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I use https://speedof.me/ and https://testmy.net/. They match my QoS limits when QoS is enabled in my router, and match what I'm paying for when QoS is disabled.

boot13on The Evolution of Web Design (2016)

I couldn't get past the first heading: "NASA and the Space".

boot13on Fucking Color Picker

ColorMania works great and is 774 KB. http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/colormania.html.

boot13on WordPress 5.0 introduces a flexible block-based content editor

As long as the traditional editor remains an option I won't mind. If they force it on us, that could be a problem. I try every new version of Gutenberg for posting on one of my sites, and so far I've had to switch back to the traditional editor every time. From the Wordpress 5.0 welcome page: "Support for the Classic Editor plugin will remain in WordPress through 2021... Note to users of assistive technology: if you experience usability issues with the block editor, we recommend you continue to use the Classic Editor."

boot13on America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

YouTube is the world's greatest repository of culture. And shitty comments. But mostly the culture thing. And Facebook is a bulletin board. No competition.

boot13on Robocalls Flooding Your Cellphone? Here’s How to Stop Them

I was just poking around in the settings for my new Android phone and found Settings > Applications > Phone > Call blocking > Block list > Block anonymous calls. Would that be helpful at all? I haven't tested it myself.

boot13on Ad blocking is under attack

uMatrix rocks. It can take a few minutes of fiddling to get a complex site working, but it's totally worthwhile.

boot13on Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

No stats needed. Just go through the bug list for any software. How many of the bugs were introduced by the people who maintain stable packages?

boot13on Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I see it differently. Where do new bugs and vulnerabilities come from? When the main developers add features or make changes to existing features that go beyond fixing bugs.

From the point of view of many server administrators, using the latest versions of everything is inherently risky. What they want to use is a stable, solid version that has all the latest security fixes.

It's unlikely that these opposing viewpoints will ever be reconciled.

boot13on A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days

Stopped reading after the third word.

boot13on Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (2016)

boot13on Tool of Hope: A Sober Alchemy to End My Helplessness

Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt? I think they meant Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

boot13on Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018

Gibberish. How did this end up on the front page?

boot13on Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

Interesting, but not really all that useful for people who don't have loads of money. The rest of us have to make do with consumer grade crap, or do the extra work of finding good hardware and installing useful firmware into it. I'm running an Asus RT-N66U with Advanced Tomato and it works beautifully. Of course, I don't live in a mansion.

boot13on The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)

Literally the first letter of this is a typo. Sad story though.

boot13on Show HN: Forgiva – Never saves your passwords but regenerates them

This seems similar to Master Password (http://masterpasswordapp.com/).

boot13on Cron checker

I love this. Thank you.

boot13on Comodo CEO Forum Post on Lets Encrypt Trademark

Wow. So much wrong with that. I was already planning to switch from Comodo to LE for one client, but now I'm going make sure none of my other clients are using Comodo certs. Sorry, Comodo, but you're just hastening your demise with this kind of behaviour.

boot13on Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

CodeNewbie Slack community. http://www.codenewbie.org/.

boot13on London may elect it's first Muslim mayor

Agreed. However, if you're going to correct someone's grammar on the Internet, may I suggest that you use correct grammar yourself, per http://grammarist.com/usage/as-per/.

boot13on Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone

And what happened to Atari?

boot13on Cracking BurgerTime, a 1982 game on a floppy disk

Nice work! Kind of hard to believe someone would go to all that trouble now, but fun is fun, right? I remember at least one game that was less fun to play than it was to remove the copy protection. Some of my old articles about removing Apple II copy protection are also posted on archive.com, like this one: http://archive.org/stream/computist-scan-14/issue14#page/n9/...

boot13on How Google Is Bankrolling Friendly Academics

So Google is just doing what every other corporation does. This is the reality of business today.

boot13on DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked

As opposed to all the ones that worked?

boot13on India blocks Colgate patents for spices

Javascript required.

boot13on It's all fun and games until someone [XOFF]

It really is still everywhere. For example, you can use ^S to pause your PC's POST display if you're fast enough. The Windows command line still uses it. And so on.

boot13on An Apple ][ Emulator in JavaScript

Did you find a solution to this? I had no problems with sound the first time I tried it, but since then I'm getting what you described.

boot13on Advertising Shits in Your Head

Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"

Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.