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by marttt 2y ago
I remember wondering whether this photo with the elderly lady was a fake: https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20159... I've intentionally never owned a smartphone myself. Our kids don'
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by marttt 2y ago
I lost my dad 14 years ago. I hope you get to have as much of the remaining time together as possible. What's odd is that I still don't feel the need to look at photos of him. Like, no need whatsoever. I don't have a photo of
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by marttt 2y ago
I think Netsurf renders pages closer to what they "should" look like in a mainstream browser. However, a huge bonus for Dillo is that it is really easy to switch off CSS, images, etc if the page doesn't look "good",
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by marttt 2y ago
I think it is still the default browser for Tiny Core Linux.
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by marttt 2y ago
Made my day, massive thanks! Dillo must be my all time favorite browser by far. Responsiveness, modular UI and excellent config file -- everything about it is pure joy, really.
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by marttt 2y ago
FWIW, this game was the author's MA thesis defended last year at the Estonian Academy of Arts: https://eka.entu.ee/api2/file-65881 (OP is not related to the author in any way. I just really liked the extra dark hu
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Unemployment Simulator 2018 [video](vimeo.com)
2 points by marttt 2y ago|1 comments
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by marttt 3y ago
Question: considering that the Mpxplay music player [1] supports native audio playback via Intel HDA on DOS (confirmed with FreeDOS), should it also work out of the box on ST-DOS? 1: https://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/
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by marttt 3y ago
This sure is a Very Finnish Project. (Definition: a completely random Finn, always carrying a barely noticeable smirk, is taking an utterly improbable or completely unnecessary project and finishing it to absolute, ridiculous perfection. Wa
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by marttt 3y ago
Many thanks for replying! I am considering text-only NetBSD setup for an old machine, so your pointers are inspiring and useful. For almost a decade, I have tailored hyper-minimalist RAM-booted systems with Tiny Core Linux [1], a distro ess
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by marttt 3y ago
Just the typical thing: while adding a bookmark, when I start typing in the first letters of a tag (e.g. "hack" for "hackernews"), Pinboard is offering a drop-down menu with possible matches. Linkhut didn't have thi
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by marttt 3y ago
Offtopic, but I know from your HN comments that you're also a NetBSD user, working in text mode. Would you mind describing your NetBSD setup a bit? What kind of kernel modifications have you done, and IIRC you also use RAM disk, etc? T
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by marttt 3y ago
Have you also considered Linkhut as an alternative? [1] I like it a lot, but I'm addicted to Pinboard's autocompletion of tags, so I haven't made an ultimate switch (I'm also with Pinboard since ~2010-2011). Would be gre
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by marttt 3y ago
FWIW, according to Estonian news, this is apparently information provided by TASS, the Russian state-owned news agency.
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by marttt 3y ago
Nope, this is new to me, thanks for the link! Seems interesting, and I will look into it.
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by marttt 3y ago
+1 for Jaron Lanier's books. However, regarding this in your comment: "I’m the most calm and happy I’ve been in a long time. I threw away almost all of my social media and news consumption." -- I'm a former, but trained
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by marttt 3y ago
I wonder how common are back or spine problems amongst dedicated high jumpers these days? E.g. chronic issues after the end of the career. As compared to Fosbury flop, the older "straddle technique" must have been much easier on t
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by marttt 3y ago
Apparently he started to develop his technique already at age 16, which is seriously impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Fosbury My grandfather was a high jumper in the former Soviet Union, and he crossed 1.
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by marttt 3y ago
TC used to be my main distro for several years (I started with version 6.x). It proved to be very solid, I even used it to live-record and produce radio programs for my country's public broadcasting, on a then 13-year old Thinkpad T42.
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Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth(konilo.org)
187 points by marttt 3y ago|68 comments
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by marttt 3y ago
> a list of all allowed accounts Oh, this is a great find, thanks very much for pointing it out. I admit I haven't (at least not in recent years) looked into Ledger's manual, so I was not aware or had forgotten about this possi
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by marttt 3y ago
Overly intensive forest management is a huge problem in my country these days. Nonetheless, the general progress in wood processing technologies does feel remarkable. I remember discussions on somehow pre-processing softer wood like alder o
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by marttt 3y ago
Yeah, I have thought about account numbers as prefixes in the past as well (or some other syntactic hack for integrating the chart numbers into Ledger's account names) but didn't really try it. A small shortcoming of Ledger in rel
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by marttt 3y ago
In my country, the numbered chart of accounts [1] is considered standard. A question to other (possibly European) Ledger users: have you ever considered this a hindrance or inconsistency regarding your use of the software? I've been us
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by marttt 3y ago
A historian and renowned Russia expert in my country (Estonia) commented that this was probably bad timing for Putin. Now, as a martyr, Navalnyi is much more of a disturbance to Putin's regimen than he would have been as an isolated op
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by marttt 3y ago
My apologies, and thanks very much for the correction. On another note, has there ever been any custom OSes for the late 2000s era Nokia dumb phones, built by some stubborn hackers? Or some modification software to hand-tailor the Series 40
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by marttt 3y ago
I'm a weirdo who has intentionally never owned a smartphone, so "using up" old dumb phones found in our family has been a fun hobby for roughly two decades. Longest streak was using a 3310 for 12-or-so years, starting when I
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by marttt 3y ago
React OS probably also has the Classic Windows look available. They seem to have switched their main screenshots to something resembling Windows 10, though: https://reactos.org/gallery/
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by marttt 3y ago
Thanks for the addition, apparently I'm too young to know this. Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_...
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by marttt 3y ago
This is really nice, thanks for sharing. Looking back, the obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows, was a remarkably good user interface. (Or, many people simply have a soft spot for it, because we used it for a very long time.) I imagine

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