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I haven't dug into the history to see if this is really how it happened. I'd actually feel better if it wasn't true but it's the thought that occurred to me when I noticed the scro…

I feel like the scroll fade fad is misunderstanding layered on bugs, turtles all the way down. Once upon a time, developers implemented lazy loading of images, to save bandwidth. H…

There's a great reason: I'm using HTTP only as a transport layer, not a semantic layer.

They're isolated by website but the tabs are not isolated from each other, like in Safari (in private browsing). This distinction matters, if you primarily use private browsing, an…

In Settings, on the General tab, for "Safari opens with", select either "All windows from last session" or "All non-private windows from last session".

Two little-appreciated privacy features in Safari not mentioned in the article: Each private browsing tab has its own cookie / data bucket[1]; and Private browsing tabs and windows…

I've been using HTTrack for almost two decades to create static archives of a yearly website for an annual event. It doesn't do the job 100% but it's a start. In particular, HTTrac…

(nitpick to the overall thread but interesting) There is at least one exception: On form 1040, you have a yes/no option to redirect $3 to the presidential election campaign fund. T…

I think it's a desperate attempt to downplay the severity in any way plausible, taking advantage of the fact that credit card numbers and social security numbers have been mytholog…

Your contractor being breached means you were breached.

100% of the energy becomes heat eventually . For a typical trip, this happens by the trip conclusion. (And also each time the car pauses, such as a stoplight.) For the trailer-on-h…

Based on the release of multiple emulators in the App Store in the past few days (including Delta which looks like it is here to stay), it looks like I got this wrong. My original …

I think mainly the ability to download additional games, and more specifically, games emulated from a different platform rather than game content written as HTML/JavaScript. I may …

The emulator change is a minor rule change about bundling and is not what many of the reactions to the change think. What people seem to think this means: Open-ended retro game emu…

Outlook is a once-great product that has been left to rot by a Microsoft with little lineage to the great company from the 90s and early 00s that created it. Outlook debuted Cached…

> That is not what the word recall means. That is what you want it to mean. No, it is the plain dictionary meaning of "recall"[1] (see sense #7, which states the "return of (a faul…

I think the legal concept of "beneficial ownership" is the intent here: We want to know the ultimate (natural) person(s) who control the app's assets and for whose benefit the app …

Both Gruber's "fake" explanation and the "computational photography" explanation are likely wrong. There's a third explanation: It's almost certainly an accidental use of panorama …

There does not appear to be officially. No RSS feed is declared in the main index page metadata, and adding /feed to the URL doesn't work as it does with "newsletter" pages. Howeve…

Which unfortunately, doesn't seem to work for Notes. I am having trouble finding any way to access an RSS feed for them. Ah well, off to write a scraper...

> I’ve literally never heard anyone suggest that the main, or even a major, problem with the DMCA safe harbor was too many takedown notices made with reasonable, good-faith belief …