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spilk··on Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators
does this include former senators? Al Franken shows up in the search at the top.
spilk··on Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites
Sounds similar to the old Fluid website wrapper for MacOS X ( https://fluidapp.com/ )
spilk··on HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS
yes, there is definitely a method to gen the paks.
spilk··on My Business Card Runs Linux
you probably have cards in your wallet right now that run (a decidedly stripped down) version of Java.
spilk··on PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
the /r/pfSense subreddit also has a bunch of Netgate staff as moderators
spilk··on Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion
I like how this basically enshrines in law that religion is factually incorrect
spilk··on Pizza Hut’s First Website
I remember the pizza ordering scene in The Net (1995) seemed very futuristic at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSqX7B5DXs

spilk··on Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
The Moon and ISS are pretty easy to see almost everywhere.
spilk··on Cartridge Printed Circuit Boards
how about MAME, which has a zip-based format containing raw ROM dumps, and the "CHD" format for disk/disc based media? obviously all of the metadata is still contained within MAME itself.
spilk··on Firefox Reality
yeah, really. Why not put it on Steam?
spilk··on Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
I've been doing this for years with easy-to-acquire clear protective films that are specifically cut for laptops.
spilk··on Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court
especially when proving authorship of bitcoin would be a simple matter for the actual Satoshi - just sign a message with the same key as the recipient of the genesis block. He attempted to do this and failed in a stunningly obvious way.
spilk··on Lenovo BIOS Simulator
I used to work phone support for Dell and we had tools similar to this to help troubleshoot over the phone without having access to the exact hardware the customer had.
spilk··on Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems
Similar, but not solely contained in a cartridge:

Nintendo Family Computer Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System

and the Nintendo Satellaview which did things similar to the SEGA Channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

spilk··on Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (1999)
It should given the N64's relationship to Silicon Graphics
spilk··on Apple announces redesigned Mac Pro
Then you just have to absorb $199 for the VESA mount.
spilk··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
Also, Mozilla is largely dependent on Google via their default-search arrangement, so even if it's not Webkit/Blink based, Google still has significant influence.
spilk··on Impossible Foods Responds to Glyphosate Allegation
This sounds like when that mommy blogger raised a completely misguided stink about "yoga mat chemical" being present in Subway bread.
spilk··on Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made
Twitter is the worst platform for long-form content like this.
spilk··on Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
It's like you're purposely describing the least useful application of smarthome devices.

Setting up geofence triggers, time/event-based triggers, etc. is the real power of smart devices. I have automations set up so if I arrive home when it's dark, lights in my house turn on automatically so I don't have to fumble for light switches. I have motion sensors so if I walk into rooms, the lights turn on automatically and then turn off after I leave. I can set up schedules to turn lights on and off while I'm not at home so my house looks occupied.

Also, with Apple Homekit, there is a control center widget so you just swipe up, tap home and your "favorite" devices are very quickly accessible from anywhere in the world.

spilk··on Unraveling the JPEG
I believe that iPhones for the past generation or two have defaulted to taking pictures in HEIC.
spilk··on S/MIME Version 4.0 Message Specification
Within the US Department of Defense (who may be the most widely-deployed users of S/MIME), email encryption keys (which all DoD personnel carry on a smartcard) are escrowed with DISA.
spilk··on HyperCard Adventures
appears so, yeah. probably very similar (if not the same) to the emscripten version of PCE that they use over at archive.org:

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/16/early-macintosh-emulatio...

spilk··on Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
Pretty sure the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is the largest Active Directory deployment in the world still.
spilk··on Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said
Sounds sort of like the New Deal "Civilian Conservation Corps" that built up many of the national park facilities we now enjoy in the USA.
spilk··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
There is also a Facebook-specific container addon that limits Facebook's footprint even more than the standard container addon (and will work alongside it)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

Also with the standard container addon you can specify that sites always open only in your specified container, so you could just set Facebook to always open in its own container that way.

spilk··on Square Terminal
As someone from a place where you tip just about anything, it is crazy to me as well. I want flat, upfront prices.
spilk··on Square Terminal
The ideal solution here is to get rid of tipping, but I don't see that happening in my lifetime.
spilk··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
They are intact but have gotten darker in color, they are no longer the bright orange you would have hoped for.

https://i.imgur.com/Pu3mNsb.jpg

spilk··on Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?
I think after 5 years of military service as an officer and a military academy EE degree you could easily obtain very lucrative military contractor work, but of course this is generally going to be in the weapons/electronic warfare sphere which may or may not be ethically compatible to some folks.
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