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IP addresses aren't linked to a complete street address, and many times don't even show the right town, especially those on CG-NAT or a plain ol' direct public dynamic address. I h…

I honestly don't understand why any game is even checking if secure boot is enabled. If anything it's for the OS to care about that, not individual programs. Afaik, secure boot doe…

What I'm wondering is, why would any app need to actually prevent uninstallation (and thus violate a fundamental right of the user to control their device), when it seems what such…

The point was about the retention of print jobs in queue, that it was a concept and option since the mid 90s.

Honestly, this is why firewalls exist. This really isn't problem for anyone with basic computer hygiene.

I'm a little confused why this is even an issue. Persistent queues have been an option since the days of Windows 9x. Maybe it's a Gnome problem. KDE let's me see what I had previou…

> but cups-browsed has to listen on the network to do its job (network printer auto-discovery) Isn't listening on 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost only needed if the machine itself is …

This is why on public servers I block everything inbound and only allow specific needed services through.

Why does that require so many days? Banking is all digital, yet it is still being treated like it's the 1950s.

> I think the government should refund the airlines the government taxes/fees for canceled/delayed flights due to weather or mechanical issues at least. It's my understanding that …

Since you mentioned Safari, I assume that you're on MacOS where Firefox and other alternative browsers are effectively hindered at the framework/API level there, as such browsers h…

I have yet to encounter a site, that wasn't broken server side in some way, that didn't render usefully. Please cite some actual examples.

It could make sense if it's checking for robots.txt or so, though I'm not sure if it does that each time search results and I would have thought that that would be conducted from t…

Fair enough point.

Sort of, though PCRE is not a 100% replacement for regex in Perl proper; the former lacks some features of the latter.

> I guess it shows how far off the radar Perl currently is. This is a serious misconception. Perl is far, far from dead. The constant activity of the gargantuan CPAN library more t…

I have zero problems with that site using Firefox on Linux, Android, or Windows. Curiously, most complaints seem to be from Mac users, and not just for this site, leading me to bel…

And perl, haskel, wikimedia, and atleast 700 others Most threads have redirected comments to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628