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The gift card is a scratch off and has a number that is used to fund your Mullvad balance. So Amazon doesn't know which instance of the gift card you ordered, meaning there's no li…

A while ago I did this when on Mac - keeps it compact on a single line. https://gist.github.com/drcharris/0830ff4da063c68b0ceed415d8...

The epub link on that page sends me to an online reader, from which the 'Download' button does precisely nothing. This might be due to all the browser-armour I'm wearing, might be …

I learnt Miranda in my first year of CS at University College London...in 1991. So I think you might be right!

For those interested, Starbucks publishes caffeine content of all their drinks, which makes a nice baseline for comparison. A 'tall' filter coffee, which IIRC is 16oz in the US, is…

Privacy from the vendor , for cloud backups, is barely addressed by most of the cloud storage providers. I find the best solution is to - like many comments here about photo and mu…

Then it's probably regarded as a 'constructive dividend' by the IRS and is liable to tax. https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2017/may/identifying-co...

Credibility claimer: I built risk systems for 3 Tier-1 investment banks in a previous life. I'm not a fixed-income (read: bonds and other interest-rate derived financial instrument…

The trust you have in an app store is because you believe in their processes for auditing apps. But the two do not need to be linked. Google Play Protect, for instance, works just …

In the world of finance, "cash" is often shorthand for "cash or cash equivalents". Instead of the usual layperson interpretation where cash is "a bunch of currency, either physical…

Vivaldi is based on Chromium and allows tabs to be positioned on the side - not Tree Style in terms of hierarchy, but you get the screen-space and usability benefits. https://vival…

Use this CSS #nav-bar-customization-target { padding-left: 65px; }

Full details of caffeine amounts are here for those who are interested. https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/94fbcc2ab1e2435985... Recommended daily caffeine limit is usually …

Link is https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1828378/Video-D...

Again, it's not about the topic. It's not about who else supports it. It's not about the benefits of a product. It's not about Iceland's policy on palm oil, or the virtues thereof.…

From the article: "“The creative submitted to us is linked to another organisation who have not yet been able to demonstrate compliance in this area.” It's a Greenpeace video with …

See today's Android Police artice on the Moshi adapter that just got re-released today. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/09/moshi-type-c-audio-... Comments on that page point …

See the Oppo Find X, or the Vivo Nex, for phones with pop-up cameras that avoid the need for a notch. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/the-oppo-find-x-kill... [2] https:…

Nice little summary here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2349cn0-T0

Here's some criticism. https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-... I hope there's more to Starbucks' plan than this, and that they've got a better lid in the wo…

I think a very effective way is to get much better control over your cookies, when you allow them to be set, under which conditions, on which sites. I use a combination of CookieBr…

The 80 char limit was, IIRC, based around the capabilities of fixed-width terminals and dot-matrix printers. It's not magical. I have the luxury of writing code only for myself, so…

The obvious solution is to add a notch!