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What are some use cases for this?

HN, please explain why everyone is so upset with having a time offset in the city/region/country next door. In Germany, there are 16 states. Many of them have different laws, e.g. …

> discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with people with similar interests lol

for the majority of people it should also be fine to walk (yes, walk!) from their appartment to the next bus/tram/subway station around the corner.

and I use it almost every day. It's great, thank you very much!

Arthur est un perroquet!

reply to my e-mail to support@twitter.com: > We appreciate you reaching out, but Twitter doesn’t monitor emails sent to this support address. To contact our support team, please su…

Sorry for the noise everyone, I found out how to do it: Do not register an account only with an e-mail address of yours and then ruefully append your phone number later because you…

I would, but what address should I use? I mean, I could just write to support@twitter.com or whatever, but I would be amazed if that would return anything. They do not announce an …

Sorry for sort of OT, but my post on Reddit has been removed, and I hope that Twitter people might read this here.

I am trying to register a phone number on a newly created Twitter account using a German Vodafone cell phone number. I have taken multiple attempts to submit the number in the form…

My almost 70 years old dad uses Pass for iOS in his everyday life. He does not have a clue about what's going on under the hood (gpg, git, my instance of gitea where it pushes to, …

Using Wikipedias language switcher to translate things seems to be quite common here, so I thought I'd share how I moved the languages up on top, so I don't have to scroll down on …

OT: is that level difference to baseline in the logo intended?

but then you wouldn't do "search engine optimization", but rather proper web engineering.

It is clearly explained in this 1968 movie, how and why the Sphinx happens to lack her nose: https://youtu.be/RFnfR26jnzo?t=2033

> Easter Egg during Christmas season true punk!

This is why we all should not be using these kinds of services, at least in a production setting. We should run our own services based on open source software, federate them, share…

Google and Facebook are the first proof for why the Do Not Track header is bullshit. Privacy should be the default, and if I for some reason want to be sniffed all around the web, …

> "Why would you want to do that?" I don't remember a Linus Torvalds say "you're not supposed to hold it this way" to anyone. Instead, …

It feels awkward that it is called "exotic". This exposes the common understanding of todays web as a set of services, that everyone is supposed and used to consume, while anything…

Why? Because it does not look like todays medium.com blogs or default-skinned github.io pages? Twitter or Facebook posts? Having indiviually looking web sites is the internet. Sadl…

What's wrong with passwordstore.org? It's not a service which I am giving my stuff, but just some handy script sitting on top of well-known distribution and security software. Plus…

The very first sentence of the abstract seems a bit too optimistic to me