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Games? Embedded? FPGA? UI frameworks? DSP or Signal processing?

I am curious to learn too about this. I have managed to say at Windows 10 with strictly local accounts only.

I had a tool, which extracted all FILE_ID.DIZ files from the archives (zip, rar, arj, lha, ...) in the directory and created DESCRIPT.ION files from those DIZ contents for those archives. Using 4DOS was joy when going through archives.

If you played Doom, you were already in Hell.

This stuff is still happening even today :-)

http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=107478 for example this 2024 release, if you scroll to the end of the page.

> Unsure which code pages were used but this was in Sweden.

Interesting. Every PC I ever used in Finland (home, school, friend's, etc.) were always using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 and I would have assumed every PC in Sweden did too. Maybe your did have cp850 or something uncommon.

Huh! Which system you were using? Notepad in Windows or Linux?

This made me chuckle:

> Please don't be tempted to use fancy graphic or ANSI sequences in the FILE_ID.DIZ file, as most BBS software will not allow this, and will render your FILE_ID.DIZ file useless.

Everyone was doing exactly that and even I did something like +hundred artsy file_id.diz headers for the scene groups or my own groups. When "releases" started to be from 5 to 15 disks (packages), many sysops started to clearing the art away from the file lists and just leaving an oneliner of the title visible, like:

   The Name of The Release       Disk: [03/12]

Interesting too that as niche as they are today, they are still being made. The last ones I did was in 2015.

> It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.

This probably has more to do with publishers and licensing contracts than artists pulling their music off from platforms. Sometimes even bigger artists' albums disappear when publisher is sold or goes out from the business. Or the licensing contract's period runs out. As sad it is, many artists don't own the rights to their music, and if the rights owner is defunct, then there are missing albums or even discographies.

I have tried, a long time ago, LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. The both of the ports were so buggy, that by those experiences I could not trust the maintainers to be capable of securing the system. It may have been a false assumption, but I had to think stability/bugs and security must correlate at some levels.

What is the easiest way to get comparable smartphone experience with some actual control over your privacy?

The smallest "readable" I've seen is 1x5: https://advent.blinry.org/2018/17

I have to assume no-one in the team saw Pulp Fiction (1994) when you ended up picking up the name "Zed"...?

I was quite surprised to learn this has nothing to do with DDG. Interesting how DDG seem to have taken the meaning of "duck" in (my) mind.

Had the first kid and got quite fast lot's of grey hairs. I was really stressed with having enough time to do my work properly and to handle the daycare deliveries/pickups. The kid got older and needed less of my constant attention, and greying stopped for several years.

Then had the second kid and entered again into this constant not having enough time for anything mode. In the last 2 years I've been getting tons of grey hair, again. This time while I am much older, I can cope with the stress and constant tiredness even worse.

So I am a firm believer of the theory.

I was almost going to say something similar, because on Android there are still just 16 add-ons available and it has been a long while. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?type=extens...

How are merchants and Facebook getting your MAC address?

Sounds quite familiar. I was 11 years and struggling with assembler on Atari ST. There was a short series of 68000 assembly basics in a Finnish computer magazine (MikroBitti) and some sources on disk magazines (Maggie by The Lost Boys).

What are the pros and cons to https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox for example? C++ vs. C#?

I think the first time was around the spring 2017. I could create an account, use the credentials to log in, but trying on several days the game never started. There was some "please wait" kind of screen and waiting for hours didn't help. With a Google account things worked right away.

And a bit over a year the same thing happened. New Pokemon Go account -> log in -> no game. With Google account has been working since.

So, my experience is two tries in the span of two years it did not work.

Pokemon Go's account own doesn't work. Even if you manage to create that account, it won't log you in. With Google account it works as expected. I tried to create two Pokemon Go accounts, gave up and created a Pokemon Go only Google account for child's playing. It has worked a few years.

Also some other privacy tools have silently broken/disabled domain administrator's access to computers. The tools are not necessarily tested in domain networks at all and for example in work environments that may cause time consuming issues to solve.

Exactly. The WHOIS information of pyenv.run doesn't reveal anything who is controlling the domain.

And the "more information" link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer in that script points to "400: Invalid request" result.

No. Above I explained to you why my experiences has made me to think "dev" is special. I don't get your reaction.

Indeed, if it works for you, then it is good.

In 1990's I used to have ~/dev in school's Sparcs running SunOS, as I needed some device files that weren't available in /dev. But I was able to mknod them.

I've been also toying with chroots quite a lot and there dev is also quite essential for its original purpose. Therefore "dev" is like a reserved keyword for me in *nix systems.

Personally I use ~/w (like "work") or ~/code mostly. I've had ~/dev once for storing projects, but I had to rename it as it was distracting (to me) :)

This got me to raise an eyebrow:

    if [[ -d "$HOME/dev/go" ]]; then
        export GOPATH="$HOME/dev/go"
    fi

Using a directory named "dev" not to store device files, but development tools. I am so stuck with conventions.

Hah, indeed. "An all knowing colleague" suggested in Slack to use DisableWinTracking* tool for greater privacy and security. I had already done the most of the usual privacy enhancing stuff manually to Windows 10, but decided to try if the tool would know something more. Some weeks later IT realized there are several desktops in our domain which stopped installing Windows updates on a same day. And some administration tool couldn't reach those computers anymore. Basically we ended up wasting about 20-30 man hours on getting those desktops to function properly again without reinstalling.

*) https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking

Yes, right after posting I realized I wasn't directly on the topic. I hope it brings some value to discussion anyway.

In Finland it is illegal to google for applicant's online presence, because of the possibility of judging the candidate because of misidentification. You have to have applicant's permission to that. And I am glad, because one of my name doubles isn't very representative person according to their online presence.

I opened metadata.tsv from here: https://archive.org/download/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010/

Used text editor's search to find what ever I need. Then "View Contents" on the correct ZIP file and download the mp3 file the search in text editor gave me. Therefore I just had to download the songs I wanted to get back to me.