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I switched my mom from Windows to Linux years ago and have not had a single issue since. Actually, the only real issue I have is her distro is now so old it's well beyond LTS and I'll have to probably re-install to do any upgrades.

I never knew about this trick. Very cool, thanks for sharing!

I've been using Elementary OS for a few major versions now. It's become my main desktop OS.

I'm a bit worried about putting too much into the "store" and their own browser, but so far it hasn't impacted me any. Anything that applies to Ubuntu proper applies in eOS for the most part, but the UX is just much more polished.

When I first saw it I was worried of too much "MacOS" like (which I'm not a fan of), but that has't been the case for me at all.

While HTTP/2 has very clear advantages in many areas, it's losing out on some major HTTP/1 advantages that have allowed it to last so long. Most importantly: Simplicity. One can create HTTP/1 server in just a few lines of code. It's the same sort of reason AT commands are still used over simple serial devices.

While a lot of the modern web is great, it also has drawbacks that should be looked at very carefully: A simple HTTP page from yonder can still be rendered just fine. A modern page can't be rendered properly a year or so down the line. We need modern protocols to solve modern problems we've created such as huge pages with tons of links and back and forth traffic to many servers. While I think work needs to be done in both directions, I don't know what we really need to go so far as to push down yet another HTTP/x protocol this soon. HTTP/1 is going to be used for quite a while still, HTTP/2 solves a lot, and where it matters (ie: dealing with specialized servers) QUIC is already and has been in use.

There's a fairly interesting write up on TempleOS here: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...

People that do that have essentially be rejected from society already -- very often largely due to lack of education and opportunity.

Wish I could remember the trick, but in the DOS days I used to type in a few characters (5ish IIRC) at the start of text files that allowed them to be renamed and executed as COM files.

I'm currently using DoorWay in DOSEMU under Linux native, so I'm sure it would work in this case

Don't forget that there are many active BBS's still around - and even new software being developed for nostalgic fun. Many include hook ups to BBSLink, DoorParty!, and a few other game servers that serve up tons of doors with large player bases.

See http://telnetbbsguide.com/ (seems to be being funky right now) or self plug! https://xibalba.l33t.codes/

What are thoughts on what one could potentially achieve with connectable devices?

ownCloud and never looked back

This sounds interesting... Integration with the major password managers would help adoption I'd think.

Fish shell is the first thing I install on my setups. Been using it for a few years now and love - and advocate for - it.

I grew up doing the BBS thing for many years, then when the internet started emerging with CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL a lot of us effectively moved there. Illicit things I remember the "AOL era":

* CC generators actually worked to create an account that would last a good amount of time

* In the early days (~ AOL v2.5) they had a CGI form you could fill out and have a disc sent to your home. So of course we scripted it and had hundreds of free formattable 3.5"'s. A bit down the road and MS had a similar thing for Windows '95 replacement discs -- they'd send you the entire set if one was bad, which was a lot of good discs :)

* AOL at one point allowed ordering physical products (early digital cameras and the like) via your account credit. Mix in a phished account and you can see how that goes.

* I can't remember the names right now, but there were services in which you could pick up a CD and get free dial-up email access. The gig is they would show you ads. Patch the EXE and viola, you essentially just have a PPP account to the web.

Somehow I'm not surprised. Incidents are now caught on camera and spread around the news & social media. Yet, in a large portion of the cases where the cops are clearly in the wrong they get a slap on the wrist if that.

There is no real incentive to change their behavior camera or not.

Great news, and thanks for including the customer use cases!

Another post to just say thank you for this great product! Awesome work!

Great work!

I see this triggered a post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15313838

Don't forget HN over Gopher: gopher://hngopher.com:70/

Any relation to https://github.com/copy/v86?

To be clear, I'm not advocating for a donation model instead of a free personal use vs paid commercial. I'm suggesting to remove the header and urge personal users to donate a bit.

> and I'm not convinced that the "variety of reasons" are compelling.

I really don't want to be a jerk here, but you don't need to be convinced. If the general community feels a certain way, and you wish for said community to favor you, you must abide.

Hi Matt! I've been using and advocating for Caddy for a while now, but I have to say this is a huge put-off.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm in full support of a commercial version... but as you can see from the feedback here, this kind of thing is really frowned upon in the personal / OSS space for a variety of reasons.

I encourage you to re-consider added headers. Perhaps look at a more heavy handed download process such as the "Pay as you want" system used by ElementaryOS's download page (https://elementary.io/).

Thank you for your hard work! THIS is the editor I use on Windows, Linux, and OS X. You will not find a box that I work on without Sublime running.

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If you haven't seen it, this is a pretty good documentary on the whole situation: http://kimdotcom.film/

Signed, a guy who makes his living pushing nuclear.

A fine way to go.

⋊> ~/Downloads unzip exa-linux-x86_64-0.7.0.zip Archive: exa-linux-x86_64-0.7.0.zip inflating: exa-linux-x86_64

⋊> ~/Downloads ./exa-linux-x86_64 --version 15:26:40 ./exa-linux-x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libhttp_parser.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

...yup.

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• AWS, large amounts of data, and hundreds of thousands of clients

• Nitty gritty system level programming all the way up to UX

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