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mfkp··on Wordle Now Redirects to NYT
Pretty nice implementation, but it's missing the best feature: social sharing
mfkp··on JetBlue A320 tail strike on takeoff, B350 in opposite direction
Video of tailstrike and discussion on reddit last week: https://old.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/sdzymt/video_of_jet...

And a good visual representation of the evasive action performed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQLOwje4U9Y

mfkp··on Ask HN: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text
Self-host Zulip - which in my opinion is better than Slack anyway and supports slack incoming webhooks.

https://zulip.com/

mfkp··on Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags
> What about for vitamins, or pet food

https://www.consumerlab.com/ does a great job testing vitamins and other various things put in or on your body. Well worth the subscription price.

mfkp··on We analyzed 425k favicons
I recently saw and reported one to a local business.

If you typed in the domain and visited directly, it wouldn't redirect to the scam site. But if you clicked on a link from a google search, then it would redirect.

Probably makes it harder to find for small website owners if they're not clicking their own google searches.

mfkp··on AMD Laptops finally reach the 4k screen barrier
It appears that the P14s AMD does support S3.

Comment from @chx on a different thread I found last week:

You can check which ThinkPad BIOS has the option at their BIOS emulation site: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html

For mine it's under Config // Power // Sleep State. Windows 10 means useless Modern Standby, Linux means S3. https://i.imgur.com/Y5CchL9.png

mfkp··on Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet
I really wanted to play my Sega Dreamcast online (I think the game was Phantasy Star Online), but my house had no internet at the time.

I was probably 12 or 13 and had all the time in the world, but no credit card or parental permission.

I figured out how to reverse engineer those spam AOL and NetZero signup CDs you would get in the mail to extract their dial-in credentials for new user signups. I managed to use that to get free internet access for the Dreamcast!

I think I got caught when my mom needed to make a phone call... online gaming was tough in the days of 56k dialup.

mfkp··on What's the best SaaS starter kit?
If you have traffic, yes. I get hundreds of chats per day using the chat widget, some for support, some for pre-sales inquiries.
mfkp··on I tried 30 mustards this summer
This is as close as I could find (Amazon Canada, out of stock): https://www.amazon.ca/Beaver-Olde-English-Mustard-360ml/dp/B...

Must be discontinued, but I wonder where the author of the article found it.

mfkp··on I tried 30 mustards this summer
The author recommends a "hot Olde English mustard" from Beaver, but I can't seem to find it. Does it exist?
mfkp··on Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
Generally large spikes in upload data usage is the best indicator. Many consumer grade routers are starting to build in per-device bandwidth usage, which helps narrow down the culprit.
mfkp··on Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
I wonder if this is related to the attack on voip.ms (ongoing for multiple days)

https://twitter.com/voipms

mfkp··on A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
Yeah, all lithium batteries ship via ground, but that's generally because cargo planes are basically like shipping things in the cargo section of passenger airplanes, which generally isn't advisable.
mfkp··on A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
If you read the article, it specifies lithium-ion batteries, which just about everyone brings inside the pressurized cabin.

So no, I am not joking.

mfkp··on A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
Exactly, get a removable battery and bring that in your carry-on and it should be fine.
mfkp··on T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
Yes, it rings my phone. Most are annoyingly early in the morning, and 90% of the time it comes from random numbers in the same area code as my phone number.

I haven't been marking the numbers as spam, but maybe I'll try to do that to see if the number of calls reduces.

mfkp··on T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked
I've got screening enabled and still get at least 3 spam calls per day, usually more.
mfkp··on Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request
Note that reviewmeta was recently sold to a new operator, so we'll see how trustworthy it continues to be. Some interesting data on financials and revenue models here:

https://storecoach.com/products/for-sale-reviewmeta

mfkp··on Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
Basically every streaming device has a Plex app: https://www.plex.tv/apps-devices/
mfkp··on The rise and fall of Oxygen OS
Likewise, I have the US version OnePlus 7 Pro and I have never seen these issues. I've been using this phone for 2+ years and like you mentioned, the battery could use a refresh, but it still lasts long enough to not be too annoying.

I tried switching to a Pixel 4a 5G but I was not impressed and switched back to the OnePlus.

That being said, I'm not sure if I'd pay the premium prices of their new flagship models at this point.

mfkp··on Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online learning
Ah, that must be the issue. I'm using Edge on Linux (I know, it's weird).

I'll go ahead and file an issue for it now :-)

mfkp··on Show HN: Zoom / Teams Open Source alternative for online learning
You should consider allowing Edge browser as well (since it's based on Chromium anyway, I imagine it should work fine).
mfkp··on Bonzi Buddy
a monkey coding a monkey
mfkp··on Bonzi Buddy
This reminds me of my twitch streaming theme, based on Windows 98 and it had an animated Bonzi Buddy. Still love that purple monkey to this day.
mfkp··on There are no results for tank man
I noticed the same thing:

It looks like microsoft caught on and is now returning generic results of "tank" or "man":

https://imgur.com/sGEQRXe

https://imgur.com/DjtXltn

mfkp··on How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
I assume they were asking how does a non-mod tell if it's flagged so they can report it to you? (aka when it says [flagged] next to it or something, or drops off the front page rather quickly, etc)
mfkp··on How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
Yeah, the h1 article title inside the page changed, but the actual "title" attribute that you see in your browser tab is $5.1M (hence the confusion, I assume).
mfkp··on Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
I'll send you an email shortly with some details.
mfkp··on Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
I'm not a trademark lawyer so take this as you will, but the term Medicare has been trademarked since 1957, assigned to the Executive Director of the US Army.

https://trademarks.justia.com/890/00/medicare-89000008.html

Just because you haven't run into a trademark issue yet doesn't mean that you will not in the future. And I don't think I'd want to be fighting the US Army lawyers for the naming rights.

I love your initiative, but you may want to look into the naming issue a bit further (since this is what trademarks are explicitly designed for, to prevent confusion about one product/service doing the same thing under the same name).

mfkp··on Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
Wait, did you co-opt the term "Medicare" to use for your project? (medicare.dev) I'm not so sure the government would like that name.
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