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During a pandemic? The screenshots show the hardware failure was 2020-04-15 so it's not like you can just ignore current conditions :)

A 757 crashed in 1996 when it sat for three weeks and gave mud dauber wasps time to build a nest in the pitot-static tube that fed airspeed information to the autopilot: https://aviation-sa…

That was just a low-tech non-targeted way to perform the same application of heat without breaking the warranty sticker on the console.

It can be both.

Here's a bit of history that might get lost: OiNK's rules specified minimum bitrate of 192k for MP3 uploads. OiNK was a British tracker, and Radiohead's "pay what you want" MP…

The web comic Leisure Town (1996~2003), particularly the comic "Q.A. Confidential", was one of my first major exposures to Bay Area software industry humor when I was still a young bedroom p…

I'm not still 14, sadly, so he isn't really that funny to me now. I'd rather not spoil my good memories :)

Those sellers never left eBay. It just got harder to find them among the noise. I still frequently have that great "old eBay" experience today when buying from sub-100-feedback sellers.

The old SomethingAwful for me. > Web Rings were amazing, and I think the idea still has merit. Why did everyone stop using them? They stopped having web pages and started having Xangas/Frien…

At least it's within the realm of possible fan recreation if the international cut is strictly shorter than the 4K release we have.

Does the package name need to be in the title if it's already the URL? :)

This is why Apple stopped describing their portables as “laptops” some time in the early 2000s. They didn’t want the legal risk of somebody burning themselves after it was implied to be safe to use on…

Previously (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538384 Previously previously (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099431 …

The government can be forcing Facebook's hand by making Facebook fearful of being investigated, fined, broken up, etc if they are found to have allowed manipulation of the 2020 election in any wa…

The Search team isn't some helpless independent group adrift on currents outside of their control.

I don't use it myself, but there are a handful of reports on the Wiki of people using it with both eComStation and ArcaOS: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Odin_C…

I think it's disingenuous to say "the web is basically google's adversary" when Google AdWords is the reason so many pages fight for top ranking.

The 2001 date in the title is a guess based on the fact that it describes OS/2 1.3 in 1991 as "ten years ago", but I felt it important to include the date because a lot has happened to …

Equipment ID and subscriber information used to be the same thing in the far past: http://web.textfiles.com/phreak/cell.txt People cloned phones to make free calls, not receive t…

No city goes bankrupt because of road maintenance. They just choose not to do it. There are plenty of towns and cities across the USA that have just been left to decay.

Nice to see this on here. I really enjoy using this as well as Token2Shell (SSH client) from the same dev: https://token2shell.com/ …

Yes, that’s why it’s a bad implementation of a good idea.

The implementation may be bad but it seems like the same idea to me, “user must interact with UI before entering credentials”.

> It’s totally inappropriate to desktops. I don’t agree. It’s important for the user to know a login UI is the real thing. For example, Windows NT used to have you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to make the cred…

Because newer Macs contain what is essentially an iOS device: the security processor. It’s the data broker for the encrypted internal storage among other things.