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by iuguy 6y ago
1.5Mb Upgrades were available for regular A500s. I have one in mine. A500+ Models could have 1mb Chip, 1mb Slow. A500s upgraded to KS1.3 (like mine) could use 0.5Mb Chip, 1.5Mb slow.
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by iuguy 6y ago
It's mostly automated. They'll use tools to dump out data based on search metrics into an Airtable or Google spreadsheet, then templates for the mail stages and tools to send and track opens.
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by iuguy 6y ago
> Why did they shut down? Because Spotify had an ad-supported free service based on selling data and paying the bare minimum it could get away with to artists, while RDIO had a subscription-only service for a long time focused on music r
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by iuguy 6y ago
> But if there was a profitable model where they offer great customer service wouldn't they? Or at least a competitor would come in who did. They wouldn't offer great customer service, they'll offer what they feel they can
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by iuguy 6y ago
It's only really a problem if your software isn't designed for it. Most of the problems people had with DOS memory protection issues were due to the lack of standardization around memory management. Similarly so with Windows 3.x,
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Grid Computing with Plan 9 Ants(9gridchan.org)
80 points by iuguy 6y ago|15 comments
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by iuguy 6y ago
Flagged because a post about a "Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster" should at least pay lip service to running Plan 9 or setting up a cluster.
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by iuguy 6y ago
White, British here. Name has syllables that aren't expressed in Turkic alphabets, so in Turkey and parts of the middle east it's sometimes easier for people to call me Selim or Said instead of Steve. If you're spending prope
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by iuguy 6y ago
You're missing your own bias. There are people in the US (and in the UK, in the Vote Leave team who are now in Government) who believe that LGBT people (in particular the T) shouldn't exist. LGBT rights are human rights. Brexit ab
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by iuguy 6y ago
Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) released a single with a B Side containing a "video" for the Sinclair ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9ZyV-BHFA And of course The Thompson Twins had an adventure game fo
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by iuguy 6y ago
Brexit is absolutely a human rights issue. The leave campaign specifically talked up withdrawing from EU human rights laws and agreements.
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by iuguy 6y ago
Lots of different reasons, but common ones include: 1. No binary blobs, so hardware acceleration can be missed. 2. There have been issues with specific apps e.g. Firefox that seem optimised for things that OpenBSD doesn't do. 3. Histor
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by iuguy 6y ago
Yeah but at least they got rid of Brendan Eich /s
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by iuguy 6y ago
The coolgithubprojects subreddit gives me my periodic freshmeat releases list hit: https://pay.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/ You can even put it in your RSS reader via https://pay.reddit.com/r&#
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by iuguy 6y ago
This week I built a home-made computer using an ESP32 instead of a Z80 and hodge-podge of 74xx logic chips to run CP/M and started playing with Wordstar 3 and 4. I used it many decades ago briefly on the Amiga and it was more graphical
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by iuguy 6y ago
Yeah my N707 has an optical in but shakes fist no optical out :( That does sound really cool that it preserves the track markers though!
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by iuguy 6y ago
I bought a Sony MD-N707 not too long back which I'm using as a nice way to chill out without screens, and for recording Shortwave radio overnight off a Sony ICF-SW7600GR world band radio. The MD-N707 has a cool maintenance mode feature
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by iuguy 6y ago
I suspect a large part of what gets people to the front page are the first 10-20 votes and a large portion of those probably come from people who only read the title (because the first 10 come fairly quickly). But I also realise I don'
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by iuguy 6y ago
Yup, but when I originally wrote the tildes piece it was shared there and people lamented that I didn't mention them, so I am now :)
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by iuguy 6y ago
You can't. I passed my foundation this month and am moving to the Republic of Ireland later this year, so I won't be able to operate from there. Ireland has a Class A/B licence a bit like the old City & Guilds exam, so th
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by iuguy 6y ago
I did exactly that, passed my foundation online at the start of this month. I've been on my local 2m net a couple of times, but still setting up my rig. I think the online side is good (and the free Essex Ham course is brilliant) but o
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by iuguy 6y ago
Bookmarked for later. Will take a look if I move from Substack to Ghost.
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by iuguy 6y ago
If you'd like a guided tour of the tildeverse, there's one on The Dork Web: https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-5 Also relevant community: https://tildes.net/~tildes
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by iuguy 6y ago
I've been running Tales From The Dork Web ( https://thedorkweb.substack.com/ ) since January on Substack. In some respects TFTDW is a bit like Tedium. So far it's been a pretty good experience, but I keep expecting
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by iuguy 6y ago
I was a 1Password user from when it was fully self-hosted until they started pulling bait and switch tactics to move people to subscriptions and online vaults[1]. I also had Windows licences, and Windows was certainly a 2nd class citizen wh
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by iuguy 6y ago
I was using it here[1] because the TTGO libraries were using it and it looked like a solid GUI. Unfortunately I took the TTGO samples and extended them instead of doing things from scratch and tbh the code for AWatch is an embarrasing mess
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by iuguy 6y ago
Shall I do that for everyone who does not work in the industry they are advising people on ?
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by iuguy 6y ago
Krebs does not work in Cybersecurity, does not come from a position of knowledge or experience in Cybersecurity and his only skill relating to Cybersecurity is doxxing people. I could understand if this was "Thinking of a Cybersecurity
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by iuguy 6y ago
Honestly, that post triggered me. I've had really horrible experiences using LVGL on low powered devices.
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by iuguy 6y ago
The Telegraph only qualifies as a newspaper in the loosest of terms, in that it also sometimes reports news and is published in dead tree form.

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