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shdon commented on More than two hard disks in DOS   os2museum.com/wp/more-tha... · Posted by u/yuhong
cestith · 22 days ago
There were also a number of sound cards that had two or three ports because a lot of early CD-ROM drives weren’t IDE. You’d have a Sony, a Panasonic, and something else on your card in the early days. IDE on a sound card was an actual improvement.
shdon · 22 days ago
The third common CD-ROM interface that wasn't IDE was Mitsumi.
shdon commented on “I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines”   github.com/antiwork/flexi... · Posted by u/slacktivism123
picafrost · a month ago
This makes me wonder if AI usage will end up part of job position listings, similar to remote days, if it is not already. How much AI agent will you be able to use/be subjected to? Are people looking for this already when job searching?
shdon · a month ago
I run several job boards, and though there hasn't yet been any postings requiring the candidate's using AI (also not all that likely in the particular field), I am noticing a definite increase in the number of lists with emoji preceding each bullet point, and the use of em dashes. Personally, if I were a job seeker, I'd find that off-putting just as much as if I were presented with the requirement to use AI in my job.
shdon commented on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public   honest-broker.com/p/the-f... · Posted by u/imartin2k
jfengel · 2 months ago
Just moments ago I noticed for the first time that Gmail was giving me a summary of email I had received.

Please don't. I am going to read this email. Adding more text just makes me read more.

I am sure there's a common use case of people who get a ton of faintly important email from colleagues. But this is my personal account and the only people contacting me are friends. (Everyone else should not be summarized; they should be trashed. And to be fair I am very grateful for Gmail's excellent spam filtering.)

shdon · 2 months ago
How long before spam filtering is also done by an LLM and spammers or black hat hackers embed instructions into their spam mails to exploit flaws in the AI?
shdon commented on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up   quantamagazine.org/a-new-... · Posted by u/robinhouston
ErigmolCt · 2 months ago
"If tipped, will self-right" sounds like exactly the kind of feature you'd want on the Moon
shdon · 2 months ago
And for cows
shdon commented on Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2   blog.rust-lang.org/2025/0... · Posted by u/ingve
flohofwoe · 3 months ago
This reads like it only affects the 32-bit target (which tbh is surprising to see supported at all, since afaik there are no more supported 32-bit Windows versions?)
shdon · 3 months ago
Technically there still is, for a few more months. There is a 32-bit version of Windows 10, and that won't end mainline support until October (and then a while of extended support, for those who wish to pay for such).
shdon commented on What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?   devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/rbanffy
ryandrake · 3 months ago
One thing the article did not answer is “why?” I think I am missing something but why did Microsoft feel they needed to ship icons for other software vendors’ applications? Wouldn’t Lotus and Quicken want to ship their own icons with their software?
shdon · 3 months ago
These were existing MS-DOS programmes that had already shipped. They wouldn't have shipped with a Windows icon as they were made before that Windows version existed (or at least shipped) and weren't even intended to run on that platform. Once Windows had shipped, and software vendors started making software for it, they will of course have included their own icons. The "why" is simply Microsoft wanting to make Windows play nice with users' existing software, and thus enhancing the user experience.
shdon commented on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life   github.com/ericjenott/Eve... · Posted by u/harryvederci
shdon · 4 months ago
Surely that's Doom8088 rather than the original version if this thing truly emulates an XT level machine (or rather an 80186 CPU)?
shdon commented on RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)   5snb.club/posts/2023/do-n... · Posted by u/zkldi
jeroenhd · 9 months ago
You're taking exactly the right approach in my book. Thank you!

I don't know if they still do it, but last time I browsed Medium I found that it claimed to respect DNT, which is quite nice. Lots of self-hosted analytics software also respects DNT out of the box and I don't think site administrators often bother to turn that off. Still, the vast majority of websites probably ignores the header, especially since it's been deprecated as a standard. If you care about such things, maybe also consider looking into Sec-GPC, its intended replacement.

shdon · 9 months ago
I do indeed check against both DNT and Sec-GPC (and navigator.doNotTrack and navigator.globalPrivacyControl in JS) basically treating them identically. GPC is ostensibly not about tracking itself, but about sharing data, though I just figured that data that isn't recorded can't be shared either.

u/shdon

KarmaCake day2629March 29, 2009View Original