samjanis

For a 40-something guy I only had ICQ/Yahoo!/MSN/AOL messager popups during the internet of '99, which would of been a few times per minute.

So yeah, I guess we're actually not that different after all.

Just did 2+ hours of fascinated clicking as if I found a new part of Wikipedia, mainly because I assumed the "one way trip" to the ocean was a euphemism for what happened to the Titan submersible.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with re-using an expired domain.

I'd even go as far as recommending it for hosting similar content to the previous owner's; in the same concept as cafes closing and re-opening under new ownership.

It's the site-squatters, domain-traders and link-farmers that shouldn't be allowed to take over existing URIs.

They gave schneier.com 55/100.

https://inspect.new/schneier.com

That test is actually funny, in a good way; like how you said you got those links in the first place on the about page is pretty much what any experienced web dev finds out day-to-day.

Most sites I sent to it came back with plenty of false positives, mainly because htaccess rewrites resolve the URIs as query string IDs and returned empty pages with "Sorry, but the information you're looking for doesn't exist..."

Certainly!

WARNING:

I clicked the above link and had to chase a growing population of 10+ popups.

Hilarious.

p.s. I do have a popup/JS blocker, but disabled it last night to test something else.

Video taken down.

Got a lot of attention when it was up.

Nice list. Some hit the spot, others miss. Not sure if the author is trying to be funny with points 7 and 8:

Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.

When you forgive others, they may not notice, but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.

That made me rofl. XD I just had to reply.

+1 Thunderbird, however I also use it for handling a collection of IMAP inboxes and importing iCal events.

A heck of a lot. Some scripts, other GUI, but out of all the one-offs there are mainly 2 I use every day:

- s3d: fast(ish) image viewer. Basic but it gets the job done.

- Thoth: Text editor with FTP and note-taking features. Even though I uploaded it 2 years ago https://www.mirrorisland.com/thoth but I haven't needed to update anything on it because it does what I need just fine. I also use it to read error logs on various websites via FTP.

"Time you enjoyed wasting, wasn't wasted" ... Well, that's my excuse. What's yours?

Yup. Looks like I'm not the only one seeing this.

I dropped out 2 years ago despite being on there since 2015 which in my opinion was its peak. It was a great place to chat with others about what everyone is building, with their own hands, but now there are too many solutions looking for a problem.

At least hacker news has managed to keep somewhat neutral, despite having its own share of criticisms.

Nope. No where near weak. You quit. How much more control over your time could you have?

Aaaahhhh.... This brings back so many memories. Roland MCs, 808s, 909s, the RM1x. They were good times.

Bram Bos also made moonfish as a sequencer, using the same UI style as hammerhead https://archive.org/details/moonfish12

Holy heck man, that made me LOL hard. That has to be the most self-explanatory comment, period.

Linux Firefox used Schemeflood! v

It's not very effective....

1055 points and still counting. How cool is that?

The system usage on this is well-designed. I'm using an ASUS F201E Notebook with Debian 10 and the CPU throttled down to 790Mhz (just a bit less than 0.8GHz) to save battery while I'm out on coding field trips, with CPU usage registering around 20%. Very nice.

After listening to this for an hour, it does well with the minimalist resources it's given. Just like what people do on the Pico-8, limitations start becoming an attractive feature. And you can do a lot with 16 bars. A good example is "Army of Me" by Björk - it only uses 8 bars for its backing track but the constant tweaking of filters make it sound a lot more.

This is starting to get in to www.Pouet.net material. Seriously, you should submit it as a demo. It's not just the coding they're after in demos but also creativity. The votes on HN say it all.

To quote koboll below, this has to be the single most awesome project I have seen and heard so far.

It brings back so much from when I used to use the MC-505 while listening to Delerium Spheres 1 and 2.

I'd write more but I gotta go. Just had to say awesome and thanks for sharing.

great find!

Yeah, I got a load of those bots too. Not sure if it's the same as yours but from what I can see in the system log, most appear to look for vulnerabilies by trying to access places like '/admin' or '/passwd'.

Thankfully a RewriteRule in .htaccess catches most of these although I can't help think if there's anything else I missed, security related. :\

If I could turn back time? When my wife and I first found out about bitcoin, a single full BTC was about $20 (Australian) when the official GUI came out for it. That was 2013 or 2014. I don't remember exactly.

Thankfully around that time we did manage to get 0.001BTC from some really generous person who was giving everyone a taste of what crypto is all about, from a website called the Bitcoin Faucet.

That tiny bitcoin went from 35c back then to $66 today.

I've become wiser over the years, but the top 3 were

3: Windows/Symantec Defrag (pre-Vista era) When I had 10-40GB hdds it used to be mesmerising watching the blocks fly around the screen. Eventually I find something else to do and pretend the computer's broken.

2: Macromedia/Adobe Flash. Sometimes animations just didn't want to work. Tweens are notoriously random with complex drawings. Delete and start all over again.

1: Editing HTML after using a WYSIWYG editor. Code clean-up. It takes ages.

I started using ADW since it first came out on a SLOW Android 2.2 device and still use ADW today.

Originally I was looking for a lightweight home screen replacement but I find it more usable than the default Android launcher. It's one of the first apps I install on a new device.

Which nick was transferred?

Really fast editing features. I have found there's no real winner between Vi(m) or Emacs - I can use both although I'm more used to GVim.

Shortcuts in either editor allow quick editing compared to non Vi(m)/Emacs editors.

Also, I have a finely tuned tool-chain outside of GVim that (so far) does what I want better than what IDE's provide, depending on the language or target platform.

(I still use IDE's with java, for example)

Gotcha. Turns out to be Chrome (or Chromium) specific.

In article.js loaded with this page there is a section that looks like:

dataLayer.push({event:"mittr:detectIncognitoMode",action:"detect",category:"incognito-mode",label:n})

Commenting out the function block surrounding it where it starts with "function y() {..." stops the class ".incognito-wall-shown" from being applied to "section.incognito-wall" found in the main HTML page - although this is just a quick dig and haven't debugged any further (I'm halfway through something else but this caught my interest ;) )

Just tried using Firefox Quantum 62.2.2 on Debian with different configurations - NoScript enabled and disabled, and tracking protection enabled and disabled. Can't seem to replicate what you're getting.

What browser and OS are you using? Do you have any plugins/extensions active? (Ad blockers, etc. I don't run any, NoScript does a better job.)

It works fine. Not broken so nothing to fix.