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It is still on air, playing a message that they stopped broadcasting on that freq. (at least 30 minutes ago)

Looks very much like the Samsung I still have. The best mobile phone I ever had.

There is probably still a lot out there but with the current state of the ('free') search engines you won't find much. I am painfully reminded of that every time I have to look for a datasheet that is not in my own archive yet.

Stopped watching within 10 seconds thanks to the flickering screen border.

Same way I got here

They use it in the drones they build for Ukrain. Typical european..

Wouldn't it be easier to use Starlink or am I missing something?

BR 14 (IBM assembler)

Because it has a utility named after it. Hence my name.

The title immediately made me think of the September Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc8g6-N7cE

FWIW, when I used windows (up to 7), I always used Notetab.

I wish it was only cars, but unfortunately this decay in-the-name-of-progress is in everything nowadays.

Very good documentary about Donald Bickler made by his son.

Also about olivetti: Olivetti & the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMxcrN90PE

In the demo there is a cut in the video where the needle abrubtly stops. The cut is visible because the lighting is slightly different.

The damage from a frozen water line in your house can be a lot more than $4000.

We had them when I was still a kid in the sixties and I did not like it at all. Jumping in a warm bed is nice but leaving it on during the night makes you wake up all sweaty in the middle of the night. Even on the lowest setting.

Nice, however the mentioned github link ( https://github.com/loganwilliams/passive-acoustic-listening ) does not exist (anymore?).

Nice, but the left-right movement goes opposite to my intuition.

For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.

It is probably just a rise in the number of automated scrapers/bots that use a windows 7-like user agent.

Why don't they just release them into the ocean?

cat <whatever> | highlight --force -O xterm256 | less -SRNI

works fine for me.

On my system I use a little script coupled to a key that lets you select a graphical area with text in it and it converts it into real text that is placed in the clipboard:

#!/usr/bin/bash

maim -us | tesseract --dpi 145 -l eng - - | xsel -bi

[[ "$(xsel -ob)" ]] || (notify-send "No text found"; ohno)

You wil have to install maim, tesseract and xsel for it to work.

Edit: you can leave out the ohno which is just an audible alarm on my system

I've been a consultant for a long time and in that role you were hired only to fix old systems that the resident staff refused to maintain, because not sexy. I didn't mind, it paid good money and I have seen a lot of companies from the inside which is also a plus. The dev were not below average, they just weren't interested.

It found that 50% of banks admitted to relying on software that only one or two staff members, who are at or near retirement age, understand.

This is an organizational problem or just plain neglect. I learned cobol back in the seventies in one day. I used it for 40 years and I never had any problems understanding programs written by others.

If you like to pay $100 for a t-shirt that looks the same as a $10 one from the Aldi, this is a video for you :)

It will pass at 2.2 times the lunar distance, no worries. Source: https://www.spaceweather.com/

Without any exploitation costs, mining bitcoins would be my first choice.

The magic smoke has escaped :)

In 1976 when I started, I was threatened that if I caused an 0C7 abend I would have to sit on a chair in a corner of the office for 15 minutes with a pointy hat on that had '0c7 fool' written on it. BTW, I had lots of them and never sat on that chair :)

Naming it "The Oak Software Foundation" would have been more consistent. Only getting rid of the feather feels like half work to me.