discreditable

How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses: https://hackernoon.com/how-the-nintendo-switch-prevents-down...

I had similar annoyances with Jekyll / Octopress and chose to switch to Pelican. Now I can only blame not writing on myself. :)

NSA surveillance was a joke in the Simpsons Movie in 2007.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVTH3_Bf-I

I've installed Windows 10 on HP EliteBook 2730p from 2008, and Toshiba Protege M400 from 2006. For the most part if the machine ran Windows Vista acceptably it will run Windows 10. Disk access is pretty slow. Windows 10 really needs an SSD.

Is that server sending the image with the correct mimetype?

I had this just a few minutes ago. I wanted to manage BitLocker. Top result as I type:

B: Manage BitLocker

BI: Manage Bitlocker

BIT: Notepad ?????

Couldn't agree more. I uninstalled their app from my systems recently. The client just keeps getting fatter. It now has a full UI for browsing your files in addition to just opening Windows explorer.

In ublock you can block remote fonts globally, then toggle them on for sites that need it.

Does UDF count?

Then a https://bestmotherfucking.website

That sounds right. To test I ran a capture on my gateway and it seems like they aren't scanning 8080 or 3128 on login or post nowadays.

From the title I assumed this was going to be something else. I remember some sites used to port scan you on registration. This was to check if registrations were from an open proxy, which was a very strong bot indicator. I might be misremembering but I think Slashdot used to do it. There were also some plugins for phpBB forums that did it too. I used one back in the day and it helped quite a bit with spam registrations.

Am I the only person who installs updates as soon as they come out, yolo'ing them at my org and has no problems at all?

> displaying some static HTML from a random blog

Hard ask given how many don't work with JS disabled.

I left Octopress (a flavor jekyll) for those reasons[1]. Pelican[2] is what I use now. It takes a dir of markdown files and makes a decent website. It was even easy for me to write a no-nonsense theme without being good at python.

[1] https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress...

[2] https://blog.getpelican.com/

They haven't stuck to that timeline at all.

> Classic Hangouts will be retired for all G Suite customers starting in October 2019

Chat within Gmail is still hangouts. Hangouts.google.com still works. Users still use the hangouts apps.

On the personal side, if you use Google Fi, SMS integration is still only available via Hangouts. This is a somewhat unique feature of Fi and Google Voice. You can send/receive SMS within Hangouts via browser or app all the same. It's not like the Messages app for web (which relies on your phone being online).

They have a newer timeline at https://support.google.com/a/answer/9197126?hl=en&ref_topic=...

Seeing that now. I like how the outage times are back-timed (11:57am est) to well before they posted anything about it.

G Suite Status is all green with no warnings. https://www.google.com/appsstatus

When someone sends you a zoom invite, cancel the download, then click the having problems link to download again. Cancel it again. It will show you a link to join by browser.

A few other meeting apps have dark patterns like this. One of my favorite things about Hangouts Meet is it's web first.

Some registrars don't allow you to transfer the domain away from them for a period of time after transferring ownership. If they acquired the domain recently that could be the reason.

Will this version of powershell ever be baked-in to Windows? My Windows 10 1909 install is currently 5.1.

Fail to start if it can't reach the ACME server https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1680

You can use an animated png too! A fun edge I found back in the day was apng allows you to have a static frame for viewers that don't understand apngs. Firefox understood apng, but if you bookmarked the page it would show the first frame of the animation rather than the static frame. The bug I opened for that is now 10 years old. :)

I think that would be great too. For now they seem set on maildir as the future of mail storage.

I think Thunderbird resources are best spent being the best email client it can. It currently lacks mail merge support, and mapi support is bad/not-working. There is an add-on for mail merge, but as they go to webextensions its future (and that of many other add-ons) are uncertain. This affects other add-ons such as enigmail too.

> There's no "Send after X duration" or "Send at X time"

They added scheduled send recently. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9214606

Fifth Third Bank in the USA has check deposit software for business users which requires IE with ActiveX, .NET activation, and several security settings laxed in order to work. I've heard no mumblings of it being updated any time soon.

ESR is affected, so it's possibly as old as July 2019. Maybe older.

> League of Legends doesn't seem to suffer from bots

Depends on where you look. I used to see them a lot in certain game modes and when playing with friends that were new. As one commenter put it:

> To play devil's advocate here -- If you were to play summoner's rift AI games, ARAM, or even some summoner's rift on a sub-30 account late night EST you will be DROWNING in bots. They are EVERYWHERE. They also go almost entirely unpunished. You can track their summoner ID's through OPGG and watch them play the same champion 24 hours a day until 30, change name, and swap champions entirely.

> I tried to get some friends to come to league, and they all quit because their teammates were AI every single time. Not "lul ur bad r u a bot??" but a literal bot grinding exp to sell level 30 accounts. Sure, scripting Xeraths/Cassio's are much more rare -- but League has a huge bot problem sub-30.

Annoyingly, if you want to get a let's encrypt cert you have to serve http. Back when I was manually purchasing & installing certs I didn't even listen on 80 for several services.

(Exception being if you use the dns challenge)