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>> falsify election results

> This is something that is extremely hard to accomplish in the US.

Yet I seem to remember Al Gore winning an election, still Bush became president. Right? EDIT: link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

Plus they are building coal plants as backups for when other sources fail.
My doctor said "you have to earn your sleep". I had the same problem until:

- two pieces of fruit per day

- two portions of vegetables per day

- half an hour of outside sunshine per day

- twice per week exercise until you sweat

- no sleep during the day

- get out of bed every morning around the same time

- no processed food!

I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously.

Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a dd copy of a disk.

It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.
> In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!

I saw it often. Running fsck on a crashed/failed partition usually does put some files in there. Maybe I kept using old hardware too long...

NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu.

But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.

> I'm not in that city.

Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.

Re:Programming Still Sucks on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:13AM (#48046029)
What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.
Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.
Re:Warp is now open-source on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:56AM (#47945351)
>Oh, not OS/2 Warp.

That would be awesome!

>The assembly seats in Brussels, so the decision comes from Brussels (geographically).

Except that half the time the assembly seats in Strasbourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliamen...

Re:EFF is leaving X on Thursday April 09, 2026 @04:23PM (#47709344)
My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".
> You may be thinking of Hong Kong

No, I was thinking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita...

The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great Britain) accepted Tibet as part of China without the need for a war.

In the context of your comment, you say the US and Russia attack sovereign countries and you mention Tibet and Taiwan in the same sentence. Sorry but Taiwan has not been invaded by China, and Tibet was at the time internationally agreed as being part of China (not that I agree with that). Not the same ballpark sorry.

> China with Tibet and Taiwan

What do you mean? China has bought Tibet from the British. And what have they done with Taiwan?

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:31AM (#46630216)
https://cobbaut.be personal homepage since 1997
Re:Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? on Saturday November 29, 2025 @02:20AM (#46085723)
European from Antwerp here. I only use two of those, and see more and more of my friends migrate away from some, albeit slowly.
Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:42AM (#45990010)
MS Outlook was a heaven for viruses.

Lotus (even before Notes) had cloud-like features for mail and worked on Windows and OS/2.

Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:39AM (#45989992)
> Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene

Apologies, but in my memory Thunderbird is just the new name for Netscape Mail. And Netscape mail, I believe, is older than Outlook.

I still have folders in my current Thunderbird that I created in Netscape (for example the 1996 folder that contains all mail from 1996).

Re:OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:27AM (#45758341)
Back in 1995 it was, to my knowledge, the only OS capable of sharing CD-ROM's on the network. Even MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 machines could access it.

It was also capable of sharing Mainframe printers using a real null-printer-driver, which was not possible on Windows NT3.51 or NT4.0. Windows always messed with the Mainframe codes that it could not understand.

It was also easy to set up OS/2 as a gateway between different network hardware and protocols (Token Ring to Ethernet, or NetBios to IPX/SPX, ...)

It had REXX!

Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:01AM (#45757819)
> I’ve lived in Europe my whole life. I’ve never been robbed or felt unsafe.

Really, where?

I have been robbed in Belgium and in France, have had a knife on my throat on a Sunday morning, and have had burglars twice (once in Antwerp, once in Leuven). About five of my bikes were stolen, and I've been conned by construction workers several times.

Re:What If Tariffs? on Monday October 27, 2025 @03:04AM (#45718140)
My experience here in Antwerp is that a lot of places also play French, Italian, German, Swedish (Abba), Greek, Mexican, Brazilian, and many others, and of course Flemish music mixed with British and American. Never only (or mainly) American for as long as I live (I'm 55).
> When I think back to Windows 7, the good feeling isn't nostalgia. It was the last user-focused Windows.

I think Windows 98 was the last user-focused Windows. At least then all the useful settings were a single right-click away, and it just worked without invading your privacy.

(WinME never worked and WinXP was the first in a long series of shareholder-focused Windows.)

Congrats. I had the same thought when Windows XP came out in 2001. I triple booted OS/2 Warp with Win98 and Linux for a couple years. Linux only since 2003, I guess I missed a lot of MS fun.
Re:BYD Builds World's Fastest Car on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:09AM (#45490073)
It would be great if the USA invested half of its military budget in all these technologies instead of claiming that those Chinese investments are 'destroying' the USA economy. I have the impression that the USA is very capable, yet somehow chooses not to compete (on a technological investment level).
> That’s let’s than 7€/day

There is no daily Spanish football.

There are also things like 'interland breaks' or vacation periods when there is no football for two or more consecutive weeks, but the fee still needs to be payed.

Re:Operating system decline and cultural death on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:13AM (#45330469)
I agree with the post, but it is not just operating systems, and it has been going in the 'closed wall' direction since before WinXP.

We had programs like 'pidgin' that allowed chatting with different protocols, whereas now even I (a Linux nerd with 30 years IT experience) have no clue how to take a backup of my Whatsapp/Facetime/... conversations. Completely closed protocols are winning over open ones.

There is a similar process going on with websites; they used to be open and readable for everyone. Today I cannot access most pages that are sent to me via mail or that are linked in forums, unless I create an account and agree to share everything with 799 partners. Never mind that all links are now safelinks.protection.outlook.

Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Saturday September 20, 2025 @06:03PM (#45317991)
I got to 19, bedtime now!
I remember typing whitehouse.com (hoping that was safe) in the early days of Internet... nope, it was not the same as whitehouse.gov!
Nice! Can the generated link please include 'safelinks.protection.outlook' somewhere?

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