News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

oldlinux

Yes, it's more of a "world heritage" concern. As in, these sites represent humanity's history and provide for our understanding of it collectively. The people descended most directly from those who originally inhabited these sites may have special concern with preservation, but heritage site preservation is a global collective responsibility.
Re:Early electric fans on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:47AM (#23485863)
These fans were certainly a luxury item for the time. The average price listed there was about $30. Adjusting for inflation, that's the equivalent of about $750 today (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+since+1911+f...).

Put another way, it was a few weeks worth of the average salary for a railway or steel worker of the era (https://ahundredyearsago.com/2012/09/17/average-salaries-191...).

Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:37AM (#23473959)
The problem with Chrome OS is that it's designed around treating your hardware like a kiosk. This is evident from design decisions like including an SSH console, but then disabling the escape sequences (see: https://codereview.chromium.org/5183004/).
Re:Interactive Map of Linux Kernel on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:44AM (#23453923)
Is there a newer version of this? This is for Linux 2.6.36, released October 2010.