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Alternate take, the people who keep mucking up the perfectly fine UI[1] that I've been using for years should get on that bus, so the rest of us never have to worry about waking up…

Oh, well I guess it's not just me then.

Google search used to be one of the wonders of the modern digital world, but (and I admit this is subjective) it feels like the quality of results has decreased drastically over th…

>I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 ye…

Different resource usage patterns aside, why do people think that robots are somehow less "legitimate" consumers of data than their human operators? Do the authors of this article …

"Reality is that which doesn't cease to exist when you stop thinking about it", they say. Or, to elaborate, these things have a cost whether people are aware of it (and care about …

Wait, Chrome is now requiring HSTS for localhost ? This is absolute madness. Somebody needs to sit down with the people responsible for this and explain to them that this is not so…

Swap has always been so slow for me that I just disable it on all of my machines. I would rather the OOM reaper just SIGKILL whatever is using all my RAM than deal with slowness (w…

>Bitcoin is a silly idea based on scarcity that doesn't exist. If its scarcity isn't real, then why can't you conjure up an arbitrary number of bitcoins at will?

The point is that as long as telemetry is delivered over the internet, it is also tracking. There is absolutely no difference whatsoever unless your telemetry is delivered via Tor …

>Which is a big problem. Is it? What if the alternative is that people feel the wrong way about things?

Five's how many fingers I have.

That's a good point about the critical path - I was thinking it would be a bit bigger and slower since you'd have to decode it, but I hadn't realized what an impact that would prob…

I'm not really sure why it has to be that hard, like, why don't we just use base64-encoded JSON or something?

>Postfix is written in C, and none of us should be comfortable with that qmail is written in C, and it has never had a serious security hole that I am aware of. Not all C code is u…

But most of those are terrible! Google has actually gotten worse over the years, literally all I've ever heard about fraud detection is the vast amount of both false positives and …

I'm pretty sure their "path to profitability" is actually intimately related to the fact that it is free to use.

Actually, you'd be really surprised about that: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200

Thank you for posting this, I will now forever wonder who, if any, of the people I meet throughout my life will have been secret cardinals. The answer is almost certainly "none at …

Am I the only one who thinks that no travel + tactile feedback actually sound like two highly desirable properties for a keyboard? Whenever I use someone else's butterfly keyboard …

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Well, it's definitely suspect now that RSA is broken.

Their behavior makes Firefox unlike literally every single other program with a text box, except the singular other browser people actually use. Neither browser should be different…

Nobody is addressing the elephant in the room, which is the reason why there are only two viable browsers in the first place - because the endless and ever-growing list of specific…