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Lærdommer fra historien | Klassekampen https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2025-05-31/laerdommer-fra-historien/8dyh
En reflektert og god kommentar fra Mari Skurdal.

Lærdommer fra historien
Skal vi advare mot ytre høyre, eller bygge positive politiske motprosjekter?

Ciekawy post: Dave Farquhar, History of #overclocking
https://dfarq.homeip.net/history-of-overclocking/
Cytat na temat procesorów

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She is one of my favorite creators on YouTube, so I’ve synchronized and published her videos on PeerTube, while the rest is currently being transcoded and should be available by tomorrow!

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1866, the Fenian Brotherhood crossed the Niagara River to invade Canada. This group was an Irish American organization that was dedicated to freeing Ireland from British rule, and they believed that if they captured Canada, they could use it as a bargaining tool. We could have become a nation of red-headed brawlers who were terrible hockey players.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://qormuseum.org/history/timeline-1856-1899/the-fenian-raid-1866/

Fun post: Dave Farquhar, History of #overclocking
#Celeron:
> In 1998, Intel released the Celeron to compete with cheap CPUs from AMD and Cyrix. To make it, they took all of the Level 2 cache off a Pentium II, clocked it at 266 or 300 MHz, and sold it at an AMD-like price. But due to the lack of L2 cache, it was slower than a previous-generation Pentium running at 233 MHz, let alone an AMD or Cyrix chip running at 266 or 300 MHz.
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> But the L2 cache was the Pentium II’s limiting factor in overclocking. So a 266 MHz Celeron ran happily at 400 MHz, or potentially even 450 MHz, the same speed as the fastest Pentium II at the time. It was slower than a Pentium II at the same speed, but it worked well for 3D gaming.
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> But the only people who bought those Celerons were overclockers and people who didn’t know anything about computers. […]

TFW someone randomly drops your browser of choice from #nixpkgs #nixos #vivaldi

Dallas Cowboys' WR CeeDee Lamb ranks among NFL elite in historic receiving stat https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-ceedee-lamb-ranks-nfl-elite-historic-receiving-stat

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

OH on slack:
Microsoft: Are you enjoying the new Teams experience?
Does Sisyphus enjoy the cardiovascular benefits of endless futility?
@… @… #sre #devops

Es hat ein bisschen gebraucht, bis ich mich durch Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing durchgekämpft hatte. Natürlich hat die Erwähnung alter Bekannter eine kleine Retro-Reise zu alten Schreibprogrammen ausgelöst, die noch nicht zu Ende ist. Ein paar Gedanken dazu für Interessierte hier: