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"it's the dark souls of edutainment games for the Apple IIC"

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At 14, he helped create RSS.
At 16, he contributed to Creative Commons.
At 17, he co-created Markdown.
At 18, he co-founded Reddit.

The web would be different if he were alive.

#AaronSwartzDay

Excited about Postgres 17? So are we!
Try it on Neon first -- https://neon.tech/blog/postgres-17
#postgres #postgresql

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#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Newsclipping. Headline: She drank her ale at the bar. Subheading: Girl Cyclist in Rahway Amazed Loungers in Chamberlain's. Story then tells how the woman ordered and drank a beer straight from the bottle whilst standing at the bar, to the amazement of the men in there.

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Two facts that are all too often ignored after a surprising incident:

1. You are going to get surprised again. And again. And again.

2. You can get better at dealing with surprise, but that’s a different sort of work from preventing the last incident from recurring.

Neon went GA today!

Fork your database instantly with Copy-on-Write, try something out, shut down the fork.

Autoscale up, autoscale down - your connection stays up, your transactions keep running

https://neon.tech/blog/neon-ga

#neondatabase

#neondatabase news coming on the 15th!

@mcc I'm really worried that Android is getting worse and worse

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https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/ Aww man. I haven't read any of his stuff in years (I think I reread Fire when Rainbows' End came out) but his books were always so full of ideas, not just plots or characters.

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Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car

A worm-person driving a car made out of an apple. It's a drawing (OBVIOUSLY). The worm looks very happy and is wearing a hat. In the background a sad cat person looks on. They are also wearing a hat and for some reason.... a smart suit. I wanted to think of a cat-based business pun but the best I could come up with was 'miaowvers and shakers'. Sorry.

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if years of science fiction & fantasy intake taught me anything, it's that if you run across a featureless void you probably shouldn't take the ship inside it.

on the other hand, who could resist, really.

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Wow I can't believe they deepfaked all the dumb stuff I supposedly said on the internet going all the way back to the 1990s

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You kids and your "USB-C."

#GenX #tech #retrotech

A panel with several dozen various computer ports, from "Optical Audio Toslink" to various modem and network ports, to serial ports, audio ports, video ports.

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I guess this stuff is plenty obscure, huh?

So, folks, there's a new browser engine dropped (a while ago, actually). It isn't based on WebKit and it isn't based on Firefox, it is written from scratch for a hobbyist operating system SerenityOS by some awesome/crazy people. The browser, called Ladybird, actually can be compiled for Windows, Linux, Mac, OpenIndiana and Android.

It can pass Acid3 and render Github page well (note that Firefox and Chrome circa 2018 cannot do that!), and it has decent JS and afaik wasm support.

Edit: the project seems to be not great in terms of ethics, so I removed the link.

ladybird browser webpage seen in the browser itself

@bitprophet nothing in the present, just a story from the past. Great reaction to it though. Still has me laughing

"sasuga Stallman" - the absolute high point of my day

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Telepath: *reads my mind*
My mind: A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
Telepath: that's it, I'm gonna ask for hazard pay

@siderea Grecian?

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Neon @ #FOSDEM

See you at FOSDEM and FOSDEM PGDay 2024

https://neon.tech/blog/see-you-at-fosdem-and-fosdem-pgday-2024

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