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meffie··on Warp is now open-source
Yeah, apparently this is a different Warp.
meffie··on How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
Should we tell them about fidonet too?
meffie··on (Red Hat's) 5 useless Linux commands
as well as, yum install "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"
meffie··on Cool Tool of the Day (1997)
Diebold rebranded their ATM models from MDS to i-Series in 1991, the year I joined Interbold, the Diebold/IBM joint partnership. Prefixing everything with an "i" was a thing.
meffie··on Slack is down
As someone who has to use Zoom Chat every day, this a thousand times. (We still run an XMPP server on the side just to avoid the horror that is Zoom chat.)
meffie··on C compiler with support for structs written in Assembly
Looks to be bytecode for a vm;

http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/vm_instr...

meffie··on Abstract Algebra (2016) [pdf]
Yes, Pinter's little book is very accessible. It's a wonderful little book. I was just reading it again this morning.
meffie··on Lost Cause: Seeing America Through the Losing Candidates’ Map
Living in Ohio, the conversations I have with his supporters here always started with the phrase "he is a businessman", a comment that always baffled me. But that is the perception.

Something to consider; large gold letters on his buildings, golden toilets, gaudy furniture, jets, and trophy wives. These are all cliche elements of the "new rich", the common guy that made to the big time. Unfortunately, this is appealing to a large segment of the population.

meffie··on George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
I have the sudden urge to run a game of Paranoia.
meffie··on A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
Language is the basis of thought.
meffie··on Ask HN: Why aren't we using SSH passphrase keys for website logins?
see WebAuth, CoSign