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Imagine tech journalists in 2025 not knowing what a canary is...

Absolutely. They're going for all the safe, boring choices, and depending on the business side of their industry to make money. You don't show a profit by making the next Children …

And yet when I watch the flood of movies, television shows, novels, music, and fine art available to me, I have a really hard time finding anything unpredictable. Great skill is in…

It might be this one? Secluded treasures & tax incentives - The freeport system https://youtu.be/5bIGd3jcrS4

What bothers me most about the recommendations I get are the videos I have clearly watched. "You recently watched this clip, so we at YouTube think you should watch it again."

Wordle is basically gambling, but like a lot of games of chance you can improve your odds using skill. A good vocabulary, good starter words, solid analytical skills. But peeking a…

If it's intentionally shielded from prying eyes, and possibly nefarious, it's the dark web. More often than not this would be on Tor, I2P, or similar, but that's not required. If i…

One of my first websites used the single pixel GIF for layout, which still works. The website for a snowboarding magazine was intended to symbolise the curved slalom of descending …

Many phishing pages reside on compromised domains. Bob's Plumbing Supplies might wonder why their Wordpress site loaded with plug-ins has stopped working, ask someone to take a loo…

That's the whole point of this, by blocking Amazon, these countries would be taking down a large part of the Internet inside their borders. We're not talking Amazon your one stop s…

I'm going to have to agree with Google here, in that this isn't an exploitable security vulnerability. Knowing that the mailboxes famous.celebrity@gmail.com or controversial.journa…

Definitely. The problem is that consumers (especially small business) so often end up buying an overpriced and badly configured black box, when a decent expert would have been able…

I find these kinds of stories infuriating (and just a bit frustrating). Charlatans repackage, rebrand, and repurpose FOSS, then sell them at an unrealistic markup to unsuspecting d…

Indeed, the art of badly written headlines apparently takes up a whole chapter in the Ars Technica style guide. This should have been: "Google pushes fake news and hate-speech work…

“Are they going to try and land anyway?” It's unlikely that the pilot simply took a gamble. Presumably ground crew took a look, either on the first go-round or during the second ap…

Even as late as 1995, I remember flying from South Africa to the UK (in the non-smoking section) while the guy behind me (in the smoking section) was smoking extremely smelly easte…

Presumably, regular customers also react to these free offers. You always get your pizza from A, but because it's free you try B. Perhaps B think their pizzas are better. Perhaps B…

If they're really interested, they'll probably just Google you. Or use something they purchased for tens of millions of dollars, that simply performs a Google search. If you're an …

That's likely to be a red flag and used against you. Remember, as a non-US citizen, border guards don't have to prove you're guilty of anything. Any suspicion, no matter how trivia…

Make mine deep-fried potato products, and I'm in. Although something nausiating to kill any appetite might be more productive.

"The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status – ready to be launched within minutes of a warning."" Yes, we're doing much bette…

That statement itself means very little. I would argue the value is created where thousands of workers turn designs into millions of individual devices; Tim Cook might argue value …

I think you've nailed it here. Viewed from the outside, Reddit is a very different place than when viewed from the inside. Outsiders tend to go to the default subs, which are the f…

gfaure probably meant something we now would consider completely unrelated. An owl hooted twice, and then the child died. So two hoots from a certain type of owl predicts a death i…