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The money quote, after several pages of did-you-try-submitting-a-ticket and no-the-other-ticket-system-via-the-help-pages: > Sorry for the inconvenience here, currently we do not h…

Thank you, all great ideas!

Though I've never served in armed forces, nor participated in armed conflict, I think C&C does a pretty good approximation of being an (overwhelmed) officer in command of a small a…

What can one individual do to reduce their own contribution and complicity to this pattern?

Surely, you mean IRC, the IETF-standardized open unencumbered simple protocol with hundreds of established libraries and clients...

Does anyone else see a blue background on this page?

This is great, thanks for sharing! The web is amazing in its level of backwards compatibility, in that you can make a website compatible with all of these browsers from the 90s tod…

This is how it seems to me too. I still have their hardware I got years ago and it works great, but it's been a couple of years since I've decided to refuse any software upgrades f…

It's funny how 7 seems to be the magic number with peak quality and usefulness in commercial OS development before it devolves into bloat and user abuse. Android 7 was the last ver…

actual article: http://www.polksheriff.org/news-investigations/polk-county-n...

Thank you so much for this guide! I haven't finished reading it yet, but I alredy understand more about Git than I did before. All the diagrams, in particular, are very helpful.

With LT and LW specifically, that somehow was developing something they themselves were looking for, dogfooding the heck out of it, and perservering for many years before it began …

My advice to you, as someone with 20+ years in the industry: Look at each job as a college course or internship you also happen to get paid for. Try to learn something new at your …

People say this about many beings, and even about other humans. What they all have in common is a lack of exposure to those they denigrate and reduce in their mind to dumb automato…

We are biological creatures, and part of the biome. All of the artificial things we've created do nothing to sustain our existence, only to facilitate our connection with the biome…

Yep. Desktop keyboard were designed for typing. Laptop keyboards were designed to fit inside a laptop.

On Android: Firefox Focus for WiFi portals Firefox for general web browsing Chrome for Google services and such On iOS: Safari for general no-JS browsing Opera, iCab, Chrome -- for…

This is why I lug around a standard keyboard to go with my laptop. I know exactly where the keys are, including directional and navigation.

It's what I use when there's a twitter link I want to read without jumping through all the hoops twitter.com creates for no-JS users

The touchbar is useless, but the whole keyboard is about as useful as any other laptop keyboard out there. They all fucking suck terribly. I've given up on the lot of them, and I n…

Still requires JS. I'll stick with nitter.net, which doesn't even require a login.

Yandex Search does it to me regularly. Sometimes it takes 5 attempts to get through the captchas.

I use a keyboard-driven browser to reduce wrist strain, and I sometimes get tagged as a bot, probably for lack of mouse movement.

What OS do you run on the AlphaServer?

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