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https://ftp.sunet.se/ (and ftp://ftp.sunet.se) started in 1990 is also still running!

History: https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/html/histor...

The SUNET Archive began its life in 1990 as an ftp archive created by Lars Gunnar Olsson of the IT-Department at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, or SLU, in Ultuna, a few kilometers outside of Uppsala.

The archive became a SUNET facility in 1993 and was assigned the name ftp.sunet.se. In the SUNET newsletter SUNETTEN from 1993 it is noted that the archive already contains 4 GB of data and there is room for another 4 GB.

By 1994 the SUNET Archive was ranked among the largest and most visited archives in the world. Its total storage capacity was then 28 GB.

I've had 5 BioNTech/Pfizer shots. I don't hate Musk.

It will be a sad day when high bitrate rips can't be made any longer. Are we doomed at looking at "optimized" 6 Mbps content advertised as "4k"?

Maybe Hollywood is over.

Rabid people here hate Musk after he said he wasn't left-wing, this is not going anywhere.

(https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1687520435825745920)

HN/YCombinator does not honor this correctly from a EU law perspective. They don't allow you to delete your content. What they do offer is renaming your account.

I'm salivating for this monster lawsuit once they they have enough EU exposure. It will probably be based in Germany.

@switch007: They are investing in European companies. That's exposure.

@walthamstow: Look up the "Right to erasure" aspect of the GDPR.

(Why am I adding these things as edits? - I was rate-limited by HN/Ycombinator so I can't reply to your individual comments. When trying to post a reply I get the message "please slow down".)

It's supremely annoying when bookstores put all of their sci-fi and fantasy inventory in one alphabetically sorted "sci-fi/fantasy" section.

(And then 80% of it is fantasy...)

Why would AWS charge less for IPv6 traffic through their stupid gateway than for IPv4 traffic? It's just an artificial money making machine anyway.

For ECS users who depend on public IPs to avoid insane NAT GW fees when doing CI/CD.. I guess we have two options:

a) build something that automatically scales broken services to 0

b) use that AWS service that let's you pull ECR images without internet access; I forgot the name of it...

The original https://www.iso.org/ is still here, btw.

"Why ISO[-9660 format] images relases were retired from EasyOS" would have have been a more suitable headline.

I kind of miss the times when hackers were sticklers for details.

I mean, we used to use the word "cracker" for this up until the late 90s. A hacker was someone who created something cool.

We are discussing how the original animation was (or might have been) created in 1993/1994. Not what tools were used by Netscape users when creating replacements of it 3-5 years later.

I'm imagining some hacked up workflow that includes:

- Something like Autodesk 3D Studio R3/R4 (DOS) or Lightwave 3D (Amiga) for the base animation and the light rendering - that would be hellish to do manually.

- Some custom-built software for palette optimization

- Photoshop on Mac for the compositing (the 'N' doesn't change)

- A bunch of manual work per frame

Not necessarily in that order.

(3d Studio Max was released in 1996, Maya in 1998.)

Edit: on the other hand: Netscape was founded and founded by Jim Clark (of SGI fame), so the 3d stuff was probably done on software running on an SGI machine.

So assuming an efficient implementation and including high availability requirements: probably in the order of tens of machines, maybe hundreds but not thousands.

Edit: eastdakota's tweet says 13% of the requests are https- or tls-encrypted. That throws a spanner into these calculations.

Seems like this is a rewrite of https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/oxfordshire-roma... (which, to be fair was linked to towards the end, although not as prominently as it should have been) with some added color and removed details.

It was not a puppy according to this quote from the Telegraph article:

Maiya Pina-Dacier, an archaeologist with DigVentures, said that this dog was fully grown when it died and so tiny, it must have been “adorable”: “In previous periods, you don’t get evidence of pets like this. But, when the Romans arrive, you start finding signs of smaller dogs.”

With a 15x smaller (human) US population in 1850 compared to today that makes sense.

Eh, can, sure. Should, meh.

Of course, but who's doing the actual admin work?

Who chases the sponsors for cash, who books the events, who collects the member fees, who creates that crappy member web site?

I'm just curious :)

This is the paper for those that are accused of designing those ugly buildings in the first place.

Of course they are going to say that average people have it wrong, "it's a modern social networking phenomena" etc.

Obviously these elitists know beauty better than the average person /s.

The original Swedish 'branch':

https://www.arkitekturupproret.se/

https://www.arkitekturupproret.se/om-au/about-english/

Something I've always wondered about: All of these alliances for this and that format/standard/whatever - do they end up hiring some secretarial staff in some office for several decades?

There should be several hundreds active corporate alliances now.

This plus vacation time in the Northern hemisphere - that one science reporter per large news org who actually understands the importance is AFK.

It think it makes sense for countries to pay some kind of "retainer fee" to several companies for keeping up the ability to massively and quickly scale up production and distribution of e.g. mRNA-based vaccines for when it's needed, once every n decades.

Or maybe some hybrid model where governments some of the long term preparedness scaling preparedness aspects.

Those companies tend to be owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Or not, it doesn't really matter in China. The party calls the shots anyway.

Beyond that - did you disagree with me showing that part of your profile? Did you feel like your privacy was being violated, or something like that?

The race you're imagining is being persecuted is.. Chinese Communist Party officials?

Takeoff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixbPMe6684&t=1192s

Landings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixbPMe6684&t=1642s

Not even a wing tip or tail strike. The most dramatic part was that annoying british dude doing the commentary. He has done similar commentaries for hundreds of other landings.

Making software is a bit special in that you can't really make use of people like that. In e.g. a supermarket you can.

From the article:

only six female CEOs of biotech companies that have market capitalizations more than 5 billion

This is inane clickbait and you know it if you read the article before submitting it.