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4ensic··on Free Universal Construction Kit
It begs for an acronym.
4ensic··on Ask HN: Give me your terrible job-search advice
"Follow your dreams". Without a backup plan, this will statistically doom the vast majority of those who dream of online gaming, being an influencer, or playing professional sports.

Sure there are people who make a living in all 3 areas, but the odds are definitely not in your favor.

4ensic··on I used to know how to write in Japanese
3 years of Japanese in high school and I can still read hiragana 48 years later.
4ensic··on Urgent warning issued for balding drug after found to cause 'werewolf syndrome'
In the US the condition will be called Werewolf-Therewolf in honor of Drs. Feldman and Wilder.
4ensic··on Behold, a giant AI-generated rat penis
Didn't AI-Generated Rat Dick open for the Stones?
4ensic··on Ask HN: What clipboard manager do you use?
I use Ditto (https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/). It uses about 5MB Ram and lets you expire clips.
4ensic··on Sales of sugary drinks fell in cities with soda taxes
What happens to the sales in neighboring cities without soda taxes?
4ensic··on Google Fiber - 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 will be available to select customers
Agreed. I think lag / ping is just as important as throughput in determining subjective snappiness of a connection (unless you're doing large up/downloads.
4ensic··on Ask HN: Why are domain registrars so bad?
Cloudflare.com doesn't charge more than what the top level registrar charges them.

NameSilo.com includes quite a few features (Privacy and email forwarding) that the sleazy registrars try to upsell.

4ensic··on Free unlimited DDoS attack protection by Google
Thank you Google. Also note that Cloudflare offers a comparable free service for all domainholders, not just certain categories of sites.
4ensic··on Ask HN: Do you use RSS? If yes, which reader do you use?
I use QuiteRSS reader on Windows.
4ensic··on FCC calls for mega $300M fine for US robocall campaign
The FCC loves to attack Potemkin villages. The VOIP provider closes up shop with no assets and there is one less scumbag - a victory, but not in terms of taking money from phone abusers.
4ensic··on Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
TL;DR. The latest version (105) of FireFox implemented the trick. Users don't need to do anything other than update.
4ensic··on Cloudflare Total TLS: one-click TLS for every hostname you have
Quite handy, but not part of the free tier. It's included with purchase of the Advanced Certificate Manager.
4ensic··on Ask HN: Cloudflare R2 seems too good to be true. Do the economics make sense?
Oddly, Cloudflare is part of the Bandwidth Alliance - a consortium of 19 companies who want to reduce bandwidth costs.

Backblaze, an online storage and backup company, is also a member. They charge $.005/GB/month for S3 compatible storage. And if you map and access a bucket through Cloudflare there is no egress fee.

So it's possible to store and access your files at 1/3 the price of Cloudflare alone by using Cloudflare (plus Backblaze).

4ensic··on Peloton Row is a smart rowing machine that costs $3,195
Plus $44 a month, because a rowing machine is also a stream of income.
4ensic··on The Cult of Busy
When somebody says "Sorry, I can't. I'm busy" I hear "I have something more important to do". May be true, may not.
4ensic··on A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless
Anyone who cruises or travels internationally to certain nations. https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...
4ensic··on Ask HN: Who where lived through the beginning of the personal computer era?
A friend had an Apple ][+ and an acoustically coupled modem in the early 80s. He had to dial the phone and put the receiver into the cups of the modem. One evening of calling a list of modem numbers for Bulletin Boards and companies (there was no specific law against hacking in 1980), I was hooked.

I saved $2,500 for an Apple //e, printer, and Zoom modem the next summer and it changed my life. Though I had an MA in clinical psychology and was an intern psychologist, through some some roundabout choices I ended up a few years later as one of the first Forensic Computer Examiners at a small federal law enforcement agency. It was the wild west in the late 1990s as I was working as a Special Agent and they offered the job to me as a sworn agent with no official credentials other than the ones I earned within the agency.

Wouldn't have changed a thing. I retired at 51 and am living as an expat.

4ensic··on Tell HN: Cloudflare does not cache HTML content
Free Cloudflare accounts come with 3 page rules per website.
4ensic··on Box of human heads stolen in Denver, Colorado
Still 4 heads short of a movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118541/
4ensic··on The Sublime Beauty of My Friend Bob Saget’s Filthy Comedy
"It's a kids movie from the 70s about cats in Paris. Oh, and it has the guy from Full House. Let's buy it for the grandkids."

Kyle and Kaylie on the next visit. "We loved The Aristocrats, Grandpa. I have a story. This family walks into a booking agent's office..."

4ensic··on Are Audiobooks as Good for You as Reading? Here’s What Experts Say (2018)
TL;DR

Yes, as good as reading on a screen. But maybe not as good as reading on paper (Easier to gauge where you are in a book on paper).

4ensic··on Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school
"Hi Mom, how the f*ck ya doin?" "Kyle, where did you learn that word?" "A bird flew in the class.... Er, Edwin told me".
4ensic··on Fakelish – Fake English word generator
Quite a few cromulent words, but far from perfect.
4ensic··on Bomb Squad called to Royal Hospital after man gets WWII mortar stuck up his bum
"He said he put it on the floor then he slipped and fell on it — and it went up his a**."

Sure... I'm reminded of Fusilli Jerry.

4ensic··on Show HN: Turn your un-used domains into Reddit-like clones
Free for 1 site. $5 for 3 sites $10 for 10 sites $20 for 30 sites.
4ensic··on Ask HN: Did Captcha suddenly get terrible for you, also?
It seems to vary with the originating site. Most of my experiences have matched yours, but a couple of sites let me in after one screen with no additional screens or even replacement photos - and that was using same browser and same IP.
4ensic··on Winamp Skins Collection
<Slapping forehead>. Yes, that's it!
4ensic··on Winamp Skins Collection
This really kicks the llamas ass. Thanks.
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