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Any advice on how to get rid of feral honeybees? I had hundreds of them last year, attracted to my hummingbird feeders. I took those away and the bees stuck around waiting for them…

My neighbor cut down and chipped a large area of mostly dead trees. Maybe his original intent was to clear the area and expand his back yard but it's been 2 years and it's still ju…

It's not a very big thing nor related to technology, but ravens are making a comeback here in New England. Very interesting birds. I have a couple with 2 young that still beg for f…

It's still going to be accelerating and decelerating frequently so there's a lot you couldn't do, or would just be unpleasant to do while it's moving. I'm imagining taking a shower…

One suggestion, set the overflow to "scroll" so the scrollbar is always visible. When I open a section it appears, adding like 10px on the right and all the content moves left.

Mainly for the negative ones, to see if there are many similar complaints indicating something is wrong with the product. I've left bad reviews on manufacturer websites and often t…

> today: the Amazon shopping experience is so filled with bullshit that it’s actually easier to buy from the producer’s website and pay shipping This is where I'm at. I only order …

I almost always filter for items shipped from and sold by Amazon. The only times I buy from third-party sellers are when the seller is clearly the manufacturer or a large distribut…

I had one go off this morning. Second battery for my vacuum cleaner. Hooray.

Opera (with the Presto engine) used to do this really well.

I think it's already too late. Removal of unpopular / non-mainstream opinions from large social media sites is now the norm and is celebrated (by those who didn't get silenced).

About 10 years here and hundreds of different addresses given out. I get surprisingly little spam. Most spam I get comes to addresses that were leaked in data breaches, or email to…

Huh, I haven't had any problems using tractorsupply@mydomain.com I've had a few people ask " That's your email?" and just briefly explained that I own the domain and get all email …

I have been using hxselect from the html-xml-utils package to do this for many, many years. It doesn't handle malformed HTML that well but can be coaxed into working about 90% of t…

There is "checkinstall" that creates an apt package by watching changes during a "make install" step. So you can install many programs that don't provide .deb packages or only prov…

Check out Neat URL - it's more basic, uses a comma-separated list of rules, and comes with some hard-coded presets you can override. I maintain my list in a text file and just upda…

There are some userspace scripts that will dry-run updates and email you the results. Generally it's just new config files that differ from your current versions, usually it's just…

I de-googled several years ago, when they dropped Google Reader. It wasn't about privacy, or the threat of my account being locked. It was just because they killed off a product I …

I think they could, and it would be a good idea too. Browsers could also possibly ignore server-sent cache directives for scripts with SRI hashes, or at least consider them immutab…

Linux packaging certainly is a mess. I have 50+ "update-foo" scripts for programs that want me to use yet another package manager. Everything that doesn't use apt is in there, so m…

This is not a new problem. You should see my home folder. I hardly ever look at it, I moved into ~/Downloads since at least I can keep that tidy myself.

The more employers willing to hire remote workers, the less this argument works. Still, I already make 1/2 as much as I could make living in Boston, living 90 miles north of it. Th…

Comment sections always have some garbage in them. At least there's a report button that does something. I visit a number of conservative and libertarian discussion forums and the …

I love(d) the idea of Keybase but I always had in the back of my mind that it was too good to be true. I'm guessing this will be the end as they announce in a few months that Keyba…