bilegeek

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by bilegeek 2y ago
Every program I've run under Wine has read/write access to any directory you own. AFAIK the only way to containerize Wine is via OS-level LXC/Jails/etc, but under X11 that still leaves the GUI wide open unless you have y
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024(itch.io)
4 points by bilegeek 2y ago|0 comments
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A Visit to id Software (1993) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by bilegeek 2y ago|1 comments
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Yt2009 – a fairly accurate 2009 YouTube front end(github.com)
2 points by bilegeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by bilegeek 2y ago
If it's a modern case, how do you deal with dust?
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by bilegeek 2y ago
> Is this needed because motherboards no longer include any floppy drive channels? Yes, partially. > I'm not yet grasping why Greaseweazle is better than a standard cheapy USB floppy drive. 1.) Support for non-standard formats.
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Except for the mandated ones, like car insurance.
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by bilegeek 3y ago
OOC, does this support YaCy as another engine? Would be the best of all worlds if it did IMO.
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by bilegeek 3y ago
To turn your argument on it's head: are these types of articles rare because so many kids are out and about un-hassled, or are they so rare because so many people don't let their kids out enough for it to be a common occurrence? I
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Then the kids risk having the cops called, and the parents risk having CPS called from a neighborhood busybody. That's exactly the problem - even if the kids AND the parents are willing, the wider society makes it such an enormous hass
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Tl;dr: Suburbs have changed even since the 80's, primarily sociologically but also architecturally, and combined with wider changes in overall culture has made alternatives to the internet less and less practical. Another jumping-off p
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by bilegeek 3y ago
> It gets surprisingly political. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...
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by bilegeek 3y ago
You're confusing the 24-bit HDC-402 on the lander with the custom 18-bit computer on the orbiter (p.164), which had it's origins in the sequencer for the Mariner missions (p.152-154). Though given the apparent level of NASA involv
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Not that I'm skillful enough to make an emulator, but I've tried years ago to find technical documents on the Honeywell HDC-402 used in Voyager and Viking (it's also apparently not related to the DDP-516 or 316 AFAIK.) There&
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The GUI should be better. A lot better. (2020) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bilegeek 3y ago|0 comments
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How to search and download unpopular and old files on the internet(medium.com)
2 points by bilegeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by bilegeek 3y ago
>I want to know what conceivable workflow in Inkscape would allow those sorts of figures in even a significant fraction of lecture speed, let alone real-time https://github.com/gillescastel/inkscape-shortcut-manager
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by bilegeek 3y ago
>let yourself spend less time and energy on your kids >The fact of the matter is the world is a safer >and more prosperous place than ever before. Sadly, it's often not even a matter of safety from "danger", but safe
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UPSes suck and need to be disrupted(esr.ibiblio.org)
62 points by bilegeek 3y ago|40 comments
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by bilegeek 3y ago
If you haven't come across this already: the most comprehensive archive I could find is http://archives.thebbs.org/ It's dial-up slow when downloading files, but maybe you'll find what you're looking for
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Google Groups ending support for Usenet(support.google.com)
286 points by bilegeek 3y ago|198 comments
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Bogodyne Metatechnics – Fine Purveyors of Lisp Machines(bogodyne.com)
4 points by bilegeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Torrenting is I2P's foot in the door for much wider adoption, which would help drive other types of usage. I really hope it takes off, especially since qBitTorrent 4.6 just integrated support; the current stagnation of filesharing, esp
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When the Lion Fought the Bear: Interspecies Cage Fighting on the Mexican Border(historybanter.com)
2 points by bilegeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Folding anime production company set to destroy film masters in November(twitter.com)
38 points by bilegeek 3y ago|7 comments
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Note also: it just got an experimental Windows driver! [1] https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull...
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Virtio GPU 3D acceleration for windows(github.com)
25 points by bilegeek 3y ago|0 comments
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The Ark Two Refuge Facility(webpal.org)
1 points by bilegeek 3y ago|1 comments
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by bilegeek 3y ago
More info: Bruce Beach's (d.2021) YouTube channel: [1] https://www.youtube.com/@BruceBeachArkTwo/videos/ Other people's tours of the bunker: [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pHt1lkHuM
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by bilegeek 3y ago
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_b2B5tKBUM for some more highlights.

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