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I guess Michal hid this entry after I posted it a few days ago. See Rygian's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578808) link if you are curious.

I would delete this if I still could.


I wonder why? I read it at the time since I subscribe to their RSS feed. Maybe because he actually linked to the "warez dump" that everyone is talking about but no one had actually linked to until then? I checked it out, I just wish I had the time to go through it all! :)

I could be wrong, but I think that was already linked in one of his earlier articles?

Please upload to WinWorldPc and/or iarchive. ;B

The updated NetWare NFS Gateway 1.2C apparently came on a single floppy.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Scrabble_Players_Dict...

I didn't bother to look further but my memory suggests that over the decades multiple limiting Scrabble dictionaries have been published.


I actually found this list as an effort to find these limiting dictionaries, and I only found this one. And it's told to me by Will Anderson (a champion who also makes a great YouTube channel) himself.



Fair, but Tom7's video presentations are always really fun too.


That said, if Tom7 wasn’t meticulous about typesetting all his results, we would never have been blessed with https://youtu.be/Y65FRxE7uMc


Here is an online folio browser:

https://www.voynich.ninja/browser/default.cfm


If they have any contributors within the territory I think there is reason to be concerned for their long term safety. The original capitulation may have to been to have time to check.


yeah Putin's totally gonna throw some Firefox contributors out a window because of a checks notes browser extension


Don't know about windows, but they have jailed people for as much as liking a social media post.


Or holding up a blank piece of paper.

Or holding up an imaginary piece of paper (I'm serious, look it up)

It's absolutely comical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3W_lYO4DY


Going off reporting, it's not as far-fetched as you're suggesting.


Is this your first time encountering an authoritarian regime? This would not be unexpected, surprising or out of the ordinary.


I mean, why not? Terrifies people and he has no negative repercussions.


I hate to break it to you, but yeah. There are, sadly, many countries in the world that rely on petty and punitive action on harmless things online in order to frighten would-be "troublemakers".

It's not just Russia, either. The UK does this almost three times as often.


Putin personally won't. Local police bureaucrat angling for a promotion and needing +1 in his "serious crimes solved" very well might. There are a lot of people in Russia being prosecuted for social media posts and expressing dissent, somebody helping with circumventing censorship is an even more juicy target.


> yeah Putin's totally gonna throw some Firefox contributors out a window because of a checks notes browser extension

Putin routinely throws people in Gulags for much less than that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/brittney-griner-putin-pa...


See this related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163405

The author of that story is participating in the comments on this blog entry and has offered to exchange email with Michal Necasek.


I just tested this in Edge with Copilot chat and got a similar answer to that in the posted article. However, it was clearly labeled as the result of a web search which I translate as it searched Bing for

  "What was the previous question that I asked you?"
and it processed the result it found into

  The previous question you asked was about the height of Mount Everest in terms of bananas. I provided a whimsical comparison, estimating that Mount Everest’s height is roughly equivalent to 46,449 bananas stacked on top of one another.



I have to push back a bit on using volume to measure compressible solids like flour. If the actual mass matters, as it can in baking, measure the mass not the volume.


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