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by HeckFeck 3y ago
You show me your Ruby and I reply with my Perl: https://sourceforge.net/projects/perlwm/ Last updated in 2004, just needs a touch of polish and she will be as good as new.
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I'm not convinced that it is much better in this decade: - paywalls & 'login to see more' - autoplaying videos that follow you whn you're just trying to read an article - cookie banners - artificial loading throbbers
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We aint so quaint, we're just technologically impaired!
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Ah, finally catching up with the us in UK who have enough of these on the road to track most motor journeys start to finish. Naturally, crime has all but disappeared here. /s
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sad camel noises
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That social network for music lovers that Apple launched in 2010 and then retired in 2011 is back?
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
> Perl is seeing a strong decline and I think it will join the dead group in a few decades. A shame - I much prefer its take on a versatile, unixy scripting language. Much has been done to keep it alive - the comprehensive book Modern Pe
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This is what I associate with my best days online. Good old threaded message boards with persistent conversations. They're not completely dead but there are fewer than there were. And newer forum software like Discourse that tries to m
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
They're still there. When I stumble upon them I take note and gather them into this web gallery. Well Made Web, the old town of the Internet: https://wmw.thran.uk
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
This quote shall be summoned every time I open Steam and note there is yet another 22GB 'rebalancing patch' for a certain game.
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There's also https://www.windowmaker.org/ The website of a window manager impersonating the window manager.
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It's not yet dead, at least for me. Last year I wrote a Perl CGI script to generate a random flag and country name: https://www.thran.uk/cgi-win/fleg.pl Source: https://github.com/lordfeck/cgi
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Certainly, even in British English I remember when my bank moved from formal text messages to 'friendly' on the basis of a survey I never remember receiving. It is weird getting a balance update with "Hi" as the leader a
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For the second person plural, variations like "youns", "yous" and "yis" are used frequently in the informal speech of rural Northern Ireland. Though you risk being jeered and taken less seriously if these were
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
It's not the most common, but 'ye' survives in Northern Ireland. 'What about ye?' - would be a friendly way of asking 'how do you do?'
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I tried -std=c89 with clang; no luck. If anyone gets further do let us know.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
QUIC is indeed impressive and one of the developments that excite me. I meant, I wish there were more application-layer protocols (like a new IRC, NNTP, rather than say Matrix or ActivityPub which is just JSON shunting over HTTP), the rest
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
K-Meleon used the Gecko rendering engine but with a native chrome and no SpiderMonkey. It also powers Thunderbird and the SeaMonkey browser. I'm sure it turned up elsewhere before it was too 'baked in' to Firefox.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
I thought it would be a fun weird project to make Servo work with MS' abandoned JavaScript engine: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore Of course it is written in C++ and you'd probably want a pure Rust
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> Who does new protocols these days? My business brain understands why, but my engineer’s heart laments.
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> any designer who attempts to help and improve things finds themselves ignored, with no means to actually carry out any decision, and walk away soon after. Ah yes, remember how long it took before image thumbnails appeared in the GTK fi
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Very cool indeed. I'll have to play with it on my Pentium 1 box! And I wish more software of this vintage would get the source unveiling treatment...
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Is this the original GEOS source code or a reimplementation?
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php - All things HiFi and Audio. https://moviechat.org/ - Movies http://system7today.com/forums/ - System 7 Today. 68K Mac enthusias
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Not at all shocking coming from the same company who replaced its OS-wide help system with a browser that displays Bing search engine results. Ludicrous and insulting, like it is saying LMGTFY.
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
> asserts the belief that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is superior to all other translations of the Bible. As one who is fond of classical English literature, I am compelled to agree.
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Not quite. DOS was just the bootloader for Windows 9x. While Windows 95's kernel didn't have the full feature set of NT, it still was more sophisticated than DOS. Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing&
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I have a habit of selecting XFS for all my Linux installations. It is a truly excellent filesystem. Though I must confess the reason I initially chose it was because of the name.
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> By the way, I actually succeeded today at hacking the code of Flasher to erase and program modern flash chips. It required a lot of 68k assembly work, but luckily I had a good reference to start from in my USB SIMM programmer. And then
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by HeckFeck 3y ago
Wait until she hits the curiosity stage and you see the birth of reason. That's something you don't get from a dog.

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