1. HeckFeck Jan 5, 2026 parent

   "Disruption" comes to the world of junior academia. It was inevitable. Nothing's sacred.
2. HeckFeck Jan 1, 2026 parent

   AH, I was repeating something I read elsewhere, but I'll defer to an eyewitness. Must've been pretty cool working on Windows back then. Maybe it was more varied than my line of work. I must escape the drudgery B2B SaaS Webcrapps.
3. HeckFeck Dec 30, 2025 parent

   Server 2003 was the last release supervised by Cutler, so would have my vote. It's even source-available... technically.
4. HeckFeck Dec 30, 2025 parent

   Sometimes I install Office 97 for kicks and marvel at how much I can do with it, yet it asks so little of my system. <2Mb RAM for Word 97!
5. HeckFeck Dec 30, 2025 parent

   https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. If it ever gets good hardware support it might have a chance.

   Or maybe ReactOS - the actual windows clone - gets finished. Rumours put a first release date some time after Hurd.

6. HeckFeck Dec 30, 2025 parent

   The absolute state of FOSS communities in 2025. I'd rather teh good old days of pedantry, swearing and trolling instead.
7. HeckFeck Dec 28, 2025 parent

   Have they open sourced the server? Revival projects should always do this, otherwise they are preserving nothing. A single point of failure means someone else will have to reverse-engineer the protocol and write the server software again in the future. Do it for posterity!
8. HeckFeck Dec 19, 2025 parent

   Every browser developer should be forced to take an annual pilgrimage to this gravestone:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)

9. HeckFeck Dec 12, 2025 parent

   I wrote 100,000 LOC using Grok, where's my christmas bonus?
10. HeckFeck Dec 1, 2025 parent

    It's an abortive attempt at parody. Could've just said "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" and we could at least enjoy the throwback.
11. HeckFeck Dec 1, 2025 parent

    Linguistic decay. First they came for our adverbs, now they're attacking our comparative adjectives.
12. HeckFeck Nov 14, 2025 parent

    IBM won the long game. They secretly acquired Apple, but you weren't meant to know that yet. Not even Tim Cook knows. Big Blue's lawyers will be writing politely to the author of this project, and teaming up with the gutted remains of Nullsoft to sue them for copyright infringement.
13. HeckFeck Nov 14, 2025 parent

    Can't go wrong with FB2k: https://www.foobar2000.org/mac

    It now has a last.fm plugin, so let's get scrobbling!

14. HeckFeck Oct 30, 2025 parent

    AI has now devoured humanity, and not even with entertainment if it was in a proper dystopian way. It's just engorging all the software products we love, accelerating enshitiffication. We just get another fucking subscription. Why can't we have killer robots to fight instead?
15. HeckFeck Oct 21, 2025 parent

    Nice. It might struggle on my Palm IIIx, but I shall resurrect my Tungsten E2 as it will now have a purpose again!
16. HeckFeck Oct 17, 2025 parent

    I've sympathy for what you're proposing - on-shoring our own tech - but the Online Safety Act is a terrible law and it should've been repealed yesterday. It will do nothing to advance those aims, and plenty to stifle innovation in the UK tech space. Ofcom can get fucked.
17. HeckFeck Oct 16, 2025 parent

    Big sigh. I wish we still had pride in our field, rather than this race to the bottom mentality.
18. HeckFeck Oct 15, 2025 parent

    Adding CPUs and GPUs on top of your CPUs and GPUs... Sounds like we've the spiritual successor of the Sega Saturn.
19. HeckFeck Oct 7, 2025 parent

    Inb4 the media companies argue that it's violating muh "free speech"*

    * a universally good concept but this isn't an example of it unless you're a lawyer.

20. HeckFeck Sep 30, 2025 parent

    I've been using self-hosted Isso to serve comments on my static sites. It's worked well enough, it's practically the same as Disqus.
21. HeckFeck Sep 20, 2025 parent

    Because I want my DKIM signatures to be literal signatures.
22. HeckFeck Sep 17, 2025 parent

    We must find a way to extend his life indefinitely.
23. HeckFeck Sep 16, 2025 parent

    Aero didn't have absurd padding. It made good use of texture, colour and shade. It actually looked quite appealing. We've been steadily downhill since.
24. HeckFeck Sep 2, 2025 parent

    And likely when mid-story to invent parts of the story to fill the gaps, rather than admit it is wrong.

    Maybe the LLMs aren't so different from us.

25. HeckFeck Aug 24, 2025 parent

    I love the passion that has went into this, even if it is still wip. I would like to link to it from https://wmw.thran.uk if that's ok with you.
26. HeckFeck Aug 19, 2025 parent

    We'll get ADB back before we get ADP back.
27. HeckFeck Aug 19, 2025 parent

    This will become its own genre of simulation game in Germany.

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