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3 months agoDo you not know why people would want to block lemmy.ml?
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Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during the first week-long outage.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
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3·3 months agoPCX or nothin’
Apparently, The
joeeditor has ajstarmode, so says this old Stackexchange thread. I can’t verify because I’ve never used Wordstar, butjoe’s available in my distro’s repository.No idea if it can read old WordStar files, but maybe you don’t need that.
For the GUI version - and some old file capability, the same page and other searches turn up WordTsar which is in progress. The dev says they’ll be picking up development again next month.
A wild Elon appeared!
Twitter has evolved into X!
X attacks Twitter!
X has hurt itself in its confusion!
X has hurt itself in its confusion!
X has hurt itself in its confusion!
0·3 months agoDude needs to look into who Margaret Thatcher was and her politics. See how much that gums up his brain gears, because, even outside the fact she was a woman, she was a conservative’s ultimate fantasy.
“I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that." – an actual Bill Gates quote referring to the 640k quote that won’t die.
But yes, it was probably satirically ascribed to him because of MS-DOS not having the capability to deal with any more than that amount of RAM for a lot longer than it probably should have.
The “temporary” solution of requiring an extra driver to be able to do so (EMM386.SYS or similar) remained in place right up until DOS-based Windows was allowed to die.
(The underlying reason was almost certainly ancient IBM PC memory-mapped IO standards, so maybe we could ascribe the original quote an engineer working there some time around 1980.)