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I can't find it in the settings for Google Search, has it been removed?

I've been seeing this specific type of sock puppet spam on YouTube for years, the same exact modus operandi, my earliest distinct memory of seeing this specific kind of sock puppet…

> Soon, developers will be able to withdraw the stars earned by their bots in Toncoins via Fragment. So it's backed by Telegram's own cryptocurrency, or at least soon gonna be. rea…

I guess the accuracy really depends on your location or ISP. I believe my ISP rarely or never rotates IP addresses, and on top of that I think my ISP provided router is assigned an…

How the heck did it automatically pan the map to my current location, my small town, in an Incognito window, on page load? Is IP geolocation this accurate and accessible to every w…

While you can't save to localStorage as my sibling commenters have shown, greyface- down below in the thread posted a version that saves to the hash fragment of the URI. Saving to …

Nice! I bookmarked it and I'm gonna start using it, thank you. For a quick and dirty save, you can press Ctrl+P to open the print window/dialog and select "Save as PDF", or you can…

Google, (the Google Chrome team), have stated before that "[JPEG XL] doesn't provide significant benefits over existing image formats" [1] and have been vocal in there disinterest …

and using one image format (or fewer number of them) increases the CDN's cache hit rate, so it decreases latencies and makes your site load faster.

I just realized that the PNG file for the logo hosted on wikimedia, is 232KB! That is a lot, that's unnecessarily large for such a simple logo, so I used vtracer, a raster image to…

Oh wow, this book cover art-piece has the same concept, but even more impressive; the Sun logo has 3 "sun" words in the logo not 4 (I know I also thought they were 4 initially), bu…

The logo SUN Microsystems had is a 4-way ambigram with rotational symmetries. Designed by Professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford, the logo features 4 interleaved copies of the word "s…

> For the threat model of most users, where hardware-based targeted attacks aren't a big concern, this is a bad tradeoff. > hardware-based targeted attacks You mean physical-access…

I think they're migrating to this domain; I don't think it's a temporary change from an outage or something like a fallback on a second domain.

I love how there are many Piccolo REPLs embedded in the article and interleaved with the paragraphs. Piccolo looks amazing, I got a perfect use case for it, and I'm excited for whe…

For as long as I can remember, probably since ChatGPt has launched, the ChatGPT website does not set the title of the tab/window to the title of the current chat/thread, the title …

It's fun to think about a technical solution that if implemented by the state and porn websites it would be privacy preserving, I have a hunch some form of cryptography can be part…

This is the future! :)

Are there any wrapper programs that run a program and make the program transparently encrypt its writes and decrypt its reads? i.e. with the program launched being oblivious to the…

Hoaxers hoping to drum up enough news stories to impact Apple's share price to make money on shorting it?

probably with the help of AI, as I think they are otherwise very unimaginative people this is the most amount of likes that I've ever seen on a spam comment that is this recent, it…