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TI-74 Basicalc(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rbc 20d ago|1 comments
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by rbc 20d ago
With all the buzz about the return of the Commodore 64, the days of 8-bit computing and the BASIC programming language are probably getting more attention than usual. Managing to get caught up in retro computing, I've recently bought t
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by rbc 2mo ago
GNU Emacs is probably the easiest way to capture the spirit of working on the Lisp machines. Interlisp is an ongoing project that takes you even further down that road.
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Return of RSS Feeds
5 points by rbc 3mo ago|1 comments
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The Legal and Policy Fallout from Data Center Strikes in the Middle East War(techpolicy.press)
4 points by rbc 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rbc 6mo ago
I'm using KDE Akregator. It's nice to have a consistant interface for checking the headlines, and only opening web pages to give them a closer look.
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by rbc 7mo ago
This is one of those articles that demonstrates why email should be distributed. Letting Google and Microsoft run email for the planet is just asking for problems. There are some technical demands to running email services, but they are sti
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by rbc 8mo ago
At work, my employer is still running Microsoft products for the desktop environment. At home, assuming I'm using Microsoft products at all (rare), it's from inside the Chromium web browser on Linux or BSD.
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by rbc 9mo ago
An attempt to write English based on Anglo-Saxon runes (Futhorc) devised by Nothelm Hurlebatte.
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Younger Futhorc (ᛡᛟᛝᛖᚱ᛬ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ)(omniglot.com)
36 points by rbc 9mo ago|7 comments
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by rbc 10mo ago
I think it depends on your needs. Working corporate environments with 1000+ hosts, LTS operating systems are big help. On the other hand, for smaller cases, call it a work group or smaller, I think OpenBSD provides a base system that doesn&
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The Lambda Papers: When Lisp Got Turned into a Microprocessor(hackaday.com)
27 points by rbc 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rbc 1y ago
The Trinity Desktop Environment is still carrying the KDE 3.5 torch. The Q4OS Linux distribution (Debian based) provides it as a primary desktop.
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by rbc 1y ago
Another way to think about it is that the terminal has become software, like many other things. Web browsers have become a terminal of sorts too.
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by rbc 1y ago
This clearly shows the risk of letting someone else run your email services.
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by rbc 1y ago
I read this with some interest because I've self hosted personal email since about 2001, with experience in email management going back to 1995. The challenges presented are certainly true enough, but I still think self hosting is stil
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Reasons I self-host everything but my own email server(xda-developers.com)
6 points by rbc 1y ago|4 comments
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by rbc 1y ago
I'd call it more than a shell. It's more like a text oriented Lisp (Emacs Lisp to be specific) runtime environment with built in editing, interpretation, compilation, and debugging tools. It's also been a popular home for num
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GCL 2.7.1 Release Notes(gnu.org)
3 points by rbc 1y ago|2 comments
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by rbc 2y ago
Regarding the Common Lisp writings, I rather liked the third edition of LISP by Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold K.P. Horn (1989).
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by rbc 2y ago
Very recently, I tried using a combination of nail(1), and calendar(1) on OpenBSD as an email and calendaring combination for home use. "nail" is provided by the OpenBSD s-nail package and provides an extended POSIX mailx style en
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by rbc 2y ago
Maybe this will provide some momentum to SeaMonkey or other browsers?
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by rbc 2y ago
I wanted the TI-99/4 that was marketed at the beginning of the 80s. As it turned out, I didn't own a computer until buying a Tandy PC-6 pocket computer in the mid-eighties. Fast forward to buying the later TI-99/4A in the bei
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Elon Musk's DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL(fastcompany.com)
45 points by rbc 2y ago|38 comments
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by rbc 2y ago
I'm familiar with a site that once had around 30 Vaxen for scientific computing in the late 1980s. This included Vax 11/780s, 11/750s, uVax I's, uVax II's and eventually a Vax 8800 used to feed a Cray Y-MP. All long
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by rbc 2y ago
I don't. A laptop is used for email when needed.
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by rbc 2y ago
I run email for myself with OpenBSD. The only spam mitigation is spamd(8) in blacklist mode, using nixspam. DKIM isn't checked for inbound mail. Outbound email is signed using the opensmtpd-filter-dkimsign package. There's some sp
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by rbc 2y ago
I think running daemon mode has significant advantages. You can have frames running on multiple virtual desktops for different uses. You can also step away from a buffer, and return to it, maybe from some other location on a different compu
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by rbc 2y ago
One thing about Emacs, is it's not really just an editor anymore. Comparing it to other editors kind of misses the mark. It's more like an integrated Lisp development and runtime environment. It reminds me of Smalltalk environment
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by rbc 2y ago
I've become a fairly loyal OpenBSD user in the last 3-4 years. The base OpenBSD load includes a substantial amount of network capabilities, and is cleanly implemented. It's almost too cleanly implemented, to the point of making me

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