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web.archive.org 1mo ago

Lossless data compression software benchmarks / comparisons

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www.cbc.ca 1mo ago

Over $5M in donations flowed in after the Lapu-Lapu Day attack. Where it went

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www.bbc.com 7mo ago

India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones

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old.reddit.com 1y ago

The true reason behind Aero Glass's removal from a Microsoft Engineer (2015)

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github.com 1y ago

The Homebrew Channel repository is archived (Apr 28, 2025)

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github.com 1y ago

Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025

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www.gamingonlinux.com 1y ago

EA Just Open Sourced Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

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cairoshell.com 2y ago

Cairo Desktop Environment

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www.phoronix.com 2y ago

The Performance Impact of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation

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www.androidpolice.com 2y ago

WhatsApp backups are now starting to count against your Drive storage quota

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www.aliweb.com 2y ago

Aliweb – The Web's Oldest Search Engine – Est. 1993

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faq.whatsapp.com 2y ago

WhatsApp Android backups will start counting toward account storage

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support.google.com 2y ago

WhatsApp backups on Android will count toward Google cloud storage limit in 2024

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www.canada.ca 2y ago

Questions and Answers on Canada's Online News Act

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www.mdgx.com 3y ago

MDGx Max Speed WinDOwS Tricks and Secrets

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fedchairman.kollectivemobile.com 3y ago

Chair the Fed: A monetary policy game

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www.smithsonianmag.com 3y ago

Russia’s Cold War Plan to Reverse the Ocean and Melt the Arctic (2013)

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cameraprism.com 3y ago

Camera Brands Market Share 2023

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Fake CO2 monitor (party detector) with schematic

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petrolette.space 3y ago

Petrolette – An RSS home page that stores data in the browser

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www.pagetutor.com 3y ago

So, you want to make a Web Page (2006)

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How to change web page's grey text to black?

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nicubunu.blogspot.com 4y ago

User Interface History for Mozilla (1999-2012)

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web.archive.org 4y ago

The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering

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www.defenseone.com 4y ago

Russia will build its own DNS, cites US information warfare (2017)

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tabula.technology 4y ago

Tabula: Convert PDF Table to CSV

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Google Hummingbird Search Algorithm (2013)

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www.mdgx.com 4y ago

MDGx Max Speed WinDOwS Tricks and Secrets

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Drive?

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digitalshiftmedia.com 4y ago

What Is “The Squint Test”?

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Recall that real interest rate = interest rate - expected inflation. The goal of the central banker is to keep real interest rate low. If you have negative expected inflation, that sets a lower bound on the real interest rate since interest rate could only go as low as zero. This gives less flexibility for monetary policy to handle crisis and that scares the central bankers.

rebalancing of people’s portfolios values It's not just portfolio value. It's well accepted in the economics that wealth impact's people spending (see wealth effect and its cousin negative wealth effect)

In computer science, we have classes on memorizing/implementing various algorithms so that we may understand their behavior. Could anyone name the reason why grade school students memorize and execute the long division algorithm? I certainly hadn't used long division since grade school.

8. How will age verification work? We know that having a range of methods to prove age is important to ensure online spaces are accessible.

Ofcom will set out in the coming months different options for effective forms of age assurance for proving whether someone is over 16 that are accurate, robust, reliable, and fair.

The fact sheet doesn't actually specify how age verification will be done so it the title is bit speculative. However, it's concerning that there's nothing in description about preserving privacy.

At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.

There is a lot of information, in various forms, on the internet that are specifically designed to misinform those who hadn’t taken a course on that particular topic, but leaves the reader feeling they learnt something. Right now LLM’s are good at picking those apart for the reader if they decide to dig deeper, however, I fear this era might not last.

I am quite surprised that Google hasn't done this in the name of security, as email, one of the few channel that brands do not have to pay any middleman, is a competitor to search ads.

PC makers are going to stop some of the artificial segmentation they used on the lower price devices, and that is going to hurt the sales of their higher-end lines. There is no reason they kept pushing 70 percent srgb panels on even the mid tier Thinkpads when the Neo has a good display.

None of the reason for the redesign in 2014, 2020 and 2025 had anything to do with solving any problem users had with the interface. The goals were just to blend controls and content visually and make the interface feel fresh, which I doubt that any users were asking for in the first place.

For what they designed it, allowing beginners to discover all the functionality that's available, it works perfectly.

Sure, but where are the beginners are we talking about? In 2007, Microsoft office had long reached dominance in the workplace and school such that the only beginners are students learning word prcessing for the first time.

I believe the security vulnerability issues will be addressed with companies using cloud based vibe-code platform or a ai security auditor agent that runs through the code base and flags security issues.

Keep Android Open 5 months ago

At this point, I wouldn't recommend Android other than enjoying the much steeper discount with the headset. For me, the only thing that is keeping me on Android is easier access to commas on the keyboard.

While many hobbyists developer market, like the hobbyist graphic design market, pirated their tools, the corporate market did paid for their tools.

The issue here is that they the developers aren't convincing their companies to pay for libraries now, partly because a lot of the tools are now free.

In the face of productivity increase and lower barrier of entry, other professionals move to capture the increase in productivity for their own members and erect barriers to prevent others from taking their tasks. In IT, we celebrate how our productivity increase benefited the broader economy, how more people in other roles could now build stuff, with the strong belief that employment of developers and adjacent roles will continue to increase and how we could get those new roles.

Consulting business? I was under the impression (from Google Reader) that if users aren’t in the millions, then they’ll kill the project. How could they also run a high-touch consultancy?!

Google also has the Project Zero which doesn't fit into Google business culture either. I wonder if Mandiant is paying for their payroll.