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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:36AM (#37713029)
> "But in 2005 Linus Torvalds invented git, which would fairly rapidly obsolesce all previous version-control systems"

> (cries in Perforce)

Am I the only one still remembering BitKeeper?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper#BitKeeper_and_the_Li...

Re:Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900k years ago on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:59PM (#37344210)
By that time we had mastered fire by probably a million years already.
What a blast from the past. Trust no one, am I right?

What's up Mulder! This is deep throat speaking

Re:Is there a wider internet outage today? on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:54PM (#36204446)
The parent is a troll and posted this thread "Is Hacker News slow for you guys too? I think it's the Apple announcements" just 20 minutes earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203460

This is very sad, indeed. I hope rosa mannen get restored (again).

This type of archival work is very important for us interested in current & recent culture (This probably is all of us in some sense).

There's so many cool archival efforts going on that unfortunatley seem to rely on youtube.

As a nostalgic swede, i found this one recently.

Its a mad ** archive of all of the early underground swedish hiphop.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mfsthathustla/playlists

> Beppes Godnattstund

For non-swedes, this is a show about a old guy who lives in a bed with a bunch of little girl dolls who need to go to the toilet all of the time.

Quick fix:

https://mullvad.net/

5 dollar/month VPN. NOT BLOCKED BY SVTPLAY KK.

Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:29PM (#24307566)
almost positive 5 + 5 > 6
Re:Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @06:22AM (#17245821)
You are mistaken.

Linux kernel dev branch single source of truth is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

The stable branches have their single source of truth repositories, too.

Re:Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @06:18AM (#17245803)
You are mistaken. DHT is decentralized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

How is this different to haxe? https://haxe.org/