I will still trust a troll moderated Wikipedia over AI the drivel that is 95% truth and 5% complete Guillermo del Toro nightmare hallucinations. Even though I have stopped contributing to Wikipedia as it is impossible for me as an unmerited nobody to post anything without having it rolled back with a comment of "irrelevant", "wrong forum","lacking citation" (that was my fault) or "speculation" (yes I did speculate about a book cover being drawn in the same style as the Epic Adventure movie posters, like New Hope and National Lampoon's Vacation, but if you compare them you can't un-see it) - And yet, even if I'm being clobbered all the time, even on topics I think I can contribute, I believe this moderated mash is better than the artificial cud served by most LLMs. Not because the AI give the wrong answer, but because it is so vehemently pretending anything it presents is the truth. And I know all that nice fact is peppered with falsities and I have no way of telling how much until I try using that library (eg. SDL3) and find half the howto given by the AI is out of date (SDL2)

I've got a ton of Dell OptiPlex 3050 at work that I am repurposing for something Linuxy, since they can't run Windows 11. NVME support and 32GB RAM, but according to the WIN11 installer it has the wrong CPU.

By 2080 we can have banana farms in Seatle and vineyards in British Columbia.

It is there My last car was a Peugeot 5008, but when we switched for an electric, the 5008 had yet to go electric and we switched to a VW ID.4. You know, the vehicle brand previously known as the original swazticar ;)

We do see a lot of Peugeot e2008 and e3008 around and I recently did look into the e5008, however after having driven the 300hp ID.4 GTX for a bit I could never swap that out for another 1-100 in 2 minutes car like the e5008. There are even some Citroens and Renault still on the road. But to answer your question, French car industry, like all European car manufacturers, feel the pressure from the Asian cars. Even some of the old European brands like Volvo are now essentially Chinese and more cheap brands are emerging every month.

This was never (only) about the pants. Carlsen is pissed at the committee (FIDE) after an attempt at arranging a world championship for a variety of fast chess and FIDE put a lot of effort in stopping that attempt. For Carlsen, the jeans (that looks better than most my formal pants) was just another FIDE greaseball and for FIDE this was just another attempt by Carlsen to demand some attention.

But how many of these "second lives" were seeded through other media? "Come and get your love" was pretty prominent in Guardians of the Galaxy and would have had its new round of glory days initiated from that, not a random discovery on Took Tick. This really doesn't have anything to do with this particular app as we did see similar trends on YouTube with songs like "Little green Bag" by George Baker and "Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers Wheel, triggered by Reservoir Dogs and again a slew of other songs triggered by Pulp Fiction. The prominent thing with TuckTuck however, is that it emphasises on the music for a meme experience. It acts as a viral vector for the music that has already wormed itself into the ears of the target audience for that platform and goes exponential. The short videos and the fast repetition might then amplify that number. Still my question is if we can attribute the second life to BikBok or if it is the seeding through the "Old Media" (movie or TV) that should get the credit for uncovering the good old gems from the past.

It is surprising how much flak you can get on a usenet group called no.mac. The no comes from Norway. But that was lost on most the visitors who popped in to flame everyone in there for hating on the Macintosh. I am sure it was the same in no.pc or no.linux (if that managed to be created before the Great Restructuring and had to be no.it.os.linux.diverse because you had to have a hierarchy or else the structure was doomed)
So I guess flamewars Flamewars is the thing I remember.

NyxMUD 3 (And later VikingMUD) Oh, and countless BattleTech MUSEs.

The one I am waiting for needs a chip controlling the tightening of the seatbelts and closing the passenger side window if the sensor below the mirror detects an incoming object moving too fast. And possibly the vibrator in the seat.

SSIA

They already did that in S1. Hispanic Grandma was sleeved as a white male biker. Lots of fun comments when she's had a few drinks too many and went off to pee. Also, there were at least three transgender sleeves. It was specifically named "cross-sleeving". And then there was the snake They pretty much did make a point out of persona != body.

The Baltimore Sun has another twist on that story: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/bonaparte/featured/4 But it's a good one, in either case. Good enough to post as a facebook status ;)

sudo diskutil disableOwnership /Volumes/MovableDiskName
I think that toggles a bit in the filesystem itself, making it ID unaware. But I haven't tried to see how it looks on Ubuntu afterwards. Go go gadget VirtualBox!

Sometimes people do use one-man projects, but then your application needs to be spot on. Example: Smultron and Lingon - http://smultron.sourceforge.net/. The first is a text editor for Mac which is comparable to Notepad++ on Windows and Lingon which is a utility for making launchd files. Developed by one guy, used by thousands. And although he didn't get hit by a bus, it is canned. Same story with lots of utilities, made by clever guys who got a lot of press time and who are now too busy speaking at seminars and conferences to develop the apps.

Rooms are often just object containers with a description about the environment and that provide a limitation to what a player sees (other players or objects such as mobs or items) and hears (says). In a MMO environment you have shards or zones that provide load balancing for the servers, but also give you a limitation to what a player sees and hears (again says). A room also facilitates messages from the system to a player, such as 'P leaves west' to everyone in that room.

But almost all the old implementations (mudlibs), not just LPs, DIKUs or MUSEs, have some sort of chat channel system, limiting messaging between players. These are, as mentioned before, much like mailing lists, where players P1 and P2 are member of a guild level range or ad hoc group (gangs, party etc.) and get only messages applicable to them.

Further on there is often an option of filtering messages by type, so that P1 gets the info about mob M1 hitting P2, but not M2 hitting (on) P3. How old the oldest is, I have no idea, but on one LPC implementation I find a (C) VikingMUD 1993 in the channels.h file, but the channel implementation is probably based on something way earlier, like http://www.genesismud.org/