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manbart··on GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment
How does it compare to Window Maker?
manbart··on Activists worldwide protest Disney+ unethical platform for Intl Day Against DRM
If one wanted to leave the walled gardens of Amazon, Disney+, Netflix etc., are there any sites that provide public domain or otherwise free to copy/distribute video content?
manbart··on The metabolism myth – and why exercise won’t make you thinner
> His findings took him by surprise. Although the Hadza people are far more active than the average Westerner, walking miles every day, they burned no more calories than we do – around 3,000 per day.

That’s pretty vague. Walking 2 miles in flat terrain would meet that description, and I would hardly categorize that as ‘exercise’. I presume that is significantly less than what’s implied here, but I wish they would have elaborated a little more than that

manbart··on Facebook not liable for false fact checks used to censor, says protected opinion
Does Facebook even need to give justification to remove content they don’t like? I’m not sure compelled speech on private infrastructure is the solution to this problem.
manbart··on Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites
Another big factor to consider is how obsolete satellites are de-commissioned. Can they be made to re-enter the atmosphere when no longer needed, or is a permanent piece of debris at that point?
manbart··on PDP-11 Booting
Also https://www.Reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations
manbart··on [dead]
I actually did look it up before I posted. As you say, there is an SC connector (green, so I assume single mode angle polish, which makes sense for long distance connection) under the panel above the power.
manbart··on [dead]
There are no fiber ISP in my area, so I’m wondering a couple of things.

I only see a single copper 8P8C cable connected to the router in the picture. Looks like it would do nothing in that configuration. Is the fiber coming in through the wall and directly into the router?

And I’m also surprised that all the ‘good’ packets are 70-80ms latency (assuming those pings are from the CO to you and your neighbors houses). That seems pretty bad for a 1Gb/s Ethernet connection IMO.

Is ‘Fiber To The Home’ somehow different from standard Ethernet over fiber optic cables?

manbart··on Software Tools in C++
Had anyone done the Software Tools in Pascal on a modern Pascal compiler e.g. Free Pascal? Do the programs compile as presented in the book?
manbart··on Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
Yes, the UI is why I’m not planning on upgrading. I prefer the square windows of 10 to the knock-off MacOS theme that is 11. If I wanted MacOS I would be running it
manbart··on Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
They wouldn’t need to spend money to ‘destroy the blockchain’, just legislate against it. For example, what would happen to the value of crypto-currencies if the US government simply banned them outright for entities within its jurisdiction, and also made it so if any foreign entity touches cryptos they get cut off from the US financial system (similar to how ‘sanctions’ work today). I imagine the destruction would be near total.
manbart··on You can't download this image
I’m aware of this phenomenon, but have never tested it (confidently posting something incorrect to get responses with the real answer). Has anyone here actually tried this? How did it work?
manbart··on Ask HN: How do I play Doom on Linux?
You don’t need wine, there are plenty of native engines for Doom that run on Linux. Just Google ‘Linux doom engine’, there are several. You just need to supply your own .wad files, those are what contains the copywrited materials (though there are ‘freedoom’ wads available too)
manbart··on OpenIndiana
There are other Illumos distributions too, such as OmniOS and SmartOS. I like them in theory, but I would be hesitant to build a business on top of them, Illumos future seems to be hanging on by a thread (Joyent, the only corporate backer of Illumos AFAIK, recently shut down Joyent Cloud, which was built on top of their SmartOS)
manbart··on Ask HN: Do You Like Stocks Crypto or Precious Metals for 2022?
Y’know, it actually does sound fun. I would be stoked to have some (reproduction) gold Doubloons. I could keep them in a little satchel.
manbart··on Ask HN: Do You Like Stocks Crypto or Precious Metals for 2022?
I’m all in on Pogs and Beanie Babies, they’re due for a major comeback!
manbart··on Ask HN: What tools make using Windows more bearable (for Linux folk)?
MSYS2. It’s bash+coreutils and a gcc/clang environment out of the box, and many more packages can be installed with pacman. And it doesn’t depend on POSIX emulation, it’s all native win32 builds of popular *nix tools (contrasted to Cygwin for example)
manbart··on Norditrack Removes Direct OS Access, Blocking Netflix and More
Seems like a good way to get people to stop buying their product
manbart··on Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language
I think 2,3,5 and 7 apply to Rexx as well, another IBM created language. I wouldn’t call it modern however
manbart··on Ask HN: Do businesses still use MSSQL?
Yeah
manbart··on The unexpected return of JavaScript for automation
And Windows still comes with Jscript too.
manbart··on An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities
‘Web3’ is just new window dressing on the same old crypto casino. “Get rich quick!” is the selling point
manbart··on Ask HN: Advice on Colocating Servers?
Solutions like VMware vCenter work well for live migrating, cluster balancing, HA priority etc. it’s not exactly a cheap product though.
manbart··on Quora Revenue Sharing
Can’t even view the link without Google/Facebook login. That’s gonna be a no from me dawg
manbart··on ConstitutionDAO
One of the founders is listed as “Jango from the internet”
manbart··on Decentralized Woo Hoo
Have any such graphs to share?
manbart··on Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
Windows Server with the Desktop Experience enabled (plus a few other tweaks: https://www.windowsworkstation.com/win2016-2019/) is much better than Windows 10/11 IMO. Way less bullshit that way
manbart··on The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
Include Tcl and I’m there!
manbart··on Spook: Side channel attack which could read the memory from password managers
No sr g. It on we fbeg feed th C hey Vic
manbart··on IBM mainframe beats other platforms for cost and performance
I noticed this as well. The claim is an order of magnitude off the mark IMO
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