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New comment by bitsandbooks in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"

bitsandbooks — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:46:58 +0000

See also: the RDP version. https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-rdesktop/

New comment by bitsandbooks in "Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)"

bitsandbooks — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:00:49 +0000

Imagine how flabbergasted you'd be if you spent the time and effort to break into someone's web host, but all you found was MS-DOS.

New comment by bitsandbooks in "Jarvis: A Voice Virtual Assistant in Python (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram)"

bitsandbooks — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:04:32 +0000

"Jarvis" is a trademark of Marvel, so that name will definitely not work. https://trademarks.justia.com/862/94/jarvis-86294162.html

New comment by bitsandbooks in "Why Is It So Difficult to Map the Ocean?"

bitsandbooks — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:54:52 +0000

Because it gets a lot more expensive the deeper you want to go/look.

New comment by bitsandbooks in "Streaming service prices have more than doubled since coming onto market"

bitsandbooks — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:02:29 +0000

This was the original idea behind United Artists from its formation in 1919 until it got bought out by Transamerica in 1967.

New comment by bitsandbooks in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

bitsandbooks — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:11:45 +0000

> If someone running a crypto futures exchange said they wanted people to buy bananas and groceries on their platform that’s be a signal to pass, right?

Not if you're so silly as to think you can replace the currency people use, plus control completely its medium of exchange, plus be able to trade against those same exchange's participants. It boils down to people trying to rebrand casinos as markets.

New comment by bitsandbooks in "‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men"

bitsandbooks — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:44:26 +0000

We ought to be converting these people into adoptive or foster parents.