Lammy

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by Lammy 3mo ago
The section I originally posted photos of is indeed in disrepair, but I came across a different section right at the northern end of the Tok Cutoff that is pristine : https://ibb.co/album/Z20r3Z (mile marker in photo)
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by Lammy 3mo ago
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40484930
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24-zig(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Lammy 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Lammy 3mo ago
I saw this IRL and did an actual double-take when I realized it was open-wire telephone (telltale conductor transposition pattern: < https://the-electric-orphanage.com/wp-open-wire-transpositio... >) and not an old rail
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World-War-Ⅱ-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley Alaska (2021)(sketchesofalaska.com)
37 points by Lammy 3mo ago|7 comments
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by Lammy 3mo ago
They also changed the way DRM works for digital games purchased after March 2026. It used to be a permanent license at purchase time and is now a temporary license that requires online check for the duration of the refund period with the cl
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by Lammy 3mo ago
”If a tree falls in a forest”, U=U, etc. This is just FUD otherwise.
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by Lammy 3mo ago
I just disable UAC. Yada yada bad practice yeah I know. I'm sick of constant slight annoyance due to hypothetical threat. If I get pwned I get pwned; hasn't happened yet lol
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by Lammy 3mo ago
>What even is Microsoft's strategy? Windows 11 requiring TPM, Secure Boot Their goal is to help their OEM buddies sell new computers despite the fact that PCs have been “good enough” for a decade or longer, because those new PCs wil
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by Lammy 3mo ago
>SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram Probably an SE/30; vastly different internally than the original 68000 SE, more like a MacⅡx wearing a classic Mac shell. Great machine <3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by Lammy 3mo ago
I like how “Update” has become corporate PR's favorite weasel word for headlines bearing bad news.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
Imagine four balls on the edge of a cliff. Say a direct copy of the ball nearest the cliff is sent to the back of the line of balls and takes the place of the first ball. The formerly first ball becomes the second, the second becomes the th
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by Lammy 4mo ago
You're the one being dishonest and ignorant comparing defeating DRM to something that is open from the start
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by Lammy 4mo ago
I'm surprised they didn't just write it out as GNU IMP in the website, documentation, and about boxes. They could just leave the code alone and save themselves the trouble.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
It's a math term whose meaning depends on the qualities of the other people around you, not a reference to any one particular set of characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
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by Lammy 4mo ago
Those are not comparable at all, because cars also have humans inside.
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'Digital Circus' Google easter egg(google.com)
3 points by Lammy 4mo ago|2 comments
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by Lammy 4mo ago
Click the Pomni eyeball at the bottom center of the page. Screenshot for posterity: https://i.ibb.co/rJkpCWL/Screenshot-2026-06-19-at-18-07-55-d...
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by Lammy 4mo ago
> but when it comes to a tasteless house, criticism is elitist gatekeeping? In the middle of a housing crisis, yes, it absolutely is.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
> Uhh, these are not humble middle class homes. You misunderstand; the target audience for ”McMansion Hell” is not the people living in a ”McMansion” but those who have less than that and would aspire to more.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
“McMansion” is just a way for The System to shame the middle class for daring to want some space to live in, and I'm disappointed when I see anyone propagate it.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
The problem with web apps isn't that they're slow but that they enable the Room 641As of the world to spy on you , just by virtue of making network connections. Encryption doesn't even matter. Just behavior patterns are en
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by Lammy 4mo ago
RE: Start Menu, the article does not mention or show the obnoxious “Personalized Menus” feature which is the one and only ‘must disable’ when I use Win2k. It triggers after some number of days and hides infrequently-used programs from the P
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by Lammy 4mo ago
Whoops, seems like that's related to their naming scheme change, and `ReleaseId` stopped incrementing after Windows 10 “2009” (2009 September) got renamed to “20H2”: https://vxtwitter.com/bytenerd/status/13950
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by Lammy 4mo ago
> to "increase protection" for unspecified reasons Everything old is new again https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041116-00/?p=37... (2004)
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by Lammy 4mo ago
> IIS has a legacy behavior inherited from the old DOS 8.3 filename convention. Is this exposing the underlying OS's behavior coupled with the fact that the IIS document root is `C:\Inetpub` by default? Eight-dot-three filenames are
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by Lammy 4mo ago
Check back in 12 hours and my explanation will be here for you.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
This is a good thing because it means I can sign something that will work if I own that hardware
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by Lammy 4mo ago
The end-game is that people will willingly surveil themselves 24/7 on behalf of The System because that will be the only way to prove what they didn't do.
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by Lammy 4mo ago
Yea verily, although it was a free street find in 2014 and not something I sought out because it was in the movie. Here she is: https://i.ibb.co/1YkhpHzv/Quadra700-Stack.jpg

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