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pgib

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About pgib

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #47325371

    This made HN the other day, and seems relevant. If you want to have that BBS vibe on your Mac, check out the ANSI Saver screen saver (now with modem emulation mode): https://github…

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    Comment #47300724

    Such a great idea! Added a modem emulation mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgoDvFB8Ak

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    Comment #46516201

    This may finally drive me to just use Apple Mail for my Google Workspace account. I know it's not a fair comparison, but an app I made that's in the App Store is only 8MB.

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    Comment #45054192

    Mosh has been solid for so long. Love it.

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    Comment #44849511

    How many vacations does this guy take??

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    Comment #44221495

    We had an Omnimax theatre in Vancouver, BC, and I always loved going to it as a kid. The little introduction before any feature was a highlight where they showed off the capabiliti…

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    Comment #43355591

    I also can't believe how many cars display a terms of service Every. Time. You. Start. The. Car. So incredibly ugly, tacky, and unnecessary.

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    Comment #43211993

    "All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot." –Mick Herron, Bad Actors (from …

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    Comment #42190665

    I've been considering getting a Steam Deck just to play this game.

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    Comment #41517010

    I've been really hoping someone makes an OBS plug-in to simulate the Max Headroom stutter.

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    Comment #41112973

    Would love to see a "paywall" tag added to posts so I can just filter them out.

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    Comment #41110532

    I have some personal projects for which I use a Terraform stack to build out a CodeBuild-based pipeline. It was very convenient to create a CodeCommit repo because all of the acces…

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    Comment #40461174

    It wasn't obvious that you had to _administer field sobriety test_??

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    Comment #40292799

    DESQview for DOS was an amazing way to add some multi-tasking capabilities into an otherwise limited environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

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    Comment #40280528

    Over the pandemic, I used this and OBS with a USB HDMI capture dongle attached to my Nintendo Switch to host Jackbox Party Pack nights with friends over Zoom. Such a great tool!

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    Comment #38760639

    Very much looking forward to upgrading our application to ensure 3.3 compatibility.

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    Comment #38521962

    Subscribe now to read more than the first paragraph of this article!

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    Comment #37706715

    I have an Amazon Echo Wall Clock, and I got it for its integration with timers set by Alexa. It works great and lets me see the status of multiple timers. But I believe they discon…

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    Comment #37382824

    This is where Chef got it right over Puppet, but of which were written in Ruby. But Chef recipes are just Ruby files, and they make use of the Ruby language to do the same thing be…

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    Comment #37354584

    I asked ChatGPT to translate the results, and here's what it said: This study looks at how the immune system responds to various infections and stimulants after receiving the BNT16…

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    Comment #37330634

    So... is this good or bad?

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    Comment #36698993

    I've been holding out on 7 for reasons like this. The native macOS version seems to honour my system locale settings. I don't see myself moving to an Electron-based app, and am rea…

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    Comment #36312227

    Worse even than this is that Microsoft Sway implements its own custom _scrolling_!

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    Comment #36116342

    Not quite the same, but I used to use DESQview back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview Was a very cool product to bring multi-tasking into the DOS world.

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    Comment #35246099

    What is the resolution? (Surely this should be part of the FAQ.)