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Computer Generated Malware

by Bananas?-Yes » Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:49 am

I suspect that title causes a blood pressure increase very quickly in some folks and I sure can understand that this is thinking so far out of the...

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Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:39 pm
I finally did it.

by Pyrrho » Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:12 pm

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What? You stopped using this???

I use Brave for everyday use. Works a treat.

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I appreciate your assistance.

I found that one about 12 hours ago but I couldn't find any save history thing in that, either.

I do realize I could...

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Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:15 am
A Very Strange Habit

by Bananas?-Yes » Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:30 am

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I sincerely do not know how my brain evolved to this stage where I have started to take on Internet companies and get them to work a little harder to...

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I think that you scared him off Rob.

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Last post by ed
Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:50 pm
Machine translation

by Anaxagoras » Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:07 am

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Got a new toy at work, just taking it for a test drive.
It lets you run things through several different publicly available machine translation...

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Google Translate Sings: The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

Awesome

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Last post by Rob Lister
Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:01 pm
Programming nostalgia

by Witness » Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:59 pm

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Usborne books out of the 80ies:

Perhaps somebody will shed a tear and download:

:P

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Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system

Solid state storage replaces IBM Series/1's floppy drive.

Five...

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Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:32 pm
Quantum dreams

by Witness » Thu Jun 27, 2019 4:02 am

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Google's Quantum Processor May Achieve Quantum Supremacy in Months

Moore's Law famously held that computer processor power would double about...

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The word is given. Warp speed.

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Last post by sparks
Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:01 pm
Website software

by ed » Sat Oct 19, 2019 11:25 am

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I want to throw together what I think a friends website should look like. no selling, just info. Need 3 or 4 tabs with product contents. Need the...

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Most hosting providers have DIY website builder options.

Or you can do it on Wix.

Might be some cheap web designers on Fiverr.

Wix looks to be...

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Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:34 pm
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems

by Geni » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:39 am

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From The Register

Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real...

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Wow. Cool story.

Next someone's going to say the story of George Washington and the cherry tree is apocryphal.

I never heard that story about...

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Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:26 am
VPNs

by ed » Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:11 pm

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Anyone use one?

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To add to ed's paranoia:
Is Your Browser Safe Against Fingerprinting?

What is a Fingerprint

Modern browsers expose a lot of information via...

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Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:36 pm
scary scams

by ed » Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:04 pm

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I can only think ransomeware .

The first email is from Shopify, a service we have not used for 8 months. Confirm my account is a link.

The second...

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Scum like this are why drawing and quartering should be brought back. Not that they ever get caught though.

By the way, congratulations on surviving...

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Last post by ed
Fri Sep 06, 2019 1:24 pm
Hypothesis: Jack Dorsey's Twitter password is ...

by shemp » Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:48 pm

Just shows that anyone is vulnerable. Best to have your passwords tattooed on your tongue backwards so you can read them in a mirror.

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Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:48 pm
phpBB --- WTF

by ed » Sat Aug 24, 2019 11:48 am

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If I wanted to have a forum dedicated to my business interests, using

(or anything else that is free/better etc)

what exactly is involved?...

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Interesting language there.

I never did quite get that business with profanity figured out, even when I was on active duty. And it sure isn't very...

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Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:48 pm
Social media photo tracking methods

by Pyrrho » Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:51 pm

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Fascinating discussion.

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There are some amazing tracking methods out there/here on the Net. I have done some studying of this subject and I was at one time able to receive...

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Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:06 am
Download them All

by ed » Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:54 pm

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There was a utility that allowed you to download all thing linked on a page. It is, sadly, defunct.

Anyone know of an alternative.

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That was the cool thing with DTA

DTA still works with the Cyberfox browser (one of the reasons I use it).

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Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:14 am
Agent Smith vs Android

by Pyrrho » Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:50 pm

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Check Point Researchers recently discovered a new variant of mobile malware that quietly infected around 25 million devices, while the user remains...

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Doesn't look like that, but it serves to remember what I went to the store for...:)

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Mon Jul 15, 2019 1:14 am
errr ummm

by ed » Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:13 pm
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I restarted my pc before I left for a late lunch. I come back to everything wiped. Like a clean install of win 10....

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I think I was insulted.
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Last post by ed
Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:11 am
Google Earth comes to most browsers.

by Rob Lister » Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:37 am

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Formerly, like yesterday, Google Earth was restricted to Chrome. A beta version is now available for Firefox, edge, opera. Not sure about safari....

