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For a brief period in the 1990s, Apple let third parties license its software. What made the program possible, and why did Apple cancel the clones?
The Rise and Fall of Apple’s Mac Clone Experiment
The forgotten, short-lived era of Mac clones: How Apple briefly opened its doors to other manufacturers.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Office Space was Jennifer Anniston’s best performance
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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My feed right now
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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no i don't think they should put cocaine back in coca-cola. that would be silly. i think they should put it in diet coke. it's called product-market fit
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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cool job alert. surprise: it's my job. come do my job, with me
Product Engineer / Oxide
oxide.computer
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Once I told a teacher I didn’t have my algebra homework because the gales of November came early. She failed me, which was very disrespectful to the sailors lost that day.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients

link: mysnapmap.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger

Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Mia Thermopolis backed Genovexit
Enough space politics, its time to consider why the country of Genovia from the Princess Diaries is almost monolingually English speaking and what its relationship is to the EU, particularly given it is technically an absolute monarchy
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Posing with my veggies like men pose with fish
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I saw a random reddit comment where someone theorized that Pennywise and Mary Poppins were the same species of primordial psychic entity, but Pennywise feeds on fear while Poppins feeds on joy. both of them eat kid emotions because fear and joy are more intense in kids. This is Canon for me now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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“Frog,” said Toad, “if I wash my dishes right now, then I will not have to wash them tomorrow, will I?”

“No,” said Frog. “You will not have to.”

Toad washed and dried his dishes. He put them in the cupboard.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Okay, since I've seen similar questions about stuff like this multiple times in the last couple weeks, I'm going to make a thread explaining it. /1
Things are fine.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Beer coat bf/yeast yarn gf
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Federal health officials are investigating a multistate outbreak of infant botulism linked to ByHeart baby formula, prompting the company to recall two batches of one of its products.
Baby formula recalled after infant botulism outbreak
ByHeart recalled two batches of its baby formula following federal officials’ report of 13 children contracting infant botulism after consuming its product.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.

So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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This is hands down one of the best conferences you could attend....or speak at.

Stop doubting yourself and submit a session.
Never spoken before? No worries. We’ll help you get started. Submit a session for SCaLE 23x!
www.socallinuxexpo.o...
#SCaLE23x #firsttimeCFP
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Concept: Mr Beast offering a challenge to win DDR5
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM