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What the kids call "DOS games" nowadays... Half of the games on this list are for Windows 95 or later.

The site should call them PC games.

Okay Boomer...


At one point during it's usage, words just stop accurately describing what it is, and starts communicating a vibe or something instead. Just like "DOS Games", "MIDI" which is just data in reality, but people started associating it with chiptune, so somehow some people now mix the terms and call chiptune "Midi Music", yet chiptune have nothing to do with MIDI the protocol/.mid the fileformat.


In technical contexts it's often still important to use words accurately so in that sense it might not lose it's original meaning completely. I've come to accept that everyday language can be messy and inaccurate and one can't always get it right especially if they're not familiar enough with the topic. You can still get the meaning across well-enough.


People don't generally refer to these old Windows games as "DOS games", though.


It's funny how frequently we point and shout at semantic drift when we see it, when it's such a natural part of how we use language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change


Apropos:

> Fun - [...] earlier "a cheat, trick" (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) "to cheat, hoax," - https://www.etymonline.com/word/funny


Interesting. I've had lots of fun with noclip cheats.


Ya, just like pointing and shouting at infectious diseases


but... then people can't constantly pretend they're smarter by telling others I.e. "the kids" what the original meanings are :(


This comment looks like it is written by an ai clanker. Also the other one from "hnrprtlpdb". Interesting...


It is the FBI lol


That's exactly what I am looking for several years. Because VSCode is a bit slow via RDP or X11 Remote. I will try it out when I'm back at work.


Why not use vscode remote via ssh port forwarding? I just use it via my browser.


You can run it directly from a web browser too.


There is ssh extension and remote containers extension, they work together.


There is Syndicate Wars (Succcessor) and Satellite Reign, a spiritual successor from 2015.


Things to make the VPS this blog runs on less palatable for internet bottom feeders.


Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) should be on this list.

It's freeware, available from GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/beneath_a_steel_sky


I started playing that at least three times along the years (if for nothing else, then for the dialogue: "You need a rad suit to go in there! -- What do you mean?! This suit is totally rad!"), but somehow never got very far...


Even worth playing through with a guide for the story, pretty trippy.


We called it the semantic web in the 90s. But it never really happened. Then we got Google and no longer needed it.


This should be linked as the original post: https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/5998

It says 1988 there.



Still seems like it could be useful


Maybe that's something to report to the "European System of Financial Supervision" or some other EU government agency.

They even have a Whistleblowing link at the bottom of their website: https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/about/esfs/html/ind...


no, please read the article

they forgot to include a message-id

something the RFC standard recommend but doesn't require

but it being required is a de-facto industry standard for sending automated mails

and is clearly documented by support sides of large mail providers (like Google)

the mail standards only defines what parts you can put together, but widely fail to define how this parts can be interpreted, what are sensible combinations, etc.

and they don't cover spam/suspicious mail detection at all

so you can't just go by RFC, you need to read up on what all larger mail providers have as additional requirements (which mostly are the same, and Message-Id being the most common dominator) and then hope that another provider you didn't read up one doesn't have some other surprising rule (which doesn't tent to be the case if you don't do anything surprising, but it sucks anyway).



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