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tomlong

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    Comment #48699211

    No it is not still within the laws of cricket since the late 1930s. You might notice the law changes section in that article, that amongst other things you can't have loads of fiel…

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    Comment #43255773

    This looks really good. As a happy ergodox-ez user of a few years, I would buy one of these in a heartbeat.

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    Comment #41098632

    There is a firefox extension for viewing gopher sites - it uses this proxy https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbitewx/

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    Comment #40521925

    I think this currently exists in some shape or other, I don’t have a facebook account but I can click on profiles of businesses and get their opening hours and pictures of their me…

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    Comment #40156487

    Is anyone using Ghost and unhappy with it or moving away from it? I recently set up a blog (a pretty private, small scale travel diary to share with close family as I don't use soc…

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    Comment #39977966

    I realise it is separate to the weak key prime discovery, but it is interesting how much slow SSH login times are a thread that is worth pulling for one reason or another.

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    Comment #39825662

    I think this is region dependent

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    Comment #30145938

    My pi hole's top blocked domain by some margin is is scribe.logs.roku.com, who knows what else it might be blocking or missing in addition to this.

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    Comment #28999806

    Yesterday a friend remarked to me she had lost a recipe for something or other and I resolved to start recording some I use, I was thinking of something like MD/Obsidian but this l…

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    Comment #28724520

    This is way off the mark. It was never obvious what sort of deal would be done between Europe & the UK govt. from the point of the referendum until quite on late on there was discu…

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    Comment #28682690

    I use fastmail's * alias against a custom domain, to achieve a similar thing. It forwards mail at any address to my normal email, then I just pick a name on signup, ie. hn@emaildom…

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    Comment #28100886

    Looks to have been a recent uptick if you put any store in Google Trends: https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=grift,...

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    Comment #28052954

    In many ways a much more expensive way to solve the problem, but since I switched to the same keyboard (and I leave my laptop shut) I have been glad of the Apple Watch unlocking.

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    Comment #25714816

    Putting aside how good the actual predictions are, I really enjoyed how this was written. It explained things in a manner that I could understand, and I don't have meteorological k…

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    Comment #24857390

    I sold them a bit short there: https://www.thephone.coop/help-resources/contact-us/ Tech Support is 24/7, anything else is 08:30-5pm Mon-Fri.

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    Comment #24857372

    Hugely reccomend The Phone CoOp[1]. I pay ~£33 a month for 80/20. It's properly unlimited, and I pay an extra £0.60 a month for a static IP. Been really stable for me for a long ti…

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    Comment #22441591

    Just to quickly add, I think the project is cool, it provokes interesting discussion and it doesn't need to be legally watertight or achieve what they say they set out to, to be wo…

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    Comment #22441585

    I know it's many orders of magnitude more difficult.. but if I got a printer to print out one of every possible art and published it, CC licensed it, etc wouldn't that have the sam…

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    Comment #22411282

    They are good for stopping people fiddling in large scale corporate deployments where someones nephew knows how to make the work laptop go faster.

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    Comment #22360392

    Heh, i was talking about this today. I do three days a month for a client where I use their computers and it's the only time I ever use Windows 10 and the only time I see this. I w…

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    Comment #22326744

    I've learnt recently (not much former higher education) the power of making long hand notes on pen and paper. It helps me connect with and think through the material and take it in…