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This is great for me, I've just rebuilt my Android phone without GAPPS as an ongoing effort to minimise my reliance on Google. The Twitter app does what it says on the tin. Looking…

Clear public interest, request denied. The EU ruling works.

Have you tried using Chromium[1] instead? Once I got serious with ABP/KISS Privacy/Ghostery I figured it made sense to switch from Chrome to Chromium. And discovering Chromium-Upda…

Not to be confused with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym

I've always loved comic sans, it's like a family Labrador that just wants to have fun. When more discerning people around me criticise it, I send them off to read: http://www.mcswe…

Strongly agree. I was expecting another low-quality Facebook-bashing article but was pleasantly surprised with how thoroughly the author tracked the visits (FB reports > server log…

Apple can't innovate any more because Apple are too busy fighting a legal battle with Samsung. I think this statement is the biggest problem with the article. I can't reasonably se…

As it was ambiguous, I figured you must have been talking about the more likely scenario whereby files become corrupt on the live server, unknown to the either users or admins. Ove…

Of course, and the same is true of every backup solution. The way to mitigate that problem is with a decent backup rotation scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_sc…

I simply rsync my entire server (over ssh) to a large disk on another box. Super easy to set up and the backed up data doesn't need any special software to read/restore, beyond sta…

> the first 6 URLs are Google products One of which is Google+, every cloud has a silver lining.

I think it's because that particular statement is the foundation of the complainant's argument against the shortcut. And for someone who never experiences this failure scenario, th…

Couldn't resist optimising the script. setTimeout(function() { var page = ["http://bluestatedigital.com", "http://microsoft.com", "http://ngpvan.com", "http://mongodb.com", "http:/…

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRefererModule

Ignoring the fact the main focus of the following website is a world away from anything HN-related, perhaps you might find the following article, from an ex-journalist, on the subj…