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1. 721.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   This is an impressive achievement and a good read, but the shit people have to do to back up things that they bought is just sad.
2. 722.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   The fall of Dick Smith Electronics makes me rather sad.
3. 723.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   I don't know if I slipped because it was late or it's been changed, but I could've sworn I wrote edge.
4. 724.▲
   Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE(reddit.com)

   43 points by endgame 10y ago|52 comments
5. 725.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   I think this is actually a failure in mainstream programming languages, which make it far too easy to reach across what's meant to be a defined subsystem boundary and meddle where you shouldn't.
6. 726.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   The rest of the dev blog is awesome, too: they often go into pretty interesting detail about the game.
7. 727.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   Similarly, when I sign into slack at work, I am presented with silly little messages from my "friends at slack". Why is the empty set writing me messages? The people who work on slack are probably nice, but I don't use the &q
8. 728.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   > Stallman sadly is right about most of the things he says. He has rather extremist stances sometimes, but that doesn't mean he is wrong. From what I've seen, his extreme positions are often from him looking further than a lot
9. 729.▲
   by endgame 10y ago

   I'm passively looking for a machine at the moment but not really actively looking yet - this one's still got a fair amount of life in it. If you want to reach me, the email in my profile works. Are you planning to do a libre hardw
10. 730.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Thank you, but it doesn't ship outside the US. Are you aware of any other decent libreboot machines, even if they can't be liberated end-to-end?
11. 731.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Any vendors you'd recommend? (Non-x86 is fine.)
12. 732.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Lenovo are on my personal shitlist after superfish and abusing the windows platform binary table. When my current laptop dies (a thinkpad T440p that I'm reasonably happy with), I may have to suck up the performance hit and go to minifr
13. 733.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    It's published by nostarch, so if you get it from them directly you can get a DRM-free ebook: https://www.nostarch.com/hardwarehacker
14. 734.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Merry Christmas to the FreeDOS project, and congratulations. It's great to see you lot keeping on. Does anyone here know the plans for the future, now that UEFI is on most new consumer PCs? Will it be considered "done" at som
15. 735.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    A single WikiLeaks is a single point of failure.
16. 736.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    This is fantastic, but if you want to go the other way and chase hardware accuracy, the oldschool pc font pack at int10h.org is very cool: int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
17. 737.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    It is pricey, but it is also very good. The content is quite up-to-date (e.g. covers Foldable/Traversable, teaches the Functor-Applicative-Monad progression) and working through the exercises made a lot of things click that I didn&#x27
18. 738.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    From that era, I also remember muLinux, which packed quite a lot onto some superformatted floppies. http://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/
19. 739.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Agreed with the above, but also: in this world of "free" services (where the users are farmed like honeybees), voting with one's feet is about the only way to send a message that a company will actually listen to. I see no pr
20. 740.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    One of my projects for this weekend is to move off GMail for my main email address. It's too much of a risk.
21. 741.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Both hardware and Stallmanism. I'm a showered and beardless dirty free software hippie.
22. 742.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    >“the power of the computer should reside in the hands of the one using it.” A great vision, and one that I share. But I think that it's also a vision that is completely incompatible with Apple.
23. 743.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    msrss - Merge and scrub RSS feeds, so certain clients can consume them without barfing. (I'm looking at you, gnus.) https://bitbucket.org/endgame/msrss/wiki/Home
24. 744.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    This is the world people predicted way back when Windows XP product activation first became a thing, and we sleepwalked right into it.
25. 745.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    Trouble is, there's nothing in your response that lets me differentiate "there is a blockchain solution here and it would work, here's why" from "I'm a bitcoin fan with a blockchain hammer and this kinda looks
26. 746.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    I wonder if this would have ever been built or released if bwapi wasn't a thing.
27. 747.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    > It has polish and care that the stereotypical raging neckbeards who espouse the mantra of Linux on the desktop are unable to appreciate (or, apparently, build), and it has to exist, even if merely as a counterpoint to all the ugliness.
28. 748.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    It's certainly paid off. You write well.
29. 749.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    I care. I'd be interested to see your list and notes, even if only to offer some encouragement.
30. 750.▲
    by endgame 10y ago

    I'm in a similar boat, too young and too modem-deprived to get in on the BBS scene. If you like phreaking as well, Exploding The Phone is really good.