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All cars could be fitted with black box trackers under new tax plans(nationalworld.com)
92 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|95 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I already said that I haven't ignored it: > I don't think the old spirit is fully lost. And I'm already running my own self managed website on a VPS. What I meant was the rise of "social media" to supplant what &
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Who would steal two Palmtops from you? That is a travesty indeed.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I caught the tail end of this wind of optimism when I was first connected in 2001. In my head, the Internet will always be that hectic, eclectic place it was then. Even the design of this website fits that paradigm. Watching it taper off wi
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Space Trader. I played that one before I knew what "Narcotics" meant, and I quickly found out why the police were so interested in my cargo. There was also a game... Village Sim I think. You'd spend hours building up a villag
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
The fact that someone still bothers to develop for Palm OS warms my heart. I haven't yet tried Wordle. I will have to give this a go on my Zire 31.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Curiously enough, one of the exercises in the Programming Erlang book is to write a rudimentary IRC client. Glad to see both sides now covered :)
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
This could be a premise for a computer game. Society collapses because too many people spent time making and playing indie games. But society will only be saved if you can unite the gamers, pool together your combined knowledge from playing
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
King Solomon felt the same way 3000 years ago. And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. [Ecclesiasties 12v12]
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Windows Vista is 15 today(theregister.com)
2 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|0 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> I have a kit-built machine with an 8MHz 8088-class CPU Would you mind sharing details? I am curious. Is this a modern kit made from mostly new parts that is available to purchase?
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Not to mention the customisation and level of commitment that went into your forum persona. There were signatures, user bars, and yes ranks that rewarded commitment with the number of posts rather than magical internet points. Compare that
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Discussions would last days on the old phpBB boards. There wasn't that same pressure to spend all day on the same website. You'd make your post and visit every few days. This encouraged effort and reflection. With reddit and other
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It saddens me that I grew up during this time but never availed myself of any of these resources. What a lift that would've been to my lifelong quest to discover my own sound. Nah, back then I just used LimeWire to download fake Weird
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I'd strongly disagree there, inflation is terrible for anyone with savings or bills to pay. Libertarianism is based upon Austrian economics, an entire economic school of thought. It isn't "ignorant" even if you don'
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Satoshi mentions later in the paper that BTC is impossible to inflate by design. Inflation enables much of the corruption in our current financial system. "Just print more money bro! ;)" Also, designing a means of transaction that
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Maybe because it had an undertone of friendly rivalry, in good old Unix hacker fashion? I admittedly enjoy the passion shown on both sides of any divisive issue in this peculiar realm: vi vs Emacs, sysd vs sysv, xorg vs Wayland, etc.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I've played with each of Linux, OSX and BSDs. The commands and syntax are similar enough, it would be a trifle, indeed a matter of pride for any *nix sysadmin to learn another Unix! And that much should be expected, since they are both
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
My apologies for mistaking your point. I agree it wouldn't be a sufficient reason, but I think it is a step in the right direction and an illustration of how it enables freedom. Your wallet is a ten word phrase/a private key. This
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/28/hsbc-faces-... > Insiders who spoke to journalists as part of a joint investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, have su
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It certainly is if you're an environmentalist. Or an Iraqi.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> Cryptocurrency does nothing, nada, zilch, zero to address corruption in any shape. Those are nice nouns, but have you any specific argument? Bitcoin's origins were designed to redress this very issue.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
You can create a new email address if your previous one is blacklisted. The idea is that no one needs permission in both cases, and the message can be sent only to the intended recipient without a middleman reading its contents. BTC is the
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I don't think it is moral to outlaw a new technology just because some criminals are using it. There is nothing inherently criminal with the technology. Similar to nuclear, guns, computers, cars, anything. Someone is always going to sh
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Even if you are prevented, at least having money in BTC is better than having no money at all. And there are always workarounds. It wouldn't be impossible to use an exchange in another country, for one.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It’s pretty cool that I can send a text message to someone without an authority intervening, not to mention that nobody can stop the transaction from happening. And then they can print that out onto a sheet a paper or share it with all thei
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I recall QMMP on Linux ( http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ ) supports WinAmp 2x skins. Going to try a few of these on my Linux box after work!
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Perhaps this was addressed in the video, but I wonder if that tinkerer tried LILO? It is still supported and might fare better with old hardware.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
In ~2006 I was gifted a 486 desktop by my neighbour, it was a Mitac 486 running Windows 3.1 and DOS. It came with a matching VGA monitor. It had a floppy drive, 160MB hard disk and DIN keyboard. The mouse was fitted to a serial port. There
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
You're welcome to join! Installation requires the 32 bit Wine runtime, which will require pulling in your distro's 32 bit libs. After that set export WINEARCH="win32" in your env, just run setup and all is golden

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