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http://shitmyself.com "stable" http://hike.qdb.us/ straight from git
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forgotmypw3··on Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
If you happen to end up in those environments again, I would appreciate it if you take a look at my prototype web-based message board.

It's designed for compatibility, and I've tested a lot of Netscapes and IE4, but nothing on Win311 yet.

If you want to leave a comment, you can do so right on the message board. It should work, more likely with JS off.

forgotmypw3··on Debuggers Suck
Possibly controversial opinion: The best debugger I ever used was VB3-6, and same-era VBA.
forgotmypw3··on Moving towards a faster web
The web is already pretty fast if you don't put too much stuff into your webpages.
forgotmypw3··on The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery
The flip-side to this is that if you have a regular number which you use without an Apple device and use the same number in your Apple settings, your SMS get hijacked, and only show up on the Apple devices, which you may not look at for weeks.

(Ask me how I know this.)

forgotmypw3··on Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)
Content to advertising ratio very low with this article, I think people just voted it up for the feel-good value.
forgotmypw3··on Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox (2018)
You're a couple years too late, Firefox has already been corrupted.
forgotmypw3··on I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)
They're really tasty and good for you. There's also a deep primal satisfaction from eating something directly from the wild earth. It's also a long-standing tradition in many cultures.

If you know what you're doing and are very careful and cautious, it is a pretty low-risk activity.

forgotmypw3··on Aquameta: Web development platform built in PostgreSQL
I'm working on a distributed, decentralized web forum system.

Demo: http://rusrs.com/

It works in modern browsers with some extra JS-based niceties, but is also compatible with just about every browser I've tried, including Mosaic and Dillo.

forgotmypw3··on Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
One?
forgotmypw3··on Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
See which iOS apps can export/import plaintext or other common formats, especially in an automated way.
forgotmypw3··on Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
I think what you can do now is avoid complex, binary, and/or proprietary formats for your data, because they are more difficult to back up and restore.

You can also learn to not trust software which promiess you the world, but doesn't let you see its internals.

forgotmypw3··on Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15

    I feel your pain. I hope you remember in the future:

    Unless a backup can be verified, it is not a backup.

    Backing up to a complex or binary format is trouble.
forgotmypw3··on Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
'organize' != 'delete'
forgotmypw3··on CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
Happens to me all the time, and I just move on.

So far, nothing of value was lost.

forgotmypw3··on Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
Well, it is not producing much at the moment, and it is consuming electricity and resources to run.

I am hoping that it will produce a better way for people to talk and connect, as well as provably reliable information store.

forgotmypw3··on Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
The freeganism link in sibling comment provides a pretty good overview.

In my case, I live outdoors more than half the time, sometimes couchsurfing.

I obtain food primarily from waste.

My electronics are hand-me-downs.

For getting around, I ride with people going my way or walk. I am a careful driver, and sometimes I help drive as contribution. Sometimes I ride trains and buses, which cost minimal money.

I pay a few hundred a year for domains and hosting.

Occasionally, people offer me money. I used to not accept it, but now I just do my best to limit its use to the above.

If I go to a coffee shop, I typically do not buy a coffee. If I sit at a fast food place, I don't buy anything.

I do not feel that I owe anything to anyone just for occupying space.

I do, however, place some properly logoed cups (reused) on my table, and I pick up any trash on the floors, and fix the chairs, and sometimes wipe the tables with abandoned napkins.

It seems kind of silly sometimes, but it's a system that's working well for me now.

I like to visit libraries, though hours are typically limited.

It has taken me about 5 years to transition to this life from full-time job, apartment, and cat.

I had previous camping experience, and a relatively low regard for social norms. I am a man, which obviously helps with safety. But women do it too.

This practice has helped me develop my meditation practice, write more code I can be proud of, and travel without worry about where I'm going to stay when I get there.

Because my past jobs contributed to selling soft drinks, securities, oil, etc., I think that my "environmental karma" is much better. I also have the time to stop and pick up the trash everywhere I go, a practice I find to be both enjoyable and great "natural" exercise.

forgotmypw3··on Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
It's thinking like this that led me down the path of rejecting money/currency for the most part. Every dollar I spent is a vote for producing more of whatever I'm buying, directly correlated with habitat loss (for humans included) and animal deaths. And each transaction is like a curtain from behind which the finished product appears, handed to you with no information about its origin.
forgotmypw3··on Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
Isn't most bottled water bottled in plastic?

The bottle is plastic. The lid is plastic too.

When you're opening the bottle, plastic is rubbing against plastic, and then water is pouring over it.

Even glass-bottles typically have a lid that has a plastic sealing layer inside.

forgotmypw3··on Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
Chrome hasn't been present on my desktops for a couple of years, and I don't miss it.
forgotmypw3··on A Love Letter to Personal Websites
http://rusrs.com/

Compatible with Mosaic 1.0, Netscape 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, and IE 5.5, Links, Lynx, and NetSurf, among others tested.

forgotmypw3··on Trying to Convince People to Change (2016)
My thoughts exactly. Put 7 hours of book-reading as my schedule for the day, and I'll be happy to.
forgotmypw3··on Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick
Start making your own archive, saving the nicest things you find as .txt, .jpg, and .mp4.
forgotmypw3··on Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?
I don't mind letting Google in. I've accepted living in the open.

It's more about wasting my cycles, safety of my environment, etc.

It's certainly nice to not ping 127 trackers per page, a nice bonus.

Google Maps doesn't do that anyway. Except to Facebook, IIRC... Or is that vice versa? Facebook knows where I am too, but at least they're in a no-JS jail, thanks to the half-maintained but sturdy m.facebook.com.

Anyway, feel free to hang out on this lawn as long as you like, it's not like it's mine.

forgotmypw3··on China Drone Attack on Crop-Eating ‘Monster’ Shows 98% Kill Rate
I sure hope so, because the poison is spreading all over the planet, and if insects don't develop resistance fast, they'll die out, along with everything else up the food chain.
forgotmypw3··on The robots are coming for your job, too
Custom-written number crunching software ==> Spreadsheets
forgotmypw3··on Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?
Edit: I forgot to mention the most important piece: When a site says that it won't work without JS, I accept this and close the tab. Unless it's Google Maps.

My browser has built-in URL-based filters.

I browse with JS disabled except for a handful of sites, which I enable for the session whenever I need it.

My browser makes it easy, with a three-key shortcut to toggle it.

This is about the extent of it.

I used to use uBO, which I still think is great, and enough for more Chrome and Firefox users. Many blessings to its maintainer.

forgotmypw3··on How to return to the flow faster
This. It is so much easier than trying to remember everything.
forgotmypw3··on Ask HN: What did you do when your work wasn't fulfilling anymore?
Unsubscribed from working unfulfilling jobs, unsubscribed from anything that would require me to have one, started coding personal stuff.
forgotmypw3··on Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases
Yes, oral.

Triclosan has little effect on anything except being toxic to humans and wildlife.

forgotmypw3··on Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth
Even capped bandwidth is oversold. There is not enough capacity in the system for everyone to use up their entire cap.

"their bandwidth" doesn't actually exist.

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