mmjaa

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931.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Not really. I just don't bother building my own kernel any more - the distro I use (Ubuntu Studio) comes with one that works great out of the box. Nice to know I still could, though .. ;)
932.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Its kind of balls that those moments are so far away, yet so near. I mean, we could if we wanted to, 'make menuconfig', I'm quite sure, even still. But .. nah. ;)
933.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Interesting story, thanks for sharing! I too started off with Linux back in the day - I'd been on minix-list for a few weeks after just getting a 386 and wanting something decent to run on it, replacing the Desqview configuration I&#x
934.
by mmjaa 9y ago
You let the IDE do all the work?
935.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Honestly I've been avoiding this conversation for the last week, but it seems the right time to bring it up: tabs are content. Spaces are content. They are both part of the SET . Everybody, just give it up. They have their users. Th
936.
by mmjaa 9y ago
In fact, I've met many, which is precisely why I think that culture is a lie. We humans create such arbitrary lives.
937.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I've always enjoyed my cycling trips when I've been in the Netherlands - its just so calming and relaxing, and good for me - but without much stress. There aren't many hills, its for the most part very safe and bicyclists ha
938.
by mmjaa 9y ago
"White" = "Power" = "Must be Smashed".
939.
by mmjaa 9y ago
All culture is a lie. There isn't such a thing as "white culture" except that which a 'bunch of people' get together and say "that activity over there, we'll call that 'white culture'". The
940.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Down With All The Filthy Spies!
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by mmjaa 9y ago
It was definitely not a Spectrum clone, but rather an equal competitor - with a different processor, but similar price range, and (imho) a better onboard BASIC. But, its history now, but for a few of us who keep our machines alive.
942.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Its still getting great new software written for it, so its not as neglected as it once was: https://www.oric.org/software/
943.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I've wanted, for years, to have an "Oric-1/ATMOS" on my wrist. It was something I fantasised about, in 1983, while hacking and bashing on the actual hardware. So to me, this story represents a unique kind of harmonic bu
944.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I don't see it as a 'conversion' per se, but I've been doing something similar to property checking for years in various tests, and therefore I don't think this is necessarily a new 'discovery' but more of
945.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Actually, the worse circumstance is when you let in a couple of flowers, and lose your local species as a result. Australia has very good reasons for these kinds of laws.
946.
by mmjaa 9y ago
We go through this, generally, every 4 years. I don't know why it feels like 4 years is the 'period' of new-school-hacker-on-the-scene, it just feels like it from the perspective of industry/capitalism out here in the w
947.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Well, .notes are standard ELF .. the reason I'm asking is because .notes are for vendors, and well .. this seems like a tool-of-interest to vendors, y'know ..
948.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Does it do .NOTEs?
949.
by mmjaa 9y ago
It sucks from the perspective of the usurpation of agency in pursuit of luxury, which in my mind has led to decadence.
950.
by mmjaa 9y ago
None of this would be un-feasible with a built-in service on any of those OS's.
951.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, and if this is indeed true, so what?
952.
by mmjaa 9y ago
I believe it should, and ultimately will be, a built-in. The Internet is going to route around Dropbox, eventually.
953.
by mmjaa 9y ago
There is nothing in the world wrong with me wanting to serve 4 terabytes of content off my own local machine, and know where it is going, and to whom, without the involvement of any third-party at the content layer. That is a feasible, rea
954.
by mmjaa 9y ago
These are totally operating system functions. They should not be vendor'ed by what, I think personally, is a "Pepsi"-Co.
955.
by mmjaa 9y ago
>f you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files. The trouble is, precisely this argument c
956.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, I agree. There is what I would call a little more hubris than necessary in this side of the argument. After all, it was once totally conceivable that a multi-million dollar company would be founded on the basis of, basically, a device
957.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Yes, thats precisely my point. Dropbox is only relevant because the OS vendors are no longer servicing their end-users needs.
958.
by mmjaa 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
959.
by mmjaa 9y ago
Yup. Technology to do this has existed since the birth of filesystems. This is a non-issue.
960.
by mmjaa 9y ago
It's technological negligence if you set out to protect customers privacy, but your employees decide to steal it anyway, because they can.

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