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lscotte··on Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
My electric company requires one to login - but only after a the browser session expires and I have to login again anyway.
lscotte··on Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
It works, just not well in my experience. Meet is about the only thing I still use Chromium for.
lscotte··on Better Bash History (2012)
> Anyone else done something similar?

I'm not, but now that you mention this, I think I will. I already use direnv all over the place, and this would be a pretty natural extension. Thanks!

lscotte··on The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco
Good thing SF banned plastic straws! Great to see they've got their priorities straight!
lscotte··on Security Update
I used to be a fan of keepass as well, but I moved to bitwarden maybe 18 months or so ago. For $10 a year for the paid version I get MFA and some other features. I find it a much more seamless experience than keepass/etc, as it works as a browser extension or a discrete app (the Android app uses accessibility features so it detects other Android apps asking for authentication as well as Android browsers such as Firefox). Anyway, just another thing to try if you are looking...
lscotte··on 20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse
I had the same recollection - I'm pretty sure I used a Sun Workstation with an optical mouse back in the late 80s. Clearly Microsoft did not invent the optical mouse, but the early ones required a special gridded pad.
lscotte··on Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
The light polution glow from cities can be seen from about 100 miles or so, so it's not a localized problem.
lscotte··on Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes
Except that AZ is gray in the right graph and we already do MST year round with no plans to change. And then Nevada is listed as N/A for proposed time zone which makes no sense.

So, yes it is confusing, and a bit incomplete - thanks for your efforts to decode it!

lscotte··on Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
When crossing two-way streets in countries that are opposite my own, I found it's trickier than it sounds due to some subtle subconscious thing even when you look both ways.
lscotte··on Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
That went into the 70s - when I was in school we learned both metric and imperial because the USA was in the process of switching. Wish we had followed through...
lscotte··on The Milton Bradley Big Trak
I remember mine being gray too, but I don't know - that was a long time ago!
lscotte··on Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (1999)
I am also reminded of a game, I think it was Rescue On Fractalus that was manufactured with an Atari version on one side, and C64 on the other. I thought that was pretty clever.
lscotte··on Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
Thanks for that link, I'll definitely be trying that out.
lscotte··on Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
I use a combination of stow and git via a script I wrote that I call stash - https://github.com/scotte/stash - it's very basic and simple, but has served me well.
lscotte··on 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail
It absolutely is "a thing" in the US, depending on ISP.
lscotte··on Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (1999)
We called them flippies.
lscotte··on Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?
I don't know if they handle this case better specifically, but I found almost all GitLab page functionality is better than GitHub - plus it's more generic, you can wire any static page generator into the built-in CI/CD, not just limited to jekyll or doing it yourself.
lscotte··on Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
Syncthing is indeed great, and works across all my platforms very well. It's also still actively maintained.
lscotte··on Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
I like and use OneNote, but "all platforms" isn't quite correct - there is no native Linux client, so I have to use the browser version, which isn't nearly as good as native versions.
lscotte··on Rogue Airbnb listings still exist where short-term rentals aren't allowed
Yes, the law is the law.
lscotte··on How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
Diesel engines are also significantly more efficient at converting that energy into usable torque. That's why an idling diesel consumes almost no fuel - it isn't doing any work.
lscotte··on How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
Not all TDI that were part of the emissions mess use urea, they also have a system that injects diesel into the particulate trap and burns out all the particulates at high temperature. Look up DPF regen. Note: I owned one of these cars, this is firsthand knowledge.
lscotte··on Goodbye Medium
Aside from the annoying popups, another issue for me is that medium is profiting by monetizing your content. Blogs aren't hard to host with gitlab or github pages (gitlab and hugo is especially nice, in my opinion), among a ton of other options where you aren't subjected to this.
lscotte··on Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy
My son worked in a chip fab for a couple of years. The only devices allowed in there must be certified to have no cameras, including phones. They issue modified phones with out working cameras to employees. All devices must have a big certification sticker on the back. Just thought it was interesting.
lscotte··on California declared drought free for first time in seven years
I believe it's illegal in the Bay Area, I seem to recall someone getting in trouble for doing so.
lscotte··on California declared drought free for first time in seven years
Don't worry, they won't give you any of that back, unfortunately. We moved out of California last year, but during the drought we cut back like everyone. How did the water company reward us? Oh, they didn't make enough money anymore because everyone was conserving water so they raised everyone's rates. Sheer madness.
lscotte··on Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
How so? The only operating system mentioned in that post is Windows.
lscotte··on Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin
I had something like this happen to me while getting a phone plan. I have great credit, and was working for a well known silicon valley tech company with great pay, but because I couldn't remember the exact month I started a job over 25 years ago, I could only get a prepay plan. It was almost amusing.
lscotte··on Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line
Maybe because it's Paice, not Toyota that holds all the hybrid patents - Paice sued many car manufacturer and won - Toyota, Ford, Kia, and Hyundai (and others?) - all had to "license" from Paice.
lscotte··on Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
I don't find this all that surprising, sadly - inside the Apple reality distortion field there are only Apple devices.
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