<naming rant> What is wrong with the simpler 'vasquod'??</naming rant> :-)

Hahahah I'll try to fix the name

The M1 is also going to cure world hunger and solve global warming

I remember having AltaVista as my primary bookmark, until they accelerated the ads and monetization, and render it almost completely useless. It was so obvious they wanted to make quick, obscene money from of it. They cared very little about the negative impact that had on user experience. That's why AltaVista went like the dodo. Period.

According to the article, altavista switched owners 3 times during the last 3 years of its life. I assume one of these had the bright idea to fill the results with crappy paid-for links. Google has these geniuses to thank for priming the playfield for them by destroying themselves.

I recall there was a low-bandwidth, "text only" version you could use for some years afterwards which was just the search box. Probably suitable for Lynx users. Then they added one banner.

I don't think the UI switchover was uniquely AltaVista-- remember this was the time when everyone wanted to be a portal and had to have a section with sports scores, repackaged news, and stock tracking.

Yahoo was the last man standing on that path, but I seem to recall a lot of hay being made about the Excite/@Home stuff where the ISPs were supposed to push their portal on unsuspecting customers.

England is about to declare a national holiday

j/k of course

RIP Diego

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Honestly, the name is problematic. Why do some developers insist on bad names? Stop the bad names .. unpronounceable crap like xoyx-mp4, zycx10 should also be avoided .. what's wrong with vidl, or something simple like that? .. I'm half joking, but it's worth underscoring.

They literally had a test case in the repo for circumventing copy protection on youtube.

I'm somewhat baffled they managed to get the repo reinstated given that's very much a violation of the DMCA.

The argument is that it doesn’t do anything that a web browser doesn’t do already, and there’s established precedent that it’s not “circumventing copyright” if it requires no secret knowledge.

Evidence-base X is the best X humans can muster.. except for Love

Such a good point. I wonder how many folks don't actually realize there's a different ecosystem for Docker x86 and ARM images.

I'm surprised Texas doesn't have a replica that's twice as large.

I'm more surprised they didn't go in for the giant X where X is some animal or vegetable. That seems a bit more popular in some areas.

There is nothing like driving on a very foggy night and having a 45 ft chicken appear in front of you. Also, Rochester MN has a damn corn cob water tower. Being lost in that town with constantly seeing that thing was not good for the old temper.