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Donckele

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Enshittification of the Internet

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giphy.com 3y ago

How long it takes to complete a task

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experience.dropbox.com 3y ago

Dropbox Helps in Making Friends

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readonlymemory.vg 3y ago

Britsoft: An Oral History

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maggi.cc 3y ago

Reading Aloud

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Five Minute Rule

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Three Mile Island Accident

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Ultrasound Levitation Kit

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Taligent

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github.com 3y ago

Swift Sucks

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p.datadoghq.com 4y ago

PyPI Update Issues / Major Outage

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status.python.org 4y ago

PyPI CDN Edge Errors

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Moniac Analogue Computer

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www.cryptomuseum.com 4y ago

Operation Rubicon

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www.cs.cornell.edu 4y ago

A gossip-style failure detection service (2009) [pdf]

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hackaday.io 4y ago

Turing Ring

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smile.amazon.co.uk 4y ago

Amazon not accepting VISA credit cards issued in UK

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www.ibm.com 4y ago

IBM Learn Serverless

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github.com 4y ago

Command Line to REST API

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why is skype for business such a shit show?

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graphics.pixar.com 4y ago

Dinosaur Input Device [pdf]

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www.kalzumeus.com 4y ago

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)

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www.rolls-royce.com 5y ago

Rolls-Royce Pride Month Jake’s Story

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is Google Public DNS 8.8.4.4 down?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Dog Money

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is BBC News online forcing registration?

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status.gandi.net 5y ago

Gandi.net Major Outage

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github.com 5y ago

A digital logic designer and circuit simulator

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www.gandi.net 5y ago

Increase in the registration fees for .io domains

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

36M Pounds for a Simple App

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Software for hardware components is not like maintaining a linux distro.

I don’t want to ignite programming language wars but, seriously, would it be that hard to get the current software “compatible” with a linux setup?

If it is that hard then fire the software “engineers” and hire ones who will do a better job.

Ha ha. That never gets old.

You know my XFCE is way better than the latest Windows 11 or macOS whatever.

Sure, I don’t have an instagram app that controls my desktop background but I don’t give a shit about that.

I think I have the first or second gen ipad. For some years now the OS and apps are frozen in time. I have basically some old games and the old safari browser.

The old safari is slow and, can you believe it, HN does not fully function!

Now, we all know the hardware is premium and this device would probably run linux very smoothly and the touch interface would be a dream. But we can only dream right?

WTF? Apple won’t allow us to use another OS or open software on old non-supported devices? What a waste of physical material!

What a waste of human creativity! What a waste of my money! What a waste of my time! I don’t give a shit how its enabled the masses to be able to do selfies.

This also mostly applies to android devices as well - which is another shit show.

For fucks sake - its 2023 and occasionally we have HN posts that are announcing how we are getting closer to run linux on the latest macs with the new processors. Holy shit! Even with more access and control to the apple macs we still don’t have full linux capability.

Apple has the best mathematicians to optimise for pure profit and as you can see they have done a great job. Apple 1 - Rest of the world 0.

Woz, please have have a talk with Tim (Nice but dim) and tell him the wonders that can be unlocked by allowing apple devices to run linux natively without jailbreaks or hacks. Don’t give me any shit they can’t do that by next month. Until then I can only dream.

Thank god we have surplus machines (eg thinkpads XNNN) available that show us the light of truth.

Can you recommend any mud “engines” that can be used on a modern linux system which are easy enough to get into (both for users and devs) and battle tested for security?

Are you serious? The best /useful things for you are PDFs and SSO? Both of these features are not what makes a web browser super duper. PDF viewing is available in all major browsers. <rant> SSO works in all web browsers - unless you’re using Windows XP as your enterprise cloud server running java and oracle and your asp.net web app requires a microsoft browser running in internet explorer legacy mode. </rant>

A Baby GPT 3 years ago

lol?

1.8% does look like a small number but imagine (i know its hard in this day and age with 4TB finger nail usb sticks) a physical library holding good old fashioned paper made artifacts and what does 1.8% of that looks like?

A Baby GPT 3 years ago

1) 1.8% is still massive 2) 1.8% is still massive 3) what?

Is this due to stupidity or malice?

I just can’t get my head round the idea that software written and reviewed by experts and submitted to the “National Institute of Standards and Technology” with a budget of 1 billion dollars can fuck up this way.

I’m no mathematician but I would have thought implementing pure number crunching code is not rocket science.

Buffer overflow, overwrite memory, run arbitrary code, seriously? LOL, WTF.