workers most of their working life" 60-year-olds who worked blue-collar for a significant part of their life, this is not so obviou…

Okay, I'll bite: How many time has that happened? I'm definitely not an avid follower of such things, but I've never heard of that happening. I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen…

sorta piling on here, but it's also worth noting that this problem goes away (and the article is quite readable) in a browser with javascript turned off (and no adblocker).

Is that "reactionaries" in the "we object to certain technology decisions" sense, like the anti-systemd crowd, or in the "software compatible with our political views" like the xli…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_purchase_order The USA (and other countries?) equivalent appears to be "Eminent Domain": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

When I was actively hacking my chromebook, there was tons of advice like this, and 90% of it didn't work on both arm and intel-based chromebooks, and the advice-givers never mentio…

His wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_MacIsaac ) mentions (with citation) a particular kink he has self-reported.

Actually, this is based on my personal experience. I don't use a smartphone for internet. Many of the places where I've tried it, the "free wifi" doesn't work. Maybe the wifi is th…

I think you may be a bit out of date. There was free WiFi in basically every town. Now it's frequently a vestigial, no-longer-maintained free WiFi that works like crap, because the…

If the sibling comment isn't enough detail, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGun

Ah... okay, some quick research says the Apple IPO was in 1980, so he was (at least somewhat) rich in 1982.

The article says that Jobs owned a lamp like this in 1982. Questions that come to mind: Was Steve Jobs rich in 1982? In 1982, was the cost of a "real" Tiffany lamp within the reach…