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FidoNet, a federated system from the BBS era(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pmlnr 4y ago|0 comments
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Oh, but yes every user should be a seeder. Why not?
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Artemis Fowl much?
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by pmlnr 4y ago
A keyboard with full sized arrows, dedicated pgup/pgdown, 3 physical mouse buttons and a trackpoint, I'm begging you, please.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
No. Secrecy will have backdoor keys, but that is not what walled garden means: it means more like people have no power over the decisions made in the garden.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
It's not mutually exclusive at all, see KDE, but it takes more time, and people will have the option to mess it all up. Taking that factor away - allowing people to mess it up - makes it easier for developers.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Signal seem to have adopted the "Decisions, not Options"[^1] route way too well, so don't act surprised. This is why we need at least open source clients that can be forked when these decisions are made. [^1]: https:/&#
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Source?
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Yeah... about that. I was completely pro-nuclear until very recently, when I learnt that: - the summer droughts caused nuclear reactors to stop due to the lack of water - russia provides ~40% of ALL nuclear fuel - even France is getting the
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by pmlnr 4y ago
How do you know? With full access, it's basically impossible to tell.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Blow what? Don't do foam. It'll massacre the timber. If you want something else, look at hempcrete, wool, foam glass aggregate.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
> Email is a reliable transport It actually is. Well, the protocol is. Gmail and Outlook is not.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Induction works exceptionally well with cast iron, but not with carbon steel.
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How (Not) to Resolve the Energy Crisis (2009)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
1 points by pmlnr 4y ago|0 comments
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by pmlnr 4y ago
What unit is mm? Millimetres?
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Not incoming to gmail; going out to other domains.
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Ask HN: Is there a Gmail DNS resolver outage happening?
9 points by pmlnr 4y ago|4 comments
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Domed cities dystopia on the horizon.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Heh, no. We had a fleet of HPE Cloudline (CL3100) failing at the same time because the SSDs exhausted the writes.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
chat chăt intransitive verb 1) To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually. 2) To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network. No, reactions are not essential part
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by pmlnr 4y ago
This is sarcasm, right?
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by pmlnr 4y ago
It's the other way around: the phone systems actively block background connections.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Sites returning 500 is one thing, people will understand that's an error. Site can't be found because DNS is out is not one that the generic public will start to debug, but instead they'll walk away from the site, sometimes f
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by pmlnr 4y ago
You want a closed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet .
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by pmlnr 4y ago
"I made a social network, sold it, got very rich, but now I miss it, so I'll re-build it. Might sell it again later, LOL, don't know yet."
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by pmlnr 4y ago
USENET wants a word with that.
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by pmlnr 4y ago
> The directors have a legal responsibility [...] to boost the share price What?
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Bedlam DL3 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me...
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by pmlnr 4y ago
YES, they did. The definition of droplet/airborne was wrong and it took a very long time to correct it. https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
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by pmlnr 4y ago
Nope, that was not it: the definition of droplet was f'd up. It is corrected now. https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

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