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…trump’s trivially manipulated: the next four years are china’s best shot and they know it…

…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely; in truth i think it gave a lot of us an excuse to upgrade from terminals and shell accounts…

…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..

…how do people say it’s not realistic?..

take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home, a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings
they could appear to themselves everyday on closed-circuit TV to make sure they’re still real
it’s the only connection they feel

…down to 49% now as the votes keep coming in; the russian propaganda apparatus reaches deep but not yet that deep…

…by ‘attack’ are we talking signal-jamming, hacking, or physical disruption?..

…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…

…well he’s not…

come you masters of war
you that build the big guns
you that build the death planes
you that build all the bombs
you that hide behind walls
you that hide behind desks
i just want you to know
i can see through your masks

…i don’t think he wants anything other than to keep uncle vlad at bay…

…from what i’ve read, shapeways and all their subsidiaries have ceased operation entirely and have no corporate officers; i’m guessing that if the site’s still up there’s noone behind the wheel…

…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…

…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…

edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..

…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…

Baah Weep Granah Weep Nini-bong.

…he’s performed that way since about 1996; his first few seasons were gold, though…

…auchan briefly expanded into texas in the late eighties, so i was surprised to immediately recognise it in tucker’s propaganda piece some four decades later as a ‘russian’ market…

…either auchan haven’t changed much in fourty years or their russian stores are very outdated…

…if russia needs men and china needs women that sounds like a demographic imbalance poised to resolve itself…