TIL in 1989, the US government set $2,000 as the limit for how much money someone with a disability can keep in savings and remain eligible for federal benefits
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    Wait until you learn that women in the United States couldn't open a bank account without their husband's permission until the late 1970s or that disabled people in most states can be paid under minimum wage.

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  • ![the-boys-are-back-in-town](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c8705534-a145-4557-b992-b702085746bc.png "emoji the-boys-are-back-in-town") From http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/825a062311e88dc438b46941947f0c36.kcmsf > Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Training Base of Special Operation Units of KPA in Western Area

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    Is there a fediverse extension to the GPL?
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    I know we're not really talking about Git, but since you mentioned a federated GitHub clone of sorts, Radicle is pretty neat and a cool thing to check out!

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  • Bulletins and News Discussion from September 30th to October 6th, 2024 - Qassam, Qassem, Quagmire
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    If it was a nuke test, they definitely wouldn't be doing it that close to the capital and right next to one of the highways connecting rural areas to the capital

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  • 'Lola' a new window system for plan9
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    I discovered this a week or so ago and completely forgot about it, definitely need to try it out! The theming options look great!

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  • The Russian Military Will Be 'Battle-Hardened' After Ukraine War
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    Not even just battle hardened, they basically invented a new kind of warfare. I bet in a few years we'll start seeing drones be used in other conflicts just like how Russia and Ukraine have been using them, flying cheap drones directly into armor and chasing people down.

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    and drinking entire reservoirs of water for cooling!

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  • All these years playing GTAV and I only now learn that using the custom radio station cooks your CPU
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    75c is not that bad at all, it's well below TJ Max for like 99% of modern chips. This is just another walk in the park for laptop users who are used to seeing like 100c when playing games, lol. I'd definitely prefer my game to not eat up my entire computer for playing a custom radio station, but it's not like it's going to cause nuclear meltdown.

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    I've also been working on a software rasterizer for 9! Maybe I'll post some screenshots here after I polish it up a bit more, lol. I got inspired after porting Quake 1 (I'm aware a port already exists, but I was bored and wanted to reinvent the wheel as a learning experience) and realizing how well it ran. Like, the Quake software renderer is seriously cool tech, way way ahead of it's time!

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  • Victory plan
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    My victory plan involves driving my t34 to the polling station and fedposting [redacted]

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
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    I wouldn't be too worried about it honestly, I doubt anyone is scanning the internet to mess with public 9 machines. If you're worried, just shove them on their own VLAN to keep them separate from the rest of your network.

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    You'll definitely not be doing any hardware accelerated graphics shenanigans on 9, there isn't really any graphics drivers or anything of that sort, you just get a basic framebuffer and a library to draw basic 2D graphics which can still be plenty if you do some old school software rasterization.

    For hardware support you can see an incomplete list for 9front here: https://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html I'd say you're probably safe to just pick up an old Dell Optiplex and some cheap generic USB peripherals and it'd probably work out of the box. I'd just double check the Ethernet situation so you can have networking since that's kind of the whole appeal of 9. Raspberry Pis are also supported and work fairly well in my testing and 9front provides images for them on their website.

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    I'm not sure about the Linux world, a quick search reveals https://github.com/ewe2/gopherfs which seems like it'd do the trick.

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
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    That screenshot was actually taken running on bare metal (an old laptop)! Everything works great as long as you don't need a modern web browser or WiFi for anything. I've also gotten it running on a bunch of other random hardware I've had laying around, it's very portable and works fairly well on everything I've messed around with so far. I'm also currently waiting for my 10 gig NIC to arrive so I can use an old machine running 9 I have laying around as a router!

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    kim-salute

    Living in a world where everything is connected and computing resources are shared for the betterment of humanity would be so fucking cool.

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    Right? I'd love to get my hands on an East German Robotron PC 1715, it just looks so good

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
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    Another thing I like about Gopher is that it was designed essentially to be a mounted read-only networked filesystem. Works well with the whole UNIX philosophy of "everything is a file".

