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Advice to children in the 1980s: do not talk to strangers

Advice to children in the 2000s: do not talk to strangers on the computer

Advice to children now: DO NOT TALK TO THE COMPUTER

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Would making bots identify themselves stop harmful scraping?

Not necessarily.

A bot can identify itself and still overwhelm a website. Target harmful behavior, not access, urge Lila Bailey & Tess Vartanian in Tech Policy Press.

Read ➡️ techpolicy.press/breaking-the-

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The Duergar used its War Pick while you ran away, you took 8 damage.
You went down for a moment, but managed to get back up.
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You encounter a 🦁 Giant Goat
❤️ 6-33 ❕1/2 ✨ 100

#c176

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7.3 is out. The tree is in a good shape already - it will likely show up in soon and be made the default once its LTS status is confirmed.

155 files changed, 36899 insertions(+), 1675 deletions(-)

but excluding a couple of downstream drivers that add a lot of noise:

88 files changed, 3222 insertions(+), 261 deletions(-)

Since the beginning of the year we were able to shed about 1000 line insertions and 150 deletions 🎉

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I am now using the latest version of LibreOffice Calc and it feels like such an upgrade for me. I was using an older version installed via APT (v6.4.7) for so long, but then I noticed the latest version is on Snaps (yeah, I know). So I tried it and now the experience is suddenly so much smoother. Calc is my personal accouting app to keep tab on expenses and savings. It is not very high tech but it gets work done. I mostly keep tab on bill payments and avoid debt traps.

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Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 8087 supports advanced operations such as tangents, square roots, and logarithms, this article focuses on basic arithmetic operations: addition and subtraction. The 8087

osnews.com/story/146189/inside

#Intel

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"Early 1980s TeleVideo® Personal Terminal…
-This one is fully functional, with the original case and power cord. Even has old phone records from the 80s still on it."

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The Linux CPU power optimization tool auto-cpufreq 3.2 brings new Intel HWP features, improved battery reporting, and Debian repository support.
linuxiac.com/auto-cpufreq-3-2-

#linux #opensource

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#DEC #VAXstation 4000 VLC

24 MB RAM (max. possible)
1 GB Hard Disk
#OpenVMS V7.2

Case is not in best condition, but the system is fully working and all parts are DEC-original, even the SCSI terminator. 🥳

#RetroComputing #VAX

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