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I just tested changing user agents in Chrome - setting UA to a random string like "fff" gets a search page, but setting it to "Links" or "Lynx" gets "Your browser isn't supported a…

See also: https://blog.ploopy.co/tariffs-and-us-shipping-suspension-32... I got bit by this one - ordered a few days ago, thinking there might not be much time left - guess I was m…

I remembered where some of my old files are and re-tested; forward-gron was "only" about 7GB for the 15MB file. gron -u was the real killer, clocking in around 53GB.

I use gron a lot, because I can never remember how to use jq to do anything fancy but can usually make awk work. (I may be unusual in that department, in that I actually like awk) …

I've been using an incredibly stupid bash script to do this; you've finally given me the push to publish it here: https://github.com/krsiehl/hn2mdir Run mkdir -p /path/to/some/dire…

Perhaps you were using a different version, but I just tried and ChatGPT didn't seem to have any ethical issues with the question (although it was cagey about giving any definite a…

On Linux/macos, you can enable terminal output by setting PRINT_MODE:TEXT in init.txt

Hey, I know this issue! I ran into it in CK3 when it launched. You can also work around it by running chmod go-rx /dev/input/ while playing your game. Whether this is more or less …

In a similar vein, some time ago I tried to search for how many unicode code points there are with "How big is Unicode?" ( https://www.google.com/search?q=how+big+is+unicode ) Goog…

I do use Lyft to get to work most days (or did, in the Before Times). I just checked a few hopefully-representative months (June/July/August 2019) and it looks like I was spending …

The thought has occurred to me - and I wouldn't mind a thumb-trackball on the right hand, either. Design in the physical world is well outside my wheelhouse though - is a keyboard …

I like the idea of a split keyboard, but I've never been able to go down that road because I sometimes hit keys with the "wrong" finger - most notably, I need to be able to hit B w…

You're right - the case I'm quoting is specifically about unauthorized derivative works, which is a pretty important distinction, especially in this context (as presumably the colo…

For precedent on this, see the case Anderson v. Stallone, in which Timothy Anderson sued Stallone/MGM for allegedly ripping off his fan script for Rocky 4. Courts ruled that his fa…

Like a few others here, I use an RSS to email converter, although I'm using a custom-written one. The main difference from rss2email is that I'm not actually doing any SMTP - I'm j…

Interestingly: $ telnet localhost ssh Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.7 Obviously, it's just getting translated from ssh to 22 und…

The full article is only 1 page long, and lists the following for references: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/f... http://www.commonwealthfund.org/public…

My understanding is that, under the CFAA, any unauthorized access to commercial servers is a felony (more-or-less; there are some requirements here, but as I recall they're so broa…

Zooko's Triangle is conjecture, and Namecoin has shown it to be defeatable, no? Edit: Ah, I see; "including the majority of the entities" would exclude Namecoin from being a proper…