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sml156··on Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?
I am more concerned with the way the left window is held on using a big paperclip
sml156··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
Can you tell me why the left window appears to be held on with a really big paperclip.
sml156··on Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Dedup at Scale
Clicking on the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) to auto scroll works for me, The scroll wheel on its own works too
sml156··on Pi-hole v6
> DNS doesn't have redirection like HTTP

dnsmasq has grown up a lot in the last few years and does have the ability to redirect domains. It's that time again got to read the man page

sml156··on I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)
I don't think the majority of people on earth would base all their captchas on things only found in America
sml156··on Christopher Columbus' remains found after 500 years as DNA analysis ends mystery
Its a link to other articles on the same site, nothing nefarious
sml156··on Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
The second paragraph states it happens ~80 years the last time it appeared was in 1946
sml156··on Volkswagen will bring back physical buttons
In the future If you want a radio it will be $8.00 monthly subscription fee, If you want radio buttons that will be $18.00 monthly fee.
sml156··on Bangladesh saved lives by getting lead out of turmeric spice
What title should they have used.

If you look at the URL it should be "bangladesh-tumeric-lead-poisoning-contamination-public-health"

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/20/23881981/bangla...

If you look at the bold text at the beginning of the article it should be "Lead poisoning kills millions annually. One country is showing the way forward."

Underneath the bold text is smaller text "How Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice — and saved lives."

sml156··on Toxic fumes on airplanes? Airlines may have to do something about it
If you told me that if I leave my house at 10:00 PM to-nite and I had a probability 1/15000 chance of dying or become incapacitated I would more than likely wait five or ten mins before leaving.
sml156··on How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
I for one would not be happy.

When I buy a storage device I usually have an intended purpose for that storage and would not like to have to delete all of the files that some manufacturer thought would be useful information but I would have to delete to make room for what I want.

sml156··on Large Eruption Near Tonga, Heard in NZ. Tsunami at Tonga and Fiji
Judging by the movement of the sun I would guess a couple of hours, It's hard for me to tell with all the clouds in the sky. https://twitter.com/_TheSeaning/status/1482230175806992391

>What would be the timescale of those satellite videos?

They are animated gif's just a bunch of frames from the original video.

sml156··on Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
From the article

>The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road. He said the owner was found in the back seat upright.

My first thought was they were making a YouTube video

sml156··on The Endless Browser Wars
This is not a Firefox issue

  Quote from your link Nov 1, 2019
>we will soon start working on better Firefox support
sml156··on Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)
For most people yes, If your willing to take matters into your own hands no.
sml156··on Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers
As long as you have a network connection you can install Win 10 again and it will activate the license for free as long as it's the same Home or Pro version, You can even switch your install to or from 32 and 64 bit.

The license is stored on Microsoft's server's.

sml156··on The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
Had no effect on Firefox for me, I opened Firefox's task manager and it said the site was using very little resources.

My mileage may vary from yours since I use Ublock and uMatrix and I also block add sites with my own DNS server.

sml156··on Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
After month's or year's you would have bucket of micro plastic.
sml156··on ET Don't Phone Home
A quick Google search seems to suggest that smart doorlocks have ended up in the headlines since the late 2000's

https://www.google.com/search?q=smart+door+lock+vulnerabilit...

sml156··on Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on her eyes
exiftool tool also has a GUI for Windows, It's not pretty to look at but works great
sml156··on A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017)
If were to ask a woman they would tell you that your still a kid till your mid 40's
sml156··on User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem
I am using Firefox and use "SearchMage - Search Enhancer" add-on for that

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchmage-se...

I found it here a few months ago actually and am quite happy with it, It has a few features that include infinite scroll that you can turn off or on.

sml156··on German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis
Probably for the very few people that use regex on their DNS servers to block Microsoft
sml156··on Show HN: SearchMage – Infinite Scrolling and Filtering
Good work

I tried it just for the removing of spam domains in the search results the rest is a bonus to me.

sml156··on Microsoft confirms new Windows 7 monthly charge for updates
They did the same thing when XP went EOL why would you expect it to be any different for Win 7
sml156··on Networking Named Content (2009) [pdf]
Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
sml156··on The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
I usually read HN comments before reading the article, I read your comment and checked the other tab - Ha same thing for me

I did a quick Google search on them, It's kinda ironic

>LogRocket helps you understand problems affecting your users, so that you can get back to building great software.

sml156··on Geology’s Timekeepers Are Feuding
Not if they built their towns and cities on top of active volcano's for a plentiful source of hot water.
sml156··on Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed
I can't remember where I read this but some ISP's give preferential treatment to url's with the word " /speedtest " in it rendering the test meaningless
sml156··on Cambridge Analytica staff set up new firm
What did people think they were going to do just give up and go work on a construction site or maybe work at McDonald's
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