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Earth ...

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Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:59 am
Powerline Adapters

by ed » Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:29 pm

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So, my home is not wired for Cat-5 (and if there is now a Cat-6, anyone who smugly informsd me of that supremely useless fact will get a kick in the...

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yepper.

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Last post by Rob Lister
Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:04 pm
New blackmail thingie

by ed » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:23 am

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Hello!

I am a hacker who has access to your operating system.
I also have full access to your account.

I've been watching you for a few months...

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Or just get a Mac.

What?

--J.D.

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Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:47 am
Mathematica goes freeware

by Witness » Wed Jun 19, 2019 2:03 am

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Sorta.
Launching Today: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology?

It happens far too often. I’ll be talking to a...

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Wolfram Language and Mathematica have been bundled free on the standard software for the Raspberry Pi now for ages. I usually delete them to free up...

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Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:48 am
Dependency hilarity

by Pyrrho » Sat May 25, 2019 5:16 pm

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Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:16 pm
Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

by Pyrrho » Sat May 25, 2019 2:17 pm

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Tue May 28, 2019 9:19 am
Adobe CC (the CC stands for ClusterfuCk)

by Pyrrho » Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:53 am

Well, maybe not that bad...but today at work I updated Illustrator CC 2015 to Illustrator CC 2017 and th 2017 version is now in Trial Mode, expiring...

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Sat May 18, 2019 5:36 pm
Tech support thread

by Rob Lister » Mon May 06, 2019 4:27 pm

sorry abdul, your link will go unclicked because you are shit at baiting.

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Mon May 06, 2019 4:27 pm
Who Broke Firefox? GRAM?!!!!

by Doctor X » Sat May 04, 2019 2:11 pm

Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired (updated)

Many Firefox users around the world are browsing without their usual set of...

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Sat May 04, 2019 2:11 pm
Bosque

by Pyrrho » Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:51 pm

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New programming language from Microsoft! :hyper:

The author of Bosque, Mark Marron, introduces a new programming model called Regularized...

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Whatever happened to good old APL? :)

Which reminds me that the OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle) was fond of APL for their literary...

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Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:27 am
Translation

by Witness » Sun Apr 14, 2019 2:24 am

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Give it a try. Seems to work a lot better than Google translate: .

:)

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Overall, pretty decent. Where it says a boost of pep's seems too literal because that's not idiomatic English. We would say put some pep into ( pep...

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Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:27 pm
Party like it's 1999

by Pyrrho » Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:30 pm

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Today I found a Tiger Direct catalog that had been under a cabinet since 1999.

IBM ThinkPad 570 with Pentium II 366 MHz cpu, 64mb SDRAM, 6.4gb hard...

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Palm IIIX, New Low Price! $319.99

I still have one. It's been in a storage box for over 15 years. I wonder if it still works.

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Mon Mar 25, 2019 1:10 am
Leon

by Pyrrho » Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:42 am

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Intriguing.

What is Leon?
Leon is an open-source personal assistant who can live on your server.

He does stuff when you ask him for.

You can...

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What is Leon?

ooh, ooh :Wave5: I know that one.

Leon is some IF statements.

linky :P

Of course, being open source, we can actually go read...

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Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:32 pm
NOPE

by Pyrrho » Wed Mar 13, 2019 12:22 am

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Working on an iOS app...needs to access a Sharepoint site...I go looking for info on the Sharepoint API which leads me to the MS Graph API, which led...

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I'm retired from dmg exploits, Don.

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Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:50 pm
Refurbishing an old plotter

by ceptimus » Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:43 pm

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I bought this old plotter on Ebay for £0.99 It's about thirty years old, and would have cost about the same as a small car when new. Plotters have...

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You might like this thing I found on reddit.

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Sun Feb 24, 2019 7:40 am
Cyber Funeral

by Rob Lister » Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:05 pm

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I'd like to say, 'We did it first!'

But really, we just did it early.

Your online data is a bit like single-use plastic: there’s tonnes of the...

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Do it yourself via majestic heavenly force. And the browser switch that dumps all that shit upon closing the program.

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Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:32 pm
Hardware that lasts

by Pyrrho » Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:16 am

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You GOT to read the whole thread!

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Still phoning back home:
Both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched from the US in 1977 and have carried out flyby missions on Jupiter, Saturn,...

