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New comment by rzzzt in "You can power on a Mac remotely"

rzzzt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:11:03 +0000

The power button on the Macintosh IIsi could be turned with a flat-head screwdriver to achieve the same thing you describe (locking it in the permanently-powered state): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_IIsi#/media/File:Mac...

New comment by rzzzt in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

rzzzt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:31:38 +0000

How about _Space_ Flexseal?

New comment by rzzzt in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

rzzzt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:31:55 +0000

It's also Latin and Greek for beaver which is more likely the origin of the name.

New comment by rzzzt in "Coreutils for Windows"

rzzzt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:25:13 +0000

I did forget about these! The installer will add separate launchers for each style of environment.

New comment by rzzzt in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

rzzzt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:01:07 +0000

Also cycles between resolutions on X servers where enabled.

New comment by rzzzt in "Coreutils for Windows"

rzzzt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:56:24 +0000

One possible alternative is cipher.exe: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...

New comment by rzzzt in "Coreutils for Windows"

rzzzt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:54:53 +0000

Cygwin executables need cygwin1.dll to run while MSYS-based distributions are using Windows APIs directly. One major difference is around process management: in Cygwin fork() is implemented* while MSYS2 packages will need to use whatever the NT kernel provides (i.e. also need to modify the source to build for this target): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/985281/what-is-the-close...

New comment by rzzzt in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

rzzzt — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:39:24 +0000

There's something similar in Microsoft Word, Ctrl-Alt-Minus on the numpad.

New comment by rzzzt in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

rzzzt — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:34:45 +0000

Wait, there could be more things to consider.

New comment by rzzzt in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

rzzzt — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:23:33 +0000

Most of the sets I've seen have a HÖR BERLIN logo on them: https://www.youtube.com/@hoer.berlin/videos

These "we lock the DJ in a restroom" videos where everywhere around 2020.

New comment by rzzzt in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

rzzzt — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:32:31 +0000

Black Shades has the guns (although people are prism-headed there): https://www.wolfire.com/black-shades/

New comment by rzzzt in "Thornton Wilder's Last Play Vanished into Thin Air. Or Did It?"

rzzzt — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:35:26 +0000

Or Did It? https://youtu.be/uakS1jPO1KA

New comment by rzzzt in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

rzzzt — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:58:53 +0000

Rick is struck by a satellite falling out of the sky, no action?!

New comment by rzzzt in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

rzzzt — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:29:25 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#End_of_life_announce... - they are referring to this event, and the SourceForge page is still displaying the message along with a guide on how to enable BitLocker.

New comment by rzzzt in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

rzzzt — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:04:10 +0000

Greatly off topic, but does anyone else read these service names in their head as Slavic last names?

New comment by rzzzt in "The Third Hard Problem"

rzzzt — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:59:47 +0000

The tree node on the UI should not only expand downwards but sideways and in-out of the screen.

New comment by rzzzt in "The Third Hard Problem"

rzzzt — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:57:52 +0000

Off-by-two is a subset of all possible off-by-one errors.

New comment by rzzzt in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

rzzzt — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:36:53 +0000

The nub around the G-B-H keys that doesn't really move but responds to pressure and lets you fly the mouse cursor around the screen with various speeds. Lenovo, Dell, HP, Fujitsu and many others equipped their business laptops with such a pointing device.

New comment by rzzzt in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

rzzzt — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:41:45 +0000

Static RAM needs 6 transistors per cell, an M2 Ultra has 134 billion transistors, do the division and you get... "it doesn't work that way".

New comment by rzzzt in "Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors"

rzzzt — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:16:18 +0000

With the layout fitting entirely on a large sheet of paper: https://archive.archaeology.org/1107/features/mos_technology...