asjo

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by asjo 27d ago
Yeah, "nordic" keyboards are a pain. I always get a Danish, or extra keycaps :-)
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by asjo 29d ago
At least Danish and Norwegian share the order; the order is ÆØÅ in Danish as well :-)
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by asjo 29d ago
The Swedish Academy < https://www.svenskaakademien.se/en > has a word list (SAOL < https://svenska.se/om/om-ordbockerna/#saol >) of around 127,600 current Swedish words, and a Swedish dict
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by asjo 4mo ago
Oh, there was some spam and a lot of political stuff due to the hierarchical nature of Fidonet. Tiny Denmark had 3 networks. No AI slop, luckily. And a lot of fun. I used to run 2:230/149 on Fidonet. Can't remember my AmiNet add
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by asjo 8mo ago
In case you feel like visiting usenet as it looked 40+ years ago, I run https://olduse.net/ - which Joey Hess originally did as an art project - where you can connect a news reader (Thunderbird, Gnus, slrn, nn, tin, Pan, or
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by asjo 11mo ago
The D in DHTML is usually short for "Dynamic". Around the time that abbreviation became fashionable using a lot of DIV elements also did, but that wasn't what the "D" stood for. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by asjo 1y ago
This is why I read RSS over NNTP: https://feedbase.org/ (Shameless plug: I made Feedbase.)
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by asjo 1y ago
It was indeed - one was fired against a club house, in 1996: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Poulsen
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by asjo 1y ago
What is a "Markdown Paper"?
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by asjo 1y ago
That's kinda mean. Surely Windows ME was peak Microsoft.
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by asjo 2y ago
My system updates¹ the entry and marks the changes in the first case. What is right and what is wrong depends on what you want, I think. The latter is annoying, I agree. ¹ It is an NNTP interface so the article is superseded; https:/&
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by asjo 2y ago
Yes, the `guid` field in RSS and the `id` field in Atom.
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by asjo 2y ago
rachelbythebay has a service and a series of blog posts about the technical side of this, starting at https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/ TL;DR: readers should not poll more often than onc
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by asjo 2y ago
I got the same with Firefox 114 - so I used `M-x eww` in Emacs and read the page that way.
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by asjo 2y ago
Paging sysop... paging sysop... paging sysop... :-)
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by asjo 2y ago
The FS-UAE emulator ( https://fs-uae.net/ ) emits the familiar grinding floppy disk sounds of Amigas, if you need a hit without getting the old hardware out :-) I was surprised by the sounds while trying "Little Computer
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by asjo 2y ago
In my day we made (some parts of) a kernel on Motorola 68000-boxes - they were quite main stream at the time.
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by asjo 3y ago
Which feels like a cover of Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson.
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by asjo 3y ago
The PostgreSQL manual states: > the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB. · https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h... See also: https://www.postgre
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by asjo 4y ago
I had been wanting to learn Haskell for a long time, and came to the conclusion that without an actual project, I would never get anywhere. However when I started working on Feedbase (2015) I wasn't really good enough at Haskell to ac
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by asjo 4y ago
Jam: haha, cool, I will let you know when there is something to look at.
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by asjo 4y ago
There used to be a distributed, cooperative spam-marking system in usenet - the name escapes me right now - but I'm not sure it ever worked really well.
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by asjo 4y ago
Some blogs have a regular feed and a comment feed - I haven't really tried to use the latter, as comments in many places unfortunately is even more spammy than usenet. It would be fun if you could post comments to the original blogs th
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by asjo 4y ago
Good point, that's perhaps a little too jargon-y. I will see if I can reword it in a more accessible way.
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by asjo 4y ago
Any nntp client that renders HTML. Most obvious choices are Gnus, if you like Emacs, and Thunderbird. You can use more old school clients such as slrn, tin, and nn - but usually displaying HTML takes some work. Pan is another GUI client, I
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by asjo 4y ago
I would think INN2 ( https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/ ) is the most widely used - it is still maintained and readily available in eg Debian. I don't know if you would define it as "modern&qu
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by asjo 4y ago
I haven't released the source code, it's an ungodly mix of Perl and Haskell, but maybe I will try and clean it up a little and make it public - it's quite hardcoded, eg the domain, currently. How do you keep up with 1000+ fee
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by asjo 4y ago
"modern" is often overrated.
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by asjo 4y ago
And arguably the venerable Apache HTTP Server · https://httpd.apache.org/ :-)

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