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I still use K-Lite Codec Pack on all of my Windows systems: https://github.com/Microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes... …

USB-C is creepy in its own way, because it lets the host computer uniquely identify each pair of headphones. Even my USB-C-to-3.5mm adapter has a USB descriptor field whose key is a UUID and whose val…

Thank you for the interlacing-preserved files!! For archival's sake I hope you have some sort of Lagarith/ProRes/etc versions stashed instead of just h264, although those would be prohi…

> Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Measure …

Humble Bundle usually gives you Steam keys

At least he was able to sneak the “Antler!” easter egg in: https://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/UT-Stickies.html …

> Do we need to wait for a tragedy before we do something? Yes, absolutely. It isn't pleasant to think about, but laws and regulations are meaningless if they aren't based on actual numbe…

The crash in question was in January of that year, and this article in May is talking about passengers “starting” to get items back. Important items that I'm forced to go without for six months m…

Each of these things is a contributor.

> it hasn’t resulted in deaths

Pervasive tolling is surveillance-of-movement in disguise.

> If raising valid concerns that were not addressed by the linked website is FUD for you, so be it. Yes, it is. It's specifically called concern trolling: https://en.wiktionary.org&…

> Should I expect backdoors? Is it an elaborate front by north korea? Who will be able to remotely execute code on this operating system? Stop sowing FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I would say the downside of them is that they're known for replacing GPL software with MIT software

I really enjoyed using them for my Ruby file-matching library where I wanted to read `shared-mime-info` XML source package files directly and on the fly as opposed to using the pre-processed secondary…

Imagine thinking most people read Knowledge Base articles and don't just take the defaults. They even manage to squeeze some FUD into the opt-out toggle's name.

It's a cryptographic key exchange system that allows nodes to open Wireguard tunnels between each other. They have a nice product, but I don't like how it spies on your “private” network by …

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407106

> Timekeeping has been an important mechanism for humans for as long as recorded history. And for 99% of that history, Noon was when the sun was half-way through its daily arc at whatever point on …

And the disaster plan for the disaster plan is to realize that it isn't that important at the human-level to have a clock meticulously set to correspond to other meticulously-set clocks, and th…

Also https://www.google.com/search?q=6-7 and https://www.google.com/search?q=6%207 — any others? edit: and https://www.google.com/search?q=six%20seven…

Small correction: the AX211 card in the Framework 12 is able to connect to networks, not just scan. What you're missing is that a bunch of the Wi-Fi firmware blobs were removed from the base sy…

Weird to see this downvoted, because it's totally true. Apple imports FreeBSD's userland periodically but not its kernel/drivers, and thus has nothing to do with how well FreeBSD works …

Put an iPhone on your Wi-Fi and log how often it calls out to some Apple web service. You might be shocked, or does it make it okay when Apple themselves are the ones it's impossible to have priv…

> what the "VA" in va linux is for If you want to keep Up you'll have to stay Down

And when I can't think it up, I have a bookmark for my locale's upstream compose sequences file: https://github.com/X11Libre/mirror.fdo.libX11/blob/master/…

https://github.com/ell1010/wincompose is like the first thing I install on any new Windows machine.…

> If someone can point me to a receiver that's more like 4 inches than 18 inches S.M.S.L. make some good ones: https://www.smsl-audio.com/portal/product/index I use …