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Docs and protocol specification

Mark Weiser on what a computer interface *shouldn't* be, even when we think it *should*.

"This post dives into the Usenet archives and covers 1980s online discussions about Unix, BSD, and historical hardware."

"With the passing of Rebecca Heineman today, I wanted to share some images from her last, now forever unfinished project. She was working on amazing stuff right up until the end.
It was Dragon Wars remastered. Jennell Jaquays was art directing."

Requires signing in with your Apple Developer account

On the difference between optimization an premature optimization

Main issue for tracking problems like Windows showing a warning, macOS forcing the user to jump through more hoops every version, and Homebrew planning on dropping LibreWolf.

Kagi's head of machine learning on what LLMs actually are, what they aren't, and what you should definitely not rely on them for. Ranger does think that they can be useful (comparing philosophers, who actually think about things, to lawyers or sophists, who only care about what the rhetoric accomplishes), but only spends one paragraph on it.

For Pine64 devices running danctnix that were set up long enough ago: The old domain name for the repo at p64.arikawa-hi.me expired in 2023, was renewed for 2 years, and has expired again.
archmobile.mirror.danctnix.org is the current domain name that should be in /etc/pacman.conf or a file in /etc/pacman.d/

"The egrep and fgrep commands have been deprecated since 2007"
...which means the post-install script for Vivaldi's RPM really ought to be updated! "egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E"