HeckFeck

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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
Nothing any government in my lifetime has done has arrested this feeling of decay, decline and desperation. It's like the occupational political class has a miserable vendetta and must afflict it upon the population. But I'm not a
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
If they're really keen, they could just ask the hacker known as Soyjak.party to knock it offline again.
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
No, but you can get the form to request the form. Then it must be stamped by an official in the [strikethrough]Ministry of Information[/strikethrough] Ofcom. Please allow 4-5 months for processing thanks to our partners delivering effi
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
"Disruption" comes to the world of junior academia. It was inevitable. Nothing's sacred.
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
AH, I was repeating something I read elsewhere, but I'll defer to an eyewitness. Must've been pretty cool working on Windows back then. Maybe it was more varied than my line of work. I must escape the drudgery B2B SaaS Webcrapps.
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
Server 2003 was the last release supervised by Cutler, so would have my vote. It's even source-available... technically.
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
Sometimes I install Office 97 for kicks and marvel at how much I can do with it, yet it asks so little of my system. <2Mb RAM for Word 97!
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. If it ever gets good hardware support it might have a chance. Or maybe ReactOS - the actual windows clone - get
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
The absolute state of FOSS communities in 2025. I'd rather teh good old days of pedantry, swearing and trolling instead.
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by HeckFeck 9mo ago
Have they open sourced the server? Revival projects should always do this, otherwise they are preserving nothing. A single point of failure means someone else will have to reverse-engineer the protocol and write the server software again
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by HeckFeck 10mo ago
Every browser developer should be forced to take an annual pilgrimage to this gravestone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)
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by HeckFeck 10mo ago
I wrote 100,000 LOC using Grok, where's my christmas bonus?
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by HeckFeck 10mo ago
It's an abortive attempt at parody. Could've just said "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" and we could at least enjoy the throwback.
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by HeckFeck 10mo ago
Linguistic decay. First they came for our adverbs, now they're attacking our comparative adjectives.
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by HeckFeck 11mo ago
IBM won the long game. They secretly acquired Apple, but you weren't meant to know that yet. Not even Tim Cook knows. Big Blue's lawyers will be writing politely to the author of this project, and teaming up with the gutted remain
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by HeckFeck 11mo ago
Can't go wrong with FB2k: https://www.foobar2000.org/mac It now has a last.fm plugin, so let's get scrobbling!
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by HeckFeck 11mo ago
AI has now devoured humanity, and not even with entertainment if it was in a proper dystopian way. It's just engorging all the software products we love, accelerating enshitiffication. We just get another fucking subscription. Why can&
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
Nice. It might struggle on my Palm IIIx, but I shall resurrect my Tungsten E2 as it will now have a purpose again!
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
I've sympathy for what you're proposing - on-shoring our own tech - but the Online Safety Act is a terrible law and it should've been repealed yesterday. It will do nothing to advance those aims, and plenty to stifle innovati
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
Big sigh. I wish we still had pride in our field, rather than this race to the bottom mentality.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
Adding CPUs and GPUs on top of your CPUs and GPUs... Sounds like we've the spiritual successor of the Sega Saturn.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
Inb4 the media companies argue that it's violating muh "free speech"* * a universally good concept but this isn't an example of it unless you're a lawyer.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
I've been using self-hosted Isso to serve comments on my static sites. It's worked well enough, it's practically the same as Disqus.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
Because I want my DKIM signatures to be literal signatures.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
We must find a way to extend his life indefinitely.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
Aero didn't have absurd padding. It made good use of texture, colour and shade. It actually looked quite appealing. We've been steadily downhill since.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
And likely when mid-story to invent parts of the story to fill the gaps, rather than admit it is wrong. Maybe the LLMs aren't so different from us.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
I love the passion that has went into this, even if it is still wip. I would like to link to it from https://wmw.thran.uk if that's ok with you.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
We'll get ADB back before we get ADP back.
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by HeckFeck 1y ago
This will become its own genre of simulation game in Germany.

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