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    Retvrn. Are there any other fellow Hexbear 9 enjoyers?

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  • I know a lot of people suggest Proton and it seems mostly fine, but their free plan does not offer SMTP access which I use for quite a few things and I don't like the idea of paying for an e-mail service because I'm broke and I don't like the idea of potentially losing my e-mail account because I couldn't afford it when it comes time to renew it. There's Riseup which seems really nice, but it seems you need an invite from an existing user which is also a bummer for me. I took a quick glance at their site and it seems you can't request an account anymore either because they had an issue with spam accounts in the past. :( Is there anything else that maybe I'm unaware of? or maybe someone here even has a Riseup account that'd be willing to invite me?

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    ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1e562e1c-6ae9-4682-9328-d21bb95fb82e.png) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/441e12ef-ac36-445c-9e8b-60870fa38fda.png) Incredible things are happening in Yemen ![hamas-red-triangle](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2fc061fd-d41e-4a46-b0a7-e258615e30e4.gif "emoji hamas-red-triangle")

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    www.tomshardware.com

    ![xi-cooking](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f62f6329-0c3f-43f6-a3e3-a18264030df7.png "emoji xi-cooking")

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    Another really cool shot of the same person, though not as high quality of an image ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1fa84a47-7efd-471e-b13e-058167aa24b9.png)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLhyGXhCorc

    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202405/01/WS663186e2a31082fc043c4f91.html

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    Fun fact: Icebreaker Lenin was the world's first nuclear-powered ship that launched in 1957, exactly 40 years after the revolution. In 40 years the Soviets managed to go from an agrarian feudal state to harvesting the atom for power and just a few years after this ship was launched, traversing the cosmos. :)

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    You can actually see a bunch of these tiles in Seattle's Tashkent Park still to this day, though they're not as well preserved as the ones in Tashkent which is a shame because a few of the ones I saw in pictures were really wholesome.

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    www.bleepingcomputer.com

    ![windows-cool](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7aac9151-f3c6-4762-9d56-a5e527bd81eb.png "emoji windows-cool") ![qin-shi-huangdi-fireball](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5ebd83c0-b9a9-418e-aea1-bdcf05f0fb09.png "emoji qin-shi-huangdi-fireball") Long story short: That pop-up you get when you open Firefox (or whatever other browser) for the first time asking you if you want to make it your default browser won't work anymore. They're forcing you to go through their convoluted control panel where you have to change it like 20 times for each file extension.

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    LoongArch will win ![xi-cooking](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f62f6329-0c3f-43f6-a3e3-a18264030df7.png "emoji xi-cooking") Rough Weixin post translation by DeepL: > Recently, the Hebi Municipal Government joined hands with the Municipal Education Bureau and other departments to introduce nearly 10,000 units of Longxin 3A5000 computers into the classrooms of nearly 50 primary and secondary schools in Hebi Municipal Direct and Hebi Qibin District. These computers are based on the independent Dragon architecture of the Longxin 3A5000 processor, equipped with a domestic UOS operating system, installed WPS office software, Extreme Domain teaching (operation and maintenance) management software and a full set of genuine licensed software, and through the classroom management to the teaching, programming, national/provincial and municipal management platforms and a total of 104 applications, to help the city in the realization of the education industry in the education industry, the basic hardware equipment as well as education and teaching The company has taken a solid step forward in realizing the independent control of basic hardware equipment and educational teaching and learning applications in the education industry. Edit: Someone posted this already, oh well. This won't stop me from ![posting](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d9009e45-6cde-4f80-b3f1-21586caac472.png "emoji posting")

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    Just a big silly forest dog if you really think about it ![og-hex-bear](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/0cdc3047-3767-41cd-82ee-fba7f5e13646.png "emoji og-hex-bear")

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    ![victory](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/04906fc8-51a0-46df-8ba2-997f2077416e.png "emoji victory")

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