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I just noticed their April's Fools joke, nice!

https://boa.realm667.com/?view=article&id=270:blade-of-agony...

Luckily, to replace most of the Office applications, their respective online web applications work very well. That wouldn't be a major issue in migrating to Linux.

Fascinating! The wine discovery reminds me one scene from the book 'The Dark Forest'[0] when the protagonist drinks a wine from some centuries before... spoiler: it wasn't good.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

A couple of years ago I wrote a brief article about Halloween, and linked to the Roman Lemuria: https://godsip.club/articles/monster-mash/

You could also say: Five megameters!

I love this expression!

This is another great (and interactive) source on the subject: https://www.learndmarc.com/

*The Three-Body Problem intensifies*

That's the point, but often in many network issues, the name resolution is the root cause of the problem. Not necessarily the DNS itself. Sometimes the /etc/hosts is more than enough to cause headaches!

YES! IBM's Fix Central, or how it's called, it's literally a maze.

And I hate Oracle's and Red Hat's paywalls, even if I can understand their presence.

Interesting! Surely there are lots of moors…

Yes, absolutely, I didn't mean to blame him. But from Windows 95 to 11 something could have been improved, from MS.

I'm disappointed: I can't see any comments about the awful .zip file integration in modern Windows version. Extracting the files requires a pop-up or a non-intuitive context menu.

Yes, exactly. SMS should be an option because it is obsolete, and therefore unsecure.

Thirty years later, a lot has changed. The AS/400 has (mostly) gone

Well, not exactly. IBMi is still widely used, as an "affordable, low cost mainframe".

if it's VMDK for example, you can read the raw disks without booting it

Yes, but that's the difference between "readable" and "usable". Many companies don't realize the technical difficulties to be able to run the VMs. They just expect that it will work, if needed.

This rises a potential problem, often underrated by companies: some have backups with infinite retention.

It is common to have backups with retention of 10 years, some may have 20 years for legal reasons… but the majority of people don't understand the difference between "readable" and "usable".

Of course, it depends on the data… And there are companies backing up whole virtual machines with infinite retention, believing to be able to run them: it is hard enough to restore a vSphere 5.x machine on a brand new vSphere 8, I really don't understand this waste of space.

Just… Thank You! It's blazing fast, (even too) clean, and without that mess that UG became in the last decade.

You mean OAuth? It should be a good thing for a social.

Hi, I'm the author. Sincerely, I didn't think to a license yet, but I will.

I just wanted to "show" that big vendors don't care about solving very practical issues: some companies still rely on backups on physical tapes, but the current versions of firmware of most libraries don't allow optimizing automatically the tapes. That's quite a problem when maybe a customer just bought 2,000 cartridges.

About the parallelism, it's quite simple: a tape needs to be read and optimized by a _tape drive_[0]. Libraries can be configured with a various number of drives, and the script manages all the available ones using the special device of the library and the `mtx` tool on Linux.

Also, you're right: it's impossible to decrease the optimization time of a single tape.[1][2][3]

Ah, while writing this, I noticed that HPE may have the appropriate tool on their autoloader.[4]

[0] https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/3MD86RLJ

[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ts4500-tape-library?topic=drives...

[2] https://www.quantum.com/globalassets/products/tape-storage-n...

[3] https://docs.oracle.com/en/storage/tape-storage/storagetek-s...

[4] https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50005444enw

Actually, I have three blogs:

- https://godsip.club/ is for my "findings" about myths, religion and folklore

- https://crooked.ink/ is for my short stories

- https://scaglio.bearblog.dev/ is my personal blog, where I want to start to post more often to exercise writing in English

IBM is probably the last place I expect to find a game dev tutorial

Exactly my thought. Totally unexpected.

In my opinion, that's an interesting idea.

I started writing short stories a couple of years ago, and I created a Hugo website to host them: https://crooked.ink. The main issues with a blog are that it's hard to get an audience from scratch, and it's hard to be found with all the SEO effort you can do.

I also tried to submit a couple of stories to webzines and I got published once for free, but I really don't think I'll ever do it for a living.

What I wish more and still didn't get, though, it's a _feedback_ for my stories. So maybe the project could be intriguing for this, if it can get you closer to an audience.

Amazing work! I'd just like the final table to be interactive as soon as it becomes visible, but it's a great site.

I live outside U.S. and I had a few iPhones in the last years… I almost never used iMessage. Mostly because 50% of my contacts use Android or other apps on iOS (WhatsApp).

About the apps, I am forced to use WeChat because some of my friends live in China and that is the only communication channel they have… but it is the worst experience I ever had. Even Viber was better. And in China it’s heavily controlled.

Among my contacts in Europe, Telegram is widely used and becoming almost “a standard”… only a very few use Signal.

Hi, author here. I posted this on HN mainly because I'm looking for feedback about the content (the website is so simple!). I wonder if I can raise curiosity in the articles and if, in 2022 –year of the metaverse–, someone is still interested in reading something about the past. So, any feedback is appreciated! Thank you for your time!

I reply to myself to add a note, always from my personal notes – I'm almost surely wrong. Here[^1] it is quite well summed up: the Moon was only the beginning, the easiest phenomenon to observe. The fact that seven planets were "easily visible" with no astronomical tools surely helped, and in some civilizations the days were named along these.

Religions, finally, "officially" decided that a week had to have seven days.

[^1]: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/7-days-week.html

This is a very interesting topic. The article is well written, but _in my opinion_ the concept of the 7-day-long week is not artificial at all. Like a comment says, it is a fraction of a lunar month. Many of the ancient calendars were based on the Moon.

Little self-promotion: I recently started a newsletter with little similar curiosities about culture, religion, myths, and folklore I found around – https://godsip.club

Thank you! That was my intention :)

I too inserted a themed-joke in my personal website with short stories: https://crooked.ink/notfound

I really do like funny 404 pages, they add something unique to the browsing experience.

Any suggestions/extension for better bookmarks management?