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FandangoRanger··on Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
The schizo line's played out by shills too but thanks for the confirm, shill.
FandangoRanger··on Is Zig the Long Awaited C Replacement
>medium nagsite C will never ever be replaced. It's just not happening.
FandangoRanger··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
He hasn’t been certified as the winner of even a single state yet. Trump called the bluff, soon the only vote that matters will be ACB’s.
FandangoRanger··on Ask HN: What stops you from using BSD as main workstation OS?
Nothing, I switched from Linux to OpenBSD and it’s been great. I could see people bemoaning the lack of their flatsnaps and wine.
FandangoRanger··on The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
If Apple had gone with Smalltalk for the Mac instead of making something that merely looked like it we’d be living a better future.
FandangoRanger··on Google disables all G Suite accounts in our university due to spamming
>I don't know there is something inherently not trustworthy about Google or American company.

That something's called PRISM.

FandangoRanger··on Google disables all G Suite accounts in our university due to spamming
Good? They should have been doing this years ago. Look at how spammers operating with gmail addresses have screwed up Usenet, or as Google calls it, Groups.
FandangoRanger··on Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?
It's impossible to believe any forecast, nobody fessed up after 2016 nor did they explain why their models are wrong or attempt to update them. You're less than 24 hours away from the permanent death of the political polling and forecasting industry in the USA.

Nate's already coping really hard on Twitter.

FandangoRanger··on Judge limits Governor Newsom's powers during coronavirus pandemic
Many governors have reached far beyond their allowed powers, as court cases have recently shown.
FandangoRanger··on Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of
The 175HQ is probably my favorite rare tube.
FandangoRanger··on Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
This is a bit of a term of art. "They" don't "listen" to your calls. A computer does.
FandangoRanger··on Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough
If you make your own wild yeast culture you might have a much older one.
FandangoRanger··on Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough
If you are a home brewer or even just interested, Patrick McGovern's book Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created is a must-read, he re-creates a number of beers and alcoholic beverages some of which have gone into production from the Dogfish Head people. The original recipes were analyzed from residue and remains on potsherds and historical accounts, then he provides a home brewer's guide at the end of each chapter so you can make something at least quite close to the brew at home.
FandangoRanger··on Ask HN: Did the Bloomberg's story “The Big Hack” happen?
Yes of course. Back in the mid to late 2000's there was another big hack, known then as the "Manchurian Microchip" hack, which resulted in Chinese penetration of many US national security projects including the F-22. It's very difficult to find good information about this anymore, thanks to a raft of fiction produced with the same name "coincidentally" around the same time.
FandangoRanger··on How to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence
Crack is wack. When you smoke crack you do crazy things, at least that's my impression of the drug.
FandangoRanger··on Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
I thought it was because Google Captcha punishes you SEVERELY if you're not using Chrome.
FandangoRanger··on The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?
This is the true answer. Nobody benefits from replacing x.org except large companies. I for one have already switched my day to day operations over to OpenBSD, as I've seen too much strange corporate agitation propaganda trying to get us to relinquish the things that make Linux great - C, X11, native non-containerized applications, and so on.

I refuse.

FandangoRanger··on Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
Just use youtube-dl (it still works and will be forked) to suck the content you want out of Youtube. Use Tor Browser to screw Google out of your precious precious data as well.
FandangoRanger··on Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
I'm still using IceCat, I will continue to do so. Chrome's ugly, something about the font rendering and smooth scrolling is really off-putting, plus I just know everything I do is being reported to the Google mothership.
FandangoRanger··on Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project
One more step

Please complete the security check to access retrohax.net

FandangoRanger··on The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder
When they stopped caring so much about the browser and became a social and Rust advocacy concern they signaled that it was pretty much over.

Thankfully there's still Seamonkey.

FandangoRanger··on Updated BBC micro:bit
Love it! Corney, CIinton, Obarna!
FandangoRanger··on Apple sues GEEP for not shredding reusable iPhones
Slam dunk for Apple. Arguments about the environment aside, seems like a breach of contract, open shut.

Also if people cared about the environment they wouldn't be using a phone with a glued-in battery in the first place. So check your phone (if you even have one, phones are so 2015) and your privilege.

FandangoRanger··on "Matt Hancock is wrong about herd immunity"
Hard to take the site seriously when it has a Marxist "Capitalism" section. Curate's egg.
FandangoRanger··on German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided
Hahaha, Windows-only malware.
FandangoRanger··on Why so much coverage of Amazon Prime Day? The incentives, of course (2016)
It's all cheap junk, Prime Day is just house cleaning apparently.
FandangoRanger··on Linux-Based Windows Makes Perfect Sense
You can tell this is going to happen because we're being softened up for it. First the what-ifs and apologetics, next will come more substantial rumors, then a big speech by Nadella.
FandangoRanger··on Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal
Hopefully Trump will re-recognize Taiwan.
FandangoRanger··on United States Early Radio History
>Captcha

It won't let you look at the site if you're using Tor Browser. I hate it when sites do this.

FandangoRanger··on QNX Failed Amiga
Anybody else remember K5?
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