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Google (not saying it's a good search engine, but people use it) puts putty.org at the top of search results. The results shows as: Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client fo…

I think I remember Windows 7 (and maybe even Vista) supported UEFI natively.

I've got my own personal story about a cold call revealing my personal phone number had been leaked by Lusha, a "GDPR Compliant" B2B tool that sourced data from shady apps. On a da…

Ebay do something similar too. You can immediately provide positive feedback, but you have to wait 7 days to add negative feedback. This is ostensibly to encourage sellers to addre…

BS546 is very uncommon now, but can still be found in some relatively modern british homes and businesses where the sockets are used to "code" for connected appliances. For example…

The thing is, I'm not talking about my 6th cousin twice removed, it's my literal siblings. At least in the UK, it seems nobody born after 1990 will use anything other than WhatsApp…

The thing is that shunning WhatsApp and Facebook doesn't put you back to a time before they existed, it cuts you off completely because they've dispaced what used to exist. Before …

Not MiniDisc sized, but there's M-DISC which can be had in Blu-ray capacities (~100GB). They're a different chemistry than the old organic dyes from CD-R days and should last a pre…

I did some testing with the new Gemini model on some OCR tasks recently. One of the failures was it just getting stuck and repeating the same character sequence ad-infinitum until …

I remember removing the IR filter from a cheap webcam and seeing everything in a new light (haha, pun intended) was fascinating. One of my black coats that didn't get hot under the…

My previous phone had a scheduled "night time mood" which put the display into greyscale. Without this there's an intensity to the screen that reducing the brightness doesn't fix.

My I also mention the Nyancat Progress bar for Jetbrains IDEs? https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8575-nyan-progress-bar

My thought is that Expo prioritises web compatibility too much to the point that it leans into conventions with things like navigation that are web-oriented and these contribute to…

Probably the first "we adopted x" blog post that I can find relatable and spot-on. I think it's one of the big misconceptions that React Native is _the_ path to get your web devs o…

Hackernews isn't a problems & answers forum, the process is just as important as the conclusion.

They fixed it in the sense that there's an opt-in offline-only print mode and they do work without a connection. It still requires you to do an initial setup using the mobile app, …

For making enclosures, I use my 3D printer. It's not a replacement for sugru, but let's you get a lot of the same tasks done in a different approach.

This costs money, requires some agreement signing and can "dox" developers, so not everyone wants a cert.

I used an A7C2 + Sony FE 50mm f2.8 macro. The lightbox was a custom build based on the design that I found linked on HN recently: https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/ . This was th…

I see you mentioned using a 3D printer for scanning medium format film. I did something similar, but took the opposite approach. I placed the film on a lightbox and mounted that to…

These "antique" scanners give out such good quality, but it's a shame they're so awkward to use. I was too scared of a reconditioned hand-me-down and having to deal with missing tr…

It would be interesting to replicate this with a shorter wavelength. I tried doing some stuff with UV LEDs but was frustrated by how inefficient they were. Bog standard 385nm "UV" …

>During boot, for example, even modern Windows boxes show a BIOS screen followed by a brief blinking cursor before the Windows graphics mode takes over. This hasn't really been the…

"infostealer" is a well established term referring to trojans that scrape things like session cookies and saved credentials from a victims computer.

The license is pretty specific, if the API counts as a "service". i. If you distribute or make available the Llama Materials (or any derivative works thereof), or a product or serv…