Nearly all are run by companies making money by recording as much of your data as possible.

A commercial cloud app could be entirely private but then the company would not be able to take your data.

It’s always funny to me to read a history of something I lived through written by someone who didn’t. I don’t think anyone who was in the industry at the time would say the Zip drive dominated the 1990s.

To set the scene, most people in the 90s didn’t own a computer at all and the majority of people who did own a computer never owned a zip drive. While Zip was the most successful of the Superfloppies, it was never ubiquitous. By the sales numbers, 10-15% of computer owners bought zip drives. Compare to a floppy or CDROM which is close to 100%.

The reason it vanished quickly was simple: Zip was never that good and CDRW was much better. As soon as the prices dropped for CDRW, Zip was a goner.

In 1998, the Open Source Definition was created for clarity. A lot of people were confused between Free Software/GPL, and other types of open source software. People would make a lot of assumptions that it meant many things it didn’t so a formal definition was written down.

It doesn’t seem like it worked to clarify much as people still have wildly differing views on what Open Source means or what they think it should mean.

I heard Postgres was originally created in 1966 by Doug Englebart to store vectors for early mouse designs.

Tushay!

I’ll see myself out.

Do I smell an ignobel in the wind?

It’s irrelevant to whether other people need privacy. Saying, “I don’t care about privacy because I have nothing to hide” is like saying, I don’t have cancer so why should I support the search for a cure?

Yes the CTSS crew were reportedly thinking of Maxewell’s demon but also chose to change it to the “daemon” spelling to make it sound more like a “friendly garden spirit than a monster” and the pronounced it “deemon”.

In case you ever wondered where it came from in computing.

are you running anything that would cause a large number of files to be open?

was it always like this? if not when did it start?

I really like Kate and I set it up similar to this guide.

Mulvad is 5 euro per month for up to 5 devices. You could split it with 4 other people…

the only book i own on text editing

I’ve been using EXT4 and XFS on external drives for a long time with no issues. Both are rock solid under linux and steam.

Perfect for those late night Zork sessions!

Yahoo Pipes was great. I used to use it to track nzb releases back in the day.