oilbagz

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by oilbagz 5y ago
You most certainly will get a kick out of that Atmos if you get it booted up and functioning. The Oric world didn't get much love in 1982/83/84, before the company fell apart completely - so there are many of us who would&#x2
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by oilbagz 5y ago
I think in this case, it was inevitable that the shop was going to be inundated with rich schoolkids from the neighborhood, and the sales guy as I remember him seemed to understand, intrinsically, that these computers were going to sell if
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by oilbagz 5y ago
Yeah, I guess they sold quite a few VERY expensive machines in that neighborhood, and there were raging arcade game controversies going along at the same time, so seeing kids do 'productive' things with computers - like program si
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by oilbagz 5y ago
It was 1981, and the first "Computer Age" shop had opened up in my town, a place called Claremont - more of a suburb, really, of Perth, Australia. A lucky place, for it meant there was .. inside an air-conditioned cube .. a row o
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by oilbagz 5y ago
I am a retro-computing fanboy and recently have been reliving the world of text adventure games on one of my most favoured "failed" computers of the 80's, the Oric-1/Atmos range of UK 8-bit machines. https://w
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by oilbagz 5y ago
All well and good, but the EU (and especially now the UK) is in no position to be dictating moral platitudes from some position of authority, that is for sure - especially on the issue of the repression of journalists, extrajudicial murder&
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by oilbagz 5y ago
How about, don't be so eager to rush to judgement of other nations, when your nation (UK/USA) clearly has extant history with the same kinds of issues.
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by oilbagz 5y ago
>First of all, I do not see any indication that Russia or Belarus tries to get closer to the EU, rather the opposite. Putin has stated multiple times that he intends to have better relations with the EU, and that the Commonwealth of Inde
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by oilbagz 5y ago
More like a tit-for-tat show of support for Belarus on the part of the Russians. I saw a televised meeting between Putin and Lukashenko yesterday that ended with Lukashenko making the statement that went something like "the Bolsheviks
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by oilbagz 5y ago
Get into Zynthian: http://zynthian.org/ Tons of great code to read and projects to understand .. Also, the Basic Synth book is a dream: http://basicsynth.com/
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by oilbagz 5y ago
>how do you find out whether your soil quality is still good enough? The plants will tell you. But the answer always, always is: how good is your compost? Until you get composting right, gardening can be very frustrating. But it all st
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by oilbagz 5y ago
How's your compost? I've reached the point where thats my first question for every gardener I meet.
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by oilbagz 5y ago
Gardening is one of those subjects that brings me as much joy and satisfaction as developing and shipping productive software to real customers. There is no greater feeling than to have fed ones family direct from the house garden, or to ha
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by oilbagz 5y ago
I think the DevTerm is more supposed to be hung around your neck like a hipster. ;) Or, duct-taped to the datacenter wall for when its time to minicom the hell out of things.
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by oilbagz 5y ago
He's imprisoned for violating state law. Why else? Same as Julian Assange.
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by oilbagz 5y ago
So the US is the one that stands to gain the most from this assassination attempt, then. How ironic.
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by oilbagz 5y ago
.. which seems to have inspired a few like-minded souls: https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm
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by oilbagz 5y ago
I often see the 'crow lady' at our local park come to the fields and call out to 'her crows', and they immediately come to her, rest on her shoulders, coo and craw, and generally seem to be pets. Its pretty fun to see w
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by oilbagz 5y ago
ITT: folks whose livelihood depends on that Facebook Ads campaign manager payout, vs. those of us who would rather live in a world free from this sort of manipulation. DAE miss AOL?
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by oilbagz 6y ago
It amazes me that we don't charge third parties to use our network resources to retrieve their assets for displaying as ads. We should be charging vendors for traffic that is only designed to forward their business, when it happens on
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I think its very clear that the auto-hatred of Islam is driven by bigotry and fear. Anyone who does even a cursory examination of the subject can see it does not, in fact, promote corruption. You might be pantywaiste about calling out bigo
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by oilbagz 6y ago
This would only be an appropriate and accurate response if indeed Islam promoted corruption in its teachings. It does not. It only takes a bigot to assume it does, however.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Expressions of religious bigotry are not conducive to HN's guidelines. Bigotry on the basis of religious grounds is repugnant wherever you see it, and should be called out wherever you see it, because it always results in atrocities.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
This has nothing to do with the Islamic world and everything to do with poverty and income disparity. The fact that you associate this with Islam is repugnant. The West is equally corrupt - you just don't gain a moral kick from recog
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I think its quite appropriate to be discussing these projects, given that: a) they are AMAZING (Zynthian is truly an extraordinary project - as is MOD, which is included in the zynthian distro incidentally) and, b) these projects are availa
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Look no further than Zynthian for another example of a balanced relationship: http://zynthian.com Seems like FOSS is more resilient to the effect that Wendy noted has, almost, made a farce of the synth market.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
This is especially true of Pine's other interesting product, the PineWatch. There isn't a very clear path which of the many distributions that are available, is the right one to follow - Pine themselves don't seem to have an
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by oilbagz 6y ago
Not shipping to Vienna, Austria, alas. Well, I will for sure get one, when I can.
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by oilbagz 6y ago
I bought an rsync.net account a few years back when John made it known on HN, and have used it solidly as a backup for my .. wristwatch! I have a LILYGO that I coded up a time-tracking app, which basically creates an event log whenever I ta
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by oilbagz 6y ago
> no good solution here The solution is the de-stimulation of society from an era of overt sexual manipulation and an adjustment of expectations regarding the value of casual sexual activities.

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