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kencauseyon The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)

I didn't mean that it shouldn't have been posted. I really meant to say something like 'why this was posted now.'

kencauseyon The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)

I'm not sure why this was posted. Perhaps it was due to recent blogging by Nick Pelling on the subject at https://www.ciphermysteries.com/ ? There are quite a few entries now over a period of months that started from a reported cipher at Roswell.

kencauseyon The Pirate Bay Reopens Its Doors to New Members After Four Years

The onion* address is piratebayo3klnzokct3wt5yyxb2vpebbuyjl7m623iaxmqhsd52coid.onion but I'm having trouble accessing it right now.

* https://www.torproject.org/

kencauseyon All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (2013)

Here is an archive copy of the KB as of Feb 15, 2015 which I think is the last archive copy in the Wayback Machine before the page is moved/removed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150215042051/http://support.mi...

edit: year corrected

kencauseyon Show HN: Horizontal News, a column-based Hacker News reader

This is interesting. One thing I miss is the domain information.

edit: Suggestion: add the domain information to the hover message.

kencauseyon Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy

There are still inexpensive purely mechanical scales. I wouldn't expect much accuracy from a spring-based scale, but it should be consistent barring significant temperature variation.

kencauseyon Tiger Seeks to Sell Private-Company Stakes into Secondary Market

https://archive.is/1G304

kencauseyon The Egison Programming Language

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_firs...

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_rest...

Circa 1990 or before.

kencauseyon Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

Have you checked the settings for the extension in about:addons to ensure that the extension is enabled for private mode? Find the extension in the list, click on it or click the dots and click 'manage', on the details tab ensure that 'Run in Private Windows' is enabled.

I apologize if you are already well aware of this and that the problem is that is more complex than that.

kencauseyon The Great Electrician Shortage

In my opinion, actually caring about the result makes all the difference.

kencauseyon On the profitability of image hosting websites (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635884

kencauseyon Southwest Airlines halts flight departures amid technology issue

https://archive.is/HWoER

kencauseyon New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation

Previously posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35419573 - 22 points, 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426050 - 5 points, 0 comments

kencauseyon IRS-authorized eFile.com tax return software caught serving JavaScript malware

Here are a couple of very recent ISC SANS posts on the issue:

Supply Chain Compromise or False Positive: The Intriguing Case of efile.com [updated - confirmed malicious code] - https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Supply+Chain+Compromise+or+False+...

Analyzing the efile.com Malware "efail" - https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Analyzing+the+efilecom+Malware+ef...

edit: Of course I rushed to post this comment before actually looking at the linked story. The story links and credits one of these posts.

kencauseyon The Problem with Music (1993)

This is the cheapest copy I could find in 30 seconds: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155484714542?epid=30902174

kencauseyon British PCs of the 1980s

I found these 2:

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser https://youtu.be/yaonVYOTSsk

Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - The Chat After the Film https://youtu.be/l4I2ktcWdJM

kencauseyon Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza

OK, that makes sense. I didn't want to have to deal with cutting the pipe myself and so I didn't even consider buying a larger size or anything like that.

kencauseyon Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza

Maybe, but have you bought anything like that recently? Probably if you know the right place to shop or the right people it wouldn't be much more, but I needed a bit of metal pipe to use as a lever and spent $40 on 3ft of 1.5in diameter pipe at Lowe's. I don't think I paid much more than that for the ratchet set I was using it with.

kencauseyon Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

Or that very simply banks are never 100% liquid.

kencauseyon The floppy disk just won’t die

Anecdata is interesting. Here's mine, I've recently had a spate of a few Dell system 3-5 years old getting progressively more sluggish. Quick tests don't turn up issues. When I'm given the time required I use the hard drive manufacturer's testing utility and do thorough testing at which point damaged sectors start to turn up, not too many but enough to cause seek issues or something. I use chkdsk to attempt to recover data and mark the problematic sectors and at least for a while the system are a bit better. Of course, as soon as possible replacements are needed.

kencauseyon Passwordless authentication with FIDO2–beyond just the web

While I don't deny that this a good and perhaps even the best solution I'm sure Yubico is happy with a solution that effectively doubles their sales.

kencauseyon Italy sounds alarm on large-scale computer hacking attack

Perhaps this is related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34666905

kencauseyon Ralph Nader’s latest targets: news deserts

How reductive of you.

kencauseyon Wonders of Street View

Ah.

kencauseyon Google Fi hack victim had Coinbase, 2FA app hijacked by hackers

What matters, in my opinion, is the SIM swap attack, nothing specific to recent T-Mobile/Google Fi leaks, unless of course some of the information that leaked was used to convince service staff to do the SIM swap.

kencauseyon Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried's “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview”

SBF was a founder and officer of Alameda.

kencauseyon Wonders of Street View

Maybe I'm dense (or just American) but what is the connection between 'too much TV' and 'soda'?

kencauseyon Tell HN: MS forcing Edge shortcut on desktop

It happens when Edge updates which, like Chrome, happens fairly frequently so I can understand why you might think that it is forced. But you can delete it and not have it appear until Edge updates again.

Note that Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of many that does the same thing, it used to do it, stopped for a while, and is now doing it again.

My errant thought is that this sort of thing happens when the marketing departments gain prominence within an organization.