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C.M. Kosemen – Dinosauroids [2008/2019]

cmkosemen.com
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They're Closing the Best Boondocking Spots – Here's the Proof

liketheresnotomorrow.net
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Saturn V Haynes Manual

amazon.com
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GUI Wonderland #5 – Apollo Aegis – In a Beautifully Connected World

blisscast.wordpress.com
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VPS/VM

en.wikipedia.org
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The Interactive Lost Place Map

lostfoundations.org
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[untitled]

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Archive of DEC's Easynet NOTESfiles

decnotes.datacellar.net
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Ohara – blockchain verification of non-AI media

github.com
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Effectiveness of Orthokeratology in Myopia Control

link.springer.com
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The Open Web Index

openwebindex.eu
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LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut

blocksandfiles.com
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Zeus, a Marvelous Time-Sharing System (1967) [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by bilegeek·8 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Why LTO-10 fell short on speed and backward compatibility

blocksandfiles.com
21 points·by bilegeek·8 miesięcy temu·9 comments

Can Revolution Survive in the 21st Century?

thenation.com
2 points·by bilegeek·9 miesięcy temu·1 comments

Split Linux – optimized for safely navigating hostile environments

splitlinux.org
4 points·by bilegeek·10 miesięcy temu·0 comments

BastilleBSD Templates

bastillebsd.org
2 points·by bilegeek·10 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Google Groups ending support for Usenet

support.google.com
286 points·by bilegeek·3 lata temu·198 comments

comments

bilegeek
·14 dni temu·discuss
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/
bilegeek
·14 dni temu·discuss
I wish they'd make it easier to adjust individual engine's weight, ideally right from the UI instead of a config file. Personally, after bumping up Google/Wiby and bumping down DDG/Presearch/Startpage (and disabling Bing altogether), results became much better. It still displays some results that only the latter engines turn up, but IMO there's noticeably less cruft.
bilegeek
·14 dni temu·discuss
> There’s still a lot of utility stations in the LF/longwave band. Particularly time signals (WWVB in the US, ALS162 in France, DCF77 in Germany, JJY in Japan, etc.)

I meant just the broadcast band 148.5-283.5 kHz. (Though I'd love if 2200m and 630m were just a bit wider.)

> and NDB beacons.

Good point[1]. So 148.5-200 kHz in ITU Region 2 (and keep LowFER allowances on 160-190kHz as a consolation prize.)

[1]https://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
bilegeek
·14 dni temu·discuss
IMO, when the last LW transmitter shuts down, the whole band needs to be reallocated to hams. Realistic small-ish antennas are shockingly doable with a capacitance hat, loading coil, and counterpoise.
bilegeek
·26 dni temu·discuss
> Memory manufacturers are going to ramp up

Given the prior boom-bust cycles, they are essentially slow-walking expansion to whatever plans they had prior to the AI boom. Don't expect things to let up for awhile, even if AI crashes tomorrow they'll keep supply controlled as long as they can.
bilegeek
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Looks like a 980B. Pic from a DC-8 sim for reference.

https://i.imgur.com/b3py96N.jpeg

https://imgur.com/gallery/dc-8-simulator-xY7eS
bilegeek
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Unfortunately, pre-Domain/OS AEGIS is basically lost. One person popped up with talk of imaging their 9.6 floppies, but I haven't seen anything since then.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/groups/retrocomputers/posts/7062462...
bilegeek
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I hope it won't be this bad forever, but RAM companies are currently slow-walking any booms (not fast-tracking new fabs, etc.) in hopes of avoiding a bust. Seems it'll be more of a slow decay to still-inflated pricing.
bilegeek
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Especially when pretty much all modern political and economic systems are fundamentally incompatible with population decline, and leadership fights changes tooth and nail.
bilegeek
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Fringe definitely handled the continuing storyline much better. The way they blend in, then transition from, the monster-of-the-week format is excellent writing. It did put a deadline on the story, something which the X-Files writers seemed allergic to as the series began aging.
bilegeek
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
They're not buddies per se, but Egypt was the first ME country to normalize relations.
bilegeek
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Seems the only viable solution nowadays is computer monitor + converter box and/or computer + speakers. There's ~$150 32" monitors nowadays, even a few non-TV 42-43 inch monitors if you're willing to spend ~$700-1200.
bilegeek
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I appreciate you setting the bar on necessities. Too many people focus on the... "cheap" "luxuries" like air conditioning, smartphones, internet access.
bilegeek
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
That's also part of the problem. People back then had other systems to make those critiques (or their job didn't require the travel it does now), and now they don't. If alternatives don't exist, and most US people today have never experienced them, there's no demand for them, and you realistically can't expect that demand to come without a massive, grinding slog.

Lack of alternatives + political unwillingness to provide them + lack of political pressure to provide them + the massive effort that would be needed to build a system from scratch that has already been dismantled, and infrastructure is in the way because it wasn't a factor + corruption, democratic decline, etc. = most problems around cars in the USA.
bilegeek
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Can't remember where I got them, but there's some uBO rules that really help on that front:

  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Related to your search/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Related to your searches/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/From related searches/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/People also watched/)
  youtube.com###contents > ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/For you/)
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Watch again/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Searches related to/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Learn while you\'re at home/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope
  youtube.com###secondary > .ytd-two-column-search-results-renderer
  youtube.com###contents > .ytd-secondary-search-container-renderer.style-scope
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/Previously watched/)
Also got some other rules from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332976

This all shouldn't be necessary, but alas...
bilegeek
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Kernel arguments are the primary method: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap#Using_kernel_boot_par...

Snag: I had issues getting it to use zstd at boot. Not sure if it's a bug or some peculiarity with Debian. Ended up compiling my own kernel for other reasons, and was finally able to get zstd by default, but otherwise I'd have to make/add it to a startup script.
bilegeek
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Counterargument: you can mostly disable zswap writeback, so it will only use the swap partition when hibernating[1].

[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_an...
bilegeek
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> Maybe this will be the push to get enough people on board to make it (or something like it) feasible?

That won't save you from being targeted. Flawed methodology from the prosecution doesn't matter if all your stuff gets seized, and they really want to hurt you. See Black Ice:

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/Freenet/comments/4ebw9w/more_inform...

[2]https://retro64xyz.gitlab.io/assets/pdf/blackice_project.pdf
bilegeek
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> People also like to restore the SGI Indy

Because the Indy (and O2) are actually attainable. Indigo2, Octane2, Tezro cost 2-3x minimum. Sometimes a Personal IRIS comes up for relatively cheap though.
bilegeek
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Eventually Asahi will catch up... if Apple doesn't turn around and purposely make it harder, hopefully we didn't just get lucky they were feeling "benevolent" with earlier M-series.