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Comment · 3 years ago
Trying to visit this on my phone, all I get is a poorly formatted “one more step” page that asks me to complete a captcha that loads mostly off the side of the screen so I have to scroll to see it, which makes it jump around. Whenever I manage to beat the captcha, it just redirects me to archive.is, which looks exactly the same and I have to beat another captcha, and the whole process begins again.
Comment · 9 years ago
I get a SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER on that site.
Comment · 9 years ago
That link says the ISO goes to 409,600, not 4,096,000.
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't think the corewars assembly is available outside of the game.
Comment · 10 years ago
A little while ago, someone used Facebook's last active time to track their friends' sleep: https://medium.com/life-tips/how-you-can-use-facebook-to-tra...
Comment · 12 years ago
It's a mistake to think we can't improve on something because someone smart built it. In my academic community, everyone fights with LaTeX and I can only say with confidence that one person I know has mastered it. Everyone else just hacks at their document until it's close enough.
Comment · 13 years ago
If the connection between you and DDG is over SSL, what does it matter that they've scraped your encrypted packets?
Comment · 13 years ago
I hadn't heard of the dyslexic font situation. After a little searching, I found: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121004/18530620612/font-...
I assume that's the legal situation to which you are referring.
Comment · 13 years ago
There was a nice post about Atlassian's choice of Mercurial over Git on their blog: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-mer... Their argument about a windows version doesn't seem to hold today. There seems to be a first-class Windows version of git.
Since there exists HgGit (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgGit) and git-remote-hg (https://github.com/rfk/git-remote-hg), the two are equivalent in the sense that you can use either to contribute to any hg/git repo. Which is your prefered flavour of interface?
Comment · 13 years ago
Encrypting data certainly increases the barrier to entry for spying.
Comment · 13 years ago
It always amuses me when this gets posted on HN. As a link, it appears as medium grey on slightly lighter grey.