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exlurkeron What's your "coworker didn't lock screen" procedure?

https://fakeupdate.net is a good one: fake windows update screens. Successful head-scratching a few times!

exlurkeron Exploring and having fun with rotary telephones

Similar in Norway. One source of frequent misdiallings were from housewives dusting off the rotary phone, accidentally dialling 111.

exlurkeron Men Arrested for Transcribing a Movie, Posting Details to a Website

Now that you mention it, I remember reading through the entire first script of of Alien from 1976[1], which was really cool. I now feel an urge to re-experience that.

[1] http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html

exlurkeron Ask HN: Looking for discussion forums dedicated woodworking

There's one on Lemmy/Beehaw: https://beehaw.org/c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

exlurkeron Become Ungoogleable

I wonder if Michael Jackson would have even more success with his beer guides if he chose a pseudonym. https://www.beerbooks.com/cgi/ps4.cgi?action=enter&thispage=...

exlurkeron Speed running Monkey Island

Here's what looks like a manual for SCUMM, with examples and all:

https://tandell.com/misc/SCUMM-Tutorial-0.1.pdf

exlurkeron Vivaldi integrates Mastodon in its desktop browser

I like Ungoogled Chromium: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

At least for testing, I use Firefox as my daily driver.

exlurkeron uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox

I use uBlacklist, and I get a "block this site" option on every Google result. Worth a try, I hope it's legit.

exlurkeron I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

Only if you worked for 10 years in the same company. 1 month is the regular for <5 years tenure. However, the employee may actually demand 3 months.

exlurkeron LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

This used to be a problem for me too, but later versions of Keepass happily syncs any conflicting databases. I use Syncthing to share my database.

exlurkeron AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives

Let me push this again: Chrome, sans Google. My main browser is Firefox, but this will do in the few cases I "need" Chrome.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

exlurkeron Apps Getting Worse

Foobar 2000 has served me really well for any local audio file.

exlurkeron We Switched to Mattermost

It does support multiple accounts, at least since recently.

exlurkeron Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (1989)

You might be interested to know that Another World was not Eric Chahi's first game to implement a VM. Infernal Runner (Amstrad CPC, 1985) was recently reverse-engineered to be playable in the browser. Some details and source: https://github.com/cyxx/infernal_js

exlurkeron Preparing your game for deterministic netcode

Novel and inspiring. Thank you!

exlurkeron Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

Oh, how I envied those PO Boxes you guys got down in Europe - Up north, it was practically impossible to get one of those for non-businesses, and especially a no-go for broke teenagers!

exlurkeron Daft Punk Break Up

Ooh. Thanks for this! RAM is my favourite, and this really appeals to me. May I recommend back; Betamaxx has a wonderful 80s nostalgic sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5mRTkJmFA

exlurkeron I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

ESL = English as Second Language. Had to look it up.

exlurkeron Can developer productivity be measured?

Nice, I call dibs on the low hanging fruits!

exlurkeron When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube

No, I haven't. Thanks for the tip! I'm hoping for something that would mimic Safari, as Apple has made things really difficult for non-mac devs.

exlurkeron When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube

I also switched years ago and haven't looked back. FF is fast, solid. However, I too keep Chromium for development. But I use the Ungoogled version (I always plug it, but have no stakes in it): https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Does anyone know a Webkit browser that runs on Win - preferably with some kind of debugger?

exlurkeron How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

Haha, same happened to me in Spain two years ago. I stood there minding my own business like a doof until someone on the other pump were like, "Yo!! Watch out". Wasn't much, but still surprising.

exlurkeron Ask HN: Is there any alternative to Dropbox?

Syncthing https://syncthing.net - I replaced Dropbox with it, no complaints so far.

exlurkeron Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users

I understand your point of view. I use Firefox exclusively in private. But I need to support Chrome in development, and Ungoogled Chromium is a good alternative for me - it's neither Google nor Microsoft. Most of us do live in capitalist societies, and therefore, I think, we have no other choice than to have to use it's tools to try to improve them.

exlurkeron Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users

I've found Ungoogled Chromium very satisfying lately. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

exlurkeron Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

You can !g google in DDG when you need to. I often have to do, and hopefully DDG picks this up and improves their search.

exlurkeron Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (2014)

Many realtime online games use the same techniques today. For a very understandable walkthrough of the concept, I recommend Gabriel Gambretta's excellent 4 part series: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....