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What if I need absolute surety my image(s) is not going to be subject to bit rot and not be available in a few years time? What if I do 'multi-posts' and share the same image acros…

Any other show stopping bugs you have encountered? I'm thinking of making the switch myself, but I hear nothing but anecdotes of people having a bad time getting proprietary Micros…

> Amazon has never done that Well maybe they do? I know Amazon's algorithms are opaque to the user, but after several purchases on Amazon I noticed this trend of items I researched…

Never liked when Amazon increases the price a few days later after witnessing you researching something to buy. This is why I only purchase items 'on-the-spot' in a small window of…

> I feel like the list should be longer Isn't there a small window of time to edit a submission before it gets committed permanently to HN? I imagine the list would be bigger if th…

Thanks for recommending that :)

Worse still is the threat of quantum computers that will make cracking his vault trivial. Apparently in 20-30 years people will be able to fit a quantum computer into a laptop form…

Sad to see Windows To Go being deprecated. It's the only way to have Windows running off a USB device. I hope it doesn't break the devices I own with WTG on them. I wish Microsoft …

> Google is not dying any time soon One way to kill it is blocking all their domains either in /etc/hosts or using pi-hole. But I imagine using the web would be slightly broken as …

I never use a password, but I do use a passphrase like something similar to the one used in XKCD 936[0]. There's a few open source diceware[1] generators on Github that you should …

This is why I don't give registrars (or other actors) enough time to register a domain behind my back, so when I want a name, I do no prior research in advance of buying the domain…

My personal favorite speaker on this topic is Chris Heilmann[0]. He's been in the trenches for a long time and highlights a lot of issues in webdev that are often overlooked, like …

Oops, my bad. You are right, I didn't read the article fully and presumed it didn't talk about spreading oneself thinly. Thanks for pointing it out ;)

> but I’m always looking for another trick to hold the flow for longer. Flow is usually something not to be sustained for long periods, because sustained flow is actually not pract…

Yeah but the article overlooks the many polymaths who spread themselves thinly across a variety of different fields, never achieving true mastery of a particular field. The phrase …

I'm probably a bit naive, but who torrents on their phone or tablet? Like, who does that?

The TL;DR of most VPN reviews is use Mullvad

Seems like only high-profile accounts get sim jacked. I would love to see some stats to see how prevalent sim porting attacks happen to ordinary low-follower-count accounts that ha…

Yeah but as per the parent post - Paypal makes revoking a recurring fee easier, as sometimes there is not an option within a particular SaaS product/service to disable recurring fe…