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Damn, what did Mullvad do?

Looks like lots of people (myself in Australia included) are getting the following error message:

"Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes."

Were the forums ever backed up anywhere? Given the quality of writing it'd be a shame if it didn't get archived.

Came here to comment about Tokyoflash's designs, nice to see them here!

There's a good vice article about that very topic.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-do-we-play-video-games-t...

No, it's the children who are wrong!

Heh, I thought of maple syrup as well. And I'm ashamed to say I prefer the fake stuff! Although it's likely because it's what I had as a child, so there's a strong nostalgia factor.

This is what I use to block the news feed on FB to prevent doomscrolling.

Did you also have the screen rotation issue? Curious to know what's causing that.

Not sure what part of the world you're from but I'm sure you can find some decent authentic gigs around where people aren't doing it for the likes and follows :)

Honestly, going to a rave with a dancefloor and cool people is kind of lifechanging. It's kind of the environment that a lot of (most?) dance music is made for. Have a great time!

"Now, Kevin is an incredible young man and we are tremendously proud of him. He works out of state as a software developer"

Half-expecting a comment from him here on HN

"Your screen is 320 by 568 pixels, rendered at 2x density — which means it is almost certainly a recent, high-end display."

Not quite, I'm on a 2016 iPhone SE

What are these hacker camps you speak of?

Sounds like a hard lesson in boundaries. No-one is entitled to your time but you.

I'm going to quote myself from a blog post I wrote back in 2012:

Nethack is incredibly difficult, and near impossible to win without some knowledge. Whilst it could be argued that one could attain this knowledge through trial and error, it would take many many playthroughs to make any headway, even if you played in the invincible “Wizard” mode. Whilst I would recommend the use of spoilers if you wish to make progress in the game and discover what it has to offer, I wouldn’t suggest reading up on absolutely everything to give yourself an advantage. My general rule of thumb was to look something up when I came across it. I still found the game incredibly challenging, as I was placed in situations that I couldn’t predict or prepare for, and I still had that thrill of discovery and amazement.

https://marzzbar.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/awesome-game-exper...

Reminds me of this blog post where someone was trying to reverse-engineer a hand-rolled encryption protocol in a crossword app by colorizing the output and looking for patterns.

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/acre.html

That's what Signal does on my iPhone, I thought it was the default?

So many upvotes. And not even any accompanying submission text. I love it.

Makes me wonder then why they can't afford a team of Android developers to make the Android version.

I'm guessing it's a lot more expensive to install and maintain card readers than to essentially just have signs prompting people to use their phone.

Glad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.

Was it this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXqVV8_GORE

He finds a solution involving copying files across from an older version of xcode

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I'm on my 8th year of using my 2016 SE. Have replaced the battery and screen a few times over the years. A fair few of the apps I used stopped supporting iOS 15 so I've got old versions of those apps installed, but WhatsApp, Signal and my banking app still actively support iOS 15 so it works well enough for me, for now.

I have an iPhone 13 mini sitting in a drawer for when I need to switch.

In my experience that's not true at all, but I think a lot of people have that perception, which is sad.

I mean...you could just not have it changing constantly? It seems pretty unnecessary.

Here's a screen recording from my phone: https://imgur.com/a/snw8qbc

The constantly changing "Frequently asked/entertained/daydreamed questions" bit constantly changing keeps moving everything below it up and down and it's really annoying. I am viewing it on a particularly small phone, however.

In this case, it's not exactly like Pascal's wager because there is plenty of scientific evidence of disastrous consequences of not believing in climate change (and preparing accordingly). There's no evidence to suggest that a non-belief in God will send you to hell.

Looks like they've all been set to private

For me, the emdashes and the constant use of "it's not just [X], it's [hyperbolic Y]" gives it away.