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Reminds me of E. W. Dijkstra's digitized hand-written manuscripts: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/index13xx.html

Sometimes a pop-up appears that I blindly accept because I happen to be typing something with spaces. Wish that button was protected somehow.

The pickup idea sounds similar to how newsgroups work.

Also these: * https://text.npr.org/ * https://lite.cnn.com/ But I think sites should be made more accessible/simpler to begin with, rather than having a competing implementation.

I loved that game. Played it on my 8086 with CGA graphics in the early 1990s. Check this out: > Chopper Commando, a DOS game written by Mark Currie using Turbo Pascal in 1990 https…

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing. Taxonomies are inherently limited -- I love this portion of the talk "Everything is Miscellaneous" about Melvil Dewey: https://www.youtube.com/…

This thread is amazing.. thank you both for sharing!

The comments are mind blowing. I really didn't expect the theory to have so much confirmation in other languages.

> have our PERSONAL aggregator That's the dream, isn't it. So if there are 100 people whose messages you willingly watch, how do you discover new people? (Maybe you do so organical…

> Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again. Right? It was such a good time :-) You're welcome. > why usenet couldn't be a viable social media platform I wonder if ident…

How was poster identity handled in Usenet/NNTP? From what I remember, it was just a "From:" header and spoofing was easy. Or was there more to it? (Maybe because most posters wrote…

Is this a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September ?

The timeliness of this article is that it compares Usenet to Mastodon.

Love this: > Always look at the date when you read a hardware article. Some of the content in this article is most likely out of date, as it was written on September 19, 2011. Not …

I'm reminded of the thesis that worse is better: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German

(christmas tree) + (eyeballs) shows me a turtle: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%91%80+%F0%9F%8C%B2 (Looks like that combo isn't found.)

Thank you!

I'm having a hard time finding the original title of this story, The Truth. Prawda? Googling around isn't helping... Anyone know?

Hey Peter! Thank you for doing this. I'm a regular reader and love what you do.

Where's the SQLite database written? How do you ensure only one writer is modifying it?