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Yep for the web they worked better. I don't remember midi files getting as close to popular music as mods did. Then mp3 happened and you could download an MP3 in about quarter of an hour in that era. You could hear a midi though in the browser, but mod wasn't as convenient.

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I remember .mod music files more than midi

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

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2 ay öncediscuss

https://archive.ph/jR2LF

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6 ay öncediscuss

> Aix

This is more a limitation on the architecture - virtually nobody has power arch hanging around to play on.

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8 ay öncediscuss

I would say use flickr, but that's shitified now.

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8 ay öncediscuss

pkill -9 -f '(chrome|firefox)' is my rage quit, it's like hanging up but hitting the keys on the keyboard as hard as you'd throw the phone down

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8 ay öncediscuss

Interestingly, chatgpt was unavailable due to the same cloudflare outage.

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8 ay öncediscuss

Likely the $3000 was needed to stand up a network that can handle the request load from hacker news.

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8 ay öncediscuss

> I used per-account email with alias services and password managers.

20-something-ish years ago I setup qmail in my VPS and a .qmail-default file captures all my me-sitename@vps emails. If they send me junk I echo '#' > .qmail-sitename and that's the end of it.

Other things that get a mixture like someone annoying who harvested my ebay/paypal addresses or something, I'll sift out the good (stuff I need) via maildrop and everything else gets junked.

Honestly one of the best, but annoying, things I've done, well worth the time invested as I have a nice clean mailbox.

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8 ay öncediscuss

If you have the luxury, switch to different OS user accounts. mr_shopping for online buying, mr_games for games, .. mr_rascal for you know what. The attack surface isn't any different, but the blast radius might be.

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9 ay öncediscuss

Saw the long passwords are cursed one. Reminded me of ancient DES unix passwords only reading the first eight characters. What's old is new again...

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9 ay öncediscuss

> Last week, I got a LinkedIn message

Are there any moderators left at LinkedIn?

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9 ay öncediscuss

GitLab, not GitHub. I think the distinction is that you can have a on-prem GitLab (as well as hosted online). The implication here being that RedHat probably had very relaxed account security.

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10 ay öncediscuss

They do, whilst they have a minor user base. If they become the majority they'll lose funding.

So from Mozilla's point of view, they must be continually worse alternative. They'd shoot themselves in the foot if they looked like the better alternative.

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10 ay öncediscuss

I think the paranoia stems from the HID inserting winflag+r, powershell curl https... which installs keylogging software. It can do that after a 10 minute or so countdown timer so it might not seem immediately obvious, or might seem like part of a auto-update with powershell postinstall.

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10 ay öncediscuss

I have a reciprocating saw in the shed already.

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10 ay öncediscuss

> No one uses IRC anymore, certainly not teenagers.

Really? People of any age will use whatever the group is using to talk with, because that's where the talk is happening. Most teenagers don't use Slack either, but will if the group notes say use this. There might be some "no one uses" argument because usage has dropped off almost everything since web searching got a lot better. There are fewer lingering people because most answers are readily available. Remember TLDP days? Search is so much better now.

We're not on about general IRC though, just for semi-private use where Slack would have been an IM tool.

> And I'm sure you're smart enough to see obvious differences between email and a real time chat platform.

How is email not a real time chat platform? I see plenty of chat happening on mail lists, and I certainly can't out-type email delivery. Sure, mail sometimes needs a DNS lookup, sometimes has anti-virus/spam filtering too. Maybe that's better for public chat systems anyway.

Thinking more about it, I'd rather have maillists than a web/electron client.

I'm not on about using email for all IM (but it could be), I'm on about more useful messages that you'd want searched later. "Hey, I'm doing X on Y day, here's what you need to know", most of the time this sort of thing gets missed in a IM flood channel.

I don't see much difference between Slack/Teams etc and IRC or maillists, just the tools that existed before are much lighter and have so many more clients you can use the one you know already most of the time.

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10 ay öncediscuss

Large organisations have less excuse, not more. I've worked across the industry, at various levels. The bigger the org, the more layers of compliance that have to be adhered to. A competent and compliant sales team would not be pulling figures at random to extort with. The sales team is normally bonus motivated, normally that type of reward system ensures they're not just chair warming.

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10 ay öncediscuss

Maybe. Not deliberately playing the contrarian, but consider perhaps one of the largest, and longest running software projects, the Linux Kernel, which has existed for a long time now using mail lists and IRC. Most mail clients can filter mail quite well, and everything is in one place, easily searched etc and has open protocols.

Using something browser bases puts you into a position where you have to choose between one or two browser engines and suffer however they manage the CPU and RAM.

Teams hogged the RAM and CPU when I used it in the browser, for what wasn't much more than IRC, and a terrible message archive. Mattermost isn't much better at searching either, and it's mostly glorified IRC channels. The only niche is perhaps mobile users, who, could arguably also use an IRC client or browser based one at that.

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10 ay öncediscuss

> What an unnecessarily hostile take.

I like to defend as much as the next person, but the defence from Slack ignores the approach.

"It was a mistake" isn't enough to gloss over the trouble, as a service provider, they caused. What a rug pull, and to then perhaps blame it on a sales person isn't right. They saw a lot of users and tried to extort, no negotiation.

Honestly though, what can slack do that can't be accomplished by a good old-fashioned mail list or IRC?

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