digi_owl

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by digi_owl 9y ago
Interesting. I can't find any sort of artificial horizon, but i suspect the two "spirit levels" at the bottom (T shape) serve much the same purpose. Given that it was an ocean crossing he would probably be watching the airspe
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Heh, i ruined someones money making scheme the day i got my first burner and offered copies at the cost of a blank CDR. Somewhat sad that MO media didn't pick up any steam though, as i kinda miss the day when i could do random RWs on a
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Best i recall, from back when the PGP thing was going down, was that anything above 90-bit keys (or some such) was basically considered the equivalent of a military weapon. So if you wanted to offer it to anyone outside of USA, you were tre
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Age also makes one less susceptible to the snake in the expensive suit.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
BTW, i think SECURITY was to be a first step towards a more secure X. But nobody enabled it because it broke some big name programs (Firefox being one, supposedly)...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Outsourcing basically. All hail the almighty growth curve...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Err, no. Docker is not coupled to Systemd. If anything Systemd is competing with Docker via their nspawn sub-system. I could have sworn there has been even a few instances of Systemd cock blocking Docker even though Docker had a clear prece
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by digi_owl 9y ago
The one big thing for me with RSS is that it provides me a way to see what exactly is new, when it is new.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I get similar annoyance with how gmail and email is now "synonymous", much thanks to the heavy handed nature of the gmail "spam" filer (anything not from a big name provider gets automatically binned, apparently).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Ah yes, G+, that resulted in the + being removed from the search field. All thanks to an ex-MS "cookie licker" (the term was used by Google people after he left the company).
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by digi_owl 9y ago
That said, i have encountered many a myopic active programmer...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Funny thing the scenario you put forward in the last part is exactly how Marx envisioned the transition from capitalism to socialism (iirc, communism was seen as a possible stepping stone). Thus he expected it to happen in heavily industria
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Best i understand, the problem child is Gnome. The devs involved there basically ignore xorg provided DPI information, resulting in all kinds of problems.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I vaguely recall having read some article or other about a pre-computer plan someone had for a "database of everything". I suspect the idea hinged on edge notched cards or something similar.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Software should not be patented at all. Math has not been patentable under any scheme until recently, where over a series of lawsuits the US courts have effectively made a subset of it (software) patentable. And it all started thanks to see
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Indeed. I can grab RPi and accessories virtually at the local mall (or at least i keep seeing ads for them from various store chains). ODROID? Forget about it, has to order from abroad. Tinker Board, not sure. I think i have seen one specia
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by digi_owl 9y ago
PocketPC/Mobile, in particular in the corporate world, was massive. And in the "consumer" world, HTC made a name for itself by making PocketPC based devices with a range of designs. Come the Windows Phone 7 announcement, they
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly i see the pressure coming from the financial world. There is a massive, blinding, focus on quarterly profits and dividends. This leads to all kinds of hype cycles and cargo cults to try to goose the stock price, no matter how hail m
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by digi_owl 9y ago
They basically priced it out of the range of those consumers that could benefit from it the most.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I was curious about WinPhone, in particular when they started touting the desktop dock functionality. But then i found that the only devices that would support it was way way outside my price range.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Effectively MS, who should have known the value of backwards compatibility, shot themselves in the foot by abandoning the PocketPC lineage. Never mind that debacle early on when people discovered that WinPhone7 would lock an inserted SD car
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Sounds like a good description of all those "It runs Linux because here is the kernel error" images that bounce around the web. Most of them from signage solutions or similar that stay on for ages at a time, and invariably comes d
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by digi_owl 9y ago
VRML was once a thing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Everything old is new again... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Back then they still held to the belief that humans could make rational decisions given proper factual information. Then can all of psychology barreling in, and marketing lapped it up like like rats do sugar-water. End result was that the m
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Why do this bring to mind how casinos treat big name gamblers...
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by digi_owl 9y ago
I seem to recall that MS managed to "convince" whoever was in charge to offer a OLPC variant with Windows on it, effectively watering down the core concept.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
You also had a concerted effort from Microsoft et al to muddy the water in a massive way.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
My first thought was to use the sh -c method.
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by digi_owl 9y ago
Adam Curtis takes a chunk out of that excitement as part of his All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

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