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tomclancy··on Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?
> There's no patent on it. Same with mushrooms and many others.

https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-engineer-new-psychedelic...

tomclancy··on 4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
Check out System76 laptops, they have matte displays (at least my Lemur Pro does)
tomclancy··on Decaying but beloved, Tokyo’s Capsule Tower faces uncertain future
Here's a recent video with a peek inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SwvtBxxp2w
tomclancy··on Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
Wonder if they included /r/The_Donald in their data set
tomclancy··on PHP-FPM remote code execution bug exploited in the wild
>There must be a PATH_INFO variable assignment via statement fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;. At first, we thought it is always present in the fastcgi_params file, but it's not true.

This is also precondition, and fortunately it's not included in standard fastcgi_params files.

tomclancy··on Algorithms book, by Jeff Erickson
Still patiently waiting for an EPUB or Kindle version :)
tomclancy··on Remember Zip Disks? These Election Departments Do
How they have not suffered the "click of death" is a miracle.
tomclancy··on I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
I've been watching DistroKid since it spawned out of Fandalism. Awesome to see how successful it's become.

Just curious, what % of artists gross over $19.99 a year?

tomclancy··on Warren Buffett’s Best Investment
They are -- "Saving children’s lives is the goal that launched our global work. It’s an end in itself. But then we learned it has all these other benefits as well. If parents believe their children will survive—and if they have the power to time and space their pregnancies—they choose to have fewer children."
tomclancy··on Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
My parents would buy it in a second if it made long-distance hangouts with their grandchild more immersive.
tomclancy··on Two Factor Auth List of Websites
Honestly! The nerve of that webmaster!
tomclancy··on Trent Reznor says YouTube is “built on the backs of free, stolen content”
Most video sites are. From eBaumsWorld to Facebook Video.
tomclancy··on Facebook Rights Manager
Ripped content - It's what made YouTube grow and what made FB Video grow. FB is taking steps to crack down on copyright theft now that the video platform is large enough (just like what YouTube did).
tomclancy··on What ISPs can see
Someone on Reddit created a thorough breakdown of VPN providers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAe...
tomclancy··on Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service
I had Google Music for 6 months and, while their music selection is great, their UI is horrendous.

For example if I'm scrolling through an artists albums, they would list every release of an album (European release, NA release, Japan release, extended version, radio friendly, non-radio friendly). Maybe that's nice for some? It was just a hassle for me.

Overall navigation through the app I found to be really, really bad.

tomclancy··on Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
Google it
tomclancy··on MtGox leaks its own acquisition?
I hear they are going to revert back to trading Magic cards
tomclancy··on CloudFront vs CloudFlare
I mean I've not noticed any negative trends in Googlebot spidering my site, and my site's rankings have not changed since I switched to Cloudflare 3 months ago.
tomclancy··on CloudFront vs CloudFlare
>Article fails to mention that when CloudFlare has issues, they present Captcha's to the Google Bot, and your site gets delisted.

As someone who uses CloudFlare on a site that depends on Google traffic (~800K/month directly from G), this is simply not true.

tomclancy··on Show HN: Weekend Hack: NextEpiso.de
I think that's a feature :)
tomclancy··on Apple Said to Acquire Color
So...color has lupus?
tomclancy··on Global market share of Google Public DNS and OpenDNS
I was using Google's DNS for many years, but just recently switched back to OpenDNS because of their DNSCrypt service (https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/)
tomclancy··on How To Build A Startup From A Beach
Less time at beach, more time focusing on uptime.
tomclancy··on Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs
Horrible interviewer