Thoreandan

Had to go look it up ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(novel) ) but now the 'upgrade pak' joke in the next comment makes sense :)

Huh, small world, I'm the one who submitted that to Slashdot.

Close, it's MinGW/msys - different pathname semantics and under-the-hood approaches.

TIL that Knuth made a Literate Programming port of Adventure in 2002.

This reminds me of the 9/11-era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market

...which was shut down in 2003 "after multiple US senators condemned it as an assassination and terrorism market".

Considering the amount of random hate he’s conjuring up from green HN usernames, he must be doing something right that’s upsetting to some community or another. :-D

Similar technique was used in Daisy Dot II

https://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n3/daisydot2.php

Reminds me of an excellent paper I just read by a former Google DeepMind Ethics Research Team member

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/114/1/4 - Reinecke, Madeline G., et al. "The double-edged sword of anthropomorphism in llms." Proceedings. Vol. 114. No. 1. MDPI, 2025 Author: https://www.mgreinecke.com/

Does your source .pdf material have FlateDecode'd chunks or did you fully uncompress it?

Harry says: What are you waiting for?

Checking in - it's not possible to disable from the app anymore, is it? The preference setting is still there, but ignored, afaict.

Today I learned: The creator of Chose Your Own Adventure is currently 94 and has a website at https://edwardpackard.com/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard_(writer)

Huh. Posting a screenshot of the tweet just got my FB account suspended.

Bonus: They leak! https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-et-quick...

Viewing it under Chrome, as soon as the scrollbar reached a certain point, it started progressively zoom-increasing the text size. Weird bug.

I'm waiting for BoringX or OpenX or, well, any other fork. Search for 'xorg drama'.

Mentioning the licensing up front would be nice.

Feels.

Not gonna blow condescending garbage your way. Your feeling is not unique but not in the majority, and it’s exhausting to hear the ‘have’ ppl with no actual ability to relate jabber on.

Hope you can find bits of joy where you can make them.

It's right there in the URL, along with #ZDGAF

That's a fun coincidence, I just learned about Myrtle last Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-8E-dEbwc

I'd always wanted to see a physical copy of the $5,000.00 'Deluxe Distribution' -

https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/bull/16/gnu_bulletin_23....

> The FSF Deluxe Distribution contains the binaries and sources to hundreds of different programs including GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger, the complete MIT X Window System, and the GNU utilities.

> You may choose one of these machines and operating systems: HP 9000 series 200, 300, 700, or 800 (4.3 BSD or HP-UX); RS/6000 (AIX); Sony NEWS 68k (4.3 BSD or NewsOS 4); Sun 3, 4, or SPARC (SunOS 4 or Solaris). If your machine or system is not listed, or if a specific program has not been ported to that machine, please call the FSF office at the phone number below or send e-mail to [email protected].

> The manuals included are one each of the Bison, Calc, Gawk, GNU C Compiler, GNU C Library, GNU Debugger, Flex, GNU Emacs Lisp Reference, Make, Texinfo, and Termcap manuals; six copies of the manual for GNU Emacs; and a packet of reference cards each for GNU Emacs, Calc, the GNU Debugger, Bison, and Flex.

> In addition to the printed and on-line documentation, every Deluxe Distribution includes a CD-ROM (in ISO 9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions) that contains sources of our software.

I wonder how many (if any?) were sold, it'd be an excellent museum piece.

It'd be a privilege to be able to disconnect from the feeds, but trying to rebuild in-person social interactions when you're old and have no family or local friends really sucks. Facebook's become:

* Who died this week

* Spammers liking your posts and asking for friend adds

* Gofundme's for ppl who will now spend the rest of their lives in medical debt

* Interesting articles maybe twice a week or so.

Nobody I know in town is on Mastodon or BSky.

The silence is deafening.

I guess B1FF@BITNET posts are gonna come from an LLM now.

Context: https://web.archive.org/web/20030830105202/http://www.catb.o...

I registered my copy. I also remember that in the Help->About, if you clicked Khaled Mardam-Bey's nose it would squeak.

Game Developers Conference Classic Gaming Postmortem: Zork (2014)

  "Dave Lebling, co-author of Zork and co-founder of Infocom, gives a postmortem talk on the classic text adventure. Lebling, who currently works as a senior principal software engineer at BAE Systems, created the "grue," co-authored Zork I-III and wrote seven other text adventures. He plans to give an hour-long talk explaining, among other things, the creation of both the mainframe and microcomputer versions of Zork, the trials and tribulations of coding a cutting-edge text parser, and what it was like to experiment with self-publishing at a time when most PC games were sold in hand-packed plastic bags.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020612/Classic-Game-Postmorte...

https://archive.org/details/GDC2014Lebling

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model, baking the release date into the name DeepSeek-V3-0324.

Seconded - https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com is one of the more interesting feeds on the site.

I was reminded of Mel as well! If you haven't seen it, Usagi Electric on YouTube has gotten a drum-memory system from the 1950s nearly fully-functional again.

Fun fact: If a student in my state is handed a diploma, they've effectively been kicked out of the educational system and aren't eligible for remedial assistance. Context: Tried helping someone not dissimilar to the person in the article.