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Insane that it even detects and deletes the source code. This needs more exposure.

Pretty sure I remember finding this ctrl.blog page when fighting with this systemd-related Ubuntu bug that changed resolv.conf to use "127.0.0.53":

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624320

My hate for this whole situation (but especially the fact that it broke resolution of short names with search domains) is bone-deep.

"Super Maryo World" has been doing this since 2005:

http://www.janis.or.jp/users/segabito/JavaScriptMaryo.html

Most of the music on WCD originated from physical media which still exists in the world. I would say mp3.com being wiped was much more significant in terms of truly lost music.

This was my experience as well. I had a deep link to AltaVista's "advanced" search page which loaded plenty fast.

Between AV and InfoSeek (which I used the Netscape plugin to get a browser search bar for) I was seeing better results than Google until sometime in the mid-00's.

Sure if you wanted to skim the surface of what was available on a given topic or just wanted the most popular links, Google was fine in the 90's and early 00's; But if you were deep diving or wanted something more obscure you needed other search engines.

Correct. This was referred to in John Carmack's remembrance:

"Steve first talked about application development for iPhone at the same keynote I was demonstrating the new ID Tech 5 rendering engine on Mac, so I was in the front row. When he started going on about 'Web Apps', I was (reasonably quietly) going 'Booo!!!'."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066846

Practical use I've found for some of these tools: Shell script that detects when any app is full screen (ex: Kodi, or Steam in Big Picture mode) and prevents Xscreensaver from activating.

I actually much prefer this SSD failure mode: Unlike failing spinning rust which will happily linger around coughing up bad data (which will then be written to backups, mirrored drives, etc. potentially creating a huge mess) an SSD going out like a light is comfortingly binary.

Obsessive about the spacebar size, but not about the keycap profile?

Useless. All the prog house tracks I would actually want to mix with a tool like this are around 9 minutes, which is "too long".

On more competitive CS:GO servers the built in voice chat is intentionally disabled between living and dead players not to prevent such "ghosting" (which is just part of the game) but so that dead players can chat without disrupting living players on their third party (TeamSpeak, Mumble, Discord, etc.) voice channel.

Guess this dog needs to start retraining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QxZv_wJ1aA

Shades of the "NEEDED: Generic Father Figure for Backyard BBQ" Craigslist ad.

Needs a volume slider.

Teardown of article on USB Fan teardown reveals lack of teardown

Many years ago I (a USian) was hired by a massive Indian company famous for outsourcing that had begun "insourcing": Hiring US labor for jobs with US companies within the US, but managing these hires through their offices in India. The job didn't start for months, but the weirdness started immediately.

I had filled out all the onboarding paperwork, but as there had been almost no vetting I assumed this was all still preliminary and my "actual" hiring would hinge on another round of interviews (possibly with the US client company). Then I checked my bank balance one day and found it to be significantly higher than expected due to automated deposits that continued for the duration: The hiring process was over, I was now a full blown employee as far as the company was concerned.

The original position was in Chicago (a city I was not in) however after a month or so of waiting this seemed to fall through and I was asked to select from a short list of other cities I would be available to relocate to. I chose New York and eventually was given a weeks-away start date that I was expected to begin work there, however no hint of a corresponding salary bump.

Being unwilling to relocate to NY for a Chicago salary, I patiently explained to the management in India that I would need to know my new salary first. After they blew through a few soft deadlines while continuing to insist that I was expected to be at work in New York on the same start date, I finally got my direct supervisor on phone at the beginning of his workday and made it clear that I needed this number before his close of business or else.

When that deadline was also blown, I followed through on my promise and quit immediately (a move that seemed to surprise him). During these three or four months I had shown up at no office or been assigned any tasks.

> I ended the interview early which apparently infuriated much of the company. Threats were made, but thankfully I never heard from them again.

Wow. Most would be thrilled that an uninterested candidate is moving on quickly rather than getting the job then immediately quitting or being terminated (both of which are things I have seen).

Trying to threaten a candidate into continuing an interview is just psychotic.

This headline is clickbait. Everyone knows that the first good feature film licensed from a video game was Resident Evil (2002).

We already have laws to address falsehoods and lies (libel/slander).

This whole "right to be forgotten" thing just seems like a good way for wealthy people to hide inconvenient facts from public view. If it was really about falsehoods and lies, why wouldn't they go to court with the existing laws?

> and for some bizarre historical reason, now own the rights to Star Wars IV, A New Hope

These were distribution rights, some of which were going to expire in 2020 anyway.[1] So now we may finally get some official unspecialized Star Wars.

[1]: http://www.slashfilm.com/20th-century-fox-still-owns-rights-...

If pseudonyms don't matter, why does Facebook have such a hard-on for collecting real names (even trying to get people's friends to rat them out)?

No, you can still do a lot with compartmentalization. Throwing in the towel just because "on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero" is just looking at the glass as half empty.

Google Image Search also lets you to specify the license you are searching for, which is something anyone designing anything professionally should be well aware of.

Commercial stock image sites were invented for situations like this. Not having time (or whatever) to pay for your stock photography stops being a valid excuse when you rise above the level of "bake sale flyer".

This seems incredibly backwards. The actions of healthcare providers should not need to rise to the level of legally provable fraud before insurance companies have the option of reporting them. We should be requiring the insurance companies to provide a constant stream of usable statistical data covering ALL providers to regulators/law enforcement who should in turn be free to investigate anything that looks suspicious to them (the same way they would with a driver weaving in his lane or a congressman flashing around a suitcase full of money).

Furthermore: Healthcare providers operating in sectors with low barriers to entry should be constantly subject to random audit/inspection regardless of their stats. Do we wait for a customer to report glass in their food before we inspect a restaurant?

This. People forget so quickly...

A thousand times this! People who fear an internet without advertising obviously were not cognizant when the internet did not have advertising.

The only down side I remember is that we only had one Mr. T fan page.

I remember this from when it made Cruel Site of the Day. I don't remember believing that it was serious, however.

At one of my local universities (also in the midwest US) ethernet jacks in the dorms were intentionally miswired so that only cables supplied by the university (and more specifically, their favored vendor) would work.

Of course you could always make your own cable, but this was in the 90's, when the tool for that was very expensive.

Doesn't seem hypothetical or unlikely at all:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/symantec-data-stealing-hackers-...

IIRC this tactic was used during the massive Target data breach in 2014.