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sanityvampire
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Comment #18701930
I've been using http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi for ages. Little bit more dated interface, but same idea. That utility also does some pseudo-alphabets using characters from other scri…
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Comment #18591588
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say that blogs encouraging preteen girls to develop eating disorders are much scarier than furry porn. Unless... unless it's pro-ana furry porn.
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Comment #18270662
"Make sure to pipe the output to /dev/null when running this program. This is because the redox ransid ibrary keeps spamming stdout..." Signs of quality software.
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Comment #18202942
I'm a fan of the X1 Carbon line; my current home laptop is a 3rd-gen that I grabbed on eBay for cheap a while back. Might leapfrog to the next model when it's released, but the "Al…
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Comment #18115302
No offense, but "let's give the poor people cryptocurrency" reads a lot like the start of a satire piece, a lampoon of out-of-touch Bay Area tech culture denizens.
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Comment #18035991
Close Encounters of the Third Kind reference, for those who don't read music.
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Comment #18035882
You know, I totally forgot this was a thing. I'm sure modern phones do it. Last time I was on an airplane, couple months ago, I was messing around with airmon-ng, and I was amazed …
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Comment #18034258
Ubiquitous WiFi kiosks with inbuilt cameras, huh? Ostensibly, they're not allowed to track individual user locations, but the combination of functions present in the devices means …
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Comment #17990285
>Vim's commands and keybingings interface (not the UI). I recently decided to finally get good at Vim, but the UI, being text-only, can be charitably described as "awful." Solution…
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Comment #17988716
Do you think fluid simulation is advanced enough at this stage to simulate something like, "Assuming sea level rises 6 feet at the coast, this is how the surge will propagate acros…
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Comment #17974467
I'm just thinking of all the windshield stickers they're gonna have to hand out...
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Comment #17953123
Idea: once you have a steady stream of users, automate some domain name squatting. Buy the cheap ones (.xyz, .website, etc.) for every name, then threaten submitters with libel blo…
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Comment #17919340
While I freely admit that I use a lot of Google services, have an Android phone, and so on... I can't fathom why anyone would think it's a good idea to buy security hardware from a…
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Comment #17872824
Allowing unauthenticated access is the default configuration, but I think you have to go out of your way to make it accessible from external systems, let alone by anyone on the ope…
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Comment #17868598
They got that it's a privacy-related thing, but they still called it a browser...
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Comment #17853056
OK Bash: remove objects, recursively, starting at the root directory. Oh, and don't preserve root. Yes, just do it. Thank you!
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Comment #17820660
Article title's kind of disingenuous, isn't it? Name-drops Google and Apple, and then the rest of the positions are, like... "You can be a barista at Starbucks, a cashier at Whole …
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Comment #17778983
tuple → /tuːp(ə)l/ tupple → /tʌp(ə)l/