Lammy

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HTA – Old but Still Good (~2004)(eddiejackson.net)
1 points by Lammy 1y ago|1 comments
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by Lammy 1y ago
> In 1989, Island Graphics released a "low-end" X11 office suite for Apollo workstations, called iWrite, iDraw, iPaint I have used Ami Pro and CorelDRAW! on OS/2 but had never heard of this Island suite before, and it made
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by Lammy 1y ago
Fun fact: if you have Windows Terminal installed, it takes over `conhost.exe` and brings telemetry spying even to old apps which never had it before :D https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/commit/906edf7002b8
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by Lammy 1y ago
Have they fixed it spying on you? https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139
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by Lammy 1y ago
Akshully to be a swastika it would have to have four-way rotational symmetry, which this kinda looks like but isn't. The Sun logo is a swastika: https://dogemicrosystems.ca/pub/Sun/media/logos/Sun-Mi
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by Lammy 1y ago
They sell the capability to do this on a global scale: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
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by Lammy 1y ago
And Phorge! (former Phabricator, and my favorite) https://we.phorge.it/
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by Lammy 1y ago
Office 95 & 97 do this too on NT 3.51, kinda; just their inner MDI document title bars: http://toastytech.com/guis/miscnt351office97.png
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by Lammy 1y ago
> If anyone needs a new wallpaper for the week. Neat. That spot on Route 12/121† is one of my favorite places to take people when they visit the Bay Area. My pic from a few months ago: https://i.imgur.com/e2jbdkx.jpe
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by Lammy 1y ago
The design language of the Neptune UI and the “Watercolor” UXTheme are like Peak Microsoft. Amazingly good looking to this day. > Windows Whistler/2002/XP logo design concepts by Frog Design I like how there's a vestige of
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Moving outside of cities doesn't even solve the problem because low frequency noise travels for miles Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
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The amazing i820 saga(redhill.net.au)
4 points by Lammy 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 1y ago
> I think you're incorrect in the default settings What mac-attack is correct about is that by default, `tailscaled` sets itself as the only DNS resolver and proxies all DNS requests to your non-Tailscale nameservers. Citations: -
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Maybe I'm missing something here but I'd guess that data is encrypted and not a free for all of open data that any old ISP could snoop on. Yes, you are missing the entire point. You are talking about data. I am talking about
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by Lammy 1y ago
> I do not interpret their policies such that they are processing the information you added emphasis to beyond what is necessary to serve the customer. What evidence do you have to the contrary? Respectfully, you are failing to appreciat
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by Lammy 1y ago
> relying _only_ on obscurity Until it gets obscure enough that we start calling it “public-key cryptography”. Guess the prime number I'm thinking of between 0 and 2↑4096 and win a fabulous prize!
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by Lammy 1y ago
> It’s a subscription product, but it has an insanely generous free tier that covers basically anything you’d ever want to do as an individual. Tailscale do have a very nice product, but privacy-conscious users should be aware that you m
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Princeton, Can You Hear Me? (2003)(manifest-tech.com)
2 points by Lammy 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 1y ago
You are conflating intention on the part of individuals with the societal system which creates conditions in which those individuals perceive themselves as doing good despite the fact that they are serving the needs of the system. Recommend
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by Lammy 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with speculation that's clearly labeled as speculation.
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by Lammy 1y ago
Calling it fake also doesn't mean I'm calling it poor engineering; in fact the opposite since it's very accurate for the common use case of a computer that's used on a day-to-day basis with no major hardware or softwar
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by Lammy 1y ago
> I know this is true because Apple tries to implement progress bars in IOS like real chads. Back in The Day, Mac OS X Tiger just faked it by measuring how long it took to boot to LoginWindow, writing that number of seconds to a file, an
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by Lammy 1y ago
“Now, you can Google this on Google”
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Princeton, Can You Hear Me? (2003)(manifest-tech.com)
2 points by Lammy 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 1y ago
More like “none of the people who worked on it are at the company any more”
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by Lammy 1y ago
I love the disclaimer on the RCT2 Screenshots page: https://www.chrissawyergames.com/feature5.htm > Click each thumbnail below to view the full 800x600 screenshot image > (Warning: Each image is between 100KB and 250K
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by Lammy 1y ago
Just for disambiguation to emphasize that I'm talking about the Intel-based console, because the naming scheme of the later Microsoft consoles makes it easy to confuse “Xbox One” with the OG one. I spent most of my time playing RCT 1 a
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Written by Sawyer in pure, ultra-efficient Intel assembly language — an anomaly by that time Not mentioned in the article, but this did allow for a port of the game to the OG XBOX (733 MHz PentiumⅢ box) way back in 2003, long before th
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by Lammy 1y ago
No, UEFI Secure Boot is UEFI Secure Boot. The fact that Microsoft exercised this ability twelve entire years ago on a platform where they thought they could get away with it makes it worse, not better.
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Get back to me when it actually happens Hello from 2013, and here you go! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/SurfaceRT#Secure_Boot https://openrt.gitbook.io/open-surfacert/common/boot-sequenc...

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