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lriel | 2 years ago | on: Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts

This is the floppy to bring onto the DeLorean. Relatively, today that would go to the early nighties. Pop that into into the Aptiva/AST, and go blow your own mind with this, and probably the timeline too.

lriel | 2 years ago | on: CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers

Yes, running bins in the browser. This is ActiveX all over again, but with java.

lriel | 3 years ago | on: Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

Agreed, although, Rogers has had notably more vaguely explained outages. With this, if the CRTC does not revise their decision to let Rogers acquire Shaw (CRTC 2022-76), then, as Canadians, we must expect to continue to overpay for shotty telecoms. But hey, there's maple sirup and affordable health care.

lriel | 4 years ago | on: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

The residential school are a very sad state of affairs with regards to the thinning down of the aboriginal stance and culture in Canada before, during and after the Dominion.

My country has had a very bad holier than thou attitude with regards to history and culture.

In typical aboriginal kickassness, the Ktunaxa took one of those residential schools and turned it into a luxury golfing resort for the rich gentile folks to enjoy, pay for, and be reminded of history.

"About Us, Culture and Heritage | St. Eugene Resort" https://www.steugene.ca/en/about-us-culture-heritage/

Fun Canadian conundrum with regards to the aboriginal divide. One of our National heros named Louis Riel was a metis man known as a fighter of aboriginal rights during the dominium of Canada. In all of english Canada, he is presented as a man consumed with mental illness fighting along side the natives, whereas in Quebec, which is francophone and healthily feuding with the anglos on all sides, Mr Riel is presented as a franco hero without any mentions of mr Riel's illness and our country's treatment of the man and his condition. Mr Riel saw himself as the gods next prophet, and went into the british/Canadian courts, after killing a british general, convinced that god would reveil him to the world as the next prophet. That did not work out.

lriel | 4 years ago | on: Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

I'm currently enjoying nostalgia as I'm currently using IE for a full on ActiveX app which has no use the loose obtuse constructs of the HTML.

Much live a headcrab, the ActiveX takes over the the full device context and reaches deep into the OS. I CAN pulp my own WM messages thank you very much Mr browser ... Brakes my alt tab from time to time, can't grab focus from a miss Z'd dialog. Yes... Nostalgia Nostalgia Nostalgia

lriel | 4 years ago | on: Little Free Library

We got a bunch of those are the neighborhood. They are marked as "closed due to COVID", but books and mags are still exchanged as theyvare not locked. They are a great thing to have around.