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This is a really important article but just got flagged (why?) so I'm reposting it. Original submission is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325280

https://archive.is/TEwfi

When I worked at IBM in ‘98 Lotus Notes was the default email client for all employees - we referred to it internally as “Bloatus Goats” such was the disdain we had for it.

Don't bother, I tried with a disposable email address and they make you subscribe to a mailing list before sending you the download link. When you do eventually get it, it's a 3 pa…

It’s ok - The Winchester is within walking distance.

I live in the UK now, have done for 40+ years and there are (still) automated car washes everywhere.

Have you considered https://tiller.com/ ? They can pull feeds in and refresh automatically but have a big privacy play so that only you get to see your finances (and display and ma…

I'd recommend using Outline - it's a one click setup that lets you provision your own VPN on a cloud provider (or your own hardware). Since you get to pick where the hardware is lo…

The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.

https://archive.ph/AKASQ

Actually multi-focal contact lenses are a thing. I was surprised to hear this too, since I wondered how they could work in practice - there’s a handy explainer here if you are inte…

It's worse than that - an attacker on the same local network as the target machine can tie up the legitimate DHCP server by reserving all available addresses and then start adverti…

Clicky: 2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433 2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152 2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 2020 → https:…

https://web.archive.org/web/20231122121846/https://www.washi...

https://archive.ph/wqONd

The original post did not come off as condescending to me, but instead just highlighted how BigCorp cloud marketing departments have an incentive to sell developers on “infrastruct…

Currently OCR support is limited to PDF > TXT conversion but we're hoping to add support for other output formats at some point. Feel free to shoot me an email at chris [at] zamzar…

If you just need to convert the files have you thought about using Zamzar ( https://dev.zamzar.com/ )? We have a file conversion API that supports DOC/DOCX/ODT/PDF/TEX to Markdown …