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timbit42··on Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
timbit42··on The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)
It's on Apple and Audible (56 minutes): https://www.audible.ca/podcast/How-our-education-system-is-f...
timbit42··on The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)
https://www.audible.ca/podcast/How-our-education-system-is-f...
timbit42··on The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)
This is Part 1 and only 6 minutes long. The links to Part 2 are broken.
timbit42··on The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
It might be if this was about age verification, but it isn't, so it isn't.
timbit42··on A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)
How so?
timbit42··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
Six Mexicans, not six Americans.
timbit42··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
That doesn't matter very much when the top speed is 50 kph.
timbit42··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
It's top speed is 50 kph so it's not for travelling very far or on highways.
timbit42··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
There are a couple of partial interior shots on their home page: https://www.olinia.auto/
timbit42··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
I hope we don't see these on any highways. They can only do 50 kph.
timbit42··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
The abbreviation for miles is mi.
timbit42··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Require all feeds to be chronological.
timbit42··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
How far is your car parked from your home? I'd be happy if these features only worked within BT range.
timbit42··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
That doesn't block tracking.
timbit42··on UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s
Then let Darwinism rule.
timbit42··on EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision
> But more important would be to ask yourself what happens as more and more people become parts of the "needs" group, who will be left to contribute to fund those with needs?

If that happens, you're doing it wrong. The point of helping people with social programs is to ensure (ideally) no one falls through the cracks and becomes an even bigger cost to society, so they can eventually contribute to society again instead of being a cost to it instead of getting trapped in poverty.

Of course, some people are not well enough they will ever be able to contribute to society, but providing them with the basics is less expensive to society than not doing so.

timbit42··on Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
Well, they didn't walk out about AI...
timbit42··on There's still no point in gigabit broadband
No one said that. Not even Bill Gates.
timbit42··on There's still no point in gigabit broadband
No one said that.
timbit42··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
Many, perhaps most, of the teachers are underpaid. If spending more money isn't helping, there are probably too many middle-managers sucking up the money. Remove some of the middle-managers and divert their money to the teachers.
timbit42··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
The world would still have them but perhaps not as quickly is the only difference.
timbit42··on Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
Sysops did but BBS users didn't need to do that.
timbit42··on Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)
1:255/42 here
timbit42··on US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
Whether that is good or bad depends on their cost of living.
timbit42··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Because it didn't come back for hours.
timbit42··on Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
It's a non-numbered line.
timbit42··on C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”
Sword of Fargoal and Pirates! were both almost entirely written in uncompiled BASIC.
timbit42··on Google Declaring War on the Web
There are a lot of uninformed consumers who are buying/using things they might not if they were informed.
timbit42··on Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)
I've benchmarked Applesoft and Commodore BASIC quite a bit and they benchmark exactly the same, so I'm not surprised. Both systems run at 1.023 MHz in NTSC. Of course, they are both derived from Microsoft's 6502 BASIC. I'm sure they're not cycle exact but they are close enough that BASIC doesn't show any difference.
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