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by pndy 5y ago
An OS build from OS/2 Warp 4.52 that tries to keep up IBM platform alive today with all sorts of updates; IIRC it features some ports system for Linux software
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by pndy 5y ago
> at some point closer to the sun we could perhaps pull this angular "hack" to shade Earth using a smaller object? A. C. Clarke and S. Baxter A Time Odyssey series 2nd book, "Sunstorm" focuses on destructive coronal
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by pndy 5y ago
Weren't Lego sets very popular around Amiga best times?
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by pndy 5y ago
Blog is a generic term that most people is familiar with but the more accurate description for both tumblr and twitter (hell, even mastodon) is microblog - due to small, short form of the posts
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by pndy 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this is all about ExplorerPatch - this 3rd-party solution allows user to revert the " experience " of newest W11 taskbar and it's most likely an offence to Microsoft. Some devoted mod noticed c
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by pndy 5y ago
I've got original iPad and first iPad Air once the first owner got newer devices - both are mainly used as ebook readers (with third-party apps).
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by pndy 5y ago
Just a side-note warning: this is semi-paywalled. A modal spawns asking to continue with ads/tracking or purchasing subscription. Going for free version makes my ublock origin block over 40 sources and 19 in privacy badger.
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by pndy 5y ago
> it's not like it meant changes to Firefox And perhaps that's the issue . Mozilla doesn't seem to be particularly interested in acknowledging the position in which their browser now exists, or even listening to the feedb
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by pndy 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401999 - 2020, 1227 points, 562 comments
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How Much is a K? – About disks capacity on (really) old Macs(macgui.com)
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Gentoo Linux – 2021 in retrospect and happy new year 2022(gentoo.org)
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The Dial Comes to Town – A 1940 Educational Short by Bell Telephone(youtube.com)
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by pndy 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=killedbygoogle.com Last time submitted - 5 months ago
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by pndy 5y ago
So let's say that in the future you got this alternative method deployed but then, what happens with already acquired phone numbers? Will you remove it once this method will be running nicely? Or you'll keep phone numbers giving
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by pndy 5y ago
> This version has some special software that allows it install without repartitioning a Windows PC’s hard drive If memory serves me right, it was still possible to install BeOS from that booted OS image file onto whole partition, at the
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by pndy 5y ago
"Sign up to synthesize speech".
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by pndy 5y ago
This is from Nov 19th and this isn't some new tech [4] or kept in super secrecy. The polio vaccine was developed by virologist Jonas Salk on cells of a 31 year old Henrietta Lacks [1] who died in 1951 from cervical cancer (and that&#x2
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by pndy 5y ago
> a two-year schedule for the World Cup, solely to make more money That was reported here with "Everyone will profit from this (decision)" Infantino quote in some headlines. It's like FIFA is run by the Ferengi... /s
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by pndy 5y ago
The only thing that bugs me with ddg is that every search inquiry is being processed by improving.duckduckgo.com and it's not possible disable it in search options. You can do block it manually in few ways if you wish but I think tha
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by pndy 5y ago
I ain't bovvered
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by pndy 5y ago
I can hear Maurice Moss saying it
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by pndy 5y ago
" How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases " That's the full title of this work because the cut one here would
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by pndy 5y ago
The article is paywalled.
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by pndy 5y ago
> Serem na to = I'm pooping on it Read as it is in Polish, would mean "with cheese on it" lol
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by pndy 5y ago
> jebie mnie to = it fucks me There's also rather polite: wali mnie to which would be "it bangs me"
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by pndy 5y ago
> what would be the alternative? I'm pretty sure that before English become what it is nowadays - a tool that helps bridging the communication, it was French that people were using and way earlier, it was Latin. Russian language w
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by pndy 5y ago
I still don't get the whole idea behind Clubhouse - I've read it's modelled on some 80s-90s phone parties or something like this? All I know it's some kind of invite-exclusive voice chat
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by pndy 5y ago
That's really cool idea but I'd like them to focus also on the damn app: there are annoying so-called "lottery" banners everywhere - again , it still doesn't have English version, nor doesn't offer native UI f
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by pndy 5y ago
Try Privacy Redirect extension, it supports libreddit and teddit "proxies" - https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
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by pndy 5y ago
Even if it claims to be "brutalist", a screenshot directly on site wouldn't stop making it even a little less brutal

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