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by marttt 5y ago
The FreeDOS operating system [1], started in 1994 by Jim Hall. Several critical parts of the system (e.g. the kernel) were written by others, but he is still coordinating the project in 2022. They released version 1.3 just recently. Charles
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Not scientifically proven, but I used to listen to and love these free playlists: https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/
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True, the integration of the Russian minority has been a three-decade long political struggle in Estonia.
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Former journalist from Estonia here. Our media republished a 1994 speech given by late president of Estonia Lennart Meri at a banquet in Hamburg, Germany. Vladimir Putin, a then internationally unknown politician from St Petersburg, was als
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A repository of FreeDOS-compatible freeware and OSS software(clasqm.github.io)
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For Whom The Whistle Blows: On polarization online and elsewhere(datagubbe.se)
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or https://ddg.gg
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Several software projects written by a blind person for blind people are fascinating even from a regular user's perspective. I've long followed edbrowse [1], CLI line-oriented web browser with ed-like command language, javascript
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Ha, this will surely keep us busy for a while, thanks very much for that link. Btw, I already played several of your proposed Minigames with my son (8yo), and he was instantly hooked. Nice change from the regular games he insists on playing
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To OP: I was just looking into simple chess puzzles for my son (checkmate in two etc), so this popping up on HN front page is excellent. Many thanks for your work! Would you mind also providing an epub version of it? Apparently, there'
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Wacky Windows Error Messages for me: http://toastytech.com/evil/errwindows.html "Internet Explorer has exploded in your living room." -- That assiduous Windows hatred of the 1990s, I find it funny in an oddba
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Turtle Logo in Forth: http://mathscitech.org/articles/turtle-logo-forth
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A WTA top 70 tennis player from my country (aged 35+, thus possibly facing the end of her pro career) recently rephrased a well known proverb: "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger -- or, crippled."
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This has been my go-to distro on an old Thinkpad T42 for several years. Loaded packages are listed line-by-line in a single file (onboot.lst), so it's really easy to return to a clean system when needed -- just by deleting the lines wi
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The Universe of Discourse by Mark Dominus: https://blog.plover.com Kartik Agaram: http://akkartik.name compudanzas: https://compudanzas.net/ Pete Elmore: http://debu.gs Joey Hess: http:&
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Ancient Unix Guide(pspodcasting.net)
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Douglas Adams seems strangely forgotten, considering how great he really was -- or maybe he isn't forgotten, in the British Isles and elsewhere? As a grammar and syntax nerd, I was a huge fan of his puns on rhetoric. "The mere th
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My philosophy has always been to live with as little money as possible. I think it's not a bad paradigm for the upcoming decades, considering climate crisis etc.
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Programming Language Design as Art(hyperallergic.com)
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Hellaphone: Replacing the Java in Android with Inferno OS (2015)(jfloren.net)
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I've intentionally never owned a smartphone. I used a Nokia 3310 for 12 years, starting in high school. When it finally broke (and I was a 30-ish young dad), there were always several "old phones" abandoned by family members
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Interactive Fiction Theory Reader (2011) [pdf](ifarchive.org)
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+1, this has been keeping my old Thinkpad T42 running in silence for years. Great write-up about testing different CF cards on a Thinkpad X40 in 2013: https://www.daniel-boehmer.de/thinkpad-cf/
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> "That Web stuff is addictive" Prophetic declaration of the day. I'm envisioning a great hacker t-shirt: "That Web stuff is addictive... stick to FTP (a friend, 1993)"
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Linux on a 486SX(ocawesome101.github.io)
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Something I've noticed in my (tiny) country: after almost decades of silence, many key works of classical literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy) have been kind of suddenly reprinted in our language during covid time. I also find myself stand
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> ... fairly Finnish thing to do ... +1 for this lovely metaphor. I'm Estonian, but I absolutely love Finns for their peculiar between-the-lines humor, and their tendency to go really deep into fringe stuff. A Finnish guy once demon
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+1. Come over to Estonia, author. About 50% of our territory is forest, at least statistically. Many complain (rightly so) about too intensive logging, but there is nonetheless plenty of forest left, even if much of it is planted by humans
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Yes, I apologize for the ambiguity: he wrote it when he was 50, but it describes his life as a young adult.
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Varlam Shalamov: What I Saw and Learned in the Kolyma Camps(shalamov.ru)
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