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New comment by Donckele in "Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center (1973) [video]"

Donckele — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:50:17 +0000

Yep. Anyone know where to find more music in this style?

New comment by Donckele in "The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge"

Donckele — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:40:25 +0000

Uri, with all the powers you have you shall be famously remembered for bending f****** spoons. What a legacy to leave behind. Maybe in the future there is no spoon.

You got anything better?

New comment by Donckele in "Vit D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised trial"

Donckele — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:09:49 +0000

Do you have a number for what a low level count is?

New comment by Donckele in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

Donckele — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:53:57 +0000

Android? Nah. I want my vanilla flavoured linux. Without biscuits.

New comment by Donckele in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

Donckele — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:52:30 +0000

Software for hardware components is not like maintaining a linux distro.

I don’t want to ignite programming language wars but, seriously, would it be that hard to get the current software “compatible” with a linux setup?

If it is that hard then fire the software “engineers” and hire ones who will do a better job.

New comment by Donckele in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

Donckele — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:39:32 +0000

Ha ha. That never gets old.

You know my XFCE is way better than the latest Windows 11 or macOS whatever.

Sure, I don’t have an instagram app that controls my desktop background but I don’t give a shit about that.

New comment by Donckele in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

Donckele — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:35:40 +0000

Nah. I have older netbooks (remember them?) and they are still more usable (with linux) than my old ipad.

New comment by Donckele in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

Donckele — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:22:36 +0000

You think with apples human resources they couldn’t write the software to get their hardware to work?

New comment by Donckele in "Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake"

Donckele — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:09:19 +0000

I think I have the first or second gen ipad. For some years now the OS and apps are frozen in time. I have basically some old games and the old safari browser.

The old safari is slow and, can you believe it, HN does not fully function!

Now, we all know the hardware is premium and this device would probably run linux very smoothly and the touch interface would be a dream. But we can only dream right?

WTF? Apple won’t allow us to use another OS or open software on old non-supported devices? What a waste of physical material!

What a waste of human creativity! What a waste of my money! What a waste of my time! I don’t give a shit how its enabled the masses to be able to do selfies.

This also mostly applies to android devices as well - which is another shit show.

For fucks sake - its 2023 and occasionally we have HN posts that are announcing how we are getting closer to run linux on the latest macs with the new processors. Holy shit! Even with more access and control to the apple macs we still don’t have full linux capability.

Apple has the best mathematicians to optimise for pure profit and as you can see they have done a great job. Apple 1 - Rest of the world 0.

Woz, please have have a talk with Tim (Nice but dim) and tell him the wonders that can be unlocked by allowing apple devices to run linux natively without jailbreaks or hacks. Don’t give me any shit they can’t do that by next month. Until then I can only dream.

Thank god we have surplus machines (eg thinkpads XNNN) available that show us the light of truth.

New comment by Donckele in "Ed Fredkin has died"

Donckele — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 05:35:40 +0000

Ah. One of his masterpieces the Fredkin gate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate

New comment by Donckele in "Atari VCS Myst “Demake”"

Donckele — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:43:14 +0000

Thanks for the response. If you have any links, to where I could start exploring, then I would be grateful.

New comment by Donckele in "Atari VCS Myst “Demake”"

Donckele — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 06:20:13 +0000

Can you recommend any mud “engines” that can be used on a modern linux system which are easy enough to get into (both for users and devs) and battle tested for security?

New comment by Donckele in "Jamsocket: Back Ends for Realtime Apps"

Donckele — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:23:06 +0000

Yep, your homepage breaks on my imac/firefox due to webgl.

New comment by Donckele in "Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (2003)"

Donckele — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:16:08 +0000

You got any links to info about those chips?

Enshittification of the Internet

Donckele — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:33:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36343025

Points: 6

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New comment by Donckele in "Windows XP Activation: Game Over"

Donckele — Sun, 21 May 2023 06:44:43 +0000

I guess Bill don’t like it.

New comment by Donckele in "Windows XP Activation: Game Over"

Donckele — Fri, 19 May 2023 06:20:57 +0000

Great idea! I’ll put a bet on Microsoft doing this. Especially if Bill reads this, I’m sure he would love it.

New comment by Donckele in "Humans have known the earth is round for thousands of years (2018)"

Donckele — Tue, 09 May 2023 05:59:18 +0000

Mate, you used the word “boner” when discussing Columbus without mentioning your “privileged” US citizenship. Conflict of interest.

New comment by Donckele in "Humans have known the earth is round for thousands of years (2018)"

Donckele — Tue, 09 May 2023 05:12:41 +0000

> I'm not Spanish or Portuguese

Because you are “American”?

New comment by Donckele in "MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry"

Donckele — Wed, 03 May 2023 10:48:06 +0000

Are you serious? The best /useful things for you are PDFs and SSO? Both of these features are not what makes a web browser super duper. PDF viewing is available in all major browsers. SSO works in all web browsers - unless you’re using Windows XP as your enterprise cloud server running java and oracle and your asp.net web app requires a microsoft browser running in internet explorer legacy mode.