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> With a decent file manager and an hour or so An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is …

With a file manager, you'll probably only be able to find a book from its author, and title. If you have a small collection, this is fine. When your collection grows though, issues…

You seem to have forgotten the extremely agressive marketing from Google. At some point, practically all major free software was bundled with Chrome, which installed by default. It…

A mirror of the archive still exists: https://dmoztools.net/

For more, you can check the artists websites. Don Davis: http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyours.html Rick Guidice: http://rickguidice.com/nasaart.html Roy Scarfo: http://www.ro…

Check this Ask HN, for more examples of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948

I think it has more to do with how thoughtless downvoting/upvoting can be in some implementations. But this isn't inherent to the upvote system. Requiring a comment for each vote t…

There are strict drone regulations in Ecuador and specifically in the Galapagos. They are banned except for scientific use. https://www.galapagos.org/travel/travel/planning-a-trip/…

Chrome was one of the last to actually implement this feature. It took 8 years (!), and Animation Policy (part of the accessibilityFeatures api) still doesn't work that great, and …

The older captcha with words was for the digitization of books. It helped in the Google Books, and Internet Archive projects notably. https://cogdogblog.com/2013/12/recaptcha-all-t…

It's actually the opposite, Opera (Presto) was stricter in its adherence to standards. It was the first/second (depending on OS) to pass the acid 2 tests, and constantly was among …

I tend to agree on all your points. But when a site I need to browse does require JS, simply "turning it on" is, in my opinion, much too lax. You really need more granularity in ma…

Quite a few applications still have their config path hardcoded. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_supp...