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Comment · 1 year ago
Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and can be configured to forget them upon restart.)
I am totally stumped – how do you enable this on the Mac? I can’t find the option at all, and Google is no help.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve used .ME in the past, but then I settled on just using a .COM. The cost difference was negligible and nobody ever queries a .COM – I had people thinking my .ME was a mistake.
Unless you desperately want COMMONNAME.TLD, I’d go with the .COM for the lack of headaches. They’re ~$20 a year, which doesn’t seem like much money for the simplicity.
Comment · 2 years ago
That’s an interesting minor but significant difference. I’m from the UK, and both of my house keys (Yale, Abloy) have a distinct ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ orientation. Every house key I’ve ever had has been like this. The keys for my desk drawer and filing cabinets too.
Car keys don’t though, as far as I can remember.
Comment · 2 years ago
Great choice. There’s so much to love in that book.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is Pinboard actually closing? There’s nothing to indicate that on the site’s blog or its Twitter[2] (which had a post four days ago).
[1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ [2]: https://x.com/Pinboard
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s an interesting question. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of wolf domestication by Neanderthals. If they didn’t domesticate them, it would be interesting to try to work out why – maybe there’s a subtle difference in psychology between H. Sapiens and H. Neanderthalensis that enabled us to bridge that gap but not them?
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes and no. Mostly no, I think.
In a lot of cases (most?) even plain-text email is rendered in proportional fonts which don’t work for ASCII art.
The default for all mobile email clients, Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail is now to render plain-text in proportional. Those who get it monospaced have chosen to do that. It’s also made worse by Outlook’s insistence on removing ‘extra’ linebreaks by default. AFAIK, there’s no way to switch off that behaviour except email-by-email, and you can’t know if your recipient has it or not.
Comment · 2 years ago
I still dabble in ASCII art a bit, mostly in HTML comments and email headers. It’s kind of a difficult art-form to practice now, given that monospaced text is relatively rare.
Here’s are my pets in ASCII, who go out in the headers of my emails:
.-"-.
^...^ |\./| /|^ ^|\
(=^I^=) )) =(^,^)=)) {/(_O_)\}
/ " \ (( | | (( _/ ^ \_))
( |"| ))) (|||))) (/ /'\ \)
==m m== =m'm= ""' '""Comment · 4 years ago
For anyone thinking that this is an insignificant saving of "only" 32kb, it's really important to remember that many of the site's users will be amongst the poorest in society. Many of them will be accessing it using the oldest, slowest devices; things far slower than the average HN reader's last few phones. Anything that can be done make the site work better for them is worth the effort.
Terence Eden has a really good blog post about just this topic: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
Comment · 4 years ago
That does say… something. I’m just not sure what.
Comment · 5 years ago
That was my experience too, the few times I tried it. I haven't been back for just that reason. There's nothing that I can do on there that I can't do on the real internet and even the tiniest risk of CSAM material reaching my machine is not worth it.
It's sad but I think in most modern democracies that are relatively free, like the USA and EU, the primary use for these services is CSAM. There's no other reason to use it, except maybe paranoia or technical curiosity, and only the former will keep someone using it. The technically curious will move on quite quickly.