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Comment · 1 month ago
Seems like most people think the NS prefix stands for NeXTSTEP. What do you think?
Comment · 3 months ago
Can you provide any links regarding the Forgejo incident? I haven't heard about that.
Comment · 5 months ago
It never was supposed to be.
Comment · 8 months ago
As it is, Grokipedia is not a threat to Wikipedia because relative to Wikipedia, almost nobody is using it.

Additionally, an encyclopedia reader likely cares about accuracy significantly more than average.

Comment · 1 year ago
>Note: Google must be set as your default search engine for this feature to appear.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, it's the same price as a Google Play Console developer account, but this is for access to the new Android Developer Console.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Funny to say this when the article literally says "nothing wrong with mascots!"

Out of curiosity, what did you read as hostility?

Comment · 1 year ago
In a different repository, though. I think it's understandable that someone would miss it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps one justification for blocking ads is protecting users from personal information harvesting, tracking, and malware delivered through advertising networks. Aside from that, I can't think of a justification.

I actually think it would be good if there were filter lists that whitelisted ads that were not harmful to users in those ways, but that sounds difficult/impossible to fairly maintain, and I doubt anyone else wants it.

Comment · 1 year ago
4chan doesn't store threads for very long, hence the plethora of third-party archive sites. I doubt they are still storing any useful data from back then.
Comment · 1 year ago
From the linked article:

>To test in Firefox with the new behavior, set layout.css.h1-in-section-ua-styles.enabled to false in about:config.

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