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What is a better alternative? Is there one?


If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Ultimately, you're going to depend on other parties behaving in a common interest, whether that's your email provider, your ISP, your registrar, anyone accepting your ip address announcements...


And then you have an endless stream of spam, people knocking on ports, etc. Better to keep things airgapped. All one really needs in life is a cyberdeck utility running on freertos in an MCU. Then you are truly captain of your own ship and own your world of compute.


The tab character (U+0009) is a good candidate for this. Many CSV parsers already support it.


Out of curiosity, what is the benefit of using Tor just to browse legal clearnet sites?


I'm using Tor right now, because it's the only way I can access HN while my SelfControl.app is blocking it for the next 24 hours :)


Privacy. The con is a very annoying latency.


What do you recommend instead?


In a pinch, I make a post to a reddit profile and then link direct to the image. Unlike Imgur, that does link directly to the single file and not a page with html/js.


I use ImgBB, they are probably stealing your images and not deleting them if you set it to auto delete but for screenshots like this it probably doesn't matter.


I use ImgBB, they're probably stealing your images but did screenshots like this is doesn't matter.


How does this work?


Could you elaborate on the "fabled alarm?"


Yeah a red light would flash over the booth and the door would shut closed, hence having to put your foot in there. Alot of people buying and using these cards were like 'bullshit!' but this guy who told me about this figured to err on the side of caution anyways and ended up having to comically escape the situation with all these people looking at him.

This was like 5 years before my own time in Japan but pretty hilarious nonetheless


I'm not saying you're wrong but a) this sounds like a massive safety issue and b) this sounds like exactly the sort of thing I'd say to anyone trying to get a dodgy phone card from me, "yeah you need to wedge your foot in the door in case it detects the card is hooky, and tries to lock you in" just so I could stand there and laugh at their contortions trying to keep one foot outside while they use the phone.


Heh yeah I feel the same but the 90s were a different time

Remember playgrounds back then? I remember one around Osaka Castle which was like a huge children's slide with those industrial conveyor rollers you rode down on pieces of cardboard (to go stupidly fast!),which I'm sure you could pinch yourself on really bad.


Would you be willing to share that script, or the one you modified to make it?


Is there a list of good "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About X" articles somewhere?



Why are his fans so rabid anyway? I noticed it several years ago, but they seem to have gotten significantly worse recently.


My uneducated guess is that it's a combination of:

- sense of community

- feeling like he (and by extension, his fans) know something that "experts" and "the mainstream" don't know

- existing car enthusiast culture that grafted onto Tesla and then onto Musk himself

- Tony Stark/Iron Man myth that people started to project onto him

- bots


Isn't this question a bit contradictory? "Disclose the details of your non-disclosure agreement."


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