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WordPress makes it easy to set up a blog. But then it requires updates to Wordpress and associated files and system files.

A lot of top pages are run by Foreign Troll Farms. They are paying customers for Facebook advertising so Facebook refuses to ban them.

Politics, favoritism, nepotism, incompetence, and working synergy with a team also spoils things because you never get synergy.

People are used to buying Apps from the App Store. Web Apps you have to search for in order to use and the average user isn't going to waste their time doing that when an App Store exists.

Companies will do the same thing they do to IT staff that design things that need patents. They will put the manager's name on the patent because the product is owned by the company.

Good luck finding the people who are willing to support an old operating system forever. Even Linux shuts off older versions from updates.

Archive without the annoying popup: https://archive.is/enQvE

They got hacked. The old free Bitcoin scam. Into a black hole it goes, nothing comes back to the poor users.

It is like taking Memes seriously.

I list on my website that I work with legacy computers, often moving them to emulators to preserve them from crashing due to a hardware failure. I use QEMU because it emulates many systems not just PC…

I took Clipper, Oracle SQL/PL, dBase, and Lotus 123 databases and converted them to MS-Access and SQL Server databases.

If you like Windows classic you'll love ReactOS: https://reactos.org/

Just remember the requirements for Windows 11 and know that 90% of the machines out there cannot run it because it needs TPM 2.0 and the latest CPUs to work or even install. I got $2000 saved up for a…

I had a Timex/Sinclar 1000 with the 64K memory module that sort of worked half the time. Zot, there it goes again and I have to type everything in again because I didn't save it to tape.

I still write programs on paper and pencil to see if I can do it as accurately as the machine can.

BeOS is still with us: https://www.haiku-os.org/

The Free clone of Delphi is here: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Studying a new language and also get 8 hours of sleep and refresh for the next day.

An AI can brute force a winning plan on a chess board. Chess masters study books and patterns. Deep Blue was fed books and other player's moves. When Kasparov was beating Deep Blue they had to qu…

https://youtu.be/yHXx3orN35Y

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1036002327/taco-bell-sauce-pa... …

Linux's Kernel is awesome.

Non-Paywall: https://archive.is/sj6qT

He knows eventually there will be shortages and the price of food will go up. Also he wants people to eat plant based burgers instead of beef based for health reasons. As the population grows farms ca…

Isn't HBO owned by AT&T?

There was a Compute! Gazette program that split the C64 into two different computers to run two different programs at the same time.

It would be nice if I knew the Star command lines to get the games disk to work. dir, ls, catalog, all don't work.

https://archive.is/0a2BR

I could not afford a Sony Walkman so I bought a broken one from a garage sale for $5 and it had a loose belt on the cassette gears. I had friends who had Stereo systems with a turn table record player…