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Comment · 3 months ago
On the IRC servers I managed I always set up an automatic kick when one of these messages was sent anywhere on the servers. It would ban after 3 kicks, which was a necessary change from the immediate ban as legitimate users got curious sometimes and installed Comic Chat.

It was fun messing with these folks, though, since they were often oblivious to IRC and internet culture in general. Or they were just completely tech illiterate, but somehow ended up starting Comic Chat, and somehow ended up on our obscure servers.

Comment · 7 months ago
What happened on Chattanooga?
Comment · 7 months ago
They would just end up making the thing they're building run Doom.
Comment · 8 months ago
The Suica app doesn't even work on my Pixel 10 Pro, since it requires an Android phone with some sort of Japan-specific hardware (FeliCa/Osaifu-Keitai technology, whatever that is, I'm assuming some special NFC or secure enclave sort of thing).
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Opera 9 was peak browser
Comment · 11 months ago
I've only ever heard it pronounced as "EcmaScript" not E-C-M-A Script"
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been writing HTML for at least 20 years professionally and this has absolutely not been my experience. Yes, I've encountered some people using divs for everything but in the vast majority of cases people have used semantically correct HTML, at least when it comes to buttons.
Comment · 1 year ago
"use strict" has been around since 2009. That being said, this is not a TypeScript or React feature but yet another black box magic NextJS feature to try to lock you into the Vercel ecosystem.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm from The Netherlands and I've seen carts with locking wheels. Granted it's very rare, but definitely a thing.

I've lived in the US as well and have never seen them there, but it's a big country.

Comment · 1 year ago
Komodo was my favorite editor. There weren't many editors at that point in time that had great Perl support.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
How is that worse when the key is bound to the hardware and non-transferable anyway?
Comment · 1 year ago
The only people losing faith in Google (search) are power users such as us. Regular users haven't noticed the decline, and search may even have improved for them. We are not Google Search's target audience. We need to stop pretending all products are built for the power user niche.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The source of the GUI application is untrusted, or its safety is uncertain.

Afaik Docker doesn't promise security

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