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   by livrem 4y ago

   I really enjoy gemini because it is its own little world. It is the feeling of surfing the www in the 90's again. Everything is rendered the way I want it to be rendered, in whatever client I feel like using. Anyone can code their own
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   by livrem 4y ago

   I did not really understand what they were trying to say, but I think the dynamics for free (especially non-commercial, community-driven projects) vs non-free are different The former do not have the same strong need to keep adding stuff be
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   by livrem 4y ago

   Java has goto and const as reserved keywords. Source: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/_k...
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   by livrem 4y ago

   The article mentions a game that looks a lot like a digital clone of ASL to me: https://www.matrixgames.com/game/tigers-on-the-hunt
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   by livrem 4y ago

   I still have a few Close Combat games installed. They are often on sale on GOG so I play those versions now instead of my old CDROMs. Microsoft Close Combat 2 A Bridge Too Far is still my favorite in the series. Recently I discovered Armore
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   by livrem 5y ago

   I took the time a few years ago to learn a bit about how to use Autodesk Animator (it was released with a BSD license some ~10 years ago and can be downloaded legally for free these days). Was really impressed with the GUI. Just press a sin
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   by livrem 5y ago

   I use hard and soft links (mostly the former for files and the latter for directories) and I think it works very well in practice despite the theoretical problems brought up.
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   by livrem 5y ago

   National libraries are institutions created for this purpose. The National (Royal) Library here in Sweden, established in 1668, started downloading and storing Swedish web sites in 1997. Compared to other solutions that might have a relativ
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   by livrem 5y ago

   What we need are stable standards. Eventually. I can understand why internet protocols, (some) file formats, scripting languages, and wifi protocols etc are still in a flux and why everything is a chaotic mess right now. It is difficult to
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    by livrem 5y ago

    Boot FreeDOS from a USB stick on a modern computer, or even a 15-20 years old computer. Gives you some perspective on how fast the hardware really is, even when using only a single core.
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    by livrem 9y ago

    I have used the Firefox ScrapBook extension for over 10 years. It saves a static dump of the DOM of the page you are looking at (and all images) so it does not depend on anything external to show the page and you can save pages that require