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www.youtube.com 3mo ago

NewTek Video Toaster Demo Reel

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derekbishton.com 7mo ago

Frederick Douglass on the Book That Changed His Life

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rexxinfo.org 8mo ago

Who Uses REXX and Where?

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twitter.com 9mo ago

Vanessa Freudenberg has passed away (SqueakJS, Croquet, Multisynq)

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twitter.com 1y ago

Lucille Ball Uncovered a Japanese Spy Ring – With Her Teeth

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minami.bearblog.dev 1y ago

Mistakes I Made When I Started Programming and How I Overcame Self-Doubt

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vanderburg.org 2y ago

The Tcl War (vs. Guile Scheme)

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github.com 2y ago

Emacs Easydraw – drawing tool inside Emacs

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gitlab.com 2y ago

Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools

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oldcomputermuseum.com 2y ago

MiniVac 601 Educational Computer from Claude Shannon

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edge-op.org 2y ago

Evangelism Is War (Early MSFT Memo) [pdf] (2000)

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www.juve-patent.com 2y ago

Huawei and Bird Successful in Wifi6 Patent Dispute with Amazon

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

WSJ Video Interview: Sam Altman, Mira Murati 1 Month Ago

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github.com 2y ago

OpenZFS – add disks to existing RAIDZ

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Documentary: Design/Construction of DSV “Limiting Factor” [video]

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werc.cat-v.org 3y ago

Werc – A Sane Web Anti-Framework (Plan9)

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www.netfunny.com 3y ago

The Rec.humor.funny Ban (1988)

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github.com 4y ago

Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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covid19.colorado.gov 4y ago

Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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www.columbia.edu 4y ago

The Wireless Apple PowerBook 100

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Fan's extensive edit of David Lynch's Dune(1984)

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www.nationalgeographic.com 5y ago

We Need Better Masks and Origami Might Help

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account.arin.net 6y ago

ARIN transfers more IPv4 blocks to RIPE

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The EUV lithography process and other pieces that comprise what ASML sells was developed with US government funding, and it remains encumbered by that. The US government thus has veto power over the tech, and thus over ASML.

The placement of the Krone pack in the photo at link, makes me laugh: it would never survive in the USA, given the way truck drivers drive and the bumps and curbs etc. that trucks drive over. It would be ripped off or at least heavily damaged within 50K miles.

Management listened to the siren call of "it's easier and cheaper".

Now they still have to pay for the same senior sysadmins they were told they wouldn't need anymore, but, with the added bonus of paying 10-1000x for bandwidth over what they could get if they had stayed on-prem.

If it was just recognizing license plates that would be fine. However it fingerprints individuals by running a Bluetooth and WiFi connection to capture your phone or laptop’s Bluetooth MAC and WiFi MAC.

There are Flock cameras placed along running paths where there are no cars, and other places that would never need license plate readers.

Does Flock have a microphone that can record you talking with your friend while watching ducks at the local park?

A friend met with Oracle salesdroids (his company has spent a few million with them in the last few years).

They told him everything is oriented towards AI, to the point that otherwise profitable software is not being updated and development has stopped on anything new.

Oracle has a lot of niche solutions and the one my friend’s corporation uses is profitable but not on the AI path, so it is being put into maintenance mode.

IIRC it was Greenspan that didn’t mean to, but did disclose the use of gold swaps, so even if there is all the gold that is claimed to be in Fort Knox, the question of who owns the gold is unanswered.

Good to see that there is still development going on, a year after the fork on it. I don't view the love for Wayland as requiring deprecation of X11 or vice versa.

The frustrating thing is, that for not much more spent at the time of construction, we could have nearly maintenance-free homes for 80 years or more.

Like, why use wood in an climate like the American South, where there are multiple species of termites that like to eat wood?

I was a member at a maker space - the building has been around since the 40s or 50s and never damaged by a hurricane - why? The roof (with a rubber rolled roof on top) along with the rest of the building is made out of concrete.

It’s not truly fair to call it an esolang given that it was used by mainframe customers for decades. It’s more like a less popular product than COBOL…

From the related story on the same site (not able to trademark the designs): https://www.guitarworld.com/music-industry/fender-legal-ruli...

The ruling comes 17 years after Fender was famously unsuccessful in its attempts to make its Stratocaster, Telecaster and Precision guitar body shapes a trademark in the US, decades after the designs were first produced.

That litigation process lasted five years, and demonstrated that countless companies had used the body shapes that Fender had sought to trademark. In the end, the courts ruled that the Stratocaster shape was “so common that it is depicted as a generic electric guitar in a dictionary”.