Thoreandan

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   by Thoreandan 2y ago

   An, Netscape Communicator
2. 62.▲
   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   Is this site AI generated?
3. 63.▲
   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   I ran into this in Zork before seeing it in real life. I feel seen that it's mentioned in the article.
4. 64.▲
   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   So.... this is about a pay-subscription search engine called 'Kagi' out of Palo Alto, founded 2018. Made me think and have to do some digging for the 'Kagi' out of Berkeley founded in the 90s where you could register you
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   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   Also Autoruns from SysInternals ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut... ) "Explorer" tab lets you un-check / check individual entries.
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   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   A quick glance at USPTO and https://www.f5.com/company/policies/trademarks confirms this.
7. 67.▲
   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   So... Jill of the Jungle and Eva Earlong are now officially Disney Princesses.
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   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   The term I've heard is "John Doe lawsuit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_defendants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena There's several attorneys whose website
9. 69.▲
   by Thoreandan 3y ago

   I've been using it since ’93 or thereabouts before it became a GNU project. Continues to work fine for me.
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Nice article! The hand-annotated code chart reminded me how 1989's LPMUD from Sweden wrote the author's name as "Lars Pensj|" since "Pensjö" couldn't be done in 7-bit ASCII. I guess it would've been &
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Nobody's paid to have it pass Open Group Unix Branding certification tests https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ so it can't use the UNIX™ trade mark. But it's got the AT&T Unix kernel &
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    For me: * Not having "extended partitions" as a concept to deal with * OS booting not dependant on "load an MSDOS bootblock from LBA offset X" What I dislike: * Not having a minimal straightforward shell to troubleshoot
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    (2008)
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Livingston Enterprises products (Portmaster and IRX routers) running ComOS were x86
15. 75.▲
    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Is this word salad a joke?
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    > if he had been more methodological I assure you as someone who was reading WikiLeaks from before the big ones, they were extensively methodological, working with journalists and actually contacting the government with notices of upcomi
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator) links to it.
18. 78.▲
    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    That blew some dust off some brain cells. ^_^
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    So… anyone gonna make a libpurple plug-in?
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    It's good to see BallBlazer mentioned, but the article/video feels like it's incomplete without mentioning Dimension X (which also alternates between tank realtime combat and tunnel travel dodging walls) and Atari’s Battlezon
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Neither Firefox nor Chrome (desktop) can successfully save full-sized screenshots of this. I wonder what their trick is.
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Hear hear. It's really inexcusable — if there's a bug in a shared library, that library should be fixed across the board. That, and the implementation is cartoonishly bad, for example you can't extend a partition while the sy
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    The WayBack Machine's 2018 snapshot < https://web.archive.org/web/20181008124103/https://www.scu.e... > dates this article to (2007)
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Hugged to death?
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    In the README found in the root of the repo you posted a link to, you'll find the domain man7-dot-org mentioned as the site run by Michael Kerrisk who has been running it for years. More details at https://man7.org/linu
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Naive question, In 2023 how does DNS-over-HTTP (DoH) affect things like the Cisco Distributed Director / F5 3-DNS where DNS is used to control which datacenters customer traffic is going to? Is this still a technology smaller sites ca
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    Relevant occurrence in GPS history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    As far as I've seen X11 has always been considered Free without-strong-copyleft by rms/GNU. They were /not/ in favor of the proprietary Motif desktop environment, nor the (at the time, non-FLOSS Qt library dependent) KDE
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    > in a scientific article, this is insane language to use and really calls into question the assumptions and conclusions. Springer Nature would appear to disagree with your assertion. "Authors should use the terms sex (biological at
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    by Thoreandan 3y ago

    There is a different but similar lossless compression benchmark which just had a new front-runner using LLMs, see https://bellard.org