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by teddyh 1y ago
> She had the 'tail' coming out the back, which made sense to her. It made so much sense that the very first computer mouse had the cable there, which is was why the device was initially nicknamed a “mouse”. They soon moved
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by teddyh 1y ago
Also: < https://guidebookgallery.org/guis/gem >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Followup post: Running an Accurate 80×25 DOS-Style Console on Modern Linux Is Possible After All < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289481 >
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I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible(changelog.complete.org)
74 points by teddyh 1y ago|95 comments
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by teddyh 1y ago
The author is free to ignore any and all complaints they consider unfounded. It’s not even like the author is recieving any complaints personally; they have to come here to see any. And if they come here, they will get to read the viewpoi
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by teddyh 1y ago
The DNS is federated and hierarchical. A domain name (including top-level domains) is controlled by a single entity. If you do not trust that entity, you cannot trust that domain or top-level domain, or anything beneath that in the tree.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> when .COM's utterly unaccountable ownership manipulates the DNS to intercept Google Mail. Why is this more likely to happen than a rogue CA issuing a false certificate? Also, Google has chosen to trust .com instead of using on
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by teddyh 1y ago
DNS isn’t centralized; it’s federated . I mean, just because there’s an ISO and a UN does not mean there is a single world government. (Repost: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695674 >)
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by teddyh 1y ago
The third footnote in that article, in its entirety: > Claude, by the way, estimates that 30-40% of all mashed potatoes eaten in the US are the instant kind. ChatGPT says 25-35%. Is this what passes for a reference now?
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by teddyh 1y ago
(You mean “break”, not “brake”.)
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by teddyh 1y ago
Original title: “Why We Spiral”; mangled by HN to the incomprehensible “We Spiral”.
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by teddyh 1y ago
The time has apparently come for yet another Unix command line program to be turned into a huge unnecessary web site. This time it’s “morse”: < https://manpages.debian.org/jump?q=bcd >
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by teddyh 1y ago
If I strike up a conversation with you, and suddenly I don’t want to talk to you anymore, then what, if any, obligations do I have? Can I just stop talking mid-sentence and begin to completely ignore you? After all, I did not promise you
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by teddyh 1y ago
Previously on HN: The Old Robots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17159653 - May 2018 (15 comments)
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by teddyh 1y ago
(Many people disagree vehemently with ascribing any obligation at all to software maintainers, as discussed previously: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143176 >)
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by teddyh 1y ago
Think of it as a non-profit club. If you volunteer to be the treasurer, are you then free to ignore everything and do whatever you like, just because you aren’t paid? Of course not. It’s the same with being a software project maintainer;
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by teddyh 1y ago
> Does this matter? > Probably not!
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What Does AI Do?(joecooper.me)
2 points by teddyh 1y ago|0 comments
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by teddyh 1y ago
Previously on HN: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877 >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Cavemen probably once had the same argument about whether musical instruments could be considered “music”; something previously only possible by singing. Obviously, the answer is yes; musical instruments, including synthesizers, can be musi
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by teddyh 1y ago
Something I have seen that recently have become much more common is the software upstream authors providing a Debian repository for the latest versions of their software, including backports for old Debian releases.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Well. What I wrote was (from what I heard) the original reason for the copyright assignment requirement. However, since a few years ago, the FSF does not require GNU projects to have copyright assignment anymore. The FSF leaves the cho
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by teddyh 1y ago
Yes.
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by teddyh 1y ago
No.
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by teddyh 1y ago
“CCTV” has better optics than “surveillance camera”.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Related: Don't Wake Up the Programmer! < http://web.archive.org/web/20090305002805/https://alexthunde... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Original source: < http://web.archive.org/web/20131030072159/https://heeris.id.... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Whether or not it is acually true, this is what their lawyer has told them , and so the FSF is acting accordingly. You can’t reasonably blame them for that.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> even GNU themselves require you to do this Some GNU projects require this; it’s up to the individual maintainers of each specific GNU project whether to require this or not. Many don’t.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> But really, I think [the graph] ultimately meaningless. Then why did you use the graph — or at least the information it displays – as the finishing slam dunk point of your post? > The Verisign graph 'teddyh keeps posting I

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