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anc84··on Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
Please don't post racism like "the Chinese".
anc84··on Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
This is the same as any non-tech person using a "VPN". They do not care about privacy or anything. So this makes sense.
anc84··on Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology
If this triggered your curiosity, have fun with http://www.apaame.org/

> The Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East was established in 1978 by Professor David Kennedy under the patronage of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. The archive now consists of over 91,000 photographs and several hundred maps of a dozen countries. The vast majority of this material can be viewed online in our digital archive at Flickr.

anc84··on WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
Hopefully not. Cloudflare has no business in law enforcement or legal investigations. If they are trustworthy, this will not know about the contents of sites in the past.
anc84··on BBC podcasts on third-party apps
Patreon is full of closed off podcasts available to only the people with a paid subscribtion.
anc84··on $50M CTF from Hackerone – Writeup
$50M references Hackerone paying out that amount in total over all time or something. The bounty for this CTF was $10k.
anc84··on Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan
I'd take the benefit of the doubt and consider the poster oblivious to the vast difference between Doom and Quake, they probably just threw them both into the "early 90s 2.5D FPS" bucket.
anc84··on Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan
We had Q3RT 15 years ago: http://www.q3rt.de/
anc84··on Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
Thank you for linking Shelter, I had no idea that was possible and that easy software for it existed!
anc84··on Commento: Open-Source Disqus Alternative
At any blog that is not just made for marketing.
anc84··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
Finally I find another person getting annoyed at this. It baffles me how this is acceptable...

My browser is open when my computer is running. I do updates at random times through-out the day, for example before installing new packages. Having to close my browser leads to dead sessions and text being lost from input fields and whatever other state there might be.

My guess is that this is some per-tab isolation/process stuff that would result in a mismatch between tabs from before the update and tabs after the update.

anc84··on Making 3D Terrain Maps (2017)
https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=Terra...
anc84··on What Was the Happiest Day on the Internet This Decade?
One of them chose to die by their own will. The other was unlawfully assassinated in a perverted lust for revenge. I would be glad if the death of the latter was made society unhappier when comparing the two. Not so say that this is a morbid, perverse thing to do anyways.
anc84··on What Was the Happiest Day on the Internet This Decade?
As determined by some weird algorithms based on Twitter data.
anc84··on What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?
While you can still edit, please use a different style for your quotes. Using code formatting makes them a pain to read. Just make them cursive with the star characters. Thanks! :)
anc84··on The cassette returns on a wave of nostalgia
Rotating plastic that relies on sensitive optics? No thanks, that seems far from perfect for lossless, digital data. I will take a solid-state medium any day over spinning discs.
anc84··on Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
What is a "tracker" here? How will Firefox determine that?
anc84··on Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
How would you handle books with multiple authors? Symlinks would not be an option as they are way too nerdy for common users.
anc84··on Problem solving with Unix commands
Nice, this works automatically like this:

    $ seq -w 98 102
    098
    099
    100
    101
    102
anc84··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
Absolutely it got even worse in the past few weeks after an earlier, perceived drop a couple of months ago.
anc84··on HTTP/3 explained
It does not load any third-party content though which in my book, counts as a +10 on the "does not work with JS disabled" scale.
anc84··on Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran
We should have embargos on the US for pursuing a climate change program that destroys the planet.
anc84··on I lost my data trying to back it up
RAID, not even once. At least for me.
anc84··on Royalty Free No Copyright Music for All Your Projects
Nice!!

How do you compare to https://incompetech.com/music/ or rather, how do you plan to distinguish yourself from the existing grandmaster of royalty free music?

anc84··on Royalty Free No Copyright Music for All Your Projects
Jamendo? Just filter by license, you can use commercially what is not -NC.
anc84··on Airbnb and security camera disclosure
Are you refering to the obligations of long-term rental landlords? I don't see that having much legal relevance to short-term rent like Airbnb.
anc84··on Airbnb and security camera disclosure
I am calling bullshit.

There is very little chance that German police in Hamburg would not consider those alligations serious. Lots of Germans have black hair. Few Germans are tall and blonde. German police will file your case in any case.

anc84··on Security Checklist
I meant my comment to provoke you into rethinking before you speak for others again in the future.
anc84··on Security Checklist
> often used as a desktop in countries where people cannot afford Windows or macOS

often used by people in preference to other operating systems due to a variety of reasons

Linux being available free of cost is certainly one of the least relevant features for me.

anc84··on Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras
It looks like the site is dead anyways, the "for sale" page says "-2010"
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