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General purpose computers, copyright, a free society. Pick two.

I typically use ninite to install this, and my favourite thing is when it says "Downloading Everything" followed by "Installing Everything". I always get a kick out of that!

More evidence that Windows 11 is a hate crime.

I read a comment on a forum recently that I'll just leave here: "Windows 11 is a hate crime."

What would happen if a person tried to enter the United States at the border but were not carrying a phone or a laptop? Do they frown on this?

I always update in place. And I follow all the upgrade procedure advice in the release notes.

Maybe some college degrees could have an endorsement at the bottom: "Earned without AI."

Vulnerabilities like this lead to car thefts. Some models of cars are more susceptible than others, and the manufacturers seem unwilling to fix the problem. The insurance companies…

Not the OP, but I have a Postfix mail server running on my home media box that receives YouTube URLs sent to its special email address. Postfix passes the message to a Python scrip…

Local noon (when the sun crosses the local meridian) orients us in time and in space. In time, because it marks the day being half-over. In space, because you can use solar alignme…

One of my screens at work is a full-screen UTC clock with seconds. But I added the solar altitude (in degrees) to the bottom of the display, just so I could easily track how close …

Back when I worked an office IT job, one year I asked my boss if I could come in an hour earlier in the winter (and leave an hour earlier after work). I had evening chores to do wi…

Install the transmission-daemon and transmission-cli packages, and control the daemon with the transmission-remote command (from the latter package).

Ivan Illich argued that we should open the doors to the schools and let those that wanted to leave leave, and those that wanted to stay stay. And he meant this even for the teacher…

Just curious, is this a corporate network restriction, or something you've configured your web browser to block? This is the first time I've seen this as a problem for Hacker News …

A flywheel has a lot of angular momentum. Of course, that's the point. On buses, the axis of the flywheel is oriented in the vertical axis so that the bus can turn corners or chang…

Things I absolutely won't order from Amazon: products you put in your body, products you put on your body, and electronics. Their business model and fraud are pretty much indisting…

Look for kitchen printers. They're dot-matrix / ink ribbon receipt printers for use in restaurant kitchens, where the plate warmers and other sources of heat will turn thermal pape…

A compressor is the right answer. If you lean toward more old-school audio engineering, I would recommend one of these compressors: * Alesis 3630 * DBX 166 or 266 * FMR Audio Reall…

My wish is that those of us sick of the hype would start calling it ChadGPT , to give it the respect that it deserves!

Someone else did this, then built 20 more next to it. Now it's a business where they sell telescope time to researchers and hobbyists. I imagine it's profitable for them.

The main principle of celestial navigation is pretty easy to visualize. Pick a celestial body that's in your sky right now, like the Sun. At any given time, the Sun is directly ove…

Are turn signals supposed to be red? Or orange? Or let's place them below the level of the back bumper... for reasons. Some standardization would be nice.

The secret about speed bumps is that with most vehicles you can drive over them at speed without slowing down.