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Daily. On top of general search engines, I have a bunch of custom ones added to Firefox so I can skip the Google/Bing/Yandex step.

It appears there is a bug with it on Firefox. The game loads with a word and what looks like five possible answers, but after a few seconds the screen goes blank.

Self-hosted VPNs cleanly solve the port access problem using free software. As a bonus, there's generally minimal added latency because it's just another encrypted direct TCP conne…

It's a bit difficult to nail down direct citations for what is basic knowledge of how tariffs work in reality. It's covered in AP/college macroecon and U.S. history classes. Wikipe…

Given all the remote work tech that the pandemic helped mature, the answer seems obvious.

Trump is using century-old misinformation about tariffs to raise tax revenue to pay for tax cuts on the wealthy. In reality, it's an added tax on all spending that accelerates infl…

I'm taking bets, do you think the tariffs will: 1. be rescinded/paused in [0,2) days; 2. be rescinded/paused in [2,4) days; 3. be rescinded/paused in [4,7] days; 4. not be rescinde…

The Gimme-brand seaweed snacks I get contain oxygen absorbers. So do packages of Tillamook Country Smoker jerky and meat sticks. They seem to be fairly common with packages of jerk…

The ones in food are often oxygen absorbers instead of dessicants. They contain iron "sand" that is, unfortunately, not reusable. They're usually very flat and have a "do not micro…

This seems a very odd outcome. After all the supposed changes post-9/11, I would think an international flight crew would need to be known to the destination and have entry clearan…

Of h.264, h.265, vp8, vp9, and av1, h.264 is the only codec with consistent support across all of chat/messaging clients, browsers, smart TVs/phones, tablets, and streaming devices…