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by visiblink 6y ago
This is a good point. They had issues years ago that they had to deal with.
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by visiblink 6y ago
If you want to set up slrn -- as suggested in another post -- I can help. It's not particularly intuitive. I first used Claws Mail and Thunderbird and then set up slrn. I still use Thunderbird most often.
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by visiblink 6y ago
Go to eternal-september.org, sign up, set up Thunderbird or another NNTP client, and you can experience Usenet today in all its glory. Comp.misc is a good group to start with.
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by visiblink 6y ago
Past definitions of creation were more careful. Most "creation" in the past involved transforming matter. No one ever "created" matter (well, except God in their intellectual universe). It may be accurate to say that i
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by visiblink 6y ago
I agree that a liberal society and the profit motive create an environment that fosters creativity. Freedom of movement between jurisdictions is important too. But people are down on corporations for good reason. They're a poorly-regul
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by visiblink 6y ago
This is completely speculative, but Suncor was filthy rich in 2011, so a temporary stoppage wouldn't have hurt the bottom line too much. Also, because of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, dinosaur fossils have become a part of Alberta's i
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by visiblink 6y ago
Speaking of great little BBS-like communities, Solderpunk is actually the admin of zaibatsu.circumlunar.space.
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by visiblink 6y ago
There is! I read this on a gopher mirror of the Hacker News, so I thought I'd better come on over to the web version to respond... In fact, several regular gopherites have commented on this thread. Funny that this came up on the Hacker
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by visiblink 6y ago
For those who are interested in The Day the Universe Changed, you can find copies of the episodes at the internet archive or on Dailymotion. It really is well worth watching.
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by visiblink 7y ago
If you read the Globe and Mail (Liberal) and National Post (Conservative), you'll see a similar -- though not quite as extreme -- phenomenon.
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by visiblink 7y ago
I remember playing that game at the arcade as a kid. It was a lot of fun. If I recall correctly, some versions (or levels?) had pretty intense gravity effects.
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by visiblink 7y ago
I don't know, but I was really happy when I found it too. See you on the oldschool side...
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by visiblink 7y ago
You can register with eternal-september.org for a free usenet account. Then you can set up Thunderbird, Claws Mail or another email app (even slrn or alpine on the linux command line) to read and respond to newsgroups.
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by visiblink 7y ago
I still hang out on usenet. comp.misc has a great little community -- and most of the discussion revolves around stories that are also found in places like HN, Slashdot, Soylent News, etc.
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by visiblink 7y ago
Read this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s... It appears to be a corrupt inside job.
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by visiblink 7y ago
Have a look at The Register's article on the subject: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_s...
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by visiblink 7y ago
We were forced to 'upgrade' years ago from WebCt to BlackBoard. The worst part was not the feature set, but re-learning all of the things you already knew how to do. So when the administration decided to hold focus group sessions
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by visiblink 7y ago
It's a little odd to characterize these volunteers as 'Canadians,' and Cook should know it. The majority of the recruits were first-generation immigrants from the British Isles. Few native-born Canadians volunteered. So whate
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by visiblink 7y ago
It's strange to say this, since I'm a gopher user and everyone else seems interested in popularizing or resurrecting the protocol, but I hope that never happens. Gopher today is a cool, thoughtful, and quirky place. I think that&#
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by visiblink 7y ago
My LifeDrive is about to meet the modern web!
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by visiblink 7y ago
That would be annoying. Fortunately, I have never experienced call drops/power downs like that. If I had, I'd be using a different device too.
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by visiblink 7y ago
I have this... in the form of a Bold 9900. It calls, it texts, it has great simple apps for calendar, tasks, memos, podcasts and music. The browser sucks. The camera is a joke. There are almost no other apps. And I can't circumvent the
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by visiblink 7y ago
My roommate in 1990 was a journalist and he had one of these. There's an emulator here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualt/
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by visiblink 7y ago
I really don't like that they used Joe Beef's name for this kind of restaurant (exclusive, expensive, and pointlessly excessive). Joe Beef was the definition of a working-class hero: http://www.biographi.ca/en&#x2F
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by visiblink 7y ago
You're already on this build? If so, that's great news.
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by visiblink 7y ago
I suspect this might screw up Classic shell...
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by visiblink 8y ago
Like PaulHoule, I have an old house, but with a new electrical system. It was proudly rewired by yours truly, with GFIs and AFCIs all over -- and an added subpanel. Anyways, I use a set of powerline adapters with a second wifi router at the
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by visiblink 8y ago
Found a very good one. In case anyone's still reading this thread: searx.me
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by visiblink 8y ago
I used to use dogpile back in the day. I'll give it a try again. Thanks!
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by visiblink 8y ago
I have been noticing (what appear to be) truncated search results in Google for some time now. At first I thought that was because I was accessing Google through Startpage. But that's not the case. Anyways, I find myself using Bing mor

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