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by arexxbifs 10mo ago
The one in the FVWM screenshot is FvwmPager. It comes with FVWM.
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by arexxbifs 11mo ago
1975: "One of our salaried PhD-level engineers designed this custom slide rule so that you guys can do cost estimates when speaking to customers on site." 2025: "We spent a bajillion dollars on a custom LLM chatbot so that yo
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by arexxbifs 11mo ago
Here's what I think would happen if anyone, by tomorrow, could download GPT 5.1 for free and run it performantly on something like a $500 laptop: * It would stop datacenter- and other related infrastructure construction, making huge in
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by arexxbifs 11mo ago
> What happens tomorrow if eg ChatGPT 5.1 performance becomes doable for $500 of tech? $50? The bubble would burst and the US economy would face a recession?
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by arexxbifs 11mo ago
...which is and has been used, very successfully, in the service of propaganda used to consolidate resources and power.
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by arexxbifs 11mo ago
Interesting examples with WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3, which were both dominant for about 10 years during the 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, Microsoft has been dominant in the same segment - for a whopping 30-35 years. During this time,
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Prototyping an Amiga System Preferences Gallery(heckmeck.de)
3 points by arexxbifs 1y ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
Yes, consumerism makes us throw out and replace perfectly working things. That doesn't mean there's not a decline in quality _as well_. > One is that attributes like durability -- which used to be a major factor in how people j
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
Opting out is easy, we can just stop using products from Microsoft, Apple, Meta and Google. Of course, for many that also means opting out of their job, which is a great way to opt out of a home, a family, healthcare, dental care and luxuri
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
It was a lousy distro, it didn't even include the Linux kernel! On the other hand, according to AT&T, Xenix accounted for about half of the worldwide Unix licenses in the late 1980s.
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
IMHO, what would give real value to retro enthusiasts is BSD licensing all the Commodore (and Amiga) IP, rather than these constant efforts to slap the chicken lips logo onto some random hardware in the hope of charging premium for an &quot
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
One problem is that we've become so conditioned to seeing some of those iconic games with square pixels (because of emulators and screenshots) that the original aspect ratios look unfamiliar. This is true also for most Amiga NTSC and D
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
The Python, Perl, Lua, etc. files are arguably valid quines.
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
The 42 byte transparent GIF saw ample use in web development a quarter century ago, when it was used to create pixel perfect <table> layouts. Some things have changed for the better. https://x42.com/test/gifdot.sh
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
> (...) the global average total fertility rate will have dropped below replacement. My pet theory is that when the system becomes untenable, procreation slows down, which will in time trigger a kind of reset - not that it's going t
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
Absolutely. I seem to recall South Korea having a TFR well below one last time I checked. That doesn't mean we're not facing problems in the west, and specifically the Nordic countries, which is what TFA is about.
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
Sure, but one of the reasons that people have fewer children is a bigger risk of downward mobility. The cost of raising a child to an expected middle class living standard has increased substantially.
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
It's a tough reality to face. Problems are piling up for the west that aren't easily solved, and not just with social benefits. Something as mundane as aging sewage systems is starting to become a real problem in many countries.
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by arexxbifs 1y ago
With an aging population and increasingly long work lives, individual stressors will increase and societal capacity for healthcare (and overall prosperity) will dwindle. Baby boomers, having lived through some of the most incredible growth
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
It's not. Demoscene productions are released on the demoscene.
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
AFAIK, NEdit doesn't support Unicode.
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
I use xterm and xclock every day. Many others, such as xmag, xfontsel, xedit etc. are also on my regular rotation. Programs like these may seem simple today but they're often very fast, efficient and to the point.
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Unit A(exotica.org.uk)
5 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|1 comments
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The Professional-Managerial Class Has No Future(ecumene.substack.com)
3 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|1 comments
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
I honestly can't tell if it was stupid or genius of them, on a corporate level, to sell cheap PC:s that directly competed with Amigas in the home segment. On the one hand, they helped usher in the demise of their own cash cow. On the o
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
32 k of fastmem probably wouldn't have made much difference at all. A single routine or two could maybe run faster, but data for them would still have to be mostly in chipmem. Plus, you'd need to add space and tracing for it on th
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
The A1200 lacking fastmem out of the box does seem like a strange decision, but in this case I believe Commodore actually listened to game developers. Having more chipmem instead meant that games could effortlessly load more graphics, music
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
For arcade-style platform games and shmups, the A600 was competitively priced compared to PC:s, at least for a year or so. The biggest problem with the Amiga line in general was that it couldn't feasibly keep up with 486 CPU:s and the
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Nice article, the A600 was indeed a strange machine to be released between the A500+ and A1200, and the PCMCIA port was a curious choice at the time. Some thoughts: * Commodore could have added a faster 68000, and it seems like a good idea
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Indeed, when a network effect can be monopolized, it'd be bad business not trying to become the monopoly. There were of course "home computery" phenomenons with network effects: IRC and Usenet, for example. There are several

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