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by HeckFeck 5y ago
TIL that browsers support .ico format for inline images.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I might agree with shite. Or I might wish to read it for my own amusement. Or perhaps I want to argue against the shite, in which case, I need to know what shite is out there. In any case, it doesn't matter. I only need the search engi
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> The notion that all speech should be allowed actually seems stupid to me on its face, the more that I consider it. Who will decide which speech will be forbidden, and on what basis will the decision be made? How accountable will this p
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Hi man, thanks very much for the stories and the links. Love the passion! Wasn't expecting it at all. Will take a look through these over the weekend. Best wishes.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Loved the story, thanks for sharing. That SGI box must've set you back a goodly amount, but worth it to get using IRIX. I've a few memories of 3.x too (none of SGI alas). My experience of Windows 3.1 was retroactive. I began with
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> The entire site was a single C source file littered with embedded HTML, a few separate HTML files for things like an FAQ, and a directory of compressed user page data in some proprietary format (including images) that was decompressed
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
https://www.thran.uk - blog/personal website, where I give opinions on literature, music, software, random happenings. Style inspired by old newspapers and desktop icons https://wmw.thran.uk - gallery of high-ef
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It's a small sample, but I've worked for two small software houses and one medium sized software company. All these use Google for nearly everything except IM. AFAIK, all my university contacts have went to companies where the sto
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I really want to believe that owing to the prevalance of Google Workspace at every job I've worked, but my cynical side doesn't believe it. I would not be surprised if they twist the definition of "advertising" or just u
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
If user preference was their concern (and GWorkspace users were really pining to get all that wonderful tracking enabled) then they could've simply implemented an individual option to override the admin's setting. But no, this is
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I've learnt Perl for this very reason. It is extremely capable, extensible and still very backwards-compatible. It feels like an evolution of bash but much more performant. A bit of a shame that it's seen as an anachronism to many
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It can be restored with the `net-tools` package, thankfully. That's among my first installs on a Linux box. Never quite got into `ip addr show` when I've most of the ifconfig flags memorised from use. Which may contradict my previ
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Stage 2 evokes warm memories. The clients were featureful enough but very far from being resource hogs. The UIs were workable and hid plenty of options in their menus. The webcam features on MSN messenger landed at the same time as broadban
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I'm also really not sold on those new "tabs" which are just text with an underlined colour. It's low effort and dreadfully unclear. I can only vaguely guess what they are based on their upper placement, but what's t
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
This is why I have reverted to the CLI whenever possible. There's something deeply assuring knowing that I don't have to relearn my whole workflow every few months when the trends change. ls, grep, find, ps, htop will always be wh
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Httrack?
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I've had a look at NetBSD's codebase before. It was fairly easy to follow. I've also heard good things said for OpenBSD's readability.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
[Cancel Screen] Are you sure you wish to leave Prime? You may be consigning your soul to eternal perdition! [Return to Bezos the Blessed] [No, I wish to spend hereafter in the lake of fire]
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It is a linguistic maze. The readership here is literate and even we endure mental strain navigating this viper's nest. I've went to buy a paperback and found myself signed up with Prime with just one wayward click, and I was bein
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Sweet, a roll-your-own Geocities but in Markdown! I'd like it if this approach took off for personal websites/blogs/social media. Maybe share it with some of those lists of self-hosted alternatives? Like here: https:/&#
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Ah, reminds me of the good old days when I connected a Windows 98 box directly to the public Internet and was spammed every 10 minutes with WinPopup messages, instructing me to visit a dodgy website for "registry booster virus removal&
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
For me, this move by DDG will have the opposite effect of what is intended. I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling what I access "for my own good"
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The modern economy is built on addiction (2021)(spectator.co.uk)
36 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|6 comments
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https://github.com/jcs/progman Someone already has.
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UK social media users could get power to block anonymous accounts(theguardian.com)
6 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|3 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
https://wmw.thran.uk/ This is a website I've built cataloguing high-effort and unique websites, if you don't mind the shameless self-promotion. One of the most distinctive websites I've found on my journeys i
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It lingers on mostly to host the MS Web Safe fonts. https://sourceforge.net/top/ IIRC this is from where the core fonts installer on Debian fetches them. Hence the 2.7B downloads.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
The Historicrat is an excellent channel on YT, which delves deeply into the earliest settled societies. I'd recommend it as a counterpart to the Fall of Civilisations podcasts on Sumeria and the Bronze Age Collapse.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
By jove, I haven't seen this since primary school! It was perhaps 2003-2004, one of the other fellows had just learnt of it and he made each of us sit through it all. Since then, I have been searching for the lost legend. A visit was m
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I wasn't aware of this system. That made for some uncomfortable reading. They had a capacity for 50 million daily number plate reads in 2006 .

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