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Former FastTracker II [1] user reporting in. The Gravis Ultrasound had an incredible price to performance ratio back in the day and made high quality wavetable synthesis at "CD qua…

Modula-2 was born into a time when 8-bit char sets with upper- and lowercase letters were common place but syntax highlighting was still not common. This caused the language to be …

Many years ago I used Exim because it was default for my distro of choice back then. But after a few emergency patchings caused by yet another RCE in Exim I learned that switching …

It would be interesting to hear their contingency plan for any kind of disaster (most commonly a fire) that hits their data center.

https://archive.ph/bn9V6#selection-801.0-825.145

That reminds me of a specific (de)motivational video of one of my favorite comedians Masood Boomgaard, which specifically covers the rat race that prevails in todays workplace cult…

> There’s one key change I made to escape this cycle: I remind myself that I’m not an artist, and coding isn’t creative expression. Unless you're into code golf or other forms of "…

Some devices with 13th gen Intel processors support in-band ECC. This basically hides a fraction of RAM from the OS and uses it for ECC. Example devices are: LattePanda Sigma [0] a…

Recently I wiped the contents of the Trusted Platform Module of a laptop. Now the laptop failed to boot as the Bitlocker key was not stored in the TPM anymore. To my surprise it wa…

Why not use one of the *BSD? E.g. the newest NetBSD still supports i486 class processors: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/

Thanks for that answer, and I fully agree, it only takes some copyright strikes, algorithm changes, a locked Google account and the money from Google stops.

Yes, I consider 50k to 250k mid sized channels. I'm aware that chances of becoming rich as a creator are minimal, but it may develop into a worthwhile hobby with an active communit…

I'd like to treat is as a hobby in the beginning. I'm sure success will heavily depend on my personality and the topics I choose. I may not ever reach 10 subscribers. But every sho…

I tend to disagree on this one. It surely helps to enter the market with a top notch production team in the background or investing a lot of time into your videos. However, I've se…

Yes, you're correct. I mean, what do I loose? 2 to 3 hours per week, half of it for editing? Some $$ for equipment? If I get some 1k subscribers, it's already worth the ongoing eff…

Are these revenue estimations given out by the platform realistic? If the revenue numbers are right, I'm strongly considering opening my own Youtube channel. Edit: And if the numbe…

Schneider (Amstrad) CPC 464 manual: https://archive.org/details/schneider-cpc-464-bedienungs-han... Especially chapter 5 with all the nice graphics commands.

If you can sneak a tag into the ticket system, you likely can sneak a in or tag as well... I'm sure input sanitization was already a thing preached back then but ignored by many we…

It's advantageous to use different brands to protect e.g. against firmware bugs. You also might want to check https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...

Previously, I used https://freefilesync.org/ to sync my digital life to external USB storage (now I use an equivalent script that's even more hands-free). I recommend two drives (o…