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The author may well have been aware of this. However, since the author didn't retrieve those database IDs or URLs in the first place, they would have had to make further requests t…

Under the Animated Cursors heading. Here are direct links to the webms if you still can't find them: https://tattoy.sh/assets/screenshots/cursor_smear_fade.webm https://tattoy.sh/a…

Please do share any evidence to the contrary, but it seems that the Tweet is not serious and is not from someone who worked on the Start Menu.

I was expecting this post to explain why it's an underscore specifically, as opposed to a dollar sign, an asterisk, a caret, a tilde or some other special character. I can only ass…

A terminal doesn't need SSH integration, but it's convenient if it does, to allow you to easily start and manage connections. Is there something inherently unsafe about such an int…

I feel like Facebook was often considered a MySpace clone in its early days, despite certain differences, and I certainly think it took its place.

First thing I would do is look for a security.txt file or search to see if they operate some kind of bug bounty. Failing that, I would browse their website or search for contact de…

Suppose there are two students. Each has a 50% chance of drawing the short straw (by picking either 0 or 1). Therefore, there is a 25% chance that neither will draw the short straw…

It's the extensible nature of XML that gives it an advantage. You can add custom elements and attributes whilst conforming to the base schema. Granted, XML isn't the only format wh…

Today's blog post is related: London's shortest and longest High Streets https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/06/londons-shortest-...

400 years later, this mysterious hand gesture would resurface in the character designs of Capcom's Mega Man / Rockman series of video games. https://themmnetwork.com/2010/03/18/the…

Happens for me in Firefox. I press 'Back' and it untypes the last character.

In a democratic society, if citizens are particularly concerned about the aesthetics of public property, they can make their views known to the relevant authorities and elected rep…

We're talking about public property here. Many authorities have a 'no tolerance' approach to graffiti. Even if it looks nice, it will be removed. There is a belief that removing gr…

The impact isn't merely aesthetic. For one thing, it can be costly to remove graffiti. And when it's on publicly owned property, who pays for that removal? The public, of course. I…

Note that this is not true in many jurisdictions.

Classic Mac OS used colon (:) as the path separator, so slashes were perfectly acceptable in file and directory names. Even in modern versions of macOS, the GUI still allows you to…

Piracy is also listed under the "When to use a personal VPN?" heading.

There are restrictions, but SVG is an example of an image file type that can run JavaScript (again, there are legitimate use cases for this).

It's not linked to from the page, but here's the GitHub repo for anyone interested: https://github.com/susam/myrgb

Heads-up: It's ROYGBIV

The solution is to run your own Mastodon instance. Unfortunately, I find doing so can be quite a hassle. Obviously it's not free, and not only do you need to configure it properly,…

Almost all employees did not resign in protest, but they did _threaten_ to resign. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968988/openai-employee...

According to the developer (Ablaze)'s website [0], development of Floorp is entirely funded by sponsors on GitHub [1]. [0] https://support.ablaze.one/articles/floorp/who-build-floo…

I'm also based in the UK and, in my experience, debit cards actually tend to be slightly more widely accepted than credit cards, even online. But by and large, if a website accepts…