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Porting rules is one of the responsibilities of keeping them.

>Bebe Awesome shout-out. Missing: Cabaret Voltaire, Art of Noise, Yes ..

Multi-tasking that didn't suck. Same as we use it now, to be frank. Unix workstations as an interaction model have persisted so long because it works just great. I was writing a lo…

Work on not seeing class at all - this is the ultimate fluidity. Embrace differing views. It can be done in a way that makes everyone win.

Some destruction is necessary for all creation, but generally its a bad idea to destroy the middle class instead of shoring it up. >making bullshit Make things that empower people …

One of my favourite 8-bit computers of the era is the Oric-1/Atmos micro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer) It still to this day has a thriving scene, lots of interesti…

> .. the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part of the business with the most complex, unknowable work. .. >_Every_ function in a tech b…

I have written device drivers for, literally, decades now. Its the old guys who write the best drivers, naturally. For me, Asterinas represents a refreshing way to approach some th…

I wanted it to work, but the font used doesn't help. With a better font, amber-on-black is restful.

I wonder what the metrics would look like when tested on a tablet device, i.e. no mouse, just finger-drag?

If you're really objecting to new information systems being created from an existing historical/cultural corpus' as a means of making cultural treasures more accessible to a litera…

I agree with you completely and will happily join you into the grey zone by stating simply, anyone who objects to new information systems being created on the basis of heritage/his…

So .. you're willing to learn Maori in order to gain equality, or not? I personally see nothing wrong with this classification system, and if it serves its intended purpose of maki…

"Religion" literally means, 'the device which binds people into one', and is not the only form of this very same device. Latin religare ‘to bind’. We are all bound "in legion" (lit…

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Has there been a final solution to the VSCode phoning-home problem? Last time I tried to use it in my environment, it triggered too many 'external network requests' for the liking …

I remember getting computer magazines for birthday presents in the 70's/80's, which you could play into your computer from Dad's record player and load up a few of the type-ins .. …

All it needs is a stamp that is a flip-out groove player, you just put one of the other stamps on it, blow, and listen ..

>Lua is such a treat. It sure is. I've been using Lua professionally and personally for some decades now, and I think that there is no need to be surprised that more projects don't…

I already do this with UTM. Whats the difference? Worth converting?

Disclaimer: 55 year old here. I've been programming computers since I was 8. I say this only so that it is understood that I have seen multiple generations of humanity acquiring an…

In 1996, I started an online service for musicians which spanned continents, and gave a very small, elite group of us, a servicable means of distributing our .txt and .zip (and .AI…

Unethical parents. Parents who are so detached, themselves, that they cannot see the harm being done to their children. That's the point with abusive techniques such as this - they…

Here in Austria, we are being threatened with a visit from the bayliff if we don't pay the "ORF tax", which funds television and radio transmissions. Its pretty heinous, especially…