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Amusing. So, in the year 2001, NZ telecom provided most of the telephone lines and a much smaller company called Clear sold phone service in some areas. When a customer of one phon…

The "internet explorer" browser-in-browser on the website somewhat works, but it is connecting to websites from an Alibaba cloud datacenter in China, user-agent claims to be an App…

From casual observation of people, I feel that alcohol consumption has a large effect on ability to learn.

Tim Hunkin's The Secret life of Machines. It is on youtube. I see a couple of dozen hours of TV a year because the nearest pub has often has a TV turned on with subtitles, sound of…

It was posted to hnn as a 'public beta' in January 2024, so about 2 and half years.

Nice idea, this reminds of of the few models of USB stick drive with a physical keypad for entering a PIN.

"Remember to set the BIOS to not try to boot from floppy, to avoid people leaving a disk in the drive then complaining that the computer does not start up, and boot sector viruses.…

I presume OP is referring to Microsoft Windows Vista, released at the end of the year 2006. It had a poor reputation. My vague recollection is that I experienced an irritating numb…

see also "Douglas Adams biscuit story"

I did read what you wrote above and I'm confident that it is entirely incorrect for reasons that have been explained.

Current quantum computers are toys for physicists that are of zero practical use. See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, a…

Tell them a UDP joke and don't care if everyone gets it.

Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota. https://news.…

Five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664

For clarity: Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?

I typed my intrusive thoughts in to a document and analysed them. It turns out I had a hundred of them. It really helped to write up why they don't matter now, such as "I was a chi…

There is also Hack::Soho

There is dc4420 which is this evening near Euston and the last Tuesday of the month. They have talks and the people who attend are mostly corporate IT and infosec company people. F…

CB radio Specifically 27MHz CB radio. People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends. Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noi…

Somewhat facetious technological solution suggestions: 1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice sayi…

Also, Facebook/Meta said they would not be able to link WhatsApp accounts to facebook accounts. After they were allowed to buy WhatsApp they unsurprisingly began using metadata for…

This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. T…

https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...

My response would be along the lines of: "The USA fought a war in part because they did not like the use of general writs of assistance to allow agents of the British King to searc…