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> I think you didn't understand what I was trying to say. They don't do this sort of thing... oh wait, they do. But we are still wrong to judge their character by their own actions…

You may have heard about a little thing called MP3? Basically, Fraunhofer in Germany filed for (software) patents in the US. They made sure to wait some time for MP3 to become a th…

The confusion with Plan 9 is probably part of the reason this jumped onto the front page. Besides that name clash, it apparently competes with another terminal emulator that was cr…

Up next: nuclear data center Zeppelins in the cloud! Innovative new air cooling: instead of using lots of tiny fans to move air through the servers, we simply use 2 big fans to mov…

> I wasn’t particularly worried about parsing CSV files. That’s a solved problem. > Detecting primitive types is easy. String. Number. Boolean. Date. ... the rabbit said confidentl…

If you have a few hours to kill, the Youtube Channel "Another Boring Topic" has a multi part series on the "rise and fall of the IBM PC". The comparatively short Part 1 is here: ht…

> ...on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen. Fedora with XFCE here, but last I checked on Windows, it worked exactly the same over there: With a Chinese IME insta…

While I know about the DSKY, I keep wondering if they were the first ones, i.e. inventing that way of entering data into a computer and others copied it later on, or if it was a al…

I guess very few around here remember the minor fuzz about this from a few years ago? The Linux Kernel Project became their own CNA (CVE Numbering Authority). A CVE is now slapped …

Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of th…

> But we all know that is not the typical scenario. Back in the day, you could read a stories on Slashdot practically every other week that usually went something like this: Compan…

Well, the angle is kind of important here. The company gets their name in the news, they have a reasonable explanation why they were scraping around, and we end up with a story abo…

Yep. I remember a similar story as GP described from a friend back in 2008. The site he was working on that wasn't linked to yet was suddenly indexed after he checked out what it l…

> The next hard drive was an order of magnitude larger than the old one, and so on. Ah yes, the good old "old PC" folder that you would find on pretty much every Windows PC that us…

On the 'help' page, the Cray-like machine from the film Sneakers is listed under "Honourable mentions": https://www.starringthecomputer.com/help.html From the site: > The following…

> 8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea. Yet the article goes about the most ass backward way of explaining 8086 segments and constructs a convoluted mental picture of dividing mem…

"Windows for WorkCubes" Michael MJD did a video on this recently, showing off necessary modifications on a vanilla GameCube and the installation procedures: https://www.youtube.com…

They announced it, they haven't released anything yet. There is not a single real photograph of an actual device on the site. There's a wait list where you can sign up for eventual…

This project has a website that was previously posted on HN[1], I (unsuccessfully) tried to boot it on an actual 486 machine[2], as the site boasts about supporting that. The versi…

This is really confusing brand/product combination. Who is it trying to appeal to? I'm pretty sure the people who have fond memories of growing up with a C64 or watching ToS are of…