quercusa
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Comment · 2 months ago
If the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.
Comment · 2 months ago
A fun game to draw your own iceberg: https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html
Comment · 5 months ago
One nice thing is that the Polish church records are in Latin (with Latinized names), so I've been able to find and read birth/baptismal records for my wife's ancestors from the 1800s.
Comment · 5 months ago
It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.
Comment · 6 months ago
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.
Comment · 6 months ago
Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.
Comment · 6 months ago
I haven't been in decades but there seemed to be the world's highest concentration of candle shops. Maybe people are looking for fancy candles.
Comment · 6 months ago
Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT
Comment · 6 months ago
If you go the old school "filter taped to box fan" route, be sure to add a shroud for the corners, as blade tip turbulence there actually causes reverse air flow. See the article by the 'R' of Corsi-Rosenthal.
https://www.texairfilters.com/how-to-improve-the-efficiency-...
Comment · 7 months ago
The attack on Stryker used Microsoft InTune to remote-wipe all of Stryker's systems. If you can wipe a system, could you also drop code on it exfiltrate data and credentials?
Comment · 8 months ago
Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/
Comment · 9 months ago
SoftICE was like magic back in the day.
Comment · 9 months ago
Still thinking about those three black olive slices?
[0] Python, Monty (1975), Monty Python and the Holy Grail