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Previous discussion (4 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453800

I've also been happy with Groups.io. A local community moved there a few years ago when Yahoo Groups shut down. The downside is that to get more of a Facebook community experience …

Aha. I was surprised to see that ~30% of web pages loaded by Firefox were still not https. A 6-year-old graph would explain why!

They've bumped this support info to a blog post that's linked from their home page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content... It includes PDFs of some relevan…

> Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA What's crazy is that Snowflake made MFA enforcement available only 5 days ago.

Very neat! I love how you can do an entire paragraph. For example https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/?text=%7D6G6C+8%40%3F%3...

If you're looking for a visualization, a YouTube team of VFX artists did some neat ones last year in this video: https://youtu.be/J-K2yeQylCk

I'm just surprised they aren't making you send a physical letter via USPS. Some companies require that. Here is PayPal's process for example: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/use…

a.org is an odd one. It's just an HTML form input that doesn't post anywhere, but it became a curious rabbit hole on r/hacking a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/co…

+1 for how great the Snowflake t-shirt is (ranked #3). I wore it a lot during the COVID era, and the poly blend is still soft and has withstood a lot of washing and drying. When we…

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

I don't want to be the "did you even read the article?" guy, but I do recommend you all read the article or get more context about this first before posting what could be considere…

The government has been reducing spending since all the COVID support in 2020 and 2021. At its peak, government spending was over $7 trillion, which was over 30% of GDP in 2020. It…

Time (yes, Time Magazine!) actually had good coverage of this: https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/ Here's one good excerpt: Dickerson quickly established the rules, which he…

Ironically, this reminds me of a story (folk tale?) about Von Neumann himself. A colleague told him about the Two Trains Problem ( https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.htm…

Did you research the Citizens Climate Lobby before replying to the comment about it? It is not at all like your characterizations.

As someone in their 40s, the Slate article he links to was fun to read. There's a discussion of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36402076

> YP says it’s best for him not to run anything with sudo any more today, handing off the restoring to JN. Then in the post-mortem about lack of backups: > LVM snapshots are by def…

We do the same and it works well. We prefer a handheld keyboard/mouse to control it. We've tried several and the Lenovo N5902 [1] is our favorite by far. It's also useful to have t…

Yes, the ZIP on Google Drive owned by one of their engineers is weird considering they have a pretty active GitHub presence of open source projects, though it does use an Apache li…

I've been using Today Weather on Android ever since Dark Sky was killed off there. It looks nice, lots of different data sources, and the $7 lifetime Premium Version is a good pric…

The rest of the sentence is relevant though (emphasis mine): "This lawsuit also marks EFF’s commitment to stopping the current trend that seeks to privatize aspects of the carceral…

It's noteworthy that American Airlines has taken the hardest line against blocking AwardWallet, too [1]. https://yourmileagemayvary.net/2021/12/21/is-this-the-reason...