Cockbrand

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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   Oh yes, the memories! [Pun not intended] Mine is 880k. Boy, did I squeeze the last bytes out of that Workbench boot floppy!
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   Without having tried it, maybe there's some HDR content on the page, triggering the display's HDR mode?
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   > I'm sure they have a doodles archive You are correct: https://doodles.google/ It doesn't seem to have the Rubik's cube, though
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   Similar, and maybe more related to the article's topic: Commodore BASIC also saved the commands as tokens, so you could enter abbreviated commands like 10 ? "Hello" 20 gO 10 and a LIST command would yield 10 prin
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   I kinda get the idea of that keyboard, but the placement of the central keypad looks super inconvenient.
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   Excellent and super interesting collection! I have the NeXT keyboard, and I used it as my daily driver on my Mac for a while. It has a regular ADB port, so depending on the vintage of your Mac, you can use it directly or with an iMate USB a
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   This is beautiful, thank you!
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   I only recently got into Caddy after using Apache and later Nginx for decades, and it's almost disappointing how little configuration it needs. It's very refreshing that we finally have a web server that needs hardly any fiddling
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   by Cockbrand 1y ago

   While not in such a very nicely compact, single article, there are indeed discussions on the fonts used on Led Zep covers on the site, see https://fontsinuse.com/tags/8960/led-zeppelin
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Well, I guess it's not a coincidence that the F1 race car on the initial view bears Chrome sponsoring
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    This is an excellent recommendation for an excellent book. As the hackers were German, the hackers' perspective is somewhat well-known in Germany, and it's interesting to learn about both sides. I just learned that a documentary o
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    Google Agentspace is GA now(cloud.google.com)

    1 points by Cockbrand 1y ago|0 comments
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Further nice early examples are xroach and xeyes.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    The author's discussion of Duolingo makes the app seem outright dangerous for naïve users. It's well known that it's a criminal offence in Germany to not talk to the apple on Tuesdays.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Now I'm curious - what other syntaxes are there?
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Two very relevent XKCD comics: https://xkcd.com/1015/ https://xkcd.com/3113/ Source: someone who picked up a bit of knowledge about typography, but never used it professionally
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    I have a somewhat modded C64 with JiffyDOS and an SD2IEC, and it loads everything really fast. Sometimes I miss the weird 1541 noises, but generally, it's a great combination.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Bandcamp comes to mind. Not sure about artists who aren't on Bandcamp, though.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    I guess I'm missing something, but why isn't the problem of finicky steering solved by adding auto-stabilizing software? Would that take away too much of the maneuverability?
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    That functionality was adopted from Classic Mac OS, and I loved it. Too bad this isn't properly supported any more.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    http://archive.today/idiYg
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    That is very true, and it's kind of amazing that this hasn't been picked up by contemporary operating systems.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Looking at the photo at https://www.de-daltons.com/the-golden-boy/#9f8739e7-f637-4e4... , it seems like the person eating the EUR 5,000 burger doesn't have enough money (or taste?) left to buy a decent beer to go w
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    1st version: relies on one single third-party service Preamble to the 2nd version: This is something I should be able to code and host myself, without relying on a third-party 2nd and thus far final version: relies on three third-party se
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    > Does Amiga have something that modern PCs can't do? Until TV became digital, Amigas were commonly used for creating titles and overlays for TV shows well after they became obsolete for the rest of the world. Nowadays, I couldn&#x2
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Back in the day, there was a Yamaha burner with a feature called "DiscT@2". It could burn images and text onto the unused area of a CD-ROM. I just had to get it and did so, and I had a bit of fun with it.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    I've been following a similar approach for a while. In bash, I have `HISTCONTROL=IGNOREBOTH` activated (or `setopt hist_ignore_space hist_ignore_dups` in zsh - most shells have an equivalent setting), and I just prepend most commands w
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    Much appreciated, thank you! I'll also print and frame my first dang email :) It's a bit of a pity that the original description, which my comment refers to, is now gone.
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    This reads a bit like Linus' first annoucement, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#:~:text=Hello... - godspeed to you, and let's see when you will take over :)
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    by Cockbrand 1y ago

    In case you aren’t allow to read the article b/c of your adblocker: https://archive.ph/LZiES