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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:11AM (#25046785)
The schizo line's played out by shills too but thanks for the confirm, shill.
Re:Is Zig the Long Awaited C Replacement on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:17PM (#25020109)
>medium nagsite C will never ever be replaced. It's just not happening.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:46PM (#25017384)
He hasn’t been certified as the winner of even a single state yet. Trump called the bluff, soon the only vote that matters will be ACB’s.
Re:Ask HN: What stops you from using BSD as main workstation OS? on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:32PM (#25017192)
Nothing, I switched from Linux to OpenBSD and it’s been great. I could see people bemoaning the lack of their flatsnaps and wine.
Re:The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:08PM (#25016977)
If Apple had gone with Smalltalk for the Mac instead of making something that merely looked like it we’d be living a better future.
>I don't know there is something inherently not trustworthy about Google or American company.

That something's called PRISM.

Good? They should have been doing this years ago. Look at how spammers operating with gmail addresses have screwed up Usenet, or as Google calls it, Groups.
It's impossible to believe any forecast, nobody fessed up after 2016 nor did they explain why their models are wrong or attempt to update them. You're less than 24 hours away from the permanent death of the political polling and forecasting industry in the USA.

Nate's already coping really hard on Twitter.

Many governors have reached far beyond their allowed powers, as court cases have recently shown.
Re:Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:07PM (#24955598)
The 175HQ is probably my favorite rare tube.
This is a bit of a term of art. "They" don't "listen" to your calls. A computer does.
If you make your own wild yeast culture you might have a much older one.
If you are a home brewer or even just interested, Patrick McGovern's book Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created is a must-read, he re-creates a number of beers and alcoholic beverages some of which have gone into production from the Dogfish Head people. The original recipes were analyzed from residue and remains on potsherds and historical accounts, then he provides a home brewer's guide at the end of each chapter so you can make something at least quite close to the brew at home.
Yes of course. Back in the mid to late 2000's there was another big hack, known then as the "Manchurian Microchip" hack, which resulted in Chinese penetration of many US national security projects including the F-22. It's very difficult to find good information about this anymore, thanks to a raft of fiction produced with the same name "coincidentally" around the same time.
Crack is wack. When you smoke crack you do crazy things, at least that's my impression of the drug.
I thought it was because Google Captcha punishes you SEVERELY if you're not using Chrome.
Re:The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:45AM (#24907336)
This is the true answer. Nobody benefits from replacing x.org except large companies. I for one have already switched my day to day operations over to OpenBSD, as I've seen too much strange corporate agitation propaganda trying to get us to relinquish the things that make Linux great - C, X11, native non-containerized applications, and so on.

I refuse.

Just use youtube-dl (it still works and will be forked) to suck the content you want out of Youtube. Use Tor Browser to screw Google out of your precious precious data as well.
I'm still using IceCat, I will continue to do so. Chrome's ugly, something about the font rendering and smooth scrolling is really off-putting, plus I just know everything I do is being reported to the Google mothership.
Re:Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:27AM (#24907175)
One more step

Please complete the security check to access retrohax.net

Re:The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder on Saturday October 17, 2020 @06:42PM (#24814026)
When they stopped caring so much about the browser and became a social and Rust advocacy concern they signaled that it was pretty much over.

Thankfully there's still Seamonkey.

Re:Updated BBC micro:bit on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:49AM (#24776472)
Love it! Corney, CIinton, Obarna!
Re:Apple sues GEEP for not shredding reusable iPhones on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:38AM (#24776364)
Slam dunk for Apple. Arguments about the environment aside, seems like a breach of contract, open shut.

Also if people cared about the environment they wouldn't be using a phone with a glued-in battery in the first place. So check your phone (if you even have one, phones are so 2015) and your privilege.

Re:"Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity" on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:32AM (#24776310)
Hard to take the site seriously when it has a Marxist "Capitalism" section. Curate's egg.
Re:German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:30AM (#24776289)
Hahaha, Windows-only malware.
It's all cheap junk, Prime Day is just house cleaning apparently.
Re:Linux-Based Windows Makes Perfect Sense on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:19PM (#24749192)
You can tell this is going to happen because we're being softened up for it. First the what-ifs and apologetics, next will come more substantial rumors, then a big speech by Nadella.
Re:Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:11PM (#24749137)
Hopefully Trump will re-recognize Taiwan.
Re:United States Early Radio History on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:26PM (#24748816)
>Captcha

It won't let you look at the site if you're using Tor Browser. I hate it when sites do this.

Re:QNX Failed Amiga on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:26PM (#24741992)
Anybody else remember K5?

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