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p7IDD243··on Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
I spend most of my time on IRC as far as social platforms go, have been running a server for the past 6 years or so for me and a circle of friends.
p7IDD243··on Sherlock: Find usernames across social networks
I just ran it against my own (typical) nickname and found a couple of instances where it was free on websites that I could see myself using at some point in the future so I went ahead and reserved them for myself.
p7IDD243··on Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”
For anyone curious why it's notable, check out the Issues page.
p7IDD243··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
It's a noble effort, the amount of tracking going on is just digusting, I have 1.9k blocked trackers in just the past week and I visit a small set of websites.
p7IDD243··on Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
> I can just move to PC and keep the games I own.

A small nitpick, you don't _own_ the games in your Steam library.

p7IDD243··on Qt for Android better than ever before
This is an app I've been using written in Qt/QML that works on desktop and mobile, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of differences to make it work on mobile: https://github.com/alamminsalo/orion
p7IDD243··on No Radical Changes in GNU Project
That's correct but it's also worth noting that he did not resign, he was resigned.
p7IDD243··on Dark mode in a website with CSS
>Solution: remove the backgrounds so they are transparent

This sucks when you want then share the diagram with someone, on certain platforms the diagram will be unreadable due to the lack of contrasting background.

p7IDD243··on Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
>Japan for chrissake even forces devices to emit a camera shutter sound when a picture is taken.

This is actually pretty cool, I'm always paranoid that I'll end up on someone else's photo without knowing.

p7IDD243··on macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address
If it's fast enough to run triple A video games at an accecptable stable framerate, it should be fast enough to run an IDE.
p7IDD243··on Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa
He raises a good point though because even if it's not a product for some people, they will still have their data harvested without consent as a result of talking in proximity of a person wearing one such pair.
p7IDD243··on Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
Classes and structs in C++ are almost the same thing with the exception of the default member visibility, unless you mean a POD?
p7IDD243··on Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
The Native File System API sounds like an exploit waiting to be discovered.
p7IDD243··on Building a Better Go Linker
Perhaps Ken Thompson?
p7IDD243··on Piu-Piu-Sh: ‘Shoot Them All’ Game in Bash
It could also just be the phonetic spelling of "pew pew" in Russian.
p7IDD243··on macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
Yep, nowadays rm has a failsafe and requires you to add --no-preserve-root argument if you want to force remove the root folder recursively.
p7IDD243··on Redis PSYNC2 bug post mortem
Why? This is precisely what it's been called like for decades, to call it something else would introduce unnecessary confusion.
p7IDD243··on NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal
This is a good point. Just out of curiosity I decided to check it out - it has 905 dependencies totaling 136M on top of the runtime, that seems like a bit of a stretch for something seemingly simple.