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unexistanceon Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

You can change the universal background color to anything :D that is just a guide

heck, I'm using a black background nowadays, trying to mimic blackboard color ha

unexistanceon Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

there's an extreme method of doing 'light text on dark background', like my guide below

http://unexistance.blogspot.com/2014/09/of-firefox-solarize....

in which all background & foreground color are of your choice. been using it for 5 years at least

unexistanceon Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years

and apparently highly unlikely :D

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-i...

unexistanceon Tell HN: Sci-Hub's TLS certificate has started failing

probably this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equati...

unexistanceon How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?

the relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/1810/

unexistanceon CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

our most probable future :D

but the prices of clothes & dishes needs to keep going down to be feasible... and ideally easy to recycle

unexistanceon A PDP-11 emulator in the browser running Unix V6

  FALKEN'S MAZE
  BLACK JACK
  GIN RUMMY
  HEARTS
  BRIDGE
  CHECKERS
  CHESS
  POKER
  FIGHTER COMBAT
  GUERRILLA ENGAGEMENT
  DESERT WARFARE
  AIR-TO-GROUND ACTIONS
  THEATERWIDE TACTICAL WARFARE
  THEATERWIDE BIOTOXIC AND CHEMICAL WARFARE
  GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR

  SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

unexistanceon Apple's Growing Bet on Hardware

Apple as hardware company is common sense among HN crowd :D

unexistanceon A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet

so, that means going with IPv6 will bring back p2p networking? or do you see it's already too late?

p/s: it's more than relevant, it's eerily accurate in predicting our current situation

unexistanceon REST is the new SOAP

alternatively, use a bookmarklet to remove floating div... name the such as '1. rm float'

then, it's only alt-B -> 1 away, in Firefox

unexistanceon AI-controlled brain implants for mood disorders tested in people

I have exactly ARPAnet in mind when I said "Or it's just the nature of tools?" :D

I should've worded it better, good natured here means good-intention, in which there will be bad intention that we will probably NEVER see (C&D, military secret, etc...)

In this case, what's stopping the scientists and/or funder from misusing/weaponizing this implant?

p/s: guess I'm biased when it's DARPA, since it's US military complex... but hey, I'm enjoying the Internet :D

unexistanceon AI-controlled brain implants for mood disorders tested in people

I've always thought whenever DARPA funded something sounds good, there's a catch, like "yeah, let's publish the good-natured stuff... " and in this case, "make sure the implants can be used in other part of the brain"

Or am I just delusional? Or it's just the nature of tools?

unexistanceon Firefox 57.0 Released

I can relate to this, tho for me it was TiddlyWiki(-legacy), and UnMHT

you can use the ESR[0] release with the extension AND disabling auto-update, and use -no-remote paramater to run multiple instance FF...

So in your case, you can have two instance, one FF running ScrapBook, the other is new-and-shiny FF... I used this setup daily with multiple FF running at my whim, didn't feel clunky

p/s: ScrapBook sounds awesome, I myself did saves PDF version of website, where it still can be indexed/searched properly

[0] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

unexistanceon Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them

some 'update' since EA Spouse and corresponding lawsuits ~10 years ago

http://www.gameqol.org/igda-qol-survey/

unexistanceon Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time

those are more to 'reading' source codes to find the functionality you want, but I do get what you mean

unexistanceon A Pre-History of Slashdot

just using Firefox only... Set the color to always use your own colors, then change accordingly

whomever you want to take interest to, will pops up in 'Visited Link' color, the rest just normal URL

obviously works best in less-hyperlink sites like HN, wikipedia quite tolerable

YMMV :D

unexistanceon A Pre-History of Slashdot

fascinating :D

I do have my own system on following/starring PoI in HN, using no extension at all, so I can instantly know who's comment is more useful

no banning though, since valuable nuggets on knowledge can come from anyone

unexistanceon How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf]

thought so, it's by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [0], quite active of Facebook :D he got other social account?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

unexistanceon Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died

and

I'm reminded by the movie WarGames when the nuke officers (not sure the actual designation) are replaced by relays...

I'm just glad the officer-just-doing-his-job expects systems to fail & trust hsi own judgment, instead of our current ever-increasing trust in machines

unexistanceon The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

oooh what is this sun font you're talking about? is it available anywhere?

unexistanceon One of the most complex wristwatches ever made

it seems modern smartphone/watch still can't compete with most complications[0]... Or am I not looking hard enough?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication_(horology)

unexistanceon Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

previous company used it quite extensively, especially if there's a new feature the enterprise software that needs testing by the QA team

we did write the test by hand tho, very DSL-like & really targeted at non-programmer

unexistanceon FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky

man that is one deep hole I've fallen into :D very good reads

NOW I know win7 also phone backs home T_T

unexistanceon uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

how'd you report to DDG? tried reporting that !gi does not utilizes encrypted.google.com (which I think it should), seems like no dice

unexistanceon uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

awesome, DDG rocks

just tried !spi and it works as image search :D

unexistanceon uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

has cnet always been this bad? I mean you need JS to read the thing

and the whole article is on a floating div?

unexistanceon uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions

does not matter, happily 'stuck' using 12.x series :D

unexistanceon Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius

* reads wiki, dissapointed

anyway, favorite quote

They would work side by side. Betty looked up references, took down Claude’s thoughts and, importantly, edited his written work. She offered her improvements and added historical references. As Betty put it, “Some of his early papers and even later papers are in my handwriting...and not in his, which confused people at first.” And not just his papers: Betty was a full partner in the gadgeteering, too. In fact, it was Betty—not Claude—who completed the wiring for Theseus the mouse.

unexistanceon Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product

  https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

unexistanceon Tiny Apps

interested 10 years ago, still do to this day :D

great job Miles