171785436
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martiniturbide writes:
The Mozilla Foundation published an analysis on how bad are the privacy terms in connected cars.
171714108
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martiniturbide writes:
ArcaOS 5.1.0 is an OEM distribution of IBM's discontinued OS/2 Warp operating system. This new version of ArcaOS offers UEFI compatibility allowing it to run in modern x86 hardware and also includes the ability to install to GPT-based disk layouts.
The OS/2 community has been called upon to report supported hardware, open source any OS/2 software, make public as much OS/2 documentation as possible and post the important platform links. OS2World insists that open source has helped OS/2 in the past years and it is time to look under the hood to try to clone internal components like Control Program, Presentation Manager, SOM and Workplace Shell.
158766011
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martiniturbide writes:
The OS/2 community is getting close to obtain a modern browser on their platform.
"BitWise Works GmbH and the Dutch OS/2 Voice foundation started work on Otter Browser in 2017, as it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep an updated version of Firefox available on OS/2 and ArcaOS. Firefox 49 ESR from 2016 is the latest version available, because that’s around the time Mozilla started rewriting significant parts of Firefox with Rust code, and there’s no Rust compiler for OS/2. Since then, the main focus has been porting Qt 5.0 to OS/2, which includes the QtWebEngine (based on Chromium). This effort also has the side effect of making more cross-platform ports possible in the future."
131893632
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martiniturbide writes:
ArcaOS 5.0.5 (the OEM version of OS/2 Warp 4.52) had been released by Arca Noae. It features xHCI (USB3) controllers and over 100 updates, enhancements, and fixes since 5.0.4 was released.
130688846
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martiniturbide writes:
Belkin announced the end-of-life for its Wemo NetCam on April 28th, 2020.
On May 29 2020 the Wemo NetCam cloud based cameras will not only became “useless beige bricks”, switching off the service in the middle of the global lockdown it is just very inconvenient.
“Given the quarantine conditions in many countries that forbid travel to second homes, the switching off of the iSecurity+ video platform gives those property owners a difficult choice to make. Either leaving their property with no security system and zero surveillance capability, or breaking the quarantine orders in order to install new equipment.”
Soon Belkin Wemo NetCam will became more tech junk contamination.... maybe some hackers can save the world.
130060052
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martiniturbide writes:
WordLogic (patent troll) claims it has the rights of the concept of predictive text writing and went after the Wikimedia foundation. WordLogic offered a "discounted, lump sum fee of $30,000 in exchange for a paid-up one-time license", an easy win they thought, but Wikimedia fought back. "Wikimedia notes that (1) WordLogic's patents are invalid due to prior art, (2) that they are invalid for not covering patentable subject matter, and (3) that anyway, it doesn't even infringe on the patents if they were valid. " Now we are waiting to see what will happen, will the patent troll desist? will it push forward?
129992658
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martiniturbide writes:
The Internet Archive posted on his blog:
The Supreme Court held today (April 27, 2020) that copyright protection does not extend to the law – in this case, to the annotations in Georgia State’s annotated code. Justice Roberts explained that the animating principle behind this rule is that no one can own the law. “Every citizen is presumed to know the law,” and “it needs no argument to show . . . that all should have free access to its contents.”
This is a victory for our friends at Public.Resource.Org, the public domain, and the public at large.
Free access to the law is core to the ability of our citizenry to fully participate in our democratic society. The Internet Archive has worked with Public Resource for 6 years to make the law fully searchable and downloadable to the public for free. We applaud this outcome and hope that more legal works will come to be available to the public in the coming days and weeks. We are glad this fight is over.
110485210
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martiniturbide writes:
This is an interesting article about IBM's OS/2 Warp being used on the NYC subway.
107730556
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martiniturbide writes:
OS2World, a community known as the online reunion place of IBM's OS/2 Warp users, is merging with the Flat Earth Society. The OS/2 community expects that this action will benefit the platform by getting the funds to finally create an open source clone of it. OS2World asks every OS/2 user to start believing that the earth is flat to get the "big bucks" that will finally turn the operating system into a Windows 10, Ubuntu, MacOS X and Android competitor in the final OS Wars of all ages.
102546562
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martiniturbide writes:
According to the article, VMWare made pressure to the Mandalay Bay restaurant to axe IGEL's Disrupt 2018 (August 26 — 29) event since it was at the same time as VMWare WMworld (August 26 — 30). Jed Ayres (IGEL's North America CEO) posted on LinkedIn that they had a "rough time in Las Vegas" and were forcibly evicted by Border Grill & MGM the 27th afternoon. A lawsuit was filed against the MGM and Mandalay Resorts.
93394697
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martiniturbide writes:
"It's a 5,500 unit limited runproduced in partnership with iam8bit. Capcom and iam8bit have teamed up to produce a run of 5,500 units, available in either "Opaque Ryu Headband Red" (4,500 cartridges) or "Glow-in-the-Dark Blanka Green" (1,000 cartridges). "
— Campcon promise it will a playable cartridges so now we need to undust 5,500 SNES systems.
91115555
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martiniturbide writes:
ArcaOS 5.0 is an OEM distribution of the discontinued IBM’s OS/2 Warp operating system. ArcaOS offers a new set of drivers for ACPI, Network, USB, Video and Mouse to run OS/2 in newer hardware. It also includes a new OS installer and open source software like, Samba, Libc libraries, SDL, Qt, Firefox and OpenOffice between others. It is available in two editions, Personal ($129 with an introductory price of $99 for the first 90 days) with six months subscription and Commercial ($239) with one year subscription.
The OS/2 community has been called to report supported hardware, open source any OS/2 software, to make public as much as OS/2 documentation as possible and posted the important platform links. OS2World insists that open source has helped OS/2 in the past years and it is time to look under the hood to try to clone internal components like Control Program, Presentation Manager, SOM and Workplace Shell.
90833955
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martiniturbide writes:
For those who lived the console emulator and retrogaming boom on the late 90’s there is this interesting article about the story of Nesticle posted at Motherboard. Nesticle was Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console emulator that had a huge success in the early internet and helped to start the emulation scene. The author of the story, Ernie Smith, also posted an extra sencond part of the story with more interesting tips.
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martiniturbide writes:
Disney just created their own Death Star . With some light and trickery Disney transformed the iconic Epcot center in Orlando, Florida, into Star Wars' Death Star with the idea to promote the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One. It was good that Disney didn't spend $8.1 quadrillion dollars creating it.
85867161
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martiniturbide writes:
On September first Dennis Hamilton, the volunteer vice-president of OpenOffice, just posted the idea of what should be the actions to shut down the Apache OpenOffice Project. His reasons to post that are the "limited capacity for sustaining" and "there is no ready supply of developers who have the capacity, capability, and will to supplement the roughly half-dozen volunteers holding the project together." He also states "My interest is in seeing any retirement happen gracefully." This quickly generated a lot of replies on the Apache OpenOffice developer’s forum of people trying to find solutions to keep the project going.
Conspiracy theories: Is this just a stunt pulled by Dennis to get people involved on Apache OpenOffice? Is Microsoft investment on the Apache Foundation starting to pay off? Does it make sense to maintain OpenOffice when there is the LibreOffice community also working on an open source office suite?
