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Interesting. I wonder if in 100 years time Stephenson's fountain pen writing will still be around. No doubt they are all scanned, but, maybe the originals will fade. I saw another …

I've always love stationery. Over the years I've looked up pen reviews and tried out many different types including fountain pens. I watched a video recently from someone, from mem…

Kind of loosely related to the article. Many years ago someone uploaded to youtube an old video of Neil Young going into a record store and finding a bootleg vinyl of one of his co…

not the first instance. This was 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUBXN2Fd_E&t=19s A dude in the usa was arrested in a casino by police because the casino's facial recognition…

The neo might be the start of the end of traditional home PCs. You buy a thin client and a monthly subscription and all of your files and compute is in the cloud. Want to edit some…

Doesn't the word "coincidental" imply Vince Gilligan is OK with the anti AI take? He's not denying it's there, he's saying it's not intentional, it's coincidental. I agree with "ar…

In australia, big corp donate a few thousand and give cushy "advisory role" jobs to politicians after they leave office in exchange for contracts to build, own and run private toll…

i don't know if braking performance is the main reason for disk brakes. I suspect the biggest benefit is bike makers get to sell new bikes to people who don't need new bikes. For p…

I don't know if this is a big factor, but, kids for the last 10 years have had access to really good training techniques for free via youtube. Every kid has the opportunity to use …

This brings back memories of Regium. A kickstarter scam 5 years ago that used realistic 3d animation videos of an automated chessboard to trick people out of their cash. chess.com …

> The only X factor here is the impact of the client lieing about its latency to the server, perhaps that could have an impact, not sure. on lichess it does have an impact. lichess…

I'm also not a lawyer, pleased to meet you. > I sort of directionally think that if WPE had a strong case here, their opening bid wouldn't be a C&D I believe, as a non lawyer, in s…

years ago I did the same, I vaguely remember following a blog post to do it. I put the scripts on github and some people found it useful. There's a deb package now that does it cal…

I've been playing on lichess for about 10-15 years, started playing when I was over 30. I probably average one 5+0 game a day. I don't play in tournaments. Usually one game for a b…

this works for me env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS firefox this doesn't, it gives me the "Firefox is already running, but is not respondin…

It was in traffic control, there are different types of traffic control work, one type is lane closures which I did maybe 10% of the time. Another type is on large construction sit…

I like IT, but I needed a break from it, I needed to refresh, I was always planning on going back.

I've had a few career breaks from IT. One time was a job in the construction industry for 6 months. It was the happiest I'd ever been. I went from struggling to get to sleep, strug…

years ago when I left the building my doctor is in, in a street full of doctor's practices, google asked me to rate my doctor using his full name. the building has many floors and …

Blocking class action for arbitration is a double-edged sword for companies. I can't remember what article I read ages ago, not this one, but this one seems to say the same thing f…

cheers. I read somewhere warrant canaries had been outlawed and I just qwanted, it was in my country, australia. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_out... we …

doesn't the usa have secret searches a company can't acknowledge? then canaries came about and I can't remember if they were outlawed in the usa. I assume everyone is watching. I'm…

I vaguely remember years ago reading something about google saying they won't scan gmail because they might unwittingly break some law that is meant to protects kids on the interne…

are you unique? https://www.amiunique.org/fp I am.I wonder if there's a plugin to change values to the most common ones, or change them randomly everyday.