Agree on both accounts, I was confused why would the IRA be interested in buying NetZero when I read the title.

I can't read the dark theme for more than a couple of minutes without a headache and eye strain starting up.

A somewhat minor nitpick, the word huge begins with a consonant sound, not a vowel sound. It would be correct to write "a huge issue" not "an huge issue".

depends if you pronounce it 'uge or not ;P

(which is why you see some people write an history, because of the 'istory pronunciation)

I've seen at least one place with many more than that in recent years. If you have one microservice "listener" per queue and another for the database processing and persistence (business logic) and another providing an API for one or more frontend UI's related to it then the microservice tally goes up very fast. It's kind of surprising to read so many comments indicating HN readers weren't aware of this.

sounds like a massive nightmare

Most are likely limited to some subdomain, with limited communication between domains.

Massive scale*

For disabling X11 middle click paste, I found an interesting SO post but the best answer I saw and tested myself and it works, was the one by Suraj Inamdar about one third of the way down the page:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24330/how-can-i-tur...

What sucks is I use middle click paste all the time so now I'll have to decide if I want to leave it disabled for potentially improving security.

That removes your middle mouse button entirely! (Unreliably due to the use of numbers with xinput, which can change; xinput can take names to avoid that issue). The issue will remain if the primary selection is pasted into a terminal by other means (personally, I use a key combination rather than mouse button) and won't be an issue if clipboard.autocopy is set to false in about:config in Firefox (per torgard's comment).

I've also set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false since I don't want websites messing with the clipboard.

> a place where law enforcement feels empowered to ignore the law is a place where law enforcement is effectively the sole power

Like New York? The above commenter said law enforcement advised them to get guns which is what I've experienced growing up rural; tyrannical power mongers who are as you said, the sole power, try to take people's guns away.

This equivocation doesn’t make sense: New York has so far respected federal court rulings that repeal its attempts at gun control. You can complain about their attempts, but it seems incorrect to use legislative failures as evidence of selective enforcement.

Perhaps they were encouraging "the right people" to arm themselves. That can be more effective for a tyrant than disarming everyone equally.

> I continue to be confused how people use these kinds of programs.

GnuCash is made for common people, my wife uses it and loves it.

My wife isn't a techie, the average user, and loves GnuCash.

My wife has used GnuCash for years. Then she's the average person, not a programmer or techie. She loves GnuCash.

Been using a wireless mouse, Logitech m325, for years, including gaming and it's connected through a USB transfer switch and still works great! I agree on keyboards, I use wired.