redcalcium

joined 2 years ago
[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Windows was this close to be Unix. Windows was POSIX.1-compliant, and Windows Service for UNIX was also a thing.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 67 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Protesters violently storming US capitol

US police: I sleep

Protesters peacefully protesting Israel

US police: real shit

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Steam is available in 237 countries, while PSN is only available in 69 countries. Some people are going to be locked out from the game they bought. E.g African players are going to be fucked.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm, what do you mean when a tank game has a tankies reputation?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 1 year ago

I'm more of a Space Impact guy

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 14 points 1 year ago

Coincidence or not, it must've caused a chilling effect to other whistleblowers.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 57 points 1 year ago (11 children)

How the heck did those tools developers figure out how to remove those various ads in windows? Did they do it the hard way, fired up a debugger to reverse engineer how those ads were displayed? That takes some dedication. We in the Linux land have it easy because the source code is available to mess with.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 26 points 1 year ago

I mean, a huge number of redditors moved here because of reddit enshittification.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 85 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When I was a teenager, I made a page in Word, saved it as html, then uploaded it to geocities. Good times.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would they do that when they can use this as yet another push to move people to windows 11.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 17 points 1 year ago (23 children)

It would be nice if the prisoners could take class or earn a degree while in prison, at least when they get out they have a new skill or a degree so they have a better chance to get a job to pay off their prison debt.

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