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An annotated history of some character codes (control characters explained)(sensitiveresearch.com)
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
World Power Systems' explanation of what ASCII/Unicode control characters were actually used for, with details about pre-ASCII codes. WPS (aka Tom Jennings, creator of FidoNet) used to be at wps-dot-com.
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Nice article! Loved the Atari port of this game.
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Another interesting open letter from Jobs was "Thoughts on music" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/15878/open-letter-07 I seem to recall a third open letter on another subject but search fails me at t
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Same, MPP Express, and the 313 area code BBS Listing. ;)
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
I liked the detailed output of the M-LAB tests, unfortunately the amount of data has fallen over time. They'd also check for traffic shaping / blocking once upon a time. I think the project lasted only as long as the grad students
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Was surprised to see in the comments that Tay Zonday had his decades of Amazon book reviews deleted when a vendor flagged a negative review he wrote about an air filter as racist.
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
25 years on. Congrats OpenBSD
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Apple PowerPC Macs definitely did this - the car crash would play if POST failed. YT collection of Mac chimes (~48s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkBcpXL94rA&t=48s
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Context: This is the fifth winner (14 Jul 2021) of this ongoing lossless data compression contest. http://prize.hutter1.net/ Tangentially related: The Large Text Compression Benchmark (same target data files, but less restr
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
I've been out of the loop but the last I read about PFAs was "They accumulate, we don't know if they're toxic or at what dose". That appears to have changed. Once upon a time CSPINet was good for info like this, b
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
(1992) https://genius.com/Information-society-where-would-i-be-with...
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
(1998)
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Google's ignoring spam is especially egregious through side channels, e.g. spammers adding you to Photos message shares.
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
You sure you weren't thinking of the Spheroid? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnHF4unXwAYnhEM?format=png&name=...
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
Soy has a bad PR problem despite no proof in tests. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
"Hi! I'm B-19-7, but to everyperson I'm called Floyd." -Planetfall (1983) My first thought on seeing "Floyd" and "IF" together. It looks like a Pink Floyd reference from the About page on https:&#
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by Thoreandan 3y ago
What made his videos catch my eye was the plotting of the vector text fonts, I love that effect. I'm pretty sure he used the Hershey fonts in early videos.
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
A recent Periodic Videos episode (highlighting a newly discovered sodium isotope) went over the puzzle of which isotopes of elements are known to exist and showed a chart of what we know today - Episode: https://youtu.be/vl
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
Also effective: nuking the <head> section in dev tools.
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
TIL! thanks. https://github.com/safing/portmaster https://safing.io/
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
I'd be a lot happier as a long-time GANDI customer if there was any mention of this whatsoever on https://news.gandi.net ... nothing there since 2022. :-(
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
There's things like purl-dot-org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo... or .onion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion e.g. http://p53lf57qovyuvwsc6xnrppyp
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
TIL. (for those also out of the loop: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altern )
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
That escalated quickly. Considered eating a Snickers?
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
While looking to see if Buckfast was explicitly banned from import, I did a Google search for '"buckfast tonic" site:gov' giving two hits, one of which was a cardiology report about a 16 year old who'd reported to t
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
"Intel considers SGX instructions to be a security vulnerability, as a malware could abuse it to make the computer lose some of the functionality that the typical user expects, such as the ability to play media with DRM." fixed it
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
Which post, the one about hot grits? ;-) showdead=yes (from elsewhere in this thread) is a nice tip. Your post was RSS syndicated to brutalist-dot-report, which led me to this still-alive comment page. Hey, didja know this site was create
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
On Windows, the Resource Monitor will let you watch most filesystem activity, filtered by process. Some types of I/O show up as being by the 'System' (pid 4) process as well.
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by Thoreandan 4y ago
English was my mother's 5th language, I can relate to acting as interpreter for family. I'm reminded of the "Voice Recognition Lift" sketch from the Scottish comedy Burnistoun - https://www.youtube.com/wa

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