Might be handled and freshly archived on https://archive.org/ if I understand this Message from Jason Scott correctly.
But this should not stop anyone from mirroring the Hobbes OS/2 Archive, too.
This is really nice, thanks for sharing 👍
Definitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow “Microsoft Free Workstation” stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.
Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.
The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.
You can start with The Uber files, which “is a global investigation into a trove of 124,000 confidential documents from the tech company that were leaked to the Guardian.”
Summary
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
Some examples:
- The cache of more than 124,000 internal Uber files lays bare the ethically questionable practices through which the company barged its way into new markets, often where existing laws or regulations made its operations illegal, before lobbying aggressively for those same laws or regulations to be altered to accommodate it. Read here
- Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices in at least six countries. Read here
- Two of Barack Obama’s most senior presidential campaign advisers, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, discussed helping Uber get to access leaders, officials and diplomats. Read here
- At least six UK government ministers, including the then chancellor, George Osborne, and the future health secretary Matt Hancock, did not declare secret meetings at which they were lobbied by Uber. Read here
- The inside story of how Uber used its connections to the Conservative party to lobby Boris Johnson in a rearguard effort to stop Transport for London introducing new regulations. Read here
- One of Uber’s top executives quit amid questions for the company about whether its European operations were structured in a way that avoided tax. Read here
- Uber secretly hired a political operative linked to Russian oligarchs allegedly aligned with Vladimir Putin in an attempt to secure its place in the Russian market, despite internal bribery concerns. Read here
[…]
As Bonus some older articles about their overall ethics and practices:
Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑🏫
Or … 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓
(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)
I know what you mean, but who are this “double click” and “exe” guys?
RUN/STOP
and SHIFT
.PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
PLAY
on tape.OK
SEARCHING
FOUND Ultimate Game II
Do you mean that the filesystem itself had optimization so that searching from the command line (find
, grep
) was fast?
Or do you think more into the direction of the desktop apps Finder and Librarian?
At least I remember the Librarian.app was great for indexing and quickly searching through large amount of texts (from various formats).
Thanks alot for the details.
Very interesting, I did not know that the Mac SE/30 and the (cheapest) NeXTstation had comparable prices.
What I knew (for here in Germany) was that PCs were expensive (compared to today), but much cheaper than the Macs and NeXTs.
If you want to play around with NeXTstep or OpenStep today, I can recommend the following starting points and tools:
Here you can take a look at the NeXTstation brochure, it is mentioning your price of $5,000 on the last page.
Do you by any chance know what around the same time the costs for a “normal” PC was? Just to get an idea about the difference.
please see this comment above
All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip
.
Had to select “Other”, but meant: gzip
, xz
, bzip2
, unrar
, rar
and zip
.
If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.
Although I am an open source enthusiast, there are few application where I use commercial, even non-OSS solutions on Linux. One of this exceptions is for scanning.
Background: I “administrate” some legacy Epson scanners used with my family’s Linux boxes and got them all to run with a software called VueScan, with the following restrictions:
As you see, it might be a bit of luck, if a device works out of the box or not.
Unfortunately your Epson Stylus SX435W seems not to be listed under the supported Epson devices (click red button “All drivers” to see all supported Epson scanners).
If you happen to find no solution, I suggest to use the trial version of VueScan and check if your Epson simply runs or not.
EDIT: sorry, I forgot to mention. that the VueScan GUI has plenty of those processing options you are searching for.
Same for me with uBlock Origin, until I have updated to version 1.51.0
I think it could be a splendid idea to not let the fascists take over then.
17 years is a good duration! Enough time to grow up and become decent humans for most of us.
Your question reminded my immediately about one of my favorite 35c3 talks Butterbrotdosen-Smartphone - Mein DIY-Smartphone-Bau from 2018-12-29. It is in German language, but has an English translation, too. Maybe it can give you some good starting ideas?
Video: 1080p
Story, Translated with DeepL.com (free version)