I remember that way back in the last century, a lot of Windows users had opinions about their favorite file manager, with plenty of commercial apps in that space (and quite a few shareware Norton Commander clones).
Some of this carried over from their DOS days, but even new users got into this.
I think my Amiga using friends had similar holy wars, with Dopus being popular, but others (and not just plain WB) being present, too.
Did "classic" Mac OS have something similar?
I've extended the Libreboot 9020 clearance sale to November 25th; I'm spending the time to polish Libreboot for a new stable release around that time, November 25th.
I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer. Sales fund Libreboot. Libreboot (preinstalled) is free/opensource firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI.
Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD.
Libreboot 9020 price further reduced; was Β£218, then 138, now 118. New products to launch by the 25th.
I've said it before and I'll say it again
Bluesky is federated in theory
Fedi is federated in practice
The Mozilla foundation has an open survey about how they should approach the future, if you care feel free to fill it out. Especially so if you've been unhappy about the organization for years https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/101
What are some interesting programming languages that have multiple usable (full-fledged, not "micro") implementations? Preferably with good standards.
Right now that would seem to apply to C, Scheme and Javascript (barely).
It used to apply to some Wirthian languages, but I don't really see that many Modula-2 compilers I can run on modern systems anymore.
I enjoyed reading this article about the completion of much needed #Colossus building repairs at The National Museum of Computing.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/the_national_museum_of_computing/
@foone a while ago i attempted to crush the movie "hot fuzz" down into a single floppy. i never ended up properly succeeding. oddly enough it was the audio that was the biggest hurdle, since no codecs supported a bitrate low enough to fit alongside the video. i did manage to get just the video portion in, it was practically unwatchable, but you could just about make out what was going on. in the end i had to settle for splitting it across 3 disks to be able to include heavily crushed audio
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, #Ilive (hmm, if I were also #evil, that would be a pallindrome as well as a visual collision)
Fascinating (if I do say so) #lispgames #gamejam #gamedev #retrospective on #itch_io
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/834615/princess-revisited
I am enormously happy with the
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language dynamic, and how it shares your #lisp #repl, and their concerns are just... Different so they don't collide.
I guess I get my #languageDesign friends a little better now.
Thoughts?
i've noticed i often need to buy some specific thing nowadays and i can't find anywhere physically that sells it anymore other than online. like the specialist stores just don't exist anymore, they're all online-only, and the giant general superstores haven't necessarily picked up the slack, even if they have stuff they'll only have one, and it'll be the worst one imaginable. i think peak "being able to buy a big selection of things in person" was about 20 years ago now
if i go into town to buy a radio. can i? just a radio. just something anyone has been able to go and buy for the last 70 years. can you still just buy "a radio"? a lot of the general home department store type thing has been shutting down lately. the tech type places just sell computer stuff and phone chargers. big supermarkets with a large electronics section probably have a cheapest-of-the-cheap shower radio in the shape of a seahorse hopefully. a seahorse for your earthquake/hurricane go-bag
@ajroach42 there was some of this culture of publishing and curation in the early pre web2.0. I ran a weekly online magazine for indie film and we had clear defined issues - 99 of them - with a curated mix of interviews, news, reviews and editorial. We made no money but after that I worked for shootingpeople.org - an email newsletter that 10,000+ people paid to receive and every night was curated from submissions from those same paying readers. It worked online but Web2.0 killed it.
Great podcast chat for anybody that loves retro computing, #Forth, #BBS systems or #RC2014
https://straypointers.com/e/s2e18.htm
Featuring @Wintermute_BBS
