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   by marttt 5y ago

   https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ -- Sheldon Brown (RIP), Bicycle Technical Information http://www.dansmc.com/MC_repaircourse.htm -- Dan's Online Motorcycle Repair Course https://www.cs.bham.ac.
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   by marttt 5y ago

   My proverb for the same thing is "never forget the best parts of obsolete technology".
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   by marttt 5y ago

   "A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich Also
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   Writing FreeDOS Programs in C (2020)(freedos.org)

   32 points by marttt 5y ago|4 comments
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   Ask HN: What are some older fanless laptops?

   3 points by marttt 5y ago|1 comments
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   by marttt 5y ago

   > It's kinda fascinating how something as simple as notetaking is still one of the big unsolved challanges in IT. IIRC, author of the (now closed) Taking Note blog [1] once said that you're actually lucky if you haven't ye
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   MikeOS – simple x86 assembly language operating system(mikeos.sourceforge.net)

   3 points by marttt 5y ago|1 comments
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   by marttt 5y ago

   I wonder if partial WFH causes more or less environmental pressure in in the bigger picture. No need for daily travel from the worker's perspective, but e.g energy usage at home increases. Also, companies still keep their office spaces
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   The PsychDOS Desktop Environment(psychoslinux.gitlab.io)

   116 points by marttt 5y ago|33 comments
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    by marttt 5y ago

    > You can, without realizing it, be in an infinite loop, copying others, till you burn out. +1, I was there, for years. Heck, I am there, still and again. I'm surely going to finish that Zettelkasten script I started in 2012; I ju
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    by marttt 5y ago

    I haven't really taken the time to explore the gopherspace, nor install a client. Did this now; thanks for the links!
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    by marttt 5y ago

    https://cheapskatesguide.org -- Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and Internet. Low-end and frugal computing in the 21st century. Long, opinionated posts on a pink(!) background. http://ranprieur.com/ -- Ran
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    by marttt 5y ago

    > Yeah, I think skateboarding is probably what KILLED my knees ... Are stunt scooters safer in this regard? Asking because I just bought one for our 7-year-old son. I've been involved in jump-and-run sports all my life, but I do fee
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    Semiotics for Beginners (2014)(visual-memory.co.uk)

    1 points by marttt 5y ago|0 comments
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    text-mode.org(text-mode.org)

    2 points by marttt 5y ago|0 comments
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    by marttt 5y ago

    The Wiby [1] search engine / rabbit hole collects "old internet" sites like this one. 1: https://wiby.me/
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    by marttt 5y ago

    ThinkWiki probably also deserves a mention here. Really helpful for hardware/software issues when you run Linux on a Thinkpad: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ The German version is great as well: https://thi
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    by marttt 5y ago

    Heat people, not places: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/heating-people-not-s...
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    by marttt 6y ago

    Ecasound: http://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ Mixer4 (closed source, though): http://www.acousticrefuge.com/mixer4.htm Edbrowse: http://edbrowse.org/ K2pdfopt: https://willus.com&#
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    Over the Shoulder 1: Text Preprocessing in Forth (2014)(youtube.com)

    2 points by marttt 6y ago|0 comments
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    23 Years of FreeDOS (2017) [pdf](freedos.org)

    2 points by marttt 6y ago|0 comments
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    by marttt 6y ago

    To me, "The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos" [1] by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham is a true gem. I suppose it might raise interesting discussions on how and why one should tolerate eccentric people. A boo
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    Sven Yrvind: With Four Square Meters of Sail and One Oar (2017) [pdf](46.28.145.175)

    2 points by marttt 6y ago|0 comments
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    by marttt 6y ago

    In Estonian, "vares" [v-uh-res] stands for crow (corvus). I first met the w-word as a kid of the early 1990s; however, to this day, that analogy is still the first that pops up to me. A warez is a vares is a vares.
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    by marttt 6y ago

    I love Audacity, particularly after discovering the "Enable Cut Lines" feature [0], which is a nice solution for poor man's non-destructive editing. Eric S. Raymond considered Audacity a great example of Linux UI design in &q
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    by marttt 6y ago

    See also: Pentti Linkola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Linkola And Lasse Nordlund (I think he was called "optimistic Linkola" or "positive Linkola" somewhere :): https://en.wikipe
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    Back to the Linux Framebuffer (2020) [pdf](archive.fosdem.org)

    3 points by marttt 6y ago|1 comments
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    by marttt 6y ago

    The linked PDF contains Nicolas Caramelli's slides. Here's his entire talk in video: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fbdev/
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    by marttt 6y ago

    Judea Pearl's home page for the book might also be worth posting here: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/
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    The sed $HOME(sed.sourceforge.net)

    2 points by marttt 6y ago|0 comments