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unixhero··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
That is correct. And I get 10-30 000 usd in business class tickets per year for a fraction (only paying taxes) with companion tickets and bonus points to buy business tickets. It is an expensive hobby but totally worth it.

I am also about to score life time golf status at one of the airlines. Yes thank you

unixhero··on Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
Yeah but corporations who operate teams will want to stay in their licensing walled garden regardless of it being humans or agents.
unixhero··on How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
Me too
unixhero··on Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
But teams already have planner. No Microsoft zealot organizations are using Trello anymore
unixhero··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
I for one enjoy my cash back points with American Express. This is not a commercial.
unixhero··on Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
Is this the way we can have HL3 also?
unixhero··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Good to reduce fraud, isn't this zero trust in practice.
unixhero··on Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2
I for one is awaiting for the world to completely decompile and or reverse engineering the IBM mainframe microcodes for all their machines.

Number 1 because Mainframes without the microcode is sent to the junkyard.

unixhero··on OpenClaw is changing my life
Cool! With openclaw or with Claude?
unixhero··on A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System
Awesome thanks a lot
unixhero··on Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
Personality was an OS aphorism that went longer back than NT I believe. But my memory is fuzzy on this.

Edit! Memory unfuzzed: It was Workplace OS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS

unixhero··on A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System
The terminal client program named "x3270 emulator"?
unixhero··on Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney
What about Larry 4 Roar and Al
unixhero··on Microsoft's Azure Linux
This is the most absurd news I have read in a while. I for one welcome our new open source overlords.
unixhero··on Android’s desktop interface leaks
Yeah back in 2019
unixhero··on Android’s desktop interface leaks
I already have Samsung Dex. Is that the same as this?
unixhero··on LLM-as-a-Courtroom
Excuse my ignorance: Is this not exactly what you can ask Chatgpt to assist with.
unixhero··on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
At this point these are just English sentences. I am not worried about this threat model at all.
unixhero··on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
The most popular modules downloaded off pip and npm are not singular simple functions and cannot easily be rewritten by an llm.

Scikit-learn

Pandas

Polars

unixhero··on Show HN: VM-curator – a TUI alternative to libvirt and virt-manager
I see...

To be fair the archive.org links probably does not change much

unixhero··on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
Yep and politicians believe they can recreate utopian Singapore wherever they are governing. Regarding eliminating car use.
unixhero··on Show HN: VM-curator – a TUI alternative to libvirt and virt-manager
Does it fetch the hardrive inages for all these preconfigured ones from somewhere? That would be a huge timesaver.
unixhero··on Internet Archive's Storage
Haha and with battles in the form of massive flame wars?
unixhero··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
Stallman was correct
unixhero··on Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
I dod not know thr 8086 had microcode. What was in it?
unixhero··on SETI@home is in hiberation
There was another launched around the same time as Seti@Home and before Folsing@Home. It was called IBM Grid.org [0]. It did the same as Seti@Home, but researched cancer.

Here [1] is a list of all active community computation projects and historical ones.

[0], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid.org

[1], https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...

unixhero··on Linux is good now
You just install it. The debs work.
unixhero··on Linux is good now
Linux Mint is Ubuntu
unixhero··on SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
.nfo archives is quite complete out there on the archive sites. Those days were crazy busy in the warez world and the nfo files are a blast to read.
unixhero··on Linux is good now
Just use Linux Mint
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