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It was written in Megamax Modula-2 by Application Systems Heidelberg, a small German software company as far as I recall.

The mmap() call is actually not ISO C, but part of the IEEE/IEC POSIX.1 (2024) Standard (since about 1996?).

Check for yourself: mmap does not occur in the C standard document: https://www.dii.uchile.cl/~daespino/files/Iso_C_1999_definit...


That's why my .emacs has been printing a status line saying "Welcome to the Emacs editor/operating system" (since 1993).

Hey, if retail Doom gets to throw up a splash saying "DOOM Operating System", so does Emacs.

    [R_Init] Init DOOM refresh daemon.....done.

The original NextStep design's simplicity and colour scheme appeals to me.

I hope someone will write a "skin"/theme for Ladybird (whose August alpha release we are keenly awaiting) that looks like that before I'll have to do it myself...


It would be nice if a "What's new?" could be implemented by the Web protocol, a challenging task in a decentralized network.

New domain registrations would have to be queryable and the result set merged across all domain registrars globally.

That would make (completed) Web crawling easier, esp. of pages not interlinked (yet) with others.


Why the Web doesn't have a Scottish Accent

I once asked for funding from a Scottish business angel.

He confided to me that his biggest mistake in life was saying no on a phone call by a certain Tim Berners-Lee, who was looking for someone to help implement a browser for the "World Wide Web".

"Why did you reject him?" I asked. "'World Wide Web' sounded pretentious." said the man who got independently wealthy by selling a company that produced hypertext software (incl. browsers) for technical documentation running on Sun workstations...

...TBL turned to the NCSA team in the U.S. instead, and the rest is history.


I wonder which Robert said that.

The problem of viable news business models persists, and micro-payments have been proposed, but I have yet to see a viable implementation. Also, I think paying per news story isn't the right level of granularity. Articles that are less popular also need to be written, and the people that wrote them need food, too.


In case you're looking for the opposite, not an AI "kill switch", but a propaganda kill switch using AI to fight disinformatiom, try BiasScanner:

BiasScanner - Firefox Plug-In https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/bias-scanner/

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10829


Bob AKA "Satoshi-san".

The rule for not replying to GDPR requests (e.g. sent by registered letter) holds within a month: the maximum fine for this is 4% of last years total revenue or 20 mio €, whichever is the larger number.

For US companies use their (typically Dublin) European HQs.


Yes but the Irish privacy authority is just a front for US interests. Because the country makes so much money from big tech tax avoidance.

> the maximum fine for this is 4% of last years total revenue or 20 mio €, whichever is the larger number.

The maximum fine wasn't even achieved by Facebook, after years and many blatant GDPR cases. Do you really think someone is getting a fine for not replying to a subject access request in due time? If so I have a very good bridge to sell you, and that bridge has more probability to exist than Amazon getting any kind of GDPR fine for not acknowledging a SAR.


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