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cable2600

847karma·750submissions·August 2, 2017
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Don't forget about Commodore OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_OS Linux based OS with Commodore Amiga UI look and feel. Also Anubis OS: https://www.osne…
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Sci-Fi tells us in the Planet of the Apes series that this is not good. They will rebel and take over.
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That is why when IBM made the IBM PC based on the Intel 8088 they made Intel license the chip design to AMD and NEC in case Intel could not make chips quick enough to meet demand.
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Big Tech has too much power being virtual monopolies, but being local governments sounds like a step back when companies had their own stores for employees to spend tokens at as they took over towns.
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I still got a Mac SE/30 and an Mac IIcx and an iMac G3 Bondi Blue Mac.
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Sci Fi has warned us about Fascism and Fascist states and using machines like robot dogs in Fahrenheit 451 or Terminators in The Terminator series where the machines rule over the humans by force.
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It worked on a Commodore 128 and 1571 drive in CP/M80 mode. I used to program in it way back when. Cheaper than C64 Pascal.
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Free and Open Source languages cost less than commercial languages. I remember that Janus Ada for DOS cost thousands for a license. Java and GNU C++ were free. Now Microsoft has the Community edition …
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That is because the website has free speech and users vote on the articles. Spammers like HWR use a script to vote up their stories via bots but the users vote them down. NAB has spaces to block HWR, …
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https://youtu.be/3gkjWxCl6zE
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Reddit really shook the market.
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If you like the Commodore 64 try the Mega 65: https://mega65.org/
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http://notabug.io/ https://discussions.app/tag/all …
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So it is like COBOL on a Mainframe? Too costly to convert into a Microcomputer modern language but cheap enough to run in COBOL. I had no idea that VB 6.0 has so much support for it.
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Just like Visual BASIC 6.0, dropped for Visual BASIC.Net and Visual C#.Net because of progress. You can't expect a language to last forever or support to last forever. Now Python 4.0 is coming ou…
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I have different email accounts, each one with their own identity. Not in my real name, as my real name accounts got 85 of them hacked due to password dumps.
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I tried a GNUSocial site and got nothing but spammers and hackers uploading photos to my site. I ran out of disk space, and had to shut it down. Moderation of such a site with just one person is a nig…
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https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61225
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Nobody wants extremist content on their web site.
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They pirate bay does not use hatespeech or call for violence. They just share torrents of pirated files.
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I think it is a good idea. But aren't electric cars just using coal burning electricity?
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Companies don't want to be tied to hate speech or speech that causes people to riot. It may not seem fair, but companies are private and not a part of the government so there is no freedom of spe…
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Microsoft Windows Phones, based on Windows CE or the ARM version of Windows 10.
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https://stallman.org/ So far he wrote about the riots in DC by Trump supporters. He hasn't mentioned the banning of Trump on social media or Parlor from the Apple and Google stor…
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You mean Social Progressivism?
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They have to go somewhere, banned by Big Tech go to the Small Tech firms.
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It is an upgraded SE with the logic board replaced. Same 800K floppy drive internal as an SE.
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I am said to say but YouTube has become the Ministry of Truth, 1984 is coming true, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-... Anything that does not fit Big…
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This is great because I have a Mac SE/30 with a 800K drive and no way to create 800K disks for it using images off the Internet. Which means a lot to me.
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