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Stewart Cheifet has passed away

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shop.m5stack.com 10mo ago

The new cardputer is now for sale –has Lora accesories

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ntsc-color-hack.lovable.app 11mo ago

The Apple II color hack - How Wozniak created color from monochrome

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nataliaantonova.substack.com 1y ago

What we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences

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www.neowin.net 1y ago

uBlock developer recommends switch to uBlock Lite as Chrome flags extension

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uc.pory.app 2y ago

The Database for Bootleg/Unauthorized Video Game Consoles

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www.jordanmechner.com 3y ago

Jordan Mechner Journal: Prince of Persia 2 and the Last Express

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www.techdirt.com 3y ago

Arkansas: No need to age verify kids working in meat processing plants

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www.forbes.com 3y ago

Apple’s MacBook Pro Failure

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twitter.com 3y ago

Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 staff: statement

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elpais.com 3y ago

What’s the probability of 3 quakes hitting Mexico City on the date September 19?

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sblueman.com 3y ago

The classic NES title,updated just in time for the upcoming 2022 NFL season

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

Larry Ellison was on call with Hannity, Graham to talk overtun election result

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twitter.com 4y ago

Ncommander: 5/7 at 9AM ET,stream trying to compile the Movie Maker source

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public.wmo.int 4y ago

World Meteorological Organization recognizes new Arctic temperature record 38⁰C

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trends.google.com 4y ago

Google’s See what was trending in 2021

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Covid Resilience Ranking:The Best and Worst Places to Be as Winter Meets Omicron

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www.theverge.com 4y ago

A brief chat with the fired AppleToo organizer

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www.thedrive.com 4y ago

Army Halts Widely-Hyped Multi-Billion Advanced Augmented Reality Goggle Program

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twitter.com 4y ago

With a global chip shortage, Microsoft is trying to get you to replace your PCs

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twitter.com 4y ago

Western Union suspend its services in Afghanistan

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www.rt.com 4y ago

Don't Understand with William Shatner

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www.thedrive.com 4y ago

New Light Shed on Once Top Secret Tacit Blue Aircraft by Veteran Program Manager

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kotaku.com 4y ago

Amouranth Is Twitch's Smartest Troll, but She's on Thin Ice

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Mercury 13 legend Wally Funk (82) will ride with Jeff Bezos to the edge of space

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veryaligaming.com 5y ago

CD Projekt Red Files Distributed Online, Starting with Gwent

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www.pcmag.com 5y ago

Users Upset as Raspberry Pi OS Now Pings a Microsoft Server During Updates

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ia802903.us.archive.org 5y ago

Anti-intellectualism in American Life – Richard Hofstader -internet archive scan [pdf]

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www.thedrive.com 5y ago

New Low-Yield Nuclear Warheads That Biden Calls a “Bad Idea” Have Been Deployed

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edition.cnn.com 5y ago

Biden team slams Twitter over plan to wipe followers from White House accounts

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I want to comment on something that seems important to me. In the third world, in countries where the internet arrived much later and where money was much scarcer, the effect of qmodem was quite long lasting and profitable for the tech savvy community. A PC and a modem were the support for many of the adventures and beginnings in computer science and in general to satisfy that insatiable curiosity for the computer revolution. Engineers working in big companies and using the resources of these and local volunteers installed BBS with Walnut Creek cds and other shareware CDs and gave access for the first time to that universe that we now take as evident and accessible from our phones. Without qmodem I would still be waiting for my copy of unarc!.

In my personal case, I want to also thank your father for pointing us thru it's company name to the book and movie "the forbin project" :-). In our present of promises of supercomputing AIs, maybe we should all read the book or watch the movie.

“The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin. The nationality of the person whose life was saved by parachute and ownership of the aircraft are not factors in determining qualification for membership; anybody whose life was saved by using a parachute after bailing out of a disabled aircraft is eligible. The requirement that the aircraft is disabled naturally excludes parachuting enthusiasts in the normal course of a recreational jump, or those involved in military training jumps.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_Club

Pegasus Mail 3 years ago

does anybody remembers dialing up to a Unix server to uucp your organization’s emails and using Pegasus DOS to make it available thru netware?

Both Algol and Simula were ported to the 68000’s Atari ST. I remember having a box of diskettes with implementations of forth, modula , lisp, prolog, smalltalk.

I miss the those times when using a computer meant ‘programming on a computer’, and programming on a computer meant trying to find your foot on any of a dozen languages popping left and right.

It was very common on old ‘cowboys and Indians’ movies’, at least on the old Spanish language translated reruns I watched as a kid: Some scout returned to some army fort and reported the presence of ‘500 braves’ coming from the north o hidden beyond some mountain or something like that.

Westerners of the XIX century were the ones who brought many species to extinction, traditional cultures demonstrating a far more advanced sensibility to these creatures, often considered embedded with sentient attributes. Traditional cultures lived mostly in equilibrium with the fauna they consumed. For example bison went almost extinct as westerners arrived, while their numbers thrived when the the Native Americans ate their meat.

I did all the computer related admin work at an ngo back in the day (and the transition from dos to windows was painful to say the least. Netware, word processing, mail clients, front-end menus, you name it, it all became a problem , not only due to the switch, but to be able to maintain two systems working, make them compatible AND interconnected. In our case Windows got itself thru the door only because we wanted to be able to use Aldus Pagemaker to do our DTP in-house.

The www was also a big windows ally. I remember having a perfect setup for uucp our mail, some gopher interfaces for the most savvy users, but once the web started to grow, it was all windows and trumpet winsock. Thank god for Peter Tattam!

I am at gmt-5. I cannot sleep, my wife is out of town, I lost mi kindle the day before yesterday and HN was down. If I turn in the lights to read a book I will not sleep for the rest of the night so I listened to our cats fighting over what I assume was some big moth as my only distraction.