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by coldacid 1mo ago
Even so, good business decisions were very rare at Commodore post-Tramiel. The only CEO who seemed to have a functional head on his shoulders was Thomas Rattigan, and he got canned after a year as CEO because Irving Gould was jealous of him
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by coldacid 4mo ago
Remember when the web was (almost) all static content and all browsers had to do was show it to you? When applications were native? We really need to go back.
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by coldacid 4mo ago
> It is not a spread sheet org-tables would disagree.
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by coldacid 4mo ago
The way governments these days use corporations and NGOs to work around constitutional restrictions, I'm sure they're pretty happy leaving the payment processors as-is.
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by coldacid 4mo ago
"Don't worry! I'm from the government and I'm here to ~~help~~ identify you to everyone else on the planet." That's no better, and in many ways far worse, than the corpos doing it.
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by coldacid 6mo ago
You can always use a distro that doesn't use systemd or roll your own. Sure you lose the GNOME desktop environment, but if you ask me that's a net positive.
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by coldacid 6mo ago
systemd is not monolithic in the same way that a brick wall is not monolithic. Sure it's made up of a bunch of smaller parts, but when you start removing any of them, the whole thing starts to fall apart.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Qt?
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by coldacid 3y ago
>I couldn't see a 16-32 bit story. It's like it hit the spot, and stopped growing. And yet WDC (Bill Mensch's company post-Commodore) put out the 65816, a 16-bit expansion of the 6502 that was the core of the Super Nintend
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by coldacid 3y ago
Steam's end of service on Windows 7 and 8 is based on CEF, just as it was for XP and Vista. I don't see Google/Chromium dropping Windows 10 support at Microsoft's EOL especially given how much market share Win10 still ha
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by coldacid 3y ago
That's a shame, because there's a lot more to Commodore than just the 64 (even if that _was_ the best microcomputer of all time).
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by coldacid 3y ago
No link to EAB?[0] Amiga Future?[1] [0]: https://eab.abime.net/ [1]: https://www.amigafuture.de/
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by coldacid 3y ago
In other words, you're simply making an _assumption_ that Valve will instantly drop support at Microsoft's EOL date.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Project is deprecated in favour of the same developer's lexbor project[0]. [0]: https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor
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by coldacid 3y ago
This is the first I'm hearing that Steam's dropping Windows 10 support, got a source on this?
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by coldacid 3y ago
We really do.
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by coldacid 3y ago
How can they just claim the city's been "found" when it's been known about for half a century? All they did (that's relevant to the article) is a recent LIDAR survey of a site they've been digging on for 25 yea
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by coldacid 3y ago
HTTP(S)-only _is_ the limit.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Nobody has ever accused Cogent of being reasonable or competent.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Yeah but there's nothing saying that you have to support _every_ platform Unity runs on if you offer some package extending the engine.
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by coldacid 3y ago
>I’d expect that if the maker undertook a thorough and well-documented search for the rights holder; then just made it anyway, they’d legally be covered In a sane, rational world that would probably be the case. Too bad we don't liv
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by coldacid 3y ago
And an MFC demo application.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Because you bought a closed-source device by which you surrendered your privacy to whatever the source-controlling company wants.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Any hints on what's next? Smalltalk, perhaps, or HyperCard, or maybe NeXTSTEP Interface Builder?
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by coldacid 3y ago
There are so many quality of life improvements I could make for myself if only Pipes was still around. Nothing I've encountered since has ever matched or beat it.
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by coldacid 3y ago
Nah, in those days everyone was either offering POSIX.1 support or even providing their own custom Unix distribution for their machines, because it was the only way to get US government contracts. This is why things like Amix, Atari UNIX, a
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by coldacid 3y ago
I'd love to hear both.
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by coldacid 3y ago
"Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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by coldacid 3y ago
And that's fine, but chances are that any instances which would federate with Threads would probably get defederated by many of the instances which refuse to federate with it. We've already seen this behaviour in fediblock drama,
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by coldacid 3y ago
Yeah but even those of us on Fun Fedi don't want Meta around.

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