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Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:50 am
Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear

by Rob Lister » Mon Feb 11, 2019 2:33 pm

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I almost bought a few of those. IIR, they were about $20 each, led, 10yr life maybe *. I have an echo in the bedroom (because nothing personal and...

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I demonstrated that during the holidays to someone.

Freaked him out.

--J.D.

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Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:31 pm
The Power of Analogy

by Witness » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:10 am

(Shamelessly copied another thread's title…)

Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and...

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Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:10 am
Bad News for Doc and the Apple Fan Boys

by asthmatic camel » Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:36 am

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Have the great unwashed finally realised that they're paying way over the odds for stuff they can buy for half the price or less?

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Apple agrees to pay back-taxes to French authorities

PARIS (Reuters) - Apple’s French division said it had reached a deal with France to pay an...

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Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:19 am
Linux and Ubantu

by ed » Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:36 pm

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So .... what are my alternatives to stupid windows

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Linux Mint is recommended for Windows converts. It's just Ubuntu with a different graphical desktop arrangement that makes it look and work more like...

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Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:30 pm
No. Just no. That is all.

by Anaxagoras » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:31 am

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16 ounces of water is a pint. Well, in :freedom: it is. In Britain it's 20.

I wonder what happens if you ask Alexa for a pint of water?

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I'd rather ask Alexa for a pint of whiskey.

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Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:45 am
Feng shui and computers.

by xouper » Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:19 pm

:mrgreen:

That reminds me of a cow-orker who once stuck a floppy disk (5.25 ) to the side of her filing cabinet with a magnet, along with all the...

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Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:19 pm
Opera vs Firefox etc a missing capability?

by ed » Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:23 pm

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Firefox seems to me to be a real hog so I have moved to Opera which seems better.

There is one capability in FF that I cannot find in any other...

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Recently I recommended Brave
Immediately crashed when I tried to import my bookmarks.

Anyway, I need my add-ons. :mrgreen:

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Thu Jan 03, 2019 2:39 am
Video game surprise awesomeness

by gnome » Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:01 pm

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One of the things that especially entertains me in video games is when amazing things happen you didn't plan or expect, and possibly were not...

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Can you imagine having immortality and connected with that is a footnote that the artist thought you were a goat fornicator?

It doesn't really...

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Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:32 pm
NY Post editorial views emojis with alarm

by Anaxagoras » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:22 pm

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And rightly so! :x

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This version of the forum supports emojis...

🇺🇸🐮😎🗽🚀🌈

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Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:50 pm
Does anyone know...

by WildCat » Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:04 am

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OK so the gf's laptop shit a brick on this weeks update. When I can get it to boot up the desktop is unresponsive nor does it respond to the window...

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What?

--J.D.

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Last post by Doctor X
Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:43 am
OK, TV geniuses...

by gnome » Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:02 pm

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I have acquired a Vizio P55-F1 in a game of chance after buying it in the store like a proper adult, and I'm enjoying the smart TV features,...

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Heh, true

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Last post by gnome
Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:10 pm
Time to get really really REALLY paranoid.

by shemp » Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:00 pm

They'll have to pry my armadillo porn out of my cold dead browser!

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Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:00 pm
Complete Cory Doctorow short story at Reason magazine

by Witness » Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:24 am

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Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:24 am
Airbar

by Witness » Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:10 am

I have no use for it, but it's an interesting technology ( and seems to work):

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Sun Nov 18, 2018 1:10 am
One for Gram's Mom: Apple DoucheBag

by Doctor X » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:08 pm

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Prologue Sing, O Muse, the anger of Doctor X

So . . . my iPod battery has been dying a slow but inexorable death over the last few months. Looking...

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--J.D.

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Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:13 pm
Fun with Assembly

by Pyrrho » Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:31 pm
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Way beyond me but here's the link, you bastards.

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You haven't posted any evidence for your claim. I think you are lying.

Apparently you are a slow learner. One more time . . .
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Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:35 pm
Upgraded Firefox

by xouper » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:45 am

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Tonight I carefully upgraded it one major version at a time from version 20.0.1 to version 24.0 . . .

Yer all the way up to version 24?

Wow. I'm...

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Didn't lose any addons. 8)
:figamagee:

Your preceding comment made me realize I only use the menu for three things:

open all bookmarks;
open...

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Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:45 am

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