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Borg3

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    Comment #49240612

    And this is what I worry about. Seriously. My online footprint is minimal. I just hope gov will be still incompetent and lazy...

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    Comment #49234216

    Beetles? Hmm I never heard about that. Spiders, yes.. And they are huge :)

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    Comment #49188718

    Haha, I love such statements.. Well I run old Windows w/ 16GB RAM, and on fresh boot it uses around 128MB RAM, leaving plenty of RAM for apps... Headless Linux is even better, 3GB …

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    Comment #48967257

    Because this is not "Your computer" anymore, but "This PC" :)) muauhauhauhau.

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    Comment #48903629

    And yet, there is a lot said about how youngsters cannot read with understanding... Fun times ahead...

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    Comment #48836640

    Once microplastics fall apart futher, to nano-plastic, it will start to get absorbed by T cells because they want to destroy any invaders. Once absorbed, T-Cell start to produce H2…

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    Comment #48759473

    Comment there made me chuckle..: serving only small static HTML+JS files ( sigh So entire IPFS + IPFS Gateway needs to be so huge? 10MB? My dot.exe (DVFS repo manager) is 150kB..

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    Comment #48757701

    Sure, I love text. But I also like HTTP flexibility and ability to embed pics. JavaScript itself is also nice additionion. Take a look at this: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/ This is m…

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    Comment #48751642

    Yeah.. IPFS is a bit disappointement. I was a bit exceited about it back in the day. Recently, I wanted to download sth large from archive.org, I used torrent (and my legacy torren…

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    Comment #48745253

    I dont understand fastination of gopher... its inferior protocol compared to HTTP. Yes, today HTTP2/0 and up is bloated crap. But hey, you know there is good old HTTP1/1 that still…

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    Comment #48723162

    I actually wanted to try it (maybe I will do), but on github page I read its experimental and lots of dialogs arent implemented. So a bit shame it cannot be fully ported. Maybe I w…

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    Comment #48706102

    What do you mean what context? Just move yourself 10 years in past and see how RAM much web browsing used.. There is just no sane reason why it balooned so much. Of course, progres…

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    Comment #48705343

    Dont. Its super stupid idea. I said it before but I will said it again. AI/LLM with current form is pure stupidty. Humans try to move their highest asset, aka Inteligence, analitic…

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    Comment #48697422

    Its a pathetic world.. and sad.. I have currently 2 browsers open and my memory commit is 370MB.. If I hear that Win11 uses 3GB of RAM idling, I really get shivers... WTF?! How is …

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    Comment #48643758

    Haha, I love how that old HW was built to last. Incredible. My old server is still going strong ;) 14:11:03 up 2435 days, 1:14, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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    Comment #48552121

    Hah, Im in similar situation, but I am network/IT admin. I think its worse, because who need networking guy? You just plug it in and it works, right? ;)

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    Comment #48335731

    Normally, its the one who understand technology, can control it. Unfortunately, its not the case anymore. Stuff got unnecessary complex and bloated, hard to grasp it alone. Also, n…

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    Comment #48221465

    Exacly. And I love its written in C. You need to extend Ruby w/ your favorite Graph Library? You just slap .c glue code and vioala it works like a charm!

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    Comment #48133730

    Nah, its not rose tinted glasses. Win2000/Win2003 were amazing. I still run Win2003 because it just workz. GUI is great, it snappy, I have all the tools to tinker here and there.. …

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    Comment #47872952

    Hah, amazing.. And unresolved for all those years?

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    Comment #47862348

    Hmm I wonder how stable it is.. It cannot render correctly Window control buttons (Minimize, Maximize, Close). If it fails on such basic task, I wonder where it crashes...

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    Comment #47738737

    We are reaching society shown in "Johny Mnemonic" movie.. So much (useless) information around that people gets overloaded. I barely read anything these days on NH, too much (crap)…

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    Comment #47714576

    It works exacly as it was designed to work.. GIT as VCS.. Version Control System.. for text code sniplets. It can handle small binary blobs just fine. If you need (D)VFS aka Distri…

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    Comment #47610764

    http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6 Now, if only those people who designed IPv6 were smarter.. Hex aint that bad, LONG hex addresses are pain to use. Now, lets say you have LAN like th…