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Slashdot mentions (13)

• Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

  Probably my Slashdot account from 1999. https://slashdot.org/~DaGoodBoy. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future

  If anyone does not understand the reference, "Slashdot" is a link-sharing site oriented at tech news, that was popular many years ago as HN is today. https://slashdot.org. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

  It has been a VERY long time since I've done this with `wget`, but here's what I pulled out of my notes. I used to use this to mirror Slashdot when I was travelling for work and had limited/no internet: ```

    wget --ignore-length --no-remove-listing --no-check-certificate --recursive --page-requisites --span-hosts --convert-links --no-verbose --tries=3 --timeout=60 --level=1 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0...

  - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda – Hacker History Podcast

  My user number on /. Is "404" ( https://slashdot.org/~dmd ). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Adios and thanks for the fishes!

  If I want a real "front page of the Internet" that is web-based, I will head back to https://slashdot.org. Source: 10 months ago

MakeUseOf mentions (11)

• Discover the Top 20 Productivity Blogs of 2024

  Leverage technology to boost your productivity with MakeUseOf, which provides easy-to-understand guides and reviews on the latest tech to streamline your workflow. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• HP Printer cancels printing jobs?

  It was downloaded from makeuseof.com, but it's worth a shot. I know LO Draw can open them, but I didn't try re-exporting them. Source: 11 months ago

• New Security Risk? - Bluetooth device paired with Windows even though onboard Bluetooth is disabled in BIOS

  a) Bolt receiver should not work with other Bluetooth peripherals. "Likewise, both Unifying and Bolt are proprietary technologies from Logitech. Therefore, they're not compatible with wireless peripherals from other brands." (makeuseof.com). Source: 12 months ago

• Create real distro instead of live environment

  I want to create a linux distro based off of void linux, running in my main system right now. I love everything about it and think it is a great project. I would like to make my own version, however, utilising much of the same things. I have searched it up and found a lot of articles from websites such as makeuseof.com which all show ways to make a live CD type thing from a pre existing OS. I would like to make a... Source: about 1 year ago

• Why does storm fiber ban certain links?

  Is it only my connection or does everyone face this issue? Like they ban the most harmless and dumb links one can think of. For instance, if you copy a video link from YT the link is like this "https://youtu.be/....." and it doesn't work! While the youtube.com domain works perfectly fine. Same is the case with other completely harmless websites like bbc.co.uk, makeuseof.com and many more! IDK if this is a storm... Source: over 1 year ago