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I got into Linux because it gave me things I couldn't get with Windows/Mac (in 1994). There are less things that is true for now, by far. I am drawn to the ideals of Free Software …

One of many creative people whose work I love and who have some questionable aspects. I'm sorry he's suffering and dying young (IMO). The Dilbert strip was genius.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160503170006/http://www.paters... this may be a later-in-life snapshot of Tim Paterson's work as of 2016 which is very impressive. He has/had a blog y…

It's interesting...M$ is very sleazy in this, especially the way it turned out. Tim Paterson was clearly a great programmer. The really interesting person to me is Gary Kildall tho…

There is a clear view of the sky, no obstructions. The phone app showed that the satellite receiver had a good connection, ping percentages, etc. It was just "restricted" because t…

I just spent a day trying to get a starlink installation to work. I could verify that it was talking to the satellite from the "statistics", but it found the present location unacc…

I do this (use a mini for hosting time machine backups). I have them on external drives, I have two and switch between them weekly, keeping the other one at a friend's house.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bill-gates-problem-reckonin...

14 years of age seems like a pretty low cutoff, also......

IANAL. I am very concerned about this matter. from the document you so helpfully provided: "the President proclaimed that “all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are …

re uber and taxis: I don't use uber, but I just had occasion to price a ride to the airport (Dulles) from home (Bethesda MD) for Lyft and a taxi, and the taxi was a lot cheaper. We…

use the reader mode of your browser.

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org https://www.unrwa.org https://wck.org https://www.wearebgc.org

I did, a little while ago. It's sort of an exercise in Luddism. Been posting things that are personal, political, etc. It's just very simple HMTL, not even any dynamic HTML, so no …

remember, before there was recorded music all music that could be heard was performed live. The technology has evolved over time. Once people were buying and using recorded music, …

This may be a really dumb question, but is that much of the behavior of an x86_64 CPU variable and undefined? Until recently I thought the chipmakers provided full information (rec…

I've used DB2, Sybase, Postgres, mysql, Oracle, and a little SQL Server. Long ago I worked in a Sybase shop and management said we must move to Oracle. Sybase had a nice programmin…

I worked for a while as a contractor for the US Dept. of Education Student Loan system. It was z/OS with DB2 and most new business logic was done in this weird language "Gen" https…

I think APL on System/360 was implemented in assembly. That's pretty wild.

Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to give Arq a try. EASEUS was unable to open a Bitlocker-encrypted external drive from its restore media(USB). I guess I shouldn't have expect…

I am struggling to find a working windows backup solution. I'd like to backup my entire Win11 install to a big USB drive, have the drive be encrypted (or the backup encrypted) and …

I've done it twice. I dreamed up the line, "I wanted to be able to concentrate on my job search rather than doing it on the down low while working". Maybe that'll be useful. I got …

I have a 2014 MBP Retina running Arch and it's now pretty good. It took some tweaking. It does overheat when I try and run HDMI 4K full screen video though. It's not equal to that.…

Am I a Luddite? I just feel like I don't trust AI because of the hallucinations. It also sort of offends my sensibilities to ask an AI to rewrite something I wrote, and more so the…

I've been thinking about this myself. It'd be great if some of the essential crates could be somehow sponsored or certified. Go does provide a lot more capability in the standard l…