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Oh, I’d forgotten about this! I never drive much in Ireland but was in the car a lot with my dad as a kid. When he’d visit family in Longford this was happening all the time - I just assumed everyone knew him!

Years later, when I’ve been driving and visiting the country, I found myself on the receiving end of this and it all clicked.

Thank you for this wonderful reminder.

Thanks for sharing the links. Love this part!

“We looked at each other, took a deep breath, and launched the application. The monitor burst into flames. We calmly carried it outside to avoid setting off smoke detectors, plugged in another monitor, and tried again.”

I doubt it. Would that not interfere with the scan? I’ve really no idea on the merits of this.

Amazing. Unless you’re in a wheelchair or can’t stand.

I would broadly agree with this (based on years of dealing directly with user-facing UX and setup steps). Small hurdles, even easy ones, create larger barriers to adoption then you’d think.

User behavior shifts over time. When I was at The New Yorker you’d see that a tiny but meaningful % of users used share tools. Even with that decline the % in this story is ‘good’ especially if you assume 40% of their traffic are probably bots.

What it also misses is: even if someone doesn’t use share tools, they do act as an call-to-action that can inspire people to share - though they may copy the url and not use the button.

It’s a tough game.

I used to love Roku. I even went through their early developer stuff to play with custom channels. It was clear many years ago that their shift form platform to ad provider was underway. Why can't a company always be amazing at something and just stick to that (looking at you Dropbox)?

I have a Roku TV an dmy setup is simple:

- Disable wifi on Roku TV

- Add Apple TV and connect to router

Beyond what is captured in the headline, there is no substance to this post

Still a work in progress but I’m making my own subway web app. A by-product of this is this realtime subway map of NYC

https://donohoe.dev/subway/map/

That was true 29, 40, 80 years ago

At the NYT? I don’t doubt AI is used in figuring out headlines but ultimately a human makes the decision.

I would not follow this advice. The most trouble I’ve had with RSS was usually from not having it. I also have never used CDATA at a word level - just wrap the full text block in it.

Discussion from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254309

They’ll probably sell more units of this than Tesla ever will with the Cybertruck

I’ve been lucky enough to avoid it. I’ve banned it at work as it is not the correct as preach for any of our work.

If you are referring to Renee Nicole Good, then the video evidence contradicts that entirely. I am not going to discuss that further, I am just pointing out that your assertion is not a known fact and much of ICE's narrative on that killing has been shown to be untrue or incomplete.

Just posting to be part of this historical record.

No. That wasn’t a concern with RSS for publishers. Most publishers have RSS still or feeds. Scraping index pages continues to be trivial.

A neat and funny idea - but in the end it is hostile to the users who don’t always control what’s added to links.

They typically do but are disabled due to the volume of spam and moderation overhead. Send an email.

It’s not that they don’t like it. It’s more like they don’t care, or it’s not on their radar.

I have an alternative in this for Alamo Drafthouse. It sends me alerts as soon as new movies are listed, typically before promoted or announced online.

It’s meant I can jump on re-runs etc I really care about (just saw Fight Club last week) - and get the specific seat location I prefer.

(If you want alerts just contact me with your email and location - info in bio)

I am confused.

The person who created the PR is user "sasha-id".

The person saying no to the refund is also user "sasha-id".

What?

Where was it exactly thats someone from Anthropic said no to a refund request? I feel I am missing the obvious somehow.

Do browser extensions next…

I’d argue it’s not worth it. Engagement and referral traffic from it continue to tank.

Was this not a known issue (in terms of trade-offs) for years? I recall discussion back in 2018 at least that made mention of this concern.

https://github.com/RealityNet/iOS-Forensics-References https://theforensicscooter.com/2021/10/03/ios-knowledgec-db-...

I don’t get it. Their setup is so much more complicated and limiting than what they had on Wordpress.

I won’t argue with their reasons to move (which don’t stack up for me either but agree to disagree).

Not a lawyer but... if you have the DVD its legal to make a backup digital copy.

I am thinking the same thing. Most recent movies are available for under $20 per DVD - and there are tons of deals.

You can get the 4 lego movies for $5 on DVD on Amazon right now. A "Tom Cruise 10-Movie Collection" is $12. You get the idea.

Get the DVD. Make a legal backup. Keep the physical DVD in storage.

You now "own" the movie (or TV show), not a "license".

In my neighborhood you will often see people selling DVD collections where you get 10-20 discs for $10 or less - varies. I'm sure that is the case elsewhere.

NAS + Apple TV with Infuse app installed = Better than Netflix (and others) imho.

(Note: I do recommend the one-time lifetime license for Infuse app = $99.99)

Reference:

- "Backup DVD Copies Legal Says Electronic Frontier Foundation" https://www.eff.org/effector/16/7#I

- "2026 DVD Digital Copyright Laws in US, UK, Japan, Australia..." https://www.winxdvd.com/resource/dvd-copyright-infringement-...

Great idea but is this real?

Its a page hosted on CLoudFlare's "pages.dev" service. Their method of contact is a Google Form which does have an email address on this domain "CoLaptop [dot] com", but that as a web address does not work.

I'm not sure they have their act together.