One of my favourite stories is the accidental discovery of synthetic purple dye. IIRC there was a chemist researching something completely unrelated and when he disposed some assorted chemicals down a sink he noticed they turned purple.

Just mispel a word, replace a vowel with a numb3r and the wordlist is useless

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thanks, the paper won’t be sad anymore!

Interesting to see wormhole mentioned as non open source. The protocol and its CLI tools are, probably the web interface and GUIs are not

valid concern, but this was not in the US

For mail one method has been to scout out a house, the have mail sent to it. Pick it up from the house. (Nobody home, before owners retrieve it, etc) - this is illegal and considered theft of mail

An empty plot might be a better idea, I had an acquittance who installed a mailbox in an empty plot on his neighbourhood and had stuff sent there.

7z is better than rar and its algorithm is fully open source

fzf does the job

I’ve seen some anime releases where they had separate mka files for different languages and a little script to attach whatever dub you want into it. It is technically possible already, but super rare

dude, relax and play some MK

the other way around, Breezy is still under development and got a release two weeks ago

don’t be fooled by the name, KDE connect also works on GNOME and even Windows. It is a truly wonderful app

I’m learning this tonight

NATO alphabet, or any phonetic alphabet for that matter.

It will take you less than an hour to learn it and doesn’t need to be perfect, Mark or Mike, your interlocutor will know you mean the letter M

I never really understood this trend because it is something easy to do, or at least very easy to master with little practice. I honestly never got the appeal of it

People will still be able to screen record entire shows and use commercial skipping technology on it. It might even end up where popular channels end up getting distributed as pirated material through torrent

This already happened with YouTube Red exclusive shows and it will happen again

Xbox underground episode is wild