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I have been using Seamonkey since when it was called Netscape, but there are so many sites that do not work with it that I been forced to switch to Firefox. I still use Seamonkey for my mail though, I prefer it to Thunderbird.

Emacs runs in haiku OS. So most of my requirements are satisfied.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC AmigaOS is the whole operating system, while AmigaDOS is the part of that OS that handles disk I/O, plus the CLI, etc. Yeah, a naming mess.

Not an emulation, but a recreation: https://adamstrange.itch.io/qasarbeach

Impact with a rogue planet?

Grey goo?

Trying to fix a rather large and mostly dysfunctional parliament, Italy recently tried the opposite solution: it slashed the number of representatives. It did not go well.

What's the situation wrt the install process? I remember having to use a non-official distribution of OpenBSD.

EOL as in "no longer sold" or "cannot install new openbsd releases on them"?

In the last years I remember also using ftp (and its now-forgotten relative fsp)

I published a couple of books with the following tools, which I found satisfying:

- Emacs org mode for writing

- Adobe Illustrator for the figures

- Adobe Indesign (text exported from org to IDML via pandoc) for the layout

- Amazon KDP + Ingram spark (aka lightning source) for publishing and distribution.

Be honest about what you are or aren't able to do by yourself. Publishing a book requires a wide gamut of competences: writing, editing, typesetting, graphic design, etc.

Another idea of BASIC is that the language should be similar to english. To this day, I am not sure it is a really good idea, because while it appears "easy" on the surface, you actually have to memorize the specific syntax of each command (e.g. FOR, or the punctuation in PRINT).

Most other mainstream languages (C, javascript, java, rust, etc) seems to have settled on some semi-common syntax of the same ancestry so that it is "easy" to learn once you know another of the same kind.

Lisp, on the other side... You have to learn a different paradigm initially, which some find hard and/or irritating, but then, everything is so wonderfully regular.

> global white capitalist, colonialist, and imperialist framework

Perhaps it’s because I am an European, but I’m really astonished by the widespread diffusion of this kind of obtuse ideological furore in the US lately, especially in the academic world

XSL-FO was a good idea, but it never went anywhere. Processors were costly and underfeatured, HTML+CSS ran circles around it. IIRC, XSL-FO didn't even have floats for a long time!

It's a pity that there appears to be little interest for page-oriented features of CSS: breaks, headers, footers, numbering, etc. Most don't work well or at all.

SVG?

Is this true for Adobe Illustrator too (which has arc and ellipse tools)? Even if saved to .ai format?

D&D never made 100% sense, but it has flavor, probably just because of that. AD&D (1st edition) in particular was a vast collection of bizarre and picturesque things which were a disaster design-wise but which we still remember fondly to this day.

(I am in the EU btw. No one I know ever considered it "a joke").

sshfs works (I use Monterey, M1), though it's slowish.

A question for experts on the matter, is Sunrise Commander (OFM for Emacs) on par with the the programs cited in this thread?

Also, there is no randomness in go or chess, unlike bridge.

No, it is not. Perhaps your circle likes it like this, but elsewhere this is cheating. It is forbidden by the rules and is socially unacceptable.

Here in Italy, both paper and PDF invoices are extinct. All invoices are electronic transactions that follow a certain protocol and pass through a giant government-owned interchange, so that the government can control everything invoiced.

Most people use this system through some SAAS platform.

"Holy Sea"

It is not a joke. Color print exists, you know. For example, try obtaining a pure cyan from RGB color...

One serious problem is that CSS do not support CMYK colors.

These are heuristics. They work most times (so I don’t buy Packt anymore).

It was in typewriter corrector fluid. I remember the smell.

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids.

(When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

Does it include the images or it’s just the text?

San Marino is harmless, on the top of a giant rock which is almost impossible to conquer by force, and in a position of no strategic importance. So no one has ever been interested in grabbing it.

However, that does not mean that it is allowed to do whatever it wants. In the 50s, Italy surrounded it with tanks and forced a regime change when San Marino had started leaning dangerously towards the Soviet block.

Probably because of this precedent, recently San Marino has made a diplomatic U-turn with Russia: after decades of very good relationships (I personally saw Lavrov there once, shops have labels in Russian, etc) after the invasion of Ukraine it sided with the west and ended on the list of countries hostile to Russia.

Also, it was a black-listed tax haven which was tolerated by Italy until it went too far; then the Finance minister of Italy surrounded the republic with Guardia di Finanza (finance police)... San Marino has no access to the sea (despite being very near to it), no airport (besides a tiny airfield), and only borders with Italy, so it has very limited leeway.

And yes, it is a member of the UN (not of the EU though).

Some years ago a guy called Weps made a free remake for Windows of Kennedy Approach (identical to the original, with some optional improvements). It’s still fun.