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NoSalt··on 3D Pinball for Windows (1995)
Before I install it, how is it?
NoSalt··on 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
Part StackOverflow, part Reddit ... it's getting dicey around here.
NoSalt··on Great Mobile Apps Aren't Built Around Features
Your link:

https://geekyants.com/case-studies/nowmatch-next-gen-social-...

Doesn't work. Tested on Firefox, Chrome and Edge on Windows 10. It resolves to a "404" page:

Looks like you're lost

The page you are looking for is not available!

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NoSalt··on Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
Will it run Myst???
NoSalt··on So Bright the Vision (1956) – a story about machines writing instead of humans [pdf]
If there is one thing I love ... it's old SciFi. I'm looking forward to reading this, thanks!
NoSalt··on Backtrack-Free Cursive
As a guy who writes software for a living, I rarely put pen or pencil to paper. I type out everything, and print it if I need it. I have nice and simple note taking and list making sites for myself on the www, so that takes care of a lot of what people write for. I am odd, though, in the fact that I LOVE a good pen, and I have several nice ones that I never use.
NoSalt··on Backtrack-Free Cursive
I am afraid to ask what the parameters are of "an Old", for fear that I may fall into said category.
NoSalt··on Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance
James Cameron is prophetic:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hoverdrone+dark+angel

NoSalt··on An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
I have a cure-all for difficult-to-cancel services ... cancel the credit card. I have done it before, and I will do it again if need be. And, I absolutely refuse to give any, ANY company my debit card number or bank account number. I want to be in charge of when my money leaves, and to whom it goes.
NoSalt··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Spite
NoSalt··on How to sequence your own DNA at home
Very cool ... thank you!
NoSalt··on How to sequence your own DNA at home
I want to sequence, but I absolutely do not want any company or government or church to have access to my data. When the author says:

> "I have a VCF, I can run it through tools like VEP, ClinVar, gnomAD, PharmGKB (highly recommend), Gene Inspector, or Claude"

I am assuming my data is now within the hands of some of the very entities I do not want to have access to my data ... true?

NoSalt··on Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal
I don't know anything about her music, but she seems pretty cool on the literary front.
NoSalt··on How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown
I'd love to see one on the toy car where you rub the wheels across a surface several times in a row to get the engine going faster and faster, then on the last rub, you let it go and it zips away.
NoSalt··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
I am all in favor of going outside ... just don't bring a stink into the workplace.
NoSalt··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
I have NEVER worked at a place that offered showers. Plus, along with the extra commute time of walking or cycling, a shower adds another ≈ 20 minutes that I am not doing what I prefer ... which is not working.
NoSalt··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
If you mean showers, then you can forget it. I have NEVER worked at a place that offered showers. Plus, along with the extra commute time of walking or cycling, a shower adds another ≈ 20 minutes that I am not doing what I prefer ... which is not working.
NoSalt··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
Why should the onus be on me when they are the disgusting ones and the employers are at fault for not offering showers?
NoSalt··on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
I have been using the same µSD card since 2016 with no issues.

Watch ... it'll fail on me later today. :-D

NoSalt··on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
Ever since Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. started offering "free" online storage for photos, ever since streaming started to be popular, I have ALWAYS extolled the virtues of µSD card slots in phones and owning your own media (i.e., purchasing CDs and DVDs). Many people would give me a hard time about this, calling me a Luddite, but I will never lose access to my photos, music, or movies ... unless it is the end of the world as we know it, which I happily have on R.E.M.'s Eponymous album.
NoSalt··on The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore
Every one of the items on the list can STILL be done in meat-space.
NoSalt··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
I, for one, do not wish to smell my malodorous coworkers - who have walked or cycled to work and are all sweaty - all day. I already have one of them and it makes me want to vomit.
NoSalt··on One million passports leaked online
> "If these kinds of breaches were actually costly, then people would indeed treat PII as toxic."

But they are costly ... just not to big business or government. They couldn't give two flips about our misery.

NoSalt··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
If this doesn't make you think of Star Trek, I don't know what does.

I can imagine the amateur archeologist, Picard himself, asking La Forge to read this fragile piece of history, and Geordi coming up with something just like this.

Yes, I still have hope for humanity, and a future like Star Trek.

NoSalt··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
It was only a matter of time. I wonder how long this silicon drought will last.
NoSalt··on OS9Map
Man, I miss pre-OSX Macintosh operating systems. They just had more personality than most modern operating systems.
NoSalt··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
Woah, great work!

I am really liking the trend for "linux": https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=linux

NoSalt··on In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
I love Raymond Chen's stuff; particularly the way he brings humanity to our everyday tech.
NoSalt··on Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
Misleading title. The relevant sentence is this:

> "The prosecution claimed Sanchez moved the zines so they wouldn’t incriminate his wife, who attended a protest outside the Prairieland immigration detention center near Dallas, where a police officer was wounded by gunfire."

The "Texas man" in question was involved in evidence tampering in a case that involved the shooting of a police officer. The title here makes it sound like simply moving paper around is against the law.

NoSalt··on Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times
Are you driving a banana, or are you happy to see me?
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