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by Lammy 9mo ago
They've been planning this outcome for a long time. Here's Larry Ellison in 1997: https://youtu.be/Bk1_btV3oIk?t=402 “The personal computer was designed as a standalone device. There was no Internet around 1981 wh
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by Lammy 9mo ago
It's like ChuChu Rocket! + JezzBall; two of my favorite games!
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Dealing with abandonware (2024)(blog.hris.to)
1 points by Lammy 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 9mo ago
What a cool guy https://jacquesmattheij.com/domains-for-sale/
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by Lammy 9mo ago
> we didn’t know how far we’d have to go to find a gas station with electricity Corollary: carry cash, so you can buy things without depending on Point Of Sale systems being on and able to talk to the payment card networks. My favorite n
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by Lammy 10mo ago
It's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(advertising_campaign)
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by Lammy 10mo ago
“Fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to stay connected; it's called Xbox 360” -- Don Mattrick
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by Lammy 10mo ago
I still use K-Lite Codec Pack on all of my Windows systems: https://github.com/Microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
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by Lammy 10mo ago
USB-C is creepy in its own way, because it lets the host computer uniquely identify each pair of headphones. Even my USB-C-to-3.5mm adapter has a USB descriptor field whose key is a UUID and whose value is the adapter's manufacture tim
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Thank you for the interlacing-preserved files!! For archival's sake I hope you have some sort of Lagarith/ProRes/etc versions stashed instead of just h264, although those would be prohibitively large to share.
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by Lammy 10mo ago
> Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Measure
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Humble Bundle usually gives you Steam keys
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by Lammy 10mo ago
At least he was able to sneak the “Antler!” easter egg in: https://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/UT-Stickies.html
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by Lammy 10mo ago
> Do we need to wait for a tragedy before we do something? Yes, absolutely. It isn't pleasant to think about, but laws and regulations are meaningless if they aren't based on actual numbers. If I wanted to propose some new feat
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by Lammy 10mo ago
The crash in question was in January of that year, and this article in May is talking about passengers “starting” to get items back. Important items that I'm forced to go without for six months may as well be lost. Could you make it si
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Each of these things is a contributor.
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by Lammy 10mo ago
> it hasn’t resulted in deaths
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Pervasive tolling is surveillance-of-movement in disguise.
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by Lammy 10mo ago
> If raising valid concerns that were not addressed by the linked website is FUD for you, so be it. Yes, it is. It's specifically called concern trolling: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern_troll In this ca
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by Lammy 10mo ago
> Should I expect backdoors? Is it an elaborate front by north korea? Who will be able to remotely execute code on this operating system? Stop sowing FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
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by Lammy 10mo ago
I would say the downside of them is that they're known for replacing GPL software with MIT software
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by Lammy 10mo ago
I really enjoyed using them for my Ruby file-matching library where I wanted to read `shared-mime-info` XML source package files directly and on the fly as opposed to using the pre-processed secondary files that the upstream `update-mime-da
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Imagine thinking most people read Knowledge Base articles and don't just take the defaults. They even manage to squeeze some FUD into the opt-out toggle's name.
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by Lammy 10mo ago
It's a cryptographic key exchange system that allows nodes to open Wireguard tunnels between each other. They have a nice product, but I don't like how it spies on your “private” network by default: https://tailscale.co
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407106
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 100.00% Decompilation(decomp.dev)
3 points by Lammy 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Lammy 10mo ago
> Timekeeping has been an important mechanism for humans for as long as recorded history. And for 99% of that history, Noon was when the sun was half-way through its daily arc at whatever point on Earth one happened to inhabit. The owner
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by Lammy 10mo ago
And the disaster plan for the disaster plan is to realize that it isn't that important at the human-level to have a clock meticulously set to correspond to other meticulously-set clocks, and that every attempt to force rigid timekeep
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Google "6-7" easter egg(google.com)
3 points by Lammy 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Lammy 10mo ago
Also https://www.google.com/search?q=6-7 and https://www.google.com/search?q=6%207 — any others? edit: and https://www.google.com/search?q=six%20seven

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