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The turning point for me was five years ago when they dropped the "Discussions" filter that would search mailing lists and forums. It was amazing for obscure technical and programming issues…

You can send it back, but (supposedly) if you do so they charge you a fee to send a tech out in the future. I say supposedly because it seems like a weed-out warning to reduce support tickets from peo…

uMatrix is wonderful. I can’t imagine browsing without it. The parent comments are talking about iOS, though, where there is unfortunately much less choice. Even “Firefox” on iOS isn’t really Firefox …

Does it still work after the recent API changes that killed Tweetbot and other apps? I had this set up a few years ago and miss it but assumed it was done for alongside the others.

> I don't know where or when this became norm I assume people who aren't as driven in their careers wouldn't want to mess with something that gives them hour-long breaks "waitin…

Few people can guess what high-bandwidth experiences might catch on once more people have connections that can enable them

This page seems to have zero text or image content unless I let SquareSpace run Javascript (and ostensibly track me).

The PE organization has been especially desperate to hire over the last year. The burnout and churn is real. Be wary of what you'd be walking into.

Sony tried that with the Vita TV and it did not do very well. Granted, they also handicapped it in stupid ways with a whitelist of compatible games. Anything that relied on the Vita's rear touchs…

On the plus side they avoided breaking everybody’s firewall configs by importing the “new” pf rule syntax from OpenBSD.

When the article mentioned Walmart's 2008 "MP3 Store" shutdown I thought the author was about to relate it to the eBook store closure via the fact that they were both Microsoft DRM syst…

Who says China will let anybody else compete?

I use a Pi 3 running FreeBSD 12 and CUPS as a print server for my Brother laser printer. The printer has an option for a network card, but finding one is many times more expensive than the Pi, and it&…

You're thinking bigger rather than smaller. I learned my lesson about prying with screwdrivers after gouging a couple of PCBs I was trying to repair when my sharp metal "pry tool" slipp…

I take "FAANG-type tenants" to mean "Companies that aspire to FAANG levels of prestige" in an implicitly negative way, as in companies that are chasing the visible adornments of ve…

I feel just as safe on Muni as I have on the handful of other American transit systems I've lived near. Feel free to read that either way :) Polls have been pretty constant at least https:/…

It obviously shouldn’t require some children getting toxic school supplies, people sustaining burns or worse from counterfeit 18650 lithium battery cells, or any other suffering to get testing and cer…

Not everyone has the luxury to be able to discard their health insurance or work visa on a whim to suit your opinion of their employer.

You are confusing the term “live stream” to mean something actually happening at that moment in the real world. All a “live” stream actually is to Youtube or FB or any other streaming service is just …

You did mention its usage on pre-2003 Apple keyboards (Univers 57 Condensed Oblique), but I'm so nostalgic for that usage in particular that I wanted to share a photo for those who aren't fa…

Conversely, I’d never use a hosting provider I assumed would deplatform me in response to the slightest outrage or corporate coercion. That’s why I’ve been avoiding GoDaddy ever since 2007: https:&#x…

Sadly Apple took the wind out of my all-time favorite browser, Camino, née Chimera, when they started up the WebKit/Safari project by hiring away key people like Dave Hyatt: https://do…

What about the Xperia X Compact? It’s supported too.

You say those like they aren’t both extremely important things. Windows 95 was the inflection point where desktop personal computers became “accessible” and coincided (despite their detour into MSN) w…

> Even a country like Japan, who have high safety standards Reading about TEPCO’s management of their facilities and people both before and after the Fukushima accident doesn’t really mesh with thi…

4chan lead me to Midnight Snacks in 2005 and if anything it's been more influential on me than 4chan itself. Thanks for exposing teenage me to artists like Boris, MONO, world's end girlfrien…

I know this is going to sound a lot like “Why would anyone use dropbox when they could roll their own with an rsync shell script” but it’s not that bad. Please don’t spread FUD about the difficulty of…

Sidecar was the first mover :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_(company)

Nullsoft tried the "ambitious cross-platform open source rewrite" thing in 2002 with Winamp3/WASABI and everyone hated it because it broke all their Winamp 2 plugins :) https:/&#x…