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We Need to Educate People About How the Internet Works(ez.substack.com)
5 points by rhabarba 5y ago|1 comments
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SciTECO – The Interactive Text Editor and COrrector(sciteco.sourceforge.net)
3 points by rhabarba 5y ago|0 comments
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Ah! I see. Thank you, I missed this part of the story.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
> While it has not been brought to court, some lawyers, include the Free Software Foundation’s legal counsel, feel the CDDL may be incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Which is irrelevant as the code does not contain a
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by rhabarba 5y ago
I hope that SCCS and bosh will also have new maintainers. I use them both.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Cancer. Surprising to me, as he released new versions of his software only a few days ago.
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Jörg Schilling (Schily) has died
9 points by rhabarba 5y ago|5 comments
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Also, not everyone will always be reigned by benevolent politicians. A malevolent politician could have interesting ideas on what to do with collected "anonymous" metadata.
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“I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)(youtube.com)
78 points by rhabarba 5y ago|37 comments
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by rhabarba 5y ago
COBOL code is surprisingly readable when compared to "modern" JavaScript-like languages. The site linked above shows a very good example of this.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
"I put my database on the internet without a password. People used it. HACKERS!!!!!"
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It’s time to ban surveillance-based advertising(vivaldi.com)
4 points by rhabarba 5y ago|0 comments
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Not in my case.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
When I open a text editor, I want to type text. Vim won’t let me do that without explicitly telling it that I want to.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Common Lisp is awesome for that. (But why would you need to extend the perfect editor?)
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by rhabarba 5y ago
There isn’t much Vim can do which ed cannot, though.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Please do not hunt us for our teeth!
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Looks like a confusing mix between BRIEF (which I like) and micro (which I like). However, I'm afraid that there is no niche to be filled by yet another text editor. (Also, even though I'm an Emacs and Acme user, the assumption th
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Leaf springs are different switches. Unicomp makes buckling spring keyboards - which are not "the equivalent" of IBM's Model M keyboards, but they actually are the current brand which makes the original Model M keyboards. (Th
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by rhabarba 5y ago
To be precise, it still is and Corel actively advertises it.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Emacs mostly uses key chords, not unlike WordStar, but its document setting capabilities are limited out of the box.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
I also dig the XT layout. I never tried my Model F XT with WordTsar though. I probably should!
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by rhabarba 5y ago
My timeline does not have any WordTsar users yet. Time to change that!
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by rhabarba 5y ago
It has become much better over the years.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
I would guess that it’s because of the Qt libraries, but this is just an assumption.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
They predate those commonly used today.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Missed that! Sorry.
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by rhabarba 5y ago
WordTsar won’t run on DOS!
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by rhabarba 5y ago
Yes. And it still is less annoying to use than some of its successors. (Your mileage is intended to vary.)
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WordTsar, a WordStar Clone(wordtsar.ca)
203 points by rhabarba 5y ago|140 comments

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