discreditable

I work around it by making calls with Google Hangouts on my PC and capturing the audio with OBS.

To me it seems like it might be a testing ground for features to bring to Gmail.

HSTS does prevent clicking through the warning. Here's a test page: https://subdomain.preloaded-hsts.badssl.com/

> people clicked through certificate warnings

Which is a shame. They could have prevented users clicking through warnings by implementing HTTP Strict Transport Security.

The site is also pretty crappy on mobile too.

I used Amazon an an example because they are the first I learned to do this trick with. I know Amazon has canonical ways to shorten URLs. Many other sites don't. Here's Monoprice:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10260&cs_id...

p_id is all that matters:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=29523

95 chars to 45 chars.

CDW is more fun. They expect some pretty part of the URL, but don't do anything with it. So you shorten it to 1 char if you want the link to still work:

https://www.cdw.com/product/Tripp-Lite-10ft-Cat6-Gigabit-Sna...

becomes:

https://www.cdw.com/product/T/934322

127 chars to 37.

PSA: You can make your own (relatively) shorter URLs if you're willing to guess at how to un-pretty site's URLs. My most common one is Amazon. Most URLs are amazon.com/dp/xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Knowing that you can take a nasty URL like:

https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE...

and change it to:

https://amazon.com/dp/B00EHBERSE

That's 122 chars to 32 chars. This kind of tactic works for tons of sites.

That would seem to be less likely than getting every carrier to implement RCS.

In Firefox I only get purrs in the left channel. :(

It's not just reducing hours. For example you might start getting rotated around different shifts. They'll make your schedule as irregular as possible to encourage you to accrue points or quit. My friend saw this happen to several coworkers in her two years there. Towards the end her direct manager even asked her why she hadn't quit yet.

This isn't just an Amazon problem. I've got a friend who worked at Wal-mart for a while. They give points against you for taking sick days no matter how bad it is. One time she got sent home for having some poison ivy on her arms and was still punished for it. Workers who have high points, but not so many to get fired get their schedules screwed with until they quit.

Cashiers don't know, or don't care?

Ars Technica got it to work on a Pixel book: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o...

I think the author's wording is perfect. It's not "user value" they're concerned about, it's "enterprise value".

> losing your logo, colors, and fonts on an article is an effective way to kill enterprise value

Dropping the garbage styles is one of my favorite things about RSS. Using my TT-RSS via phone app is a lot speedier than the "enterprise value" provided by the native site.

This article loads 3.97MB with an adblocker. In TT-RSS, I can load the homepage and a full-page RSS article from Ars Technica for only 600kb.

I would and have. My last PC was built with Vista. I bought 7 when it came out and then 8. I'm far from the usual user though. My point was that regular people will not.

You might but no one else would. Most people use the OS that came with their computer until it dies.

Hex works too: https://0x1010101

Best of both worlds for them then.

I've used balled up aluminum foil, wet newspaper, and wooden scrapers. All of them work but I like the wooden scrapers best because they're easier to apply pressure with. You can use any plank of wood really. Do it while the grill is hot and you'll wear grooves into the wood.

(2016)

If you're ssh-ing random boxes they may not have htop.

> No one is going to email you

I get emails from my blog with some frequency. The people who write me come with questions or additions to my content. The signal-to-noise ratio has been amazing compared to any comment/forum system I've used in the past. I think the very small barrier to contact greatly improves the quality of the contact.

I trust Mozilla has done the diligence to handle the data correctly. If I didn't trust Mozilla I wouldn't use Nightly or even Firefox. I use Nightly because I want to help Mozilla test and make Firefox better. For me that includes opting-in to studies, reporting bugs, and helping test about:config flags they mention in their Nightly blog.

I worked around it by hitting the reader mode button as soon as the page loaded.

Seems like preview builds only at the moment. Reading the docs it also seems a lot more involved than the Google Docs workflow of Tools > Script Editor > write code.

I agree that sheets is no excel, but it does almost everything I need, and a few things better. A few examples:

- JavaScript as a scripting language. (It's no python but it's nicer than vbscript.)

- Builtin regex functions (regexextract, regexmatch, regexreplace).

That's pretty bad. A few years ago I ordered a big TV from Newegg around black Friday as a Christmas present. I got it a few weeks before Christmas. When Mom opened it Christmas day the screen was cracked out of the box. I hopped on with Newegg support and they asked why there was a long delay between order and damage. I explained it was a gift we just opened and they apologized then replaced it.

I think the big online retailers have realized that a good return/RMA policy is key to their continued success. If Walmart wants in on this world they will have to figure it out too.

Let's Encrypt uses the Public Suffix List (https://publicsuffix.org/) in their issuance process to handle those sorts of cases.

In addition to some other points, the downscaling step in #1 may also smooth out some noise in the source image. Less noise yields more compressible data.

In my own scanning workflow, I scan at 600 or 1200dpi to png, deskew, downscale, and apply a black/white threshold. This is all done with imagemagick: mogrify -deskew 40% -scale 25% -threshold 50%

If I want a PDF after that I'll use img2pdf.