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Same in Iowa. I grew up talking about going to Penny's (as in JC Penny) or Sernett's or Gibson's (local department stores).


Using GPS doesn't mean you can't be jammed. GPS is quite low power and easy to jam, and feasible to spoof[1].

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2415318-ukraine-will-sp...


No, that's true, I was under the impression there is an encrypted version though. Was thinking that could be combined with dead reckoning.


I'd be interested in a frequency counter view, with a running average per minute or per second. So I can record that I see 10 Teslas per minute driving to work in the morning, but only 3 Teslas per minute on the way home at night (for example).


doesn't seem to work well for me. volume up and down sometimes register 1 count, sometimes 2, sometimes none. Deleted shortly after install, worried about what it's actually doing rather than counting.


thanks for trying it out!

this is a commonly reported bug that wasn't able to spot when in development mode.

i think the issue is that i might have attached the volume-button handler multiple times, so that each time you click on the volume button, those duplicated handlers all emit events.

pushed out a small fix currently under apple's review


Is anybody currently using Sidebery who could comment on how the Firefox "Tab grouping, Vertical tabs, and sidebar" compare?


They haven't actually shown off their vertical tabs yet, so there isn't much to say.

I am a Sideberry user though, and this excites me because a native implementation will likely look a lot cleaner, integrate better with your chosen theme, and actually allow the removal of the regular tab bar (you have to keep it with Sideberry because there is some functionality that cannot be replicated through an extension).

Theming in particular might be a big one, I had to spend a couple hours tweaking the Sideberry CSS to make it look nice with the skin I use in Firefox. Not having to do that sure would be convenient, especially for the average user who doesn't know what a stylesheet is.


Given that they seem to have only prioritised those features, I doubt anyone can since there's nothing material to compare to.


I have a ZeTime that I used on and off for a couple of years. Now it's just sitting on a shelf. It was fine for my purposes at the time, but ended up inheriting an Apple Watch that's a lot more polished. I don't see ever going back to the ZeTime.

If you are interested, I'll let you have it for the cost of postage.


Slightly off-topic, but how do I download an iCloud backup so I can scan it with this tool? The googles imply that I can only recover my device from the cloud, not retrieve old backups for other purposes.



Why don't you make a local backup?


Oh, got it. I thought the tool wanted to go back and walk through a progression of previous backups. I can certainly do a new backup


Looks like some new formatting removed the "itemList" class. I'm no javascript/DOM hacker. Can somebody make this 2 column user script work with the new format?


Is there where somebody has to add "in lab mice" to the title?


An LS engine is technically a small block Chevy, an SBC is nicknamed the mouse motor, and I doubt this has done more than general testing.

So it's not really wrong.


The clock one is really cool, and I don't recall ever seeing it implemented on a website. Who used this?


I remember this from the era when building websites with FrontPage and DreamWeaver was still a thing. There were sites with catalogs of those "apply cool effects to your website by copy-paste this snippet to your HTML source file", and a clock following the mouse cursor is definitely one of them! Fun times.


I remember having a MIDI file of Dido's "Thank You" play in the background of my Neopets shop.


I had a GeoCities page and really wanted to try the cursor effects/followers, but they never seemed to work. I kept trying to add them and never saw anything... until I looked at the site on a friend's computer in IE and the screen just exploded with cursor followers. I was primarily a Netscape/Firefox user and didn't consider that my browser might not support the effects!


My fan site for the TI-86 graphing calculator (first draft done as part of 5th grade Computer Class, revised to get extra credit in my algebra class a few years later) used it! I had no idea what Javascript even was, but I knew how to view source and knew that if I pasted in all the magic between <script> tags from my computer teacher's website I'd get the cursor effect. He (or the original dev…) had very well-annotated code that included a bunch of variables you could customize.


I don't recall ever seeing it in the wild, but I remember it as a JS script you could add to your site from a page that I think was http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

I may have played around with it on a couple of HTML pages written in Notepad way back.



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