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Fixed, thanks.

I'm aware, it's a half-ironic quote. Take a look a this article: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2020/07/06/dbus-polkit.ht...

Am I alone in thinking this reduces the essence of books as work instead of as leisure. Where you are more focused on extracting something of "value" out of it then to actually enjoy it. It doesn't have to be this reductionist and utilitarian.

Maybe that explains the rise in companies that will summarize long books in 15min, or the rise of the small single rotating idea books.

Ascii art is still active in the demo scene, check out: https://16colo.rs/

I actually work within the eSIM ecosystem and other sim related activities. And, yes, some mobile operators do indeed use the STK UI today, it's not limited to background tasks.

You'd be surprised to hear STK is still in use even today by big mobile operators. Some even go as far as to launch campaigns to install STK applets on millions of devices and customers have no idea this is happening in the background.

This is a great article. For anyone wondering about the current data storage stack on Unix-like systems today, I wrote a simple article that goes over it [1].

[1] https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2017/11/05/unix-filesyste...

Author here! I'm fantastically pleased to see our small nixers community get this much attention. If you're interested in similar discussions, be sure to join us on the forums and IRC (freenode #nixers_net).

I loved that series, thank you! The DNS system on Unix-like systems is such a complicated mess.

Personally, I've set adsuck and my /etc/resolv.conf points to 127.0.0.1

Thank you very much, that was my goal to make it gradual so that anyone with just a bit of understanding could get through and have an overview of the topic.

I've read a lot on this topic and couldn't find a page that explained things properly so I created one.

I hope if I've made typos, technical mistakes, or that my writing isn't clear enough in some places that the online community can help with fixes so that this can become a better resource.

Indeed it's a later standard part of the wider "Universal Time Standard". It specifically tracks earth phase expressed as Universal Time UT1.

NB: UTC is part of the Universal Time Standard, it is not the time standard. I think from your comment you are mixing the two.

I'm the blog's author. Can you advice on some CSS fixes, I'm not experiencing what you're describing on my phone (Chrome and Firefox) nor my desktop (also Chrome and Firefox). Could you also share a screenshot please.

Skeuomorphism can be horrible. Just give a glance at what Microsoft attempted a couple of years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5teG6ou8mWU

Why should we have to emulate real world interactions, the whole idea of computing is to make tasks easier, less of a cognitive burden, not replicate them in a virtual world. Sure there are specific kinds of software that are in need of a more humane approach but I'm not sure skeuomorphism is the answer.

This has never been more relevant: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=143352

Fellow ascii artist reporting in. Check out http://pc.textmod.es/ http://bbs.ninja/ There are still a lot of ascii art compo going on in the demoscene.

There's some good history here: http://www.chris.com/ascii/joan/www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/...

I'm surprised nobody mentioned self-sovereign identity and digital identity.

Here are some excellent links about the subjects:

http://www.moxytongue.com/2016/02/self-sovereign-identity.ht... http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-sov... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_identity https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/07/02/beyond-p... https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/ https://www.forgerock.com/

For those who love playing wargames there's a website that regroups most (if not all) of them with scores. https://www.wechall.net/

A Linux kernel even though not derived from another UNIX can be UNIX. See the EulerOS 2.0 and K-UX 3.0, derived from Red-Hat.

https://blog.opengroup.org/2017/02/14/value-of-unix-open-sta...

My old webpage was trying to emulate my window manager: https://venam.nixers.net/old/

EDIT: I remember it was a trend amongst a close group of friends. Everyone was doing their webpage like their window manager. Too bad I can't find any of those.

I've been working on the second one for a while on my website, here's an example: https://psychology.wtf/social_coherence.php . However, that's just for fun, it's not a final answer to anything. Correlation correlated with other correlations.

You should take a look at what the guys on /r/unixporn do.

Why not add to this list the following:

"Three Laws of Behavior Genetic and What They Mean", http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/three_laws.pdf

"Why Do People Believe that Birth Order Has Important Effects on Personality?", http://judithrichharris.info/tna/birth-order/believe.htm

That reminds me of the British information video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWfOLN9Z1yw

Genetic Fallacy

200MB takes around 1hour to download where I'm living.

There are alternatives to one way encryptions. Think of steganography and communication between the parties being indirect.

Made an account just to post this. I used to follow a columnist called Jann Burner.

That's what he wrote on the subject:

``` And now, a closer look at what is to be in store for us. Computers will become totally voice activated mimetic devices cued to their owner so no one else will be able to activate them. The good ones will not even be deceived by a recording of their owner’s voice. They will “seem” to become attached and will be able to pick up subtle clues that will be undetectable by technicians. Somehow (no one will be quite sure how) they will be able to tell the real from the Memorex. They will be able to read “stress” levels in their owner’s voice and eye like an attentive pet. “What’s wrong John? Have an especially difficult day?” Wireless wearables will become the style. No keyboard, no mouse, no monitor. The hardware will be comprised of two parts: a small pager like device which will attach to the belt and a headband with a small fiber optic cable which will twist gracefully around the face and project the full computer image directly onto the retina of the eye. The ultimate “head’s up display”.

Websites will have come a long way. People will go from designing personal web pages and Facebook entries to personal virtual reality sites. Places you will be able to hang out in. Places friends will be able to visit, the ultimate private club or salon. Some will be free floating and move like the frequency of a cell phone, never to be in the same place twice. Others will be so solid they will be constructed over generations and handed down from father to son, mother to daughter. Like cybernetic jewelry. Creations in cyberspace will be an investment.

Eventually people will begin to put their memories of their lives on their sites. At first they will be like a grand photo-album, but then things will get more complicated. People will begin to journal their memories (cleaned up and detuned or exaggerated). This will be called their Book Of Life and when you fall in love or become very close with someone you will share your “Book of Life”. You will go to their past (as they remember it or as they want it to be remembered) which is not to say that that is how it really was, but then, that is another story. In the end, who cares? The motto of the day will be,”Intention is Everything”.

Some people will constantly hang out in their own Memory Palaces. Some will call this Cyber-Porn. Masturbatory! With some people, taking a walk through their Book of Life will be like a walk through a very cultured and cluttered museum. With others it will be a walk in a park. With still others, you might not want to walk through their Book alone, without a guide and without protection. And especially not at night, even Cyber-Night. It might resemble a cross between Times Square, New Year’s Eve 1999, and a car crash in progress with everything happening at once and yet with all the separate incidents frozen in time, to be savored later, like the left-overs from a frozen dinner. From a Jeffery Dhamer buffet.

Some people will actually hire others to design their sites, so it will be dramatic or pretty or impressively chic. Beware of anyone who has someone else design their Book of Life.

Some people will get so caught up they will actually begin to live in their book and they will get stuck somewhere between their restructured memory of a past and their fantasy imagining of a future. Their real life simply will become a maintenance site for their bio-computer, a place to sleep, fuel the body, take a dump and sweat, so that the mind might remain healthy, so as to allow them to really live and move through their silicon/crystal version of consciousness, through their Book of Life…their Memory Palace. Their perfect place to be where no wind blows. The center of the cyclone. This will be more addictive than any drug. ``` See more at: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=143352

He also has more on it: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=186379