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McGuffin··on The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
Yeah, Swedish police had 20-something Porsches over the years, here's some pics from an article about one of them being up for sale https://carup.se/legendarisk-polis-porsche-saljs-pa-auktion/
McGuffin··on Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs
You could try https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract (installable via homebrew).
McGuffin··on Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023)
Yes, switch to a firefox based browser for android.
McGuffin··on A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp
What article are you referring to? (Specifically, the parent comment asked about SBCL, Steel Bank Common Lisp, running on the pico 2, not about uLISP)
McGuffin··on Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017)
Intercropping, yes. One type of which is called Three Sisters, where you grow corn, climbing beans and squash together.

It is of course harder to do on industrial scale, but it probably beats doing row monocrops on your backyard.

McGuffin··on What Firefox trains are we in?
By default it is on the aurora update channel, seems to have the same version number as beta, but you can also change it ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Channels ).
McGuffin··on HID Remapper
I will assume it's the same foot pedal that I have, in that case the software is at https://pcsensor.cn/software-details?_l=en
McGuffin··on TOTP Codes in the Terminal
It is actually doable to export secrets from authy desktop, but it involves starting it in debug mode and connecting chrome to it (it's an electron app). It was the solution I found to extract the secrets back when I set up https://pypi.org/project/totp/
McGuffin··on Rp2040 runs unmodified PalmOS 5.2.8
Yes, it was quite snappy. I used to play mp3 files on my T3 with the processor scaled down to 133MHz no problems
McGuffin··on Google Keep
I can't seem to find it in the web version, but you can share from the android app, to my knowledge.
McGuffin··on Rome is a dependency-free, customizable date picker
How would one set week start day to monday in this? Can't really see an option for that among the options.
McGuffin··on PDFy – Instant PDF Host
Whoa, opened the site to a bunch of obvious nsfw stuff. Maybe there should be an option to filter this?
McGuffin··on No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown
Sure, you could do that. Personally, I have always had a reply from their abuse department within the hour (usually it's solved by then, too).

But indeed, if you feel you have sufficient evidence that MSFT is downright neglectful and turning a blind eye to spam accounts, feel free to file a motion and post a $200k+ bond.

McGuffin··on Merge Pull Request Considered Harmful
A more precise term would probably be snowclone.
McGuffin··on What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?
Stop kidding yourself, because neither did you.
McGuffin··on Volvo’s first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Sweden
Maybe if you'd bought a lot more Volvos, they still would've had a market for that option.
McGuffin··on GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll
Sure, use whatever other registrar/host you want, but it quite evidently doesn't exactly help people who aren't using godaddy but still have to deal with abuse related to people who are.
McGuffin··on Dart: The World's Smallest Laptop Adapter
It's pretty common for power adapters to be double insulated. Which in a way is very useful if you're traveling in e.g. continental Europe, where you can just buy a two prong "europlug" cable to use instead of the NEMA one which fits in sockets of varying design.
McGuffin··on The First World's Biggest Addiction
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of coffea that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
McGuffin··on Create a DDOS attack using NTP servers
This method of ddosing has been in quite widespread use for several months by now, though.
McGuffin··on I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made
There is nothing that says the same isn't true of expensive clothing (and for that matter, online services). They may still cut the costs in the most unethical manner possible. They'll just have a higher profit margin at the same time.
McGuffin··on Kickstarter pledger scammed multiple projects for rewards
Opening disputes (either with amazon or the credit card company) is basically the only way for funders to recoup any money from scam kickstarters. Saying they should accept it as an option would only mean more honest funders getting scammed out of their money if a project falls through should they go for e.g. bank transfer/cryptocurrency. No dishonest funder would willingly go for a payment method where their MO doesn't work. Enforcing it for high value investments means the honest investors have no way of getting their money back from a less than honest KS campaign.