Somehow banks decided it's a good security practice to hinder copying and pasting of IBANs, especially when user defines a bank transfer. So here you are, multiple tabs and files open at once, entering IBAN digit by digit and checking multiple times, now you are secure.
Polish ING modifies IBAN on pasting it during bank transfer and forces to enter manually first two digits "for your security". They also disable IBAN selection in transfer summary view, so one cannot copy it and double check before confirming the transfer. ING seems to deploy the most arbitrary "security" measures found on most random blog posts and sprouted during the most brain-dead brainstorming meetings.
The banks protect you from malicious clipboard manipulation by manipulating the clipboard content ("we let you paste but complete some digits manually") and/or entirely disabling pasting text into text fields. Yes, they employ at least one "security expert" who will elaborately explain you why it's better for your security.
Watching DOM events on the document and disabling key events for the key code 116. One can still trigger document refresh by remapping F5 to other physical key in OS settings, or by clicking refresh button in browser toolbar.
It's more an equivalent of a RFID tag. Sometimes placed in the middle of a printed page of a book, or irremovable in other ways so others are wondering whether you actually bought the item, but oh well...
> if you tried to change it to a password you had used before you would get an error saying that the new password couldn't match the last 24 passwords you had used
This was also a case with gmail sometime around 2015. Once one was forced to change their password by some silly policy, one couldn't use any of the 100 previous passwords. Quite easily resolved by 50 lines of Python with Selenium. Nowadays would be much more difficult with many "anti robot" measures.
MHTML looks interesting. Avoiding "Save as" into multiple files, I've been capturing the websites as screenshots to preserve the layout and printing as PDFs to preserve the content, and honestly it works so-so...
Browser bookmarks with Netscape Bookmarks format (yuck!) for transferring between browsers when I access stuff regularly and don't want to discover it through the search engine every time. Self-hosted shortener service when I need to access URLs from any device in any location. So called "url files" which browser opens for me with every URL in a separate tab when there is temporary high volume inflow of URLs, e.g. researching a purchase, rental, or travel.
He is right, media over MMS never took off. Mobile internet with messaging apps were the next big thing. Phones of that era were not capable of user friendly apps.
When feasible I subscribe to RSS feeds by keyword(s) e.g. job openings by technology and city, one feed to multiple subreddits grouped by topics. I'm in progress to curate some inspiring RSS feeds to HN and Stack Overflow.
The 1930s are exactly the time when business machines enabled automated national population censuses. Business machines allowed countless new ways to sort and segregate the population by gender, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, mental (dis)abilities. It was simply too tempting. The only reason the DNA wasn't used was because it hadn't been discovered yet.
The bad actors don't follow the robots.txt, or rather are bad actors because they don't follow robots.txt neither the informal courtesy practices. Then the main role of robots.txt is public shaming?
"The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down" - if you write down personal experience or observation in the context of time and place and are able to recall it instantly in the right time in the future, it might save your time, health, life, money.
The current compromise for monetization on the web is advertisiting. The web apps and sites are not optimized for snappiness, responsiveness, user experience. They are optimized for tracking and profiling, the market leading front-end frameworks enable mostly these.
Bodies of 77/87 Tatras were probably the most aerodynamic compromise suitable for mass production at that time. Just compare them with Fords from 30s and 40s [1].
Before entering the post I was certain it's about Tropfenwagen [1] displayed in e.g. Technikmuseum in Berlin. Either way for the newly constructed highways they indeed shifted to aerodynamic cars with the body extending over the front wheels, but to the model ...cough... "borrowed" from Czechoslovakian Tatra [2].
I click through the new event form in Thunderbird with Lightning because I want the event to be sent over to my CalDAV server and then synchronized with all computers and devices. Something like you describe, ideally from CLI, would be awesome.
The process of converting all pages to raster images and then OCR-ing each one takes hours for PDFs hundreds of pages long. This workflow is not suitable for instant search. For non OCR-ed PDFs it's worth to pregenerate the text.