Good. Super-fast growth fucks with local internet culture. Look at what happened to reddit when digg died.
Good. Super-fast growth fucks with local internet culture. Look at what happened to reddit when digg died.
I blame Digg for failing. It increased Reddit’s popularity too fast, which was a bad thing bringing too many people, fucking up the culture reddit had built (which wasn’t much, but it was ours).
It’s a containment site; has been for a while.
This blog is my favorite Linux blog!
I love Robert and his YT antics - his whole “The X command is my favourite Linux command!” shtick was both funny AND informative!
XP file search was slow as shit.
Everything for life! (locate
(package: mlocate
; run updatedb
to get the initial load) for terminal on Linux, or I just use find
)
Windows 10 is RIP October 2025 anyway, so might as well.
Smarter than Zork, worse than a human. Faster response times than humans though.
and occasionally Google translate
deepl.com is a decent alternative, if you want to replace Google Translate
The best implementation of errors as values I’ve seen is Rust’s Result type
You’re talking Monads, baby!
Had to dig around a little, but I think I got some context :
I don’t recall Uncle Bob being sexist or racist, but maybe I missed something.
She ignored community feedback (I want customized channels back!) and turned YouTube into the dopamine riddled mess it is today.
Still, fuck cancer. My condoleances to her survivors.
Wait until people find out you can make the government ban ads - https://www.euronews.com/2014/11/26/grenoble-europe-s-first-ad-free-city/
I like their future (so far).
You didnt say he was wrong though.
Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.
One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can’t swoop in and yoink anything available.
This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is “safe”.
This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.
OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?
weird dude who writes raw HTML
Eyy, that’s me! Good excercise to learn actual HTML, instead of directly trying to jump into <insert random JS framework> and getting confused on what’s what.
Anyway, I ended up switching to Hugo as a static site generator, because it was too damn hard to keep all my <header>, <nav> and <main> aligned for all my HTML files.
Now I can just write a markdown file as an article, or switch back to raw HTML if I so need (like rewriting Alan Turing’s paper " On computable numbers" in HTML because I can’t use TTS on the PDFs I found; I still haven’t finished writing it, because I am now reading E. F. Codd’s papers on the Relational Model, which is pretty wild how we already figured that shit out in the 1970s!)
Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port
Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)
I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that’s on Mars now).
I’d say that’s credentialed enough.
I too wish he did more complex stuff.
Wild that Reddit’s creation is closer to the start of the Eternal September than it is to today (19 years).