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   Election Software Executive Arrested Due to Potentially Storing Data in China(nytimes.com)

   4 points by akoster 4y ago|1 comments
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   by akoster 4y ago

   Reminds me of playing Prof. Robert West's implementation called "Wikispeedia" back in High School after AP CS Exams (and trying to call out anyone using the Find feature of their browser!) It's still playable here: http
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   Migrating Browser-Based Java Applets to IcedTea-Web Using JNLP(foojay.io)

   6 points by akoster 4y ago|0 comments
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   by akoster 4y ago

   I check the news and finance. Quite a few relatives use Yahoo! mail and fortunately its UI has been relatively static for the past half-decade [0] (although AOL mail takes the cake in the static -- and usable -- UI department [1]) [0] htt
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   by akoster 4y ago

   I used to work for an avionics company’s in-flight entertainment (IFE) division for just one year. IIRC the business model primarily involved selling new systems to airlines to be installed into newly-delivered aircraft and secondarily upg
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   by akoster 4y ago

   Great news! Hopefully this means that Rust will now support GCC's supported architectures [0] in addition to their own quite impressive and continuously improving list [1] [2], including those that are less popular these days. I hope
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   by akoster 4y ago

   Though my heart goes out for what happened to Rina, despite her claims that the 6 group chat participants were careful, I resonate with this reply [0]. Most likely, one of her group chat participants may have left a web or desktop session
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   by akoster 4y ago

   A complete side tangent: How does one prevent pingbacks from content-less "blogs" (which seem to be optimizing for clicks)? (I see 3 pingbacks from lzomedia.com, makemoneyonlinecom.com and imoneyhub.com at the above link)
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   by akoster 4y ago

   The FTC needs to make a “click to register, mail to modify your preferences” illegal similar to how “click to subscribe, call to cancel” is now outlawed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250063 P.S.: At least can venmo
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    by akoster 4y ago

    Im glad to hear Uber/Lyft/Ride Sharing App pricing has matched that of cabs in London. In New York it was close (at least pre-COVID). I took would always opt for a yellow cab at those crazy prices (making sure that the meter was
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    Git v2.35.2 and below for CVE-2022-24765(lore.kernel.org)

    4 points by akoster 4y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 5y ago

    For folks who are leaving the neighborhood and looking for work, check out this telegram group “IT Evacuation” [1] [1] https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAE3nUawZ4YX6AtDCFg
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    Soundex (Phonetic Algorithm)(en.wikipedia.org)

    5 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Source (in Russian) [1] and future plans for a virtual museum [2]. A huge loss but glad the curator is safe. Слава ретро-компьютерам! [1] https://m.facebook.com/it8bit.club/ [2] https://it8bit.club/b
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Saw this from 2020 IIRC but great post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22242419
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Igor Ljubuncic of Dedoimedo posts a lot about his experiences using various linux distros and configuring them to his liking [1]. Recently he posted about planning to migrate to Linux (from windows) [2]. Hope this might help! [1] https:&
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    by akoster 5y ago

    I acquired a Sun mug and card deck from a discard pile at an internship about 7 years ago, a few years after the acquisition by Oracle. Also in the pile was a mug with the pre-merger/acquisition Broadcom big sinc function logo. Glad t
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    by akoster 5y ago

    While I agree with you, so many new cars offer remote start/remote engine heating block initiation or even the ability to summon your vehicle from a parking garage and have it drive toward the exit. Many consumers will not purchase ca
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing! Twitter thread formatted in a single page: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500495309595725831.html
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    by akoster 5y ago

    This sounds similar to 2600 meetings I used to attend in the before times - lots of interesting people and ideas, always coming away from them with a ton to add to my video queue and reading lists. I would maybe say one could get 70% of wh
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    FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot from GitHub(fsf.org)

    6 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 5y ago

    IIRC while on an internship at Broadcom, lots of EDA tools were utilized by sending a script to a (Sun Solaris?) grid compute cluster to save on license costs or due to licenses being billed per minute or cpu-minute. I do recall some inter
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Link to the forum thread if the direct link doesn't work: https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1983204
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    RIP Ivan Reitman, Director of “Ghostbusters”(variety.com)

    5 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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    Notepad++ 8.3: Boycott Beijing 2022(notepad-plus-plus.org)

    36 points by akoster 5y ago|3 comments
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    by akoster 5y ago

    The main FTP ISO mirrors are a bit slow - thankfully there are torrents available here https://seedbox.slackware.uk/
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    MarketScan: a database of Americans’ health info(statnews.com)

    4 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Muxe's fork is still alive and kicking! http://www.ndn.muxe.com/
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    Server World: How to configure servers(server-world.info)

    1 points by akoster 5y ago|0 comments
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    by akoster 5y ago

    Thanks for clarifying - I was scratching my head why that commit wasn't showing up on git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...