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I saw the mechanism in person recently on a trip to Greece and it was a strangely electric experience. That such a thing could have been made two thousand years ago is hard to beli…

Seems to me there are quite a lot of people for whom the cruelty of what they're doing really is the only point, whatever other arguments they might make.

That's called the naturalistic fallacy, and there's a clue in the name that should indicate how reliable an argument it is. And re "nutritionally inferior", every dietetics and nut…

"Now" as in "all of those things are true now, but they weren't when this project started ten years ago."

How do you figure? Is distrust of the CIA anti-Americanism?

First thing I used to install on macOS was Binaryage's superb asepsis utility, which intercepts the creation of .ds_store files and redirects them all to a local container folder, …

So many fond memories of building eggdrop bots with Tcl scripts in the good old days of IRC. Trivia games, quote dbs, channel management, nick squatting, all sorts of shit.

WACUP can!

Seconding WLED, it's fantastic. Super easy to install and operate, compatible with HomeAssistant, the built in effects are great, the web app / native mobile apps are powerful but …

You missed the point spectacularly.

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when …

I did the same thing, only my program pretended to be a DOS-based Novell Netware login screen. It was just a simple QBASIC program (that's all that was available on the Computer Ro…

>pman Oh man. I didn't know just how badly I needed this in my life, thank you!

Why does it seem like every single crypto company inevitably engages in shady business practices and ends up collapsing in a scandal? How hard can it be to just make a shitload of …

Microsoft puts ads in the file explorer, pre-loads its OS with bloatware and unremovable (other than by using third-party hacks) system tray icons for software nobody wants or care…

>Apple is one of the world's biggest proliferators of e-waste through indirect means. This seems like a very disingenous way of saying that Apple is one of the largest companies on…

Some people on HN start their link indexes at 1, some start them at 0. I, an intellectual, start them at -1.

Oh man, what a blast from the past. Another great site in the same vein was Acts of Gord[-1], which followed the exploits of a used game store manager. Similarly semi-apocryphal an…

Blender is truly one of the most incredible pieces of software I’ve ever used in my entire life. The user interface may look daunting at first glance, but it’s actually incredibly …

What’s your use case, if you don’t mind me asking?

Parler has (had) ten million accounts, over half of which were considered active, that’s hardly a small number. And the big and obvious difference between Parler and Facebook is th…

Healing requires you to eliminate the disease, you don’t just forgive the cancer and assume it won’t spread.

Peacefully knocking together a working set of gallows, complete with noose.

You may know this already, but just in case: the iOS camera app has a QR reader built in, just point the camera at a valid code and it’ll automatically display a tooltip containing…

>The whole copyright strike system is in addition to the DMCA, and is part of what was negotiated with the labels (in addition to ContentID). That's completely false, and all you n…