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by ochrist 1y ago
Please check your history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Greenlandic_self-governme...
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by ochrist 1y ago
The distance between Kalilingrad (Russia) and the island of Bornholm (Denmark) is only about 300 km (or 200 miles). They don't have to go to 'many many countries' to get to Denmark. Please look at a map.
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by ochrist 1y ago
Why can't I use my keyboard (e.g. spacebar) to scroll on you website? Apparently I have to use a mouse all the time, and that's annoying. Most OS's have accessibility options (even a lot of websites do this).
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by ochrist 1y ago
I modern Word you can use Ctrl + Enter to create a page break.
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by ochrist 1y ago
Really interesting to read. I have used a lot of strange systems in my time. In the military signals group I have worked a lot with teletypewriter systems and the like - also the civilian telex system and the Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunic
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by ochrist 1y ago
Came here to say that. But to my knowledge there has never been any computers based on 5 bits.
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by ochrist 1y ago
True, False and file not found https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
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by ochrist 1y ago
Quality Assurance is the responsibility of management. In PRINCE2 e.g. it is stipulated to be organized by the steering group. It other words: Management (steering group or CxO level) should ensure there is a QA organization to handle this.
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by ochrist 1y ago
It's a stretch to say that everybody just ignored it, when a lot of things were invented and implemented like seatbelts, speed limits etc.
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by ochrist 1y ago
Seems like it: https://wiki.freepascal.org/WebAssembly/Compiler
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by ochrist 1y ago
What does it mean to 'believe in UFOs'? UFO basically means Unidentified Flying Object (now the term UAP is used more often) If you believe in UFOs, do you believe that there can be observations of flying objects without any curre
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by ochrist 1y ago
I'm Danish, and yes: I can confirm. Everything is Microsoft. I have talked about this a lot in many years, and I was very (positively) surprised to read about this, as it will be a large job to move everything out of Microsoft. Most co
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by ochrist 1y ago
I use an app in NextCloud called Music. I can use this from all my devices.
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by ochrist 1y ago
I've used several similar services, but usually you can print out the QR code and present that instead (yes, I know: you have to have a way of receiving and printing that, but you don't need to have a smart phone). This is also ha
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by ochrist 1y ago
The Acorn Atom was the first real computer I had after the Texas TI59. It was later replaced with a BBC model B (and later again with an Archimedes). Sadly I got rid of the Atom when I moved out all those years ago, but the Beeb and the Arc
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by ochrist 2y ago
The transmissions from NOS in The Netherlands could be received here in Denmark, and I actually succeeded in downloading several programs based on the BASICODE 2 standard. At that time (eighties), people had all sorts of home computers, but
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by ochrist 2y ago
Another piece of news about RISC OS: https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2025/03/28/moonshot...
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by ochrist 2y ago
Something similar is happening in Denmark as well, as several large fintech companies rely on mainframe technology and COBOL. E.g. BEC has a programme described here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid
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by ochrist 2y ago
I purchased an Acorn Atom from a guy, who assembled one himself. He also helped me upgrade to 12K RAM. Later I got a couple of joysticks, a dot matrix printer and a colour/color card. It was great, but I soon got hold of a second hand
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by ochrist 2y ago
I self-host an instance of Lychee for all my family photos: https://lycheeorg.dev/ There are things I really like, e.g. that you can restrict access per user. But there's no comment/chat/discussion facility,
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by ochrist 2y ago
Great. I really like this. What about doing something similar for the neighborhood of our solar system? E.g. all stars within 25 or so light years.
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by ochrist 2y ago
Teletext is still used in several countries. Also, I have seen ascii art on telex-type machines. These are limited by using only five bits, and so you can only use lowercase characters (or uppercase, but not both). There are some examples h
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by ochrist 2y ago
I'll second that. I've used it a lot for my own small projects.
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by ochrist 2y ago
Oh. It sounds like you were The Bastard Operator From Hell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell
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by ochrist 2y ago
I use NextCloud with Collabora Online (hosted and trimmed down version of LibreOffice). All self-hosted.
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by ochrist 2y ago
In that case Greenland is accompanied by their 'sister country' The Faroe Islands, that has a similar status wrt. Denmark and EU.
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by ochrist 2y ago
The article says that "Nuuk is in Greenland, and is part of the greater EU cinematic universe." It is correct that Greenland is part of Denmark, and Denmark is a member of EU. But Greenland voted several years ago to stay out of t
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by ochrist 2y ago
Time Flies is something I would expect in Doctor Who.
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by ochrist 2y ago
A lot of the people in the city might go the 'real' beaches instead.
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by ochrist 2y ago
Interesting. I run orienteering and uses NextCloud to visualize my activities (from a Garmin watch). Question from a colleague: Would it be possible to navigate from you own track (like a GPS navigator) if you wanted to revisit your own tra

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