Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
#HackerNews #DirectFile2026 #IRS #States #TaxPolicy #DigitalGovernment
Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)
https://github.com/samrolken/nokode
#HackerNews #Why #write #code #if #the #LLM #can #just #do #the #thing? #(web #app #experiment) #https://github.com/samrolken/nokode
codeautomation #AIexperiments #webdevelopment #LLMinnovation #no-code
Stefano Marinelli
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News from the #Floppy #Museum!
A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!
Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.
And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.
Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D
Another photo, the memory status window has been moved to reveal the first part of the message. The message wishes the user welcome, unless they're a bot or otherwise not human. It lists the two message boards - one read-only and one read-write for guests - and suggests leaving a (civil) note on the board.
Photo of local screen on the Floppy Museum server. Foreground, top left 1/4 of screen: memory status, showing common, conventional and expanded memory available to DesqVIEW. Background, partially obscured by the memory status: my welcome-message on the message board.
News from the #Floppy #Museum!
A friend of mine, fusion[1] from #OS2Warez, has written a tiny wrapper for #BBS #door programs so I can run them without needing a full-blown BBS. Combined with rlfossil, a telnet-to-serial-port emulator for DOS (yes, really!), you can now read and write messages in my little forum!
Just telnet to floppy.museum on port 8023 - I recommend using #SyncTERM or some other client that implements the IBM 437 codepage, or 850 in a pinch. The experience should be fairly period-correct, something akin to a 1200 baud modem based on my testing.
And just a reminder: This is a 286 machine, which also runs a web server, an IRC server, an FTP server and all of the above at the same time. It's not fast, but it gets the job done.
Also: Only one node at the moment. If it's busy, try again later! Consider it an early beta, for the moment! :D
Another photo, the memory status window has been moved to reveal the first part of the message. The message wishes the user welcome, unless they're a bot or otherwise not human. It lists the two message boards - one read-only and one read-write for guests - and suggests leaving a (civil) note on the board.
Photo of local screen on the Floppy Museum server. Foreground, top left 1/4 of screen: memory status, showing common, conventional and expanded memory available to DesqVIEW. Background, partially obscured by the memory status: my welcome-message on the message board.
Charlie Stross
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it's been a while since I got a fake reference citation from a student in my own class that credits *me* as co-author of the non-existent work!
it's been a while since I got a fake reference citation from a student in my own class that credits *me* as co-author of the non-existent work!
Dan Gillmor
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Why Cash Isn’t Truly King: Cash Transfers, Opportunity, & Real Engines of Transformation
To win the war on poverty, look beyond cash & toward the levers that truly unlock human potential...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/why-cash-isnt-truly-king-cash-transfers>
2025-08-20 We
#on-ubi #why-cash-isnt-truly-king
Why Cash Isn’t Truly King: Cash Transfers, Opportunity, & Real Engines of Transformation
To win the war on poverty, look beyond cash & toward the levers that truly unlock human potential...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/why-cash-isnt-truly-king-cash-transfers>
2025-08-20 We
#on-ubi #why-cash-isnt-truly-king
With Hackers’ soundtrack playing in my headphones, I’m starting my journey to #WHY2025 🤟
This is also the first time I’m using an #Interrail ticket 👀
I will try to log the whole trip on Träwelling, via the nifty Träwelldroid.
#Träwelling#Träwelldroid#EUrail #railway#WHY #camp #hacker #hackercamp #trip #journey #train#Hackers @why2025camp
The majority of sitting justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have, once again, greenlit wholly unconstitutional action by the Trump regime. In a shadow docket order, the court has lifted a stay preventing the regime from acting on Trump’s executive order to gut the staff of the Dept of Education so that it becomes de facto defunct. 1/ #LawFedi
Ai romani veramente gli può stare sul cazzo qualsiasi cosa. Qualsiasi.
#why
