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Users unable to log into League of Legends due to an internal SSL certificate that was valid for 10 years expired today, 2026-01-04. Temporary workaround is to set your computer's …

There's still a way to load it under Chrome 138, but when Chrome 139 lands, that's when MV2 will finally be removed. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...…

I still have my copy of Skitch installed, and agree, it is and was the best solution for so many use cases. However, given the fact that it has been abandonware for a long time now…

Very cool. I'd love to know what technique they used to build the dialogs with the simulated chat, with the text animation sequences filling out the "DMARC Results" area -- what do…

Look at techniques such as Dependency Injection, and Feature Flags. Each deployment should only be a different configuration of Feature Flags. Otherwise, you're overcomplicating th…

Back on 2023-09-03, W-Stool asked about printing source code, and I said I do it using GNU enscript, but never followed up with the actual command. (See: https://news.ycombinator.c…

https://portal.office.com/servicestatus > Last refreshed: 2024-01-26 21:04:32Z (UTC) > > Current status: Our failover operation did not provide the anticipated relief to end users …

There are a number of companies out there that pay well above market rates, and are unable to hire enough _sufficiently skilled_ developers. They literally hire every single one th…

> What? b is 2? It should be 4. Or produce an error, or something. But not 2. There's no universe in which that result could be considered correct, it's just wrong. It is correct, …

> These days this is just not possible. Why not? I still format my code to an 80 column width. I can still use `pr` to paginate my source for printing, and use `enscript` to produc…

A specially crafted malicious file when opened by Notepad++ may be able to execute arbitrary code on the victim's computer, without any further interaction, aside from opening the …

All visits to Calendly.com are met with the following boilerplate message: > We respect your personal privacy > > We and our third party partners use cookies and other tracking tec…

> Also, lmao at the guy saying you can create a 1B dollar product in 5 years. If it were that easy everyone would be a billionaire. I never said it was _easy_. I said it was _possi…

Operating my own consulting practice, working on a startup, working with non-profits, and getting to pick and choose what I work on. I've been in the industry since the late 1980s,…

> Should I even try getting a SE job anymore? Based on what you've written, my answer is: no. You don't sound cut out for it. > The market isn't the limitless growth starry-eyed fu…

If Calendly didn't include language in their Terms & Conditions that stated using the Calendly application requires users to give permission to listed third-party services like Hea…

> The distributed model means that a single post from an account with followers on (e.g.) 400 instances means that that’s 400 connections to 400 servers, all at once. If only the k…

Shh, don't tell RedHat that ...

If the packages are of GPL'ed software, then you (anyone) are within your rights to charge a fee to download the software: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DoesTheGPLAl…

It's hard to know if "their code was horribly written" without privileged knowledge about their code, but we can infer some things or at least formulate some reasonable assumptions…

> Most of my roles have been through recommendations which short-circuited the typical tech interviews or was I hired by non-technical people who only cared about the output, so I …