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I don't get what the problem is. He used DNS as a name server, which is what it is. The only weird thing is TXT instead of CNAME.

Yes. GIMP used to use the proprietary Motif toolkit before, and GTK was created to get rid of this dependency. The Linux logo was created on a Motif version of GIMP (see screenshot): https:/…

Emily Short is a genius.

Spider and Web is a very interesting game with many well-used devices and twists. Photopia leans towards the "fiction" end of "interactive fiction". It's very short and access…

I play some IF here and there and the comp is my go-to place for what to play. I'm frequently years late though. It's not a thing I think I should track in real time. Infocom games were nice…

A lot of this hardening is based on a fairly obsolete Unix view of the world. E.g. preventing users from seeing other users' PIDs, changing /etc/securetty, non-root X server... In real …

The fact that systemd bundles a lot of functionality (which is different from being a monolith) means it has a disadvantage in the terrible metric of "CVE counts". Now if only the systemd-ha…

They reported the arrest, they didn't say that it was justified. The volunteers were released and cleared some time after that, which you may also remember. Brazilian police is shockingly corrupt…

This is a conspiracy theory supported by Bolsonaro and his supporters. In reality NGOs active in the Amazon are more likely to live under death threats and barely have any funding at all for even basi…

And OS/2 was better than Windows. Technical superiority doesn't matter. And to be fair Ethereum has more scalability problems than Bitcoin.

I'm a reasonably hardcore environmentalist but this is true. There will be many armchair experts here suggesting that stuff should be done in Brazil but they never propose things like "let&#…

Programmers should get whatever machine makes their build times tolerable, which probably means a pretty fast machine. Not because they are superior beings but just plain-old cost/benefit analysi…

I've seen people use Octave in their workstations but I never worked where Octave code was used in "production". It was more of a individual prototyping/exploration tool for those …

I think the West avoided using this as propaganda against the Soviets because that would only call attention to the equally massive and more recent Bengali famine, which was engineered by the British.

Social-democrats are socialists though. They are one of the many subgroups.

Luis Suarez's move was like sacrificing a queen in chess. He used his hand and accepted his red card. "Cheating" would be being on steroids or bribing the ref or something like that.

The limitations of the referee were a part of the sport, which was always about humans and stories, not the mechanical application of rules. That's why we are here once again remembering the memo…

I agree, and I was confused regarding the comments about the colors of the rooms in Garfield's house. The last pane even sort of implies it's "realistic", in that there seem to be …

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This is the thing that used to be called Safari, right? This is great, but a tad expensive at $50/month. I wish O'Reilly would just charge a bit less for that.

This "rule" against passive voice doesn't exist in every language. What looks like good writing in English may look like childish, repetitive prose in other languages.

FWIW I am attracted to Sourcehut's aesthetic exactly because it's not a "2020 theme", so I've been using it and paying for it. Pages are simple and functional. Github makes me…

"Security concerns" is an excuse for protectionism. If he does the same it does not necessarily mean that the security concerns are real.

Anyone old enough to remember what the press said in the 90s about the Internet will recognize the similarities. The Internet is full of fraudulent websites. It's full of porn. Email isn't a…

This is an editorialized link name and the target comment isn't even obviously wrong or anything. Let the awfully outdated XML tooling die. Context: This was named "Chrome holding the web ba…

I'm not Substack but "email ops" is a thing that exists, where you have someone working on reputation, getting you off blackhole lists, keep up with the latest DKIM-like thing to ensure…