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What a wave of nostalgia! The Telegarden was incredible! I read about it in a book about interesting places on the internet, which my dad bought for me shortly after we got our fir…

Yes and I believe they do regularly use them on the Russian side, at least. They were also the cause of a fire on Mir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_EO-23

Sweet!

The shocking thing is that it's taken this long to happen, right?

Smart PR move and motivation to read more privacy policies. Looks like they only offer one plan, $99/month, which is pretty steep but must offset what other carriers make selling c…

I'm generally OK with this, but the 24 hour hang time does seem a bit onerous. Most of the apps on my phone are installed from F-Droid. I guess the next time I get a new phone I'll…

Sweet! Looking forward to the android version. I was slightly bitter when apple yanked the website.

I hadn't read that Paul Graham article before, but it was extremely accurate at the time. My degree is in Public Relations and I worked in political PR for a bit before moving to n…

wow

Yes! I keep a basic Casio MS-80s handy for sanity checks and a 30-year-old CFX-9850GB Plus for when things get serious.

Good

Oh, cool! How does this do with the intentionally obfuscated sites?

Don't worry, there's one for you too: https://1mb.club/

I agree with the premise and don't want to knock someone's project. It does seem like a lot of computational effort to achieve what F9 / Reader View does in FF.

https://1kb.club/ Doesn't take much.

All of these items appear to have received the HN hug of death. They're all showing as unavailable for me, who just wanted to drop a friendly lime hello to a friend across town.

I'm not sure if this is a direct quote or a creatively written one but I'm afraid to find out.

Was thinking the same thing. This seems better suited for chatting with arbitrary people nearby, but with zero verification of who you're talking to. You don't have to set up an ac…

I work in a fairly quiet cube office. The nosiest thing is all of the mechanical keyboards (gloriously clicky). The thought of people yammering to their computers in an office envi…

Serious question - do cross-party things like this still happen? It feels like everything is done along party lines now with no room for compromise or working together.

I wonder if they hosted a funeral for Google when Bing launched.

Hunter S Thompson --> David Foster Wallace --> Caity Weaver / Others?

https://archive.is/OF4pe

I wonder if Google actually makes a profit on Pixels, or if the idea is to sell at / below cost and make up for it through advertising the sale of user tracking data from the devic…

Maybe not Signal in the immediate future, but for sure NewPipe, offline MP3 players and many ad blockers.