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Sounds like Ernest Adams, but I can't find the talk from a quick search.

Seeing Wolf3d running on PC screens in those computer shows at the Cow Palace was what finally convinced me to move from the Amiga to PC.

I usually end up using podbay.fm for finding rss feeds for shows which don't list them on their web pages (or anywhere else). https://podbay.fm/p/software-unscripted

I've been using FreshTomato, which I got pre-installed from a seller on ebay, but IIRC DD-WRT has better support for some Broadcom chips because they allow binary blobs which have better hardware support.

Still inspiring hackers today! Behold the movie in C: http://bloerp.de/code/tempel/hackers/hackersFinal.c.html

Yes, there were so many little details like looking for pigeons leaving to see if there is a spy in your town.

I feel his strength was being an endless fountain of interesting ideas combined with ability to inspire lots of hard work from his development team. I forget if it was Dungeon Keeper or Black and White where they talked to the development team while he was on a junket and they had no idea about of a bunch of the features he was promising. Ultimately I think he had a really talented team at Bullfrog who slowly burned out and over time people were less willing to kill themselves on death marches trying to carry out his whims.

The early EA games on the Amiga really had some magic about them, down to the box designs and the tone of their ads. It really felt like a whole new era with new possibilities was on the horizon.

I was just watching another mostly Molyneux centered documentary: 30 Years of God Game History | Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, Spore and more https://youtu.be/gt4-tBFIcsI

What's the likelihood of getting hassled by your ISP for running this? I always assume that the main target is torrent traffic these days and all the rest is mostly being ignored, due to the volume of torrent enforcement, but would be interested if anyone had any experience otherwise.

Asking for a friend.

I also remember a green pc set up which used one of the low power x86 clones (Via?) in the 90s which used the bios battery double as a mini ups similar to that.

On my iphone the problem is solved by restarting the app. My assumption was either the keyboard or the app updated and lost contact with the other, but I find killing the app solves the problem.

I keep thinking about all the philosophy of the Mythical Man Month and proverbial PM who thinks nine women can make a baby in one month, when it comes to this idea that entertainment scales linearly.

Indeed. I'm not sure why WSL has consistently required some bleeding edge version of Windows to run. I remember trying to get on a managed desktop at work a couple of years ago and apparently the LTS version of Windows used in the enterprise is even farther behind.

PWS Weather looks good, but I don't see if you can query it, specifically from Home Assistant. I've been looking for a decent replacement since Apple bought DarkSky.

DD-WRT is has access to some proprietary (Broadcom?) code which enables NAT acceleration on some models which, at least in my case, greatly improved performance over OpenWRT.

It always seems that the drivers or something could say what the cable did or if it was detecting a signal or something.

I had a ton of octopus cable swag and took a bunch without testing on a trip and found out none of them charged my iphone! Frustrating to say the least!

Web browsing is my biggest concern with these lower powered devices. People always blame the browsers, but its really the whole ecosystem, but odds are you're going to need to access some web site on eventually that will just hang the whole thing.

From TFA: Run Firefox half-decently with a few dozen tabs that aren’t full of bloat (ie, not Medium, Reddit, or mainstream news sites)

I have an old 64 Bit Quad Core Baytrail-T Z3795 1.59GHz tablet which just freezes on Twitter unless I disable videos.

Can these socs do any better?

War for the Overworld https://wftogame.com/ is basically DK3, down to having the original narrator from DK1/2.

I'm a big fan and played WFTO quite a bit at to the point it's hard to go back to DK2. Sadly their AI got much worse with the 2.0 patch and I gave it up.

There is a Dungeon Keeper 1 remake https://dungeonkeeper.fandom.com/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper_FX which similar to lots of these efforts uses the original artwork and sounds.

There are some other DK clones and descendants, but my second favorite would be the very late Dwelvers https://dwelvers.com/ which has been in development for an eternity and the developer shows up once or twice a year with an update. This is the most ambitious of the DK clones as it includes a much larger economy and even the long promised above ground!

Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?

Made me think of the Dancers at the End of Time books, although they're more philosophical than sci-fi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancers_at_the_End_of_Time

My preference is history podcasts with single narrators which are generally a fixed length 45 minutes to an hour.

You Must Remember This A good podcast on the history of Hollywood and has some interesting insights if you're into old movies. This episode on Marilyn Monroe was interesting just to show how little she started out with: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustre...

The History of Ancient Greece This can get bogged down in terminology some times, but its necessary due to the amount of detail the podcast gets into. This episode on Pericles and his role in Athenian democracy I found to be interesting because of the details on the extremes they went to: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/05/044-democra...

Tides of History This has a lot of flavor and is pretty good at framing topics. I really liked the insight that Charles V was in a sense the Paul Atreides of Middle Age Europe. https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/

I'm in NYC and have been having trouble loading YouTube videos seem like they fail about half the time. I don't recall ever seeing that before last week.

Well if history is any indicator that may change. https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurge...

This only detracts from the best mystery in the movie which was why is there a laptop running XP!?!?!

"Trickle-down High taxes on content publishers prevented them hiring the person who would have written this page."

That's an interesting take on the term.

I think implicit in this myopia is they don't eat their own dogfood. If they have their best people managing their core products running their own infrastructure which is clearly much more reliable than GCP, then GCP won't get better. On top of which their best people will move toward their own internal services.

Contrast this with the other cloud providers who seem to be using their own clouds for their primary services creating a feedback loop which ensures they don't have the big outages that GCP has had over the past year.

This bubbled up the other day which was interesting as well.

https://blog.alexellis.io/building-containers-without-docker...

It does seem like Docker will be holding back containers from achieving their true promise, as it flounders looking for profitability and chasing k8s. Its sad that we're still moving around tar balls without advancing some of the tooling around it.

One of my biggest gripes as a non-k8s container user are that we are still keeping all this versioned cruft with every container. I would like to see an easier way to just get the latest binaries not dozens of tar hashes with versions going back to the first iteration of the container. Probably closer to singularity https://singularity.lbl.gov/

Another area is the ability to update containers in place. Hass.io https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/ does some of this with the ability to manage the container version from within the container, but seems like a little bit of a hack from what I've seen. Watchtower is closer to what I'd like https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower, but why can't we have a more integrated system built into the default tooling?

I saw this from IBM which doesn't appear to even need a credit card. :0 https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/ But I haven't checked it out yet.

I think that Azure and GCE have better free tiers than AWS, but I'm guessing the bandwidth metering may work against a vpn use.

In the case of Squeezebox, Logitech stopped selling them a while back, but to their credit they are still actively maintaining the self hosted server: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver which has some plugins and bridges to other services.

I would say what they are doing with Squeezebox is the best case scenario for a lot of these connected devices, even though the complexity of having a self-hosted option is in no doubt part of what lead to their failure.