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The BBC did this in their 2012 documentary mini-series "How to Grow a Planet" with Iain Stewart. It was a lovely series; I highly recommend it.

This is a very long-winded demonstration that the shareholder-driven philosophy of "we must keep growing at all costs" is not sustainable.

//confused noises// Wait, are you telling me that macOS has gotten so ensh---ified that many of its users feel the need to purchase a bespoke file manager , arguably one of the mos…

This seems to me like a stab in the right direction. Obviously their actions are going to be fiscally motivated at the root, but sussing out how they intend the precise dynamics to…

While I love the sentiment, I feel like the odds of this actually ever reaching a trial are low, given the international positioning of the parties, and the... um... complex relati…

It seems to be nearly forgotten that Once Upon a Time, business and scientific computing were more or less different universes. The two paradigms eventually merged, but there was a…

Very interesting to see this pop up on HN just after I spent a few days making Alpine/m68k a thing. (just a personal tinker project - don't look for it upstream any time soon unles…

"For some reason" there are ._ files... now I'm really feeling old, that an apparently-savvy macOS user seems to be unaware of the history of resource forks and AppleDouble. That w…

And I'm sure there's zero chance that IBM will be releasing their own Linux office product- probably derived from LibreOffice, but with an additional support line item attached- in…

Seconded. Naming an interactive language shell after ssh's older, insecure cousin just seems like begging for trouble. I'm imagining some auditor seeing an "rsh" binary on a Linux …

While much of this is true- and I speak from some personal experience, here- the article also takes an unnecessarily critical tone, as if these challenges somehow invalidate the id…

This comes back to something I mentioned elsewhere: What's good enough for an advertiser trying to sell concert tickets is not necessarily good enough for enforcing legal prohibiti…

Running with the billing address example... so to circumvent the ban, all one would need is a prepaid phone plan. Service addresses are collected for those, but they're basically u…

I'm a bit perplexed that there seems to be minimal discussion on the complete technical absurdity of this ban. Within the USA, there might _possibly_ be sufficient technical infras…

Any of the late 90s / early 00s RISC platforms would be good for this. You could easily grab an AlphaStation, Sun Ultra, or pre-G3 PowerBook for such a purpose, and within your pri…

See also https://www.openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipste...

//happy dance// ... That is all.

> To paraphrase Bob Metcalfe, if the browser reduced operating systems to “a poorly debugged set of device drivers”, then the cloud is reducing the dev machine to a poorly debugged…

I can second the legacy and reliability assertions. My experience with z/Arch was more recent- and it's a very different world from the modern cloud CI/CD Linux git Dev[Sec]Ops thi…

My introduction to Forth was tinkering first with Sun SPARC machines in the late 90s and then PowerMacs in the early 00s. At the time, I had no idea that it was a discrete programm…