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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Hey, thank you, I like scrollbars. :) Oh, and, nice project. Thoroughly agree with the sentiments expressed in the FAQ.
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Scrollbars are completely disabled in Firefox on the front and docs page. In Chromium there's only horizontal scrollbars in the code snippets. Looks intentional to me: html { overflow-y: scroll; scrollbar-width: none; &
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The Annotated Hacker Test(datagubbe.se)
3 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
AmigaOS has no memory protection whatsoever. If your program crashes, so does the entire machine. And it will possibly bring your hard drive with it, too. Not unworkable, but not the most relaxed environment for fast’n’fun cowboy coding. Yo
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Try this: $ cat $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf <match target="font"> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"> <const>none</const> </
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Nope[1]. [1] https://datagubbe.se/fontfest/
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Abstraction is beneficial and profitable up to a certain point, after which upkeep gets too hard or expensive, and knowledge dwindles into a competency crisis - for various reasons. I'm not saying we are at that point yet, but it feels
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
My hunch - it's just a hunch - is that LLM-assisted coding is detrimental to one's growth as a developer. I'm fairly certain it can only boost productivity to a certain level - one which may be tedium for more senior develope
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The Gathering 1993 Demoparty [video](youtube.com)
2 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Prose, mostly essays. It highlights misspelled words, it's got a nice "compact paragraph" mode, basic keystrokes behave as I expect them to.
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Different tools for different tastes. Some programmers prefer Emacs, some vim, some Visual Studio Code. Some authors still use mechanical typewriters, others prefer Word. Others like word processors but feel bogged down by Word's many
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
After having tried several approaches to minimalist text authoring, such as FocusWriter and pure text editors, WordGrinder is now my preferred tool for the job. Running in an xterm it's fast, distraction free and easy to use.
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SGI Internal Memo: IRIX 5.1 40% slower than 4.0 (1993)(seriss.com)
5 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|3 comments
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
You're right. I'm lying. You passed the test. Anyone who remembers a less commercialized, plaintext Internet is a stooge planted by Big Unix.
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Perhaps. But it was heartfelt nonsense, without people trying to "monetize" or build "clout". If someone had joined an IRC channel in 1996 and started advertising cosmetics, they would've been kickbanned faster than
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
> What's Missing in Social Media? Most of all, privacy. > authentic, un-filtered, un-staged That's what the net was like _before_ "social media" companies. IRC, Usenet, smallish web forums. You can't astroturf
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MUI Showroom (2001)(sasg.com)
1 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 2y ago
Cold booting my 7 MHz A600 to a fully loaded, functional and responsive desktop takes 17 seconds from hard drive (I just measured). Pretty decent, I'd say. There's plenty about Amiga that is and/or feels instant. My workhorse
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An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)(datagubbe.se)
196 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|55 comments
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20 Years is Nothing (Streamed PETSCII animation) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|0 comments
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Die Wacht, allein – Interview with Wolfgang Streeck(foreningenaurora.wordpress.com)
1 points by arexxbifs 2y ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
I was replying to the parent comment.
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
Vintage computer meetups, like vintage car meetups, are mostly chummy in-group gatherings for the already initiated. It's where geeks of a particular brand can talk shop. (I usually don't attend them and instead go to demo parties
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
Seems a bit harsh to judge an entire event by the conduct of a single speaker, but to each their own, and all that. To answer your question, yes, people are still writing malware for old systems. They don't even have to be network conn
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
Only from things like regular and catastrophic freight train derailments.
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
> If they throw teachers in jail over not doing their job, the state loses in the long term. British health workers (nurses, ambulance workers) went on strike during 2022 and 2023. Their union eventually accepted a 5% pay increase - down
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
> so many projects to work on which are equally fun To a lot of people, nothing is as fun as the Amiga (or C64, or Atari, or ZX Spectrum...). > which you could use to keep up to date for instance If you make everything in life about y
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Amiga BBS ANSI Animations(heckmeck.de)
4 points by arexxbifs 3y ago|0 comments
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My color cycling efforts at Datastorm (2021)(dalton-tulou.github.io)
1 points by arexxbifs 3y ago|0 comments
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by arexxbifs 3y ago
Those are text mode DOS programs and used whatever font was in the graphics card’s character ROM. Perhaps you’re thinking of IBM’s CGA or EGA fonts, which were somewhat similar. https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fon

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