In a previous life, I would go to a lot of art movies, often matinees or monday or etc. Sometimes there was one guy who was working the box-office, the snackbar, and the projection. I was glad he had a job.

Reflection of the happy user's face on the monitor, engaging in pleasing human-computer interaction.

Ideally about 99% of LinkedIn users are using their professional name, occupation, and location.

Probably mostly for abuse prevention. Lots of extensions like this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-data...

The "abuse" is that one doesn't have to copy paste for hours.

It's actually the extension injecting itself into the webpage, often to interact with it. (I imagine much of this is just looking for global ExtensionName objects.)

Actually, the article is clear about what is happening technically, and it’s both. Chrome does, in fact, allow the page to make requests for resources stored in the extension bundle, and this is one of the two fingerprinting methods that the article describes.

What everyone is missing is any org who pays Ubuntu or RedHat for support is going to buy officially supported hardware from Lenovo, Dell, Framework or etc. Asahi is a cool project, but there's zero money in it.

as someone who has had several official asahi fedora remix updates break the boot up of a m1 mac mini, this is it. it’s just too damn risky. i’ve had it happen so frequently that i’m genuinely at a point where im considering retiring the machine for something more stable and less likely to break during an update and it’s not even like i used it for a GUI, it’s a headless machine.

i would genuinely advise anyone thinking about seriously using asahi to consider another machine for uptime and stability

Questioning this, because I worked with a sysadmin who was in an @Home/CableLabs DOCSIS beta region at about that same time, and we all envied him of course. That was in San Jose, CA.

So what's the real story behind your piddlly little town getting bleeding edge cable internet service? (Or was it somewhere like Los Gatos?)

> So what's the real story behind your piddlly little town getting bleeding edge cable internet service? (Or was it somewhere like Los Gatos?)

It was a commercial service - Bresnanlink, in a midwest university town. As I recall, the trickiest part was getting Internet Explorer suppress its urge to "dial up" and just use the stack you had in place. Prompted by another comment here, I've been trying to find some record of the configuration and service speed.

Lots of fishhooks in there, so lets see how this goes. (some are pretty obscure)

Ok, here's your tablet!

https://epic.org/free-prison-tablets-in-promise-and-in-pract...

I have a vague recollection that HN also doesn't use a database, it serializes the data structures or something.