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"RSS is dead!"
No.
Google Reader is dead.
RSS is alive and well.
Podcasts are literally RSS.
RSS is for every kind of content.
RSS readers exist for every OS.
RSS never died.
Only the walled gardens told you it died.
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Output of `tmpfile=$(mktemp); if touch $tmpfile; then cal -y 1752 > $tmpfile; xmore $tmpfile; rm $tmpfile; fi`

Something looks a bit, shall we say, unique?

Catgirls & doggirls using mainframes & minicomputers. This right here is perfectly my dream aesthetic. 68.media.tumblr.com/5d7183af03

If stops with this debugger error, check that your system isn't *too* hardened: `sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=1` should let gdb/lldb attach & debug-run your program.

Anyone who knows rare add-ons for , can you point me to the manual for this? It's a Mountain Computer part number 05-04031-02 that came in a HDD-less IBM 5160 (PC-XT) I rescued. I can't tell if it's an MFM, RLL, or ESDI controller or what the jumpers do.

The computer arrived with this drive's door shut. How did they even get that far in there?

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I shouldn't be shopping for vintage computers, especially at this hour, but someone is definitely as much of a geek as I am. They're selling a TI-99/4A for $99.4A:

It took three times of allowing the Firefox installer, all via hidden options, before Microsoft actually allowed the installer to run.

This ain't no fly-by-night, Microsoft!

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Microsoft, I know you're trying to shake your reputation as malware-friendly, but doing this when downloading a popular Web browser is over the Edge.

I spent the morning throwing a whole bunch of wrenches in the works. (No one wrote how many icons a icon table can have, so I trialed and lots of errored it. The answer is 31 icons.)

Nothing gives me that Layer 1 energy like a can of fresh roasted RJ-45 connectors!

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