"The most corrupt president The United States have ever seen."
UK Member of Parliament Ed Davey does not mince words when characterizing Trump after his move to take Greenland.
Thanks for the tip @hadon.
"The most corrupt president The United States have ever seen."
UK Member of Parliament Ed Davey does not mince words when characterizing Trump after his move to take Greenland.
Thanks for the tip @hadon.
🇪🇺 "The #EU's #DigitalOmnibus has been the subject of much criticism since the autumn. Two NGOs have now meticulously compared the planned changes with the lobbying activities of these companies in #Brussels in recent years." (from German)
🗞️ Read more: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000304601/wie-tech-unternehmen-der-eu-kommission-die-aufweichung-der-digitalgesetze-diktierten
Dave Barry's Year In Review: https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-year-in-review
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A graveyard in The Netherlands honors the fallen heros of World War 2 with plaques containing their names. But much to the bewilderment of of the Dutch, some of the plaques have been removed. An investigation shows, the Trump administration is behind the removal, and — surprise, surprise — the plaques removed was honoring black war heroes .
Rosa Parks just died a second time.
I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.
I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!
Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/
#HackerNews #Windows2 #ApricotPC #Xi #RetroComputing #TechHistory
What's horrifying about this graph is that we're emitting CO2 from fossil hydrocarbons NOW at four times the rate we were when I was a child, and twice the rate we were in 1972, when we already knew that #ClimateChange was an existential problem.