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> Whenever an installer finished, Windows went and checked whether any of these commonly-overwritten files had indeed been overwritten. > Basically, Windows 95 waited for each installer to finis…

Paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20260324230642/https://www.thena... > and a man with an impossibly large head I think Andreessen sucks, but I think body-sh…

Boy, that escalated quickly.

I just remembered that I have a non-infringing example encode I can share: PBS's “Code Rush — A Year in the Life of a Silicon Valley Supernova: Netscape” (2000) Original PBS web page: https:…

I'm on vacation right now (shouldn't be on HN or my phone at all but what're ya gonna do) but can upload it somewhere when I get home next week and can access that machine.

As with any lossy encoding process, I also always keep my originals so I can do it over in the future if need be :) Not necessarily the physical disc but at least an ISO. I tend to rip DVD ISOs with t…

There's no reason this can't by automated! I have a StaxRip workflow that takes care of everything I mentioned below except for the cropping which tends to be more fiddly — some times larger…

It all comes down to the fact that DVD is more of an analog format than a digital one. I feel like people get “CD ripping brain” which causes them to think that the most desirable thing is making the …

HandBrake is the best if you want to ruin all of your DVD encodes. e: downvote if you want but I'm right and you're wrong lmfao For anyone in the peanut gallery who wants a good deinterlac…

Divvy handles this very well. It's been my go-to for like fifteen years: https://mizage.com/divvy/

Per-app mixing on the first-level menu. I like SoundSource on macOS for the same reason: https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/ …

Monkey's paw curls: listening to customers, except literally and 24/7.

> and now we have 3 different versions of the audio control panel in Windows And yet somehow none of them are as nice as https://eartrumpet.app/ lol…

I like a lot of things about Windows and would consider myself technically literate. I also like Linux and especially FreeBSD, but Windows has Good Bones. Shame about all the spyware and the shitty mo…

It's this screen: https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/230937718/annoy... (not several times per hour like this post says, but same UI) Pretty sure this is…

How can you say “outside of Play Protect” when it comes enabled by default and hassles me to turn it back on every time I install an APK?

Now do Surveillance Impact: https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2024/10/27/waymos-5-6... “Waymo is using around four NVIDIA H100 GPUSs at a unit price of 10,000 doll…

And now we have looped back around to my original comment. I'll give you a moment to scroll up and read it again.

Agreed. Effectively-nobody would be interested in buying it if it weren't for OpenTTD and all the improvements they've made over the years. It's absurd that some company can buy up and …

Who gives a shit? It's from 1995 and nu-Atari had nothing to do with it.

> a compromise would be needed to balance Atari’s commercial interests (which of course they are entitled to pursue as the rights holder) No, fuck 'em. They had nothing to do with developing t…

Most people carry an accelerometer-equipped smartphone around in their pocket or bag, and there is already precedent for that data being collected and transmitted without consent: https://r…

> Set up a website I dislike how this article handwaves its own recommendation away. The steps required to “have a fucking website” are so much more complex than they used to be. Mandatory† TLS is …

“Mac OS X” > Windows > modern macOS

The point of the gaming console is to get hacked , because that's how they develop the security techniques that metastasize over to strangle general-purpose computing, which is the real goal. De…

I learned about this from my Macintosh back in The Day™, when a dead Parameter RAM battery would reset the system date to January 1st, 1904 at every boot: - https://spinsidemacintosh.neocit…

I was only replying to the part about WFH. Four day weeks would be great.

> is well loved by everyone who participates You don't speak for me :) I hate it.

Relevant Wired: https://www.wired.com/2008/05/army-removes-pa/

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