Thoreandan

Is this site AI generated?

I ran into this in Zork before seeing it in real life. I feel seen that it's mentioned in the article.

So.... this is about a pay-subscription search engine called 'Kagi' out of Palo Alto, founded 2018.

Made me think and have to do some digging for the 'Kagi' out of Berkeley founded in the 90s where you could register your shareware purchases in the days before PayPal. Which seems to have been largely scrubbed from history outside of some WayBack snapshots.

https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/01/kagi-shuts-down/

https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...

Also Autoruns from SysInternals ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut... ) "Explorer" tab lets you un-check / check individual entries.

A quick glance at USPTO and https://www.f5.com/company/policies/trademarks confirms this.

So... Jill of the Jungle and Eva Earlong are now officially Disney Princesses.

The term I've heard is "John Doe lawsuit"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_defendants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena

There's several attorneys whose websites outline what's involved.

I've been using it since ’93 or thereabouts before it became a GNU project. Continues to work fine for me.

Nice article!

The hand-annotated code chart reminded me how 1989's LPMUD from Sweden wrote the author's name as "Lars Pensj|" since "Pensjö" couldn't be done in 7-bit ASCII. I guess it would've been "Pensj@" in EBCDIC.

Nobody's paid to have it pass Open Group Unix Branding certification tests

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

so it can't use the UNIX™ trade mark.

But it's got the AT&T Unix kernel & userland sources contained in it.

PDP-11 Unix System III: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/src/ut...

IllumOS: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/b8169dedfa435c0...

For me:

* Not having "extended partitions" as a concept to deal with

* OS booting not dependant on "load an MSDOS bootblock from LBA offset X"

What I dislike:

* Not having a minimal straightforward shell to troubleshoot from

* Not letting the UEFI variables be easily user accessible/fixable

(2008)

Livingston Enterprises products (Portmaster and IRX routers) running ComOS were x86

Is this word salad a joke?

> if he had been more methodological

I assure you as someone who was reading WikiLeaks from before the big ones, they were extensively methodological, working with journalists and actually contacting the government with notices of upcoming releases providing them the opportunity to request reasonable redactions. They were as good or better than the infosec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_vulnerability_disc... community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator) links to it.

That blew some dust off some brain cells. ^_^

So… anyone gonna make a libpurple plug-in?

It's good to see BallBlazer mentioned, but the article/video feels like it's incomplete without mentioning Dimension X (which also alternates between tank realtime combat and tunnel travel dodging walls) and Atari’s Battlezone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_X_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)

Neither Firefox nor Chrome (desktop) can successfully save full-sized screenshots of this.

I wonder what their trick is.

Hear hear. It's really inexcusable — if there's a bug in a shared library, that library should be fixed across the board. That, and the implementation is cartoonishly bad, for example you can't extend a partition while the system is running the way that you could before, because you've got random read-only file systems mounted over root.

If the money spent on the salaries of the CADT developers making this were spent on the Debian package maintenance, many problems would vanish.

The WayBack Machine's 2018 snapshot <https://web.archive.org/web/20181008124103/https://www.scu.e...> dates this article to (2007)

Hugged to death?

In the README found in the root of the repo you posted a link to, you'll find the domain man7-dot-org mentioned as the site run by Michael Kerrisk who has been running it for years.

More details at

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html

and

http://blog.man7.org/2013/05/adding-further-man-pages-to-htm...

Naive question, In 2023 how does DNS-over-HTTP (DoH) affect things like the Cisco Distributed Director / F5 3-DNS where DNS is used to control which datacenters customer traffic is going to? Is this still a technology smaller sites can use?

Relevant occurrence in GPS history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

As far as I've seen X11 has always been considered Free without-strong-copyleft by rms/GNU.

They were /not/ in favor of the proprietary Motif desktop environment, nor the (at the time, non-FLOSS Qt library dependent) KDE (C++) environment, hence the FSF creating the GNOME (C) environment. "...GNOME and KDE will remain two rival desktops, unless some day they can be merged in some way. Until then, the GNU Project is going to support its own team vigorously. Go get ’em, gnomes!"

https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/stallman-on-qt-the-gpl-...

Related - the BSD License:

> ...a quote directly from Bostic himself. I asked him about it, after reading this FSF page: "People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like GNU/Linux. The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them..."

http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/15/rmsf/

> in a scientific article, this is insane language to use and really calls into question the assumptions and conclusions.

Springer Nature would appear to disagree with your assertion.

"Authors should use the terms sex (biological attribute) and gender (shaped by social and cultural circumstances) carefully in order to avoid confusing both terms. Article titles and/or abstracts should indicate clearly what sex(es) the study applies to. Authors should also describe in the background, whether sex and/or gender differences may be expected; report how sex and/or gender were accounted for in the design of the study; provide disaggregated data by sex and/or gender, where appropriate; and discuss respective results. If a sex and/or gender analysis was not conducted, the rationale should be given in the Discussion. These guidelines apply to studies involving humans, vertebrate animals and cell lines."

https://www.springernature.com/gp/policies/book-publishing-p....

There is a different but similar lossless compression benchmark which just had a new front-runner using LLMs, see https://bellard.org

World Power Systems' explanation of what ASCII/Unicode control characters were actually used for, with details about pre-ASCII codes.

WPS (aka Tom Jennings, creator of FidoNet) used to be at wps-dot-com.