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Here, eat your heart out: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-s...

I absolutely adore the terminal. It appears to have several VT-compatible modes, so should be very usable with modern Linux. Except I don't have the accompanying Wyse keyboard with…

Yes, I got ahold of these just weeks before moving to a new state. Things have been a bit chaotic since then. Here's a video of it booting, though! https://youtu.be/lGCLvFzGYX8

A couple years ago I got a reply to a Craigslist ad I had posted looking for 90's and 00's era computers people were looking to get rid of. This guy said he used to run a small web…

Not with 4o, but I tried it with 4 (through Copilot) a while ago and the results were abysmal, even with very neatly printed handwriting.

I'd like to hear more about this! I keep coming back to trying to OCR my journals, but nothing I've tried so far works well (enough) on handwriting.

There's always gsudo: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

Stardock Groupy adds this functionality to Windows, and Microsoft briefly toyed with the idea themselves [1]. [1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-10-testers-w...

https://signal-bot.readthedocs.io The actual Pip package isn't published yet, but the documentation should be self-explanatory.

Where's the fun in that? I've been looking for a good reason to play with `std::filesystem` anyways.

This is part one of hopefully three. Future parts will look at disassembling the binary to find secrets!

This is a fairly short (59 LOC) utility script that allows you to tail the output of a command, but while only showing the last -n (default 5) lines of output without scrolling the…

Two RSS submissions today, from different sources. Interesting. Haven't seen this in the comments for either: https://miniflux.app/ A very lightweight self-hosted web client for ma…

I have - I've used IPFS to archive the channel of a creator I like (in true data-hoarding fashion). It is neither convenient nor especially easy. It's mostly managed by a home-grow…