I’ve had a couple of domains (including one .com) registered under a made-up name for several years, nothing interesting ever happened.

[…] just as convenient and beginner-friendly as what Apple provides?

There’s a reason why Apple is able to charge so much money for that — and that reason is that the answer to your question is no.

I switched from vi to vim in 1994 and found it immediately obvious how to quit — it was just like vi!

I guess I’ll never understand these memes.

I switched from vi to vim in 1994 and found it immediately obvious how to quit — it was just like vi!

I guess I’ll never understand these memes.

No.

Hm, this one intrigues me: what is commonly referred to as a website, without actually being a website?

Important information: This only applies to the United States.

Eh, please tell me how you’d implement a heuristic that doesn’t work either through magic or an algorithm.

WTF!? [subscribe to jellyfish facts]

So how does that neural network perform that task? There I can see only two possible options:

• magic
• an algorithm

Is sort by upvotes an algorithm?

Any sorting at all can only happen through one of the following:

• luck
• magic
• divine intervention
• an algorithm

… and don’t have eyes!

I’d love to back up my phone locally, if there was an option, but AFAIK there isn’t, so I’m stuck.

Can you not use Syncthing?

There’s also a whole lot that’s just C/C++ exposing a Python interface, without any wrapping.

ELI5: Why would you ever report a homeless person?

An old sysadm introduced me to zsh 28 years ago now and I’ve used it as my primary shell ever since. It’s tried, tested and most certainly works well.