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by rnd0 5y ago
>I guess I feel that improving our world, ending war, making our society more just and fair, these are meaningful, useful, and beautiful things to do. They would be, if they actually made meaningful strides to accomplish those objectives
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by rnd0 5y ago
It's indistinguishable from an ad.
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by rnd0 5y ago
It isn't "whataboutyou" ism to point out that essentially the entire news industry has become little more than fear-mongering clickbait (on one hand) or propaganda for one of the two political parties of the U.S (on the other
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by rnd0 5y ago
>This safety mechanism worked at least once. Generations ago. In essentially a different, more civilized world.
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by rnd0 5y ago
Malware, pirate software havens, hacking organizations?
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by rnd0 5y ago
>They don't inform their viewers, they weaponize them. Just the same as Fox, just the same as OAN, just the same as RT, just the same as MSNBC, just the same as ...
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by rnd0 5y ago
The bottom line is that the web is completely unusable without some sort of ad blocker. That's a pathological condition which speaks ill of the long term viability of the internet. When ublock breaks as it inevitably will, so does the
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by rnd0 5y ago
I'm a bit confused on 3.x personally. What happened with the patches from last summer[1] -were they integrated into this release or are they some weird off-to-the-side thing that requires a special kernel to run? [1] https://
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by rnd0 5y ago
>Why would somebody want to use this over nvi This basically is nvi, unless I'm very wrong.
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by rnd0 5y ago
Agreed; it's been my vi of choice for many, many years.
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by rnd0 5y ago
>All stuff that the world would be better off without. Germany would probably disagree on the fossil fuel point.
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by rnd0 5y ago
Yes, we should.
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by rnd0 5y ago
>What's the hard part there? Capitalism; IOW shareholder value and vendor lock-in. It's' difficult to get separate corporations to implement compatibility when their profits and lock-in rely on vendor lock-in.
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by rnd0 5y ago
Why is anyone surprised? The house always wins. Always.
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by rnd0 5y ago
>What's inherently great about file systems that _must_ survive generations? Filesystems are one example which points to a lack of understanding of how computers work on a lower level. If you can't understand how things work on
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by rnd0 5y ago
and your point would be...what?
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by rnd0 5y ago
They have been for jeez, I think almost 20 years now? That's what pushed me solidly into the adblock (and then ublock) camp; the fact that the advertising industry has never been willing or able to police itself against bad actors and
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by rnd0 5y ago
I prefer DOSBox-X to DOSBox because it's easier to run; but it sounds like neither one is what you want. Have you heard of or tried "MS-DOS Player"? It seems to convert binaries into a format that Windows can understand. I th
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by rnd0 5y ago
Correction; Windows 3.1 wasn't released until 1992 -eleven years later. So it would have been Windows 3.0 (probably in Standard or Enhanced mode) people were running in 1991.
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by rnd0 5y ago
>But if you take software written 15-20 years later, on much much faster 386/486/Pentium class machines in C and put it on those early boxes... Just for the sake of perspective: 15 years later, you had NT 3.51 running on pentiu
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by rnd0 5y ago
This is certainly true, yep.
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by rnd0 5y ago
DOSBox-X can run anything up to 98, I think; not sure about ME. It also runs across multiple operating systems (it's even in NetBSD's pkgsrc). For number 2, "it depends"; qemu, vmware, etc all have different features. An
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by rnd0 5y ago
It's because of the undocumented and weird calls MS put into windows in part to thwart DR-DOS back in the day. (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code ) That said, work's happened to make FreeDOS bo
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by rnd0 5y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I am someone who has watched the spread of covid denialism, anti-vaccination views and the the news media (which features stories such as: https://www.bbc.com/news/wo
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by rnd0 5y ago
I did this, posted my earlier comment, then re-enabled that to see if I would be able to load pages or not and I was. The other thing I noticed was that previously when I looked in taskmgr (windows 10) there were 4 or 5 firefox processes go
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by rnd0 5y ago
Even that didn't help -and I only have three extentions. What finally helped was setting network.http.http3.enabled false in about config.
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by rnd0 5y ago
>It seems “designed for job security” or more likely designed for consulting revenue. Exactly this, yes; and that's why it was pushed the way it was. I dread the day when systemd or an init system just like it consumes the BSD world
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by rnd0 5y ago
I hate the feature and mission creep of systemd and try to use other unixes where I am able; but what you wrote is downright insane. There were several init replacements in the mainstream before systemd. OSX and Solaris both had their own,
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by rnd0 5y ago
and could not have been made since 9/11
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by rnd0 5y ago
>whereas almost nobody expects this from western democracies Are you joking? Ever since 9/11 the US has been pumping out propaganda disguised as entertainment like gangbusters! It's really obvious when you go and watch reruns o

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