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Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:04AM (#50324832)
Meanwhile in London we have public... urinals. Just a few minutes from the city center. People urinating in the open. Opposite to where my wife goes to dancing classes. UK is really fucking abysmal sometimes.
Or an eternal heaven, our every wish coming true. The next iteration of homo sapiens will not be thinking how to do things, but what things to do. Is this the new creative space for us?
Re:Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:29AM (#49496501)
I wonder, do we need a new benchmark? There's quite a bit of feedback data floating around about pelicans on bicycles already.
Re:Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @09:08AM (#49271847)
As a kid I remember I was lost in all that OOP, window handles and stuff, and could never do anything. Delphi was like assembling Lego. Very similar to QtCreator.
Re:Mojo 1.0 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:10AM (#49269231)
This page really helped me to put it into perspective against Python:

https://www.modular.com/blog/an-easy-introduction-to-mojo-fo...

10 MB is ridiculously overbloated. 1 MB or something in that vicinity should be more like it.
Re:The Myth of Snow Leopard on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:24AM (#49152327)
Whoever was in charge of Mac OS X at that time should be promoted to the President of Operating Systems of this entire planet.
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:36AM (#49080178)
But they're happily selling drone parts to Russians dropping bombs on civilians (or "whatever").
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:38AM (#49004572)
This is naive on so many levels. Yandex is Russian government. You can't take a shit without KGB in Russia.
I think this needs to be addressed with a crowd-funded projectile. This sort of stuff must be done on a planetary-scale consensus basis only.
Re:Leaving Mozilla on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:55AM (#48515457)
Not to mention scandals like this...

"In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008. On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic"

Re:Making Graphics Like it's 1993 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:48AM (#48460427)
Everything is perfect here. The hero, the graphics, the title... <3
Re:OpenBSD 7.9 on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:45PM (#48196602)
Sorry for the off-topic, but I wish our FreeBSD camp could roll back a little from this faux-corporate glass ball without soul and a font from the early 90s spaceship toy box, to Beastie and a stylish serif. What I was trying to say - I'm in envy. OpenBSD artwork is absolutely amazing!
Re:The becquerel as an SI unit for request rate on Sunday April 19, 2026 @03:45AM (#47822511)
For me the word becquerel itself requires some additional brain power points to write. Is it bequerel or becquerel? Do we capitalize it or not? Not when written, but Bq is capitalized, so it's indeed kBq. But then again, is it per second? No, the unit, has per second in it already... And we not need to confuse it with B for byte. I thoroughly enjoyed the article but there's no need to complicate the world further. rps is perfectly fine.
Re:Every GPU That Mattered on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:49AM (#47673737)
I don't understand this - where's Trident VGA?
Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:43AM (#47464907)
It's surprising to see an OS, dominant as a sever platform, now optimizing catering to people who are unsure whether they've pressed a button on their keyboard. What's next, replacing asterisks with a progress bar?
Re:I Love FreeBSD on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:26AM (#47409629)
My DigitalOcean FreeBSD droplet chugging along: 7:25AM up 1707 days, 15 hrs, 5 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.21, 0.17

Too bad they dropped support for it.

Re:macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:59AM (#47321171)
They'll just come up with round displays. Like on PDP-1.
Re:macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:50AM (#47321071)
Apple is no longer about Jobs' "simplicity as the ultimate sophistication". It feels like a bunch of kids with no proper design education competing for the security of their salaries. Apple is dead without Steve. The company has no focal point. They're running solely on the inertia from Mac OS X and the first generations of the iPhone.
Re:JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:08PM (#47313877)
Sorry for the off-topic, but what a bliss to see Windows 2000 interface. And what an absolute abomination from hell pretty much all the modern UIs are.
Same. Still a great pleasure to see those ads from the past. Nothing compared to ads today.
Re:Astra: An open-source observatory control software on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:50PM (#47280885)
Fantastic news. As ACP is no longer in development, I am starting to slowly look for a replacement, and a few things that come up in my mind:

- Will it work with MaximDL to acquire images and autoguide, or will it simply not need it at all? - Will it work with PWI3 for autofocusing? - Will offset tracking (at custom dRA, dDec rates) be implemented at some point to track artificial satellites? - Will it at some point implement targeting using TLEs and MPC elements? - I am extensively using #WAITZENDIST and other #WAIT directives to wait for an object to be at certain altitude - would be really good to implement that in observation plans (a single plan can do a number of things sequentially.) - Can plans launch custom Python scripts and read/write stuff from/to files?

I probably want too much at this point, but sincerely wishing you best of luck with this incredible project, will definitely follow all the developments!

Re:UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:59AM (#47135551)
Was that part of some kind of cost optimization? Why would anyone design such an obscurity?
That's a URL bait!
Re:How far back in time can you understand English? on Sunday February 22, 2026 @04:02AM (#47109521)
Anyone else feeling like Daffy Duck reading the 1700s?
And from 32 years ago as well - MS Office 4.0 as an example.
Not sure I understand you - what game, market capture? There are environments that remain more or less sane (e.g., FreeBSD, Xfce, etc) that don't play this game, if I got you right. I guess treating users so helps capture more of the market share, but it looks like there's only so much dumbfuckery one can inject into the environment until the curve begins to drop and dumb fucks themselves begin to run.

Philips just screwed up my TV. They've updated the firmware (of course, it was automated) to make home screen more of a dumb fucking experience with everything animated and self-playing movies jumping out at you for no reason, and so on... But the interface is now completely unusable - literally can't even launch YouTube. No amount of resetting helps. They also hid all the previous firmwares and I can't even roll back from a USB stick. I am a dumb fuck when it comes to TVs. And I will most likely be considering another brand next time.

Same as Windows 3.1, and Windows 95, up to 2000. After some point computers began to be optimized for a non-technical person and here we go... Ads, auto-updates, pop-ups, bright colors, all this fucking desktop circus.
Re:WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:02AM (#47045616)
VHS cassettes: maybe not so obsolete, after all?

Also, the Return of PKZIP.

A bit sad not to find the whole collection of Larry Carlson's animations in there (only a few games.) Also, need full archive of Joe Cartoon!

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