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I once signed up to a service (privately run VPN thing) run by a university club that required confirming a real university student email address without having such an address. So…

Meta-warning; I'm more into the juxtapositions of interactions between idiots vs experts, specialists vs generalists, startup-billionaire vs unemployed-drug-addict-hacker, and the …

How did you do this? Is the process repeatable?

Is there a list of devices anywhere for which this doesn't work? It's worked in anything I've tried (haven't tried latest iphones) with only a momentary power switch on it. I was u…

It's one additional resistor, I think. The first lot of raspberry pi 4s had that same problem, and I've seen it in other hardware that uses type-c to charge.

Cosmic rays can come from any angle, and even pass through the entire earth without impacting anything. (millions of them are zipping through you and your RAM, right now! electrons…

Are there any details on who's providing this app, who's running the site, and what they'll do with collected data? The ToS and privacy policy are identical, and only refer to an a…

Here's one that's Firefox exclusive, and still seems to work: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... It's something I've used on a few sites, and it's a sh…

I don't think my original comment was clear about how I view the ToS as a hammer Apple made for themselves to wield. Not for the good of anyone, but apple. Their goal here being to…

Using a blowtorch as a heat-source is common in extreme overclocking, to heat up VRMs and memory modules up enough to boot the machine, and keep it working. liquid helium might get…

Apple's iOS ToS specifically forbids downloading and executing code by the app. (with a definition of "code", and "execute" somewhere in the document) While you could technically h…

> I'm more drawn to the fact that the American government can greenlight this, even though it has global implications. They only need to greenlight the launch, and radio-transmissi…

Does npm or whatever package manager is in vogue not have a hack to make a "package" out of a URL pointing to some javascript? (even if someone has to write some automation to pack…

Key points, ripped straight from the website; * Exxon Mobil’s been in the Dow in some form since 1928, but its tenure as the longest-serving component is coming to an end. * On Mon…

You could probably get alright performance running in the browser using webassembly. No idea if anyone's working on anything like that.

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> * Having a relatively big number of tabs (~600 in multiple tab groups) I have found this extension[0] useful, for saving my machine when I leave too many tabs open. Just make sur…

Thankfully, they saw this coming, so wikipedia's licensing allows you to re-host the entire site. Useful if they ever turn crooked. Stack overflow has the same sort of setup, for t…

The keyword here is "linking exception". It is a hack to sidestep the licensing problems caused by dynamic linking. e.g. If I encase gcc in java, and release gcc.class under GPL3+,…

Is there any way to get a GPL-compatible version of Sciter? I couldn't tell, just from glancing at the website/github.

Last I checked, 888 still works on satellite, and most digital TV. Nothing there, but a page 100 telling you that there's no teletext, but page 888 still has subtitles on it.

I found it more tolerable running it at 50% resolution. Still horrible though.

> And this is how backwards compatibility comes to kill innovation. With all of the novel and esoteric programming languages that exist, I wonder why hasn't there been a "I can't b…

I'm still not following why it'd require so much data? I thought the goal was to have the commit hash collide with an existing commit hash, is that not enough? I looked around, and…

Why would it require that much data? I always thought you wouldn't need to add or change more bytes than are in the output. Also, git hashes aren't just based on source code. You c…