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Icq's chat feature definitely did around 97/98/99. I remember it being different from the IM feature in that way.

Can't YouTube serve up the videos in formats that the original Chromecasts can consume? Surely either YouTube can know which Chromecast is making the request, and serve up an appro…

This infuriates me. Google must know about this, and can surely lower the bitrate for these old Chromecasts, yet have chosen not to. Every time I encounter this on my old Chromecas…

And they will save you a fortune on vet bills compared to allowing your cat to roam free outside.

Looking forward to the first gpt-3 version of 'it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times'.

Has that site been hacked? When I use Chrome's simplified view there is a paragraph injected talking about and linking to live porn.

Here in Australia most people now buy food and drink by tapping their bank cards on a reader. Can't be long now until a particularly smart crow sees this at a beach side shop, and …

Isn't the most likely case that his advisers told him to do this?

From the article: potatoes, pork, lamb, apples, cucumbers and Cheerios. The addition of potatoes and apples makes the case far more interesting imo, as it makes the diet closer to …

Reddit doesn't require an email either - they just use a dark pattern on the registration popup to somewhat hide the fact. I doubt any bot makers fall for it, so I don't think they…

I use Netguard for this. Works well. https://www.netguard.me No root required, open source etc.

It's not afaics. It's on f-droid though.

I was thinking more along the lines of meditation for stress, and IF for weight loss. I've seen both work well amongst non smokers, so hoped they could work for smokers too.

The few people I know who still smoke do it for stress and weight issues. I have casually mentioned a few healthier alternatives to them but none seem receptive so maybe there are …

I did this for years until Google demanded a phone number in order to log in. (HN thread about it in my history.)

I understand the measures they have to go to to stop bots, but Google have more than enough data to know these accounts are not bots (they have years' of browsing history and whate…

Hi, op here. They're asking me for any phone number, not for one tied to the account (there is none). I've confirmed this by comparing with the message a friend sees with two facto…

Long story short: bought a couple of Chromebooks over the years (as they're nice multi user machines), created Google accounts on each but never gave a phone number. Now after year…

Also, 'parallel' if you've got any idle cores on your infrastructure.

I've probably missed something obvious here, but what about Tardigrades and bacteria?

There is one thing that bugs me about all the talk of postgres' superiority: why haven't these companies switched to postgresql? Surely they weren't all too far invested in mysql b…