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marcodon Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

check out fmhy - a guide to all kinds of interesting sites you might be interested in :)

It took me a while to put it together why Knoppix rang a bell. It's probably been 20 years that I last used it, but fond memories indeed!

marcodon Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

Look into Morphe as a revanced alternative, it's by the peeps who make the Youtube patches and I find it better to use and it can draw on the same patches.

marcodon Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

You don't understand why a site with the numbers of new and active bsky users is posted in response to the statement "Bluesky is still a thing?"

marcodon Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

We have the data :)

https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

marcodon Faking a JPEG

Reading about Spigot made me remember https://www.projecthoneypot.org/

I was very excited 20 years ago, every time I got emails from them that the scripts and donated MX records on my website had helped catching a harvester

> Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here's something to be happy about -- today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously unknown email harvester (IP: 172.180.164.102). The harvester was caught a spam trap email address created with your donated MX:

marcodon It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle

Darn, I checked XDA but must have been in the wrong forum because that's really what I was looking for - thanks!

marcodon Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

"eight megabytes and constantly swapping"

marcodon It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle

I just realized I had a few Kindle Fires lying around in a box.

I wanted to give one to a friend who didn't have a good phone so she could listen to audio books. Turns out those old Fires are no longer updated and Android is so old I can't even install anything current on it.

I hope to change that with https://kindlemodding.org/ which was mentioned, so appreciate the writeup :)

marcodon Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

I found watching the trailer to The Beekeper quite therapeutic for my scammy call center dislike (it's the best part of the movie imho).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKn-yDCE2w

marcodon Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots

> if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go

I haven't worked with go - where could I host that myself?

Could I do this with the free tier of https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/quickstarts/build-and-depl...

marcodon Eli Lilly will soon release key data on its weight loss pill orforglipron

Fun fact, Orforglipron got named when the lead scientist's cat sat on their keyboard. /s

marcodon Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]

Check out this comment on the YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIR39KeJMk&lc=Ugx8HYRxBkUrP...

marcodon The German language broke my website

Former QA from Germany here - some international companies supposedly develop their UI in German first because after that most other translations will fit ;)

Though, that doesn't help with bad translations. I often had a hard time explaining to my American business colleagues that just because I'm a native German speaker doesn't mean I will be good at translate their strings at 5pm so they could get out their launch... +1 for a professional translations!

marcodon EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019)

https://firekasina.org/

marcodon Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

DEI is just their latest obsession, since the old ones don't poll as well anymore (gay marriage, woke, CRT, SJW, ..). I don't think there is a bigger rationale behind this than 'we need a wedge issue to rile up the masses'.

marcodon Sudo for Windows

It's part of the Windows 11 24H2 update

marcodon Faxlore

Blinkenlights was always a fav of mine :)

ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

marcodon Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies

Sorry for being nosy, but did you do oral immunotherapy with or without professional support?

marcodon Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing (2011)

Off topic. Anybody else like Thursday Next? Had to think of "Time waits for no man!"

marcodon 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown

Dolce&Gabbana Casa Leopard Silk & Wool Throw $3,245.00 - Purchased

marcodon 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown

The other good news of the day was that the Sackler family lost much of their future prosecution immunity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369

marcodon 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown

Would you expect that kind of book to make any difference for final sentencing?

marcodon Gruen transfer

I feel like that is a separate effect... making you walk past items you might want to get you to buy them vs intentionally confusing you so you forget what you came in for in the first place, which makes you more susceptible the the previous and many other effects.

marcodon The Consequences of One's First Programming Language

That explains why I'm always thinking about turtles ...

OK, not true, I'm thinking of a hedgehog, because the German version of Logo we used in the late 80s used an "Igel."

marcodon AdFlush

The instructions are on their GitHub page

https://github.com/SKKU-SecLab/AdFlush/tree/main?tab=readme-...

But since the first webpage I tried still had huge ads, I turned uBlock back on ;)

marcodon HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video]

... that music though ...

marcodon US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

Since when is majority support the same thing as reasonable??