FiDi is always dead.

Even before covid, the hardware store on Pine was closed on random weekdays. Now at least it's open all weekdays, 8-2.

So things are improving, I guess.

Growing up, on the playground, you said, "actually what you just said is a symbol of power of the Roman consuls, so I will take that as a compliment.", didn't you?

I've got a script on a few of my sites. Initially, the redirect is off. If it passes 100 incoming hits from HN in an hour, I assume it's on the front page. Then I just do some messy scripting to re-enable the script for a few minutes every hour. One minute on, seven minutes off. That sort of thing. Basically, the goal is to redirect the maximum number of people, and you can't do that if it redirects everyone. No, I won't be sharing these scripts with anyone but mostly because they're all terrible kludges that do not deserve to see the light of day.

Three scenarios:

1. I build these 2. Sell them 3. Trigger it randomly, for the lulz

The perfect gift for someone you don't love.

There is no copyright on recipes; this is why the SEO laden essays exist. You can just steal recipes, because no one owns them anyway.

Given the choice between a recipe site that has a thousand words about someone's grandmother or a recipe site that divides the ingredients by two, I'll choose the latter.

Recipes specifically are not copyrighted because no lawmaker wants to throw grandma in jail for copying the side of a box. I think they technically count as "facts" which aren't copyrightable (e.g. whisking egg whites and sugar is going to eventually get you a meringue)

A lot of "secret" family recipes usually have their origin in something like this.

Something being legal doesn't make it ethical. I'm also disgusted by this attitude of "screw you and the labor you invested to create and share this recipe."

Almost none of the sites publishing recipes online created those recipes. Very often, no-one there's even cooked them once.

I regularly get recipes from real people who really make original (as far as recipes can be original) or adapted recipes. No, it's not plagiarism all the way down.

no, I'm just testing something out. I changed it back. Yes I test in prod.

yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.

  if (document.referrer === 'https://news.ycombinator.com/')
    window.location = 'https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png'

Or something along those lines should work.

He checks the Referer header[1]. In Firefox you can prevent that header from being sent by setting `network.http.sendRefererHeader` to 0 (in about:config).

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

HN helpfully uses the referrer, so you can easily do it with a tiny bit of JS:

    <script>
    if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") {
        // Mess with HN users here...
    }
    </script>

View source on the linked website just now:

    <!-- DO HN STUFF HERE
    <script>
        if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") {
             window.location = 'https://bbenchoff.github.io/images/Brogrammers.png'
        }
    </script>
    -->

JWZ appears to use Apache, so he probably does something like http://www.htaccess-guide.com/deny-visitors-by-referrer/

That is the way it was done back in the day, usually when admin wanted guests to not come through Google Search or to come through a correct word-of-mouth bouncer page. Client side JS implementations allow content to be viewed by blocking JS.

Mold for the silicon keyboard - the first five keyboards is going to be about $6k. After that, each keyboard is about a dollar a piece.

Same with the plastic enclosure.

Enclosure at small scale can be 3D printed. Use FDM for mechanical fitment checks, then make in SLA resin printers for first couple clear case prototypes. I wish I could do keyboard as easy...

Sure, if you want an enclosure that looks and feels like shit.

Going by their comment history, I think this is the article's author.

You might want to make a top-level comment, like "This is the author, ask me anything".

Maybe they don't want people to ask them anything.

well, not here...

RaSCSI is a virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi. It runs in userspace, and can emulate several SCSI devices at one time. There is a control interface to attach / detach drives during runtime, as well as insert and eject removable media. This project is aimed at users of vintage Macintosh computers from the 1980's and 1990's.

https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI

It's aimed at vintage Macintosh, but wouldn't it work with any old computer using SCSI? I have an HP machine that I would be happy to resuscitate with a new install of HP-UX, but its CD drive is dead.