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"Oft as not, in talk or script, we'll force the use of some long hard word, and with it, blunt the keen edge and dull the sharp point of what we want to say." - H. Phelps Gates
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ashmud··on The impossible task of creating a “best VPNs” list
And anti-facial recognition (e.g., face paint). Burner phone if you have to.
ashmud··on Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit in Windows 10 Redstone
Possibly a junction-like mapping into the "physical" position in the MFT. Perhaps something like "\\?\$MFT\positioninmft\possiblyshortenedfilename.ext". Somewhat similar to the various mappings for 32-bit programs running on 64-bit Windows.
ashmud··on Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites
With Privacy Badger, there were a few months not too far back ago, where on certain sites (e.g., sports blogs) when browsing in private mode (Firefox), the first time I would visit a site, it would work. Then every subsequent time it would not work (broken layout). My (unproven) conclusion was the first time, it hadn't decided the (JS? cookies?) were tracking me, but after that it decided it had. I haven't had this problem in the last few months, though.
ashmud··on Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
I've found the Philips 424382 (60w replacement, 2700K soft white) to be very nice. I haven't tried any of the replacement SKUs, though.
ashmud··on Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
I've used some of the better tested LED bulbs (per http://www.ledbenchmark.com/ 2700K, 80+ CRI, "nice" looking spectrum, "flicker free"). They are very good, and have improved over bulbs from years back. Definitely better than any CFLs I've used. Still a bit less vibrant and warm compared to incandescent. I personally don't need huge amounts of light outside of bathroom/garage, and find most of the LED bulbs too bright if swapped out 1:1 per the equivalent wattage labeling in my existing fixtures.
ashmud··on jQuery 3.0 Release Candidate
I did at one point in time for flagging links to show a "leaving site" prompt. Now the JS simply checks any link when you click it (no more custom selector for flagging).
ashmud··on Video chips in microcomputers
Acorn graphics hacking thread from the comments:

http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10147

ashmud··on Beautiful sci-fi GIFs
Almost all these look monochrome. It gives me the feeling of reading 3D graphics tutorials before the textures are applied.
ashmud··on Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal
A bit of trivia [1] linked from that discussion about Julian calendar still in use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos#Date_and_time_reck...

ashmud··on The Mastermind: The Next Big Deal
The author is one of the founders of Atavist.
ashmud··on How JPG Works
I think the article could have used a little more on chroma subsampling ("downsampling," per the article). A couple examples: It is basically an optional step (in the case of 4:4:4). And the visual impact on heavily saturated colors (looking at you, bright red).
ashmud··on A strange Firefox address bar behavior
%67 is "g" encoded. In this example, it's goo_g_. Typing %hexcode for any letter of a site in your history/bookmarks at the appropriate position triggers the behavior.

edit: %22 is interesting. It triggers a JSON snippet.

ashmud··on Firefox 46 supports some -webkit prefixed CSS properties
I wonder if that's the case (what was meant). When I first worked with ASP.NET 1.1, getting it to work (feature-level) with Opera often required forgoing most of the "managed" control properties and using CSS/JS directly. The backend .NET code was much more of a joy to work with than Classic ASP, but the managed ASP.NET frontend portion, not as much.
ashmud··on GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues
Even worse: Simply, "Closed." No reason given. Had to hop on IRC dev channel to find out.
ashmud··on GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues
The primary product I work on limits (on-screen) results to 10k results (after any filtering) regardless of page size. Aside: However, this was based on our most complicated queries at the time, which have since been simplified.
ashmud··on Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Ultimately, nothing. They could still aggregate your usage data, though, and not necessarily be out anything investment-wise, compared to using the Opera client proper.
ashmud··on Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Is there a source for this claim (e.g., document from Opera, personal testing such as with Wireshark, etc.)?

Are the OS overrides for DNS entries (e.g., hosts file) used at all in this case?

ashmud··on The Sugar Conspiracy
Common wheat of today is probably not what people were eating 50k years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wheat

ashmud··on The Illegal Map of Swedish Art
The Devil's Advocate had a statue that resembled another artist's work. Some of the home releases had the statue edited as a result of the legal case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Advocate_%281997_f...

Comparison of the edits:

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4057

ashmud··on Show HN: 19 Tone Equal Temperament Piano in Web Audio
Thanks for this. I was unfamiliar with Henry Reich's videos.
ashmud··on Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies
I had nine. On another computer, I had eight (less Yahoo).

Both computers have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and the built-in Firefox tracking protection.

ashmud··on Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies
HTTPS Everywhere (Firefox) is blocking this. I get the "third party cookies blocked" message. When I disabled HTTPS Everywhere, it worked.
ashmud··on Kraft Reveals Revamped Mac and Cheese, 50M Boxes Later
Also, so called Mexican Coke is made with sugar. Though not necessarily all Coke sold in Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke

ashmud··on 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
Windows + free + low system impact / short install time. Makes it a goto in a lot of cases on the Windows platform.
ashmud··on The Clipper Chip
If all the vendors participate in the scheme, it works?

Ex: SCMS copy bit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Copy_Management_System

ashmud··on VPN Comparison Chart
At least for IPv4, without constantly buying and selling IP addresses and/or also acting as a larger internet service entity (e.g., also as a local ISP), I'm not sure how they would prevent getting quickly blocked from region-specific services. Perhaps setting up your own VPN on VPS or using random VPNs at VPN Gate would work better?
ashmud··on Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
I stumbled upon this MeFi discussion when I searched for "Atom City Number Nine."

http://www.metafilter.com/118133/A-Tall-Tail

ashmud··on CloudFlare Watch
Archived WP page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060819151043/http://en.wikiped...

Partial postmortem edit log:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120204052201/http://en.wikiped...

ashmud··on Modern textureless deferred rendering techniques
The demo on the left (the face) has a disorienting "ripple" effect, at least in FF44. The Buddha appears fine, though.
ashmud··on Samsung ships the world's highest capacity SSD, with 15TB of storage
About 20 years ago, I worked on a project replacing/rewriting servers and their management software for a manufacturer. They had an already aging *nix system (circa 1990). Story went that not long before we came in for the project they had to replace a HDD that was out of production to the tune of about $50k.
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