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This triggered for me when trying to download a podcast from Hardcore Gaming 101. The detection is clearly very accurate and good. I had no shame disabling it.

Anyone interested in the development of the ARPANET and its transformation into the Internet we know today owes it to themselves to read Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Hafner and Ly…

It sends me to endless ‘appsflyer.com’ redirects and prompts to install Norton VPN apps from the app store on ios. Wtf.

I don’t have a problem with this. I am seeing systemd as a system management layer and as such it makes sense that it should manage as much of the moment-to-moment operation of the…

In my opinion the problem with Kinect was that it was necessarily a 1-1 mapping between your performance and the character on-screen. The Wii, in comparison, could only sense broad…

https://www.lingscars.com/ - yes, this is a real car rental business. Best viewed on desktop - the mobile version is not nearly as... potent.

Not just on the Arc either - the inline assembler was also available in BBC BASIC on its predecessor, the BBC Micro. I remember you had to put the asm code in a FOR loop so the int…

I’m not sure I’m a fan. It’s like a profile shot of a laughing bulbous head. It says supermarket brand laundry detergent to me.

For those not aware Captain Disillusion is an impressively well produced youtube series mimicking the vibe of 90's kids TV, but for an adult audience. The Captain uses Blender for …

Which criticisms are you referring to?

Maybe it wasn't open to the public Internet, but the VPN exit is inside the datacenter and connects out to the public Internet. Is it feasible that NordVPN provided their customers…

Given the behaviour demonstrated (register fingerprint, everything works as expected, add screen protector, any fingerprint unlocks), I'd imagine that they're not dealing with ever…

Yeah agreed. It's almost certainly some code that needs to change from this: testResult = TestFingerprint(fingerprint); if(testResult) return UNLOCK_OK; else return UNLOCK_FAIL; to…

> In fact there are already articles showing how the unlock feature works while you’re asleep Hah, this was the first thing I tested with Face ID when I got my iphone 10. If you lo…

Maybe I’m living in the 1970s but I always assumed pagers just showed a phone number and you were supposed to call back?

I didn't appreciate physical albums when I was younger but now I find it difficult to throw them out, especially if they were bought in a store. Just looking at them reminds me of …

May I recommend Keypirinha [1] over Launchy? I recently tried all of the launchers I could find for Windows and KP was by far the best, and does not get enough recognition in my vi…

It now looks as though it might be Google Chrome. Whoooops. https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-... e: hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

Sounds unlikely to be a virus. Certificate expiry seems probable if it’s happened suddenly to everyone using this software and dongle.

There is already a Microsoft library for this - System.Numerics.Vectors, see documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics?... Not sure how MathSharp…

You can save downloads to the Files app, which then has folders for all the storage apps you have installed, like dropbox or icloud or whatever. You can also save to the device loc…

Save it to Files, tap ‘preview content’ then swipe over to the second document.