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wafflesraccoonon Twitter Experiences Widespread Outages

I had not seen it in years, I figured it was a generic blue background or something.

wafflesraccoonon Twitter Experiences Widespread Outages

Ah, okay! I had not seen it in years. Good to know

wafflesraccoonon Twitter Experiences Widespread Outages

This is the homepage for me currently, any idea what's going on?

Edit: Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised?

https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH

wafflesraccoonon Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows

Soylent green is made of people

wafflesraccoonon YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Nitpick, on page three of the document you posted it states that his script used curl and not wget

wafflesraccoonon FuzzCon – European Online Conference About Fuzzing

Not to be confused with Nordic FuzzCon, the Swedish furry convention

wafflesraccoonon Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

You can turn retweets off per account with vanilla Twitter now, it's such a useful feature.

wafflesraccoonon Trump suspends H1B and non-immigrant visas

There is already a thread about this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605557

wafflesraccoonon Jobless claims, total unemployment level worse than expected

No, it's a bump up in the stock prices before they fall again

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp

wafflesraccoonon Toxic sofas are a secret scandal

It's really not that surprising if you think about it. They have caffeine free coffee and alcohol free beer.

I suspect it would not do well as a product, all the downsides of smoking without the rewarding nicotine buzz. It would be interesting to learn more.

wafflesraccoonon Boston Dynamics Spot SDK Repo

Here is the link for anyone else that wants to watch it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s1sr4JdlI

wafflesraccoonon Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home

Heating and cooling costs must be a pain point, I wonder if there is an easy way to zone the AC to just a room.

wafflesraccoonon A brief history of badge ribbons at SF conventions

I do really love these ribbons, you can find them everywhere at just about any geek/fandom convention these days.

wafflesraccoonon Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages

Our cooperate Cisco security filter blocks the website `size-of-npm.netlify.com` for a "security threat".

NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID is the listed error

wafflesraccoonon Satellite Photos Reveal Extent of Damage from Iranian Strike on Air Base in Iraq

Does the Ain al-Assad air base not have some type of anti missile/air defense? I tried to find out this information but I could not find anything off hand.

wafflesraccoonon Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors

Another cool webapp is Coolors https://coolors.co/app

I use it a lot when I need to pick colors for a project.

wafflesraccoonon Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon to 4-Year-Olds”

Because users like retweeting content.

wafflesraccoonon USAF’s Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (2016)

I was under the impression that there are a few stealth UAVs being operated currently.The Sentinel comes to mind and I think both China and Russia have working prototypes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentine...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-7

wafflesraccoonon New Marine Corps weapon that just destroyed an Iranian drone revealed

This website is a nightmare, there is almost no information and the page is almost entirely ads

wafflesraccoonon People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)

I've never once gotten goosebumps from music (Or movies or really anything other than the temperature).

wafflesraccoonon The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

Which places are different in the United States? That's a very board question but in general there are a handful of major regions.

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

wafflesraccoonon Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

Did you draw the figure drawing on the wall? It is wonderful.

wafflesraccoonon “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture

Blackface normalised the racist stereotype of African Americans, not necessarily actual African American culture.

wafflesraccoonon Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?

What a weird comment. One, why does this only apply to heterosexual men? Second, if you're dealing with self-esteem issues getting laid isn't a walk in the park.

wafflesraccoonon Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

Not to go against the grain but I love Spotify, the Discover Weekly is killer for finding new music. I also have a large collection of vinyl at home for when I really want to enjoy an album.

Also because Tool won't release their albums online =(

wafflesraccoonon How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public

> How much work did that take you?

In a way, the management of my feed is a never ending game. Typically the problem I see is that people are too reluctant to unfollow/ follow other accounts.

wafflesraccoonon How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public

I have not touched Facebook in years, I'm glad they have added that feature. I might have to check it out again, thanks.

wafflesraccoonon How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public

Twitter is hands down my favorite social media platform, I really enjoy how I can curate a stream of content that is almost always relevant to my interests. It is also a great way to share my own content and interact with the people that are interested in it. There is also the unspoken benefit that unfollowing someone does not have the same social impact as unfriending someone on Facebook.

(Active Twitter user for 10 years, 90k Tweets and a few thousand followers)

wafflesraccoonon Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe

Is gatekeeping like this necessary?

wafflesraccoonon The colossal problem with universal basic income [video]

Isn't Big Think funded by the Kock family[0]? I'd take this information with a grain of salt, they typically lean hard on conservative perspective.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Think