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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/