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Back when the author took his medication more regularly, the project was called "LoseTheOS" and it was similarly popular for its interesting features. Terry's

by hapless 10y ago

Back when the author took his medication more regularly, the project was called "LoseTheOS" and it was similarly popular for its interesting features. Terry's online behavior has grown increasingly odd, but he project's fame pre-dates the odd behavior

microcolonel 10y ago
I had a conversation over IRC with Terry when it was still called LoseThos, I think he got pretty frustrated when I told him I didn't trust the OS image enough to run it in a VM. Lo and behold, he has had the source code up since renaming it, AFAIK.
- 77pt77 10y ago
  > I didn't trust the OS image enough to run it in a VM That's some serious paranoia there.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 10y ago
    In fairness, VM escapes are found with some regularity.
  - nickpsecurity 10y ago
    It's not trustworthy unless it's physical separation on a dedicated, energy-gapped device. That's Clive Robinson's term for having as much matter and energy isolation as possible to prevent known and unknown side channels. Anything less will get hacks and leaks.
Y_Y 10y ago
He seems to stream himself a lot recently (he's even on now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwmiplwGLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwmiplwGLI ). He just browses the internet and he sent some viewers money. It's pretty surreal.
- i336_ 10y ago
  Well that took quite a number of "New Tor circuit for this site"! (You'll see what I mean.) Canada works.
FoxotCW 10y ago
He's taking medication regularly. He mentions it in streams and complains a lot about the side effects. The bad state he is in now doesn't have anything to do with lack of meds. In fact his anger over the side-effects seems to distract him a lot.
- noam87 10y ago
  I wonder if he could benefit from John Nash's accept and self-monitor approach to his own illness (strikingly similar to modern "ACT" therapy -- the meditative / mindful aspect of it might even jive with channeling his religious energy). https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/02/dont-use-john-nash-schizophrenia-a-beautiful-mind-promote-anti-psychotics https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/02/dont-use-joh... > Whether the rumours are true, I can’t say, but what’s certain is that the truth of Nash’s experience, the way in which he struggled and ultimately succeeded in using the power of his rational mind to overcome his delusional thinking, was replaced with a straightforward lie. And whatever the rationale behind it, the wholly disingenuous use of Nash’s recovery to promote the use of anti-psychotics is to my mind unconscionable. I think in the coming decades we'll come to see the excessive use of long-term psychiatric medication as barbaric as we now understand the use of therapeutic lobotomies in centuries past to be.

by hapless 10y ago

microcolonel 10y ago

I had a conversation over IRC with Terry when it was still called LoseThos, I think he got pretty frustrated when I told him I didn't trust the OS image enough to run it in a VM. Lo and behold, he has had the source code up since renaming it, AFAIK.

77pt77 10y ago
> I didn't trust the OS image enough to run it in a VM That's some serious paranoia there.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y ago
  In fairness, VM escapes are found with some regularity.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  It's not trustworthy unless it's physical separation on a dedicated, energy-gapped device. That's Clive Robinson's term for having as much matter and energy isolation as possible to prevent known and unknown side channels. Anything less will get hacks and leaks.

Y_Y 10y ago

He seems to stream himself a lot recently (he's even on now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwmiplwGLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwmiplwGLI ). He just browses the internet and he sent some viewers money. It's pretty surreal.

i336_ 10y ago
Well that took quite a number of "New Tor circuit for this site"! (You'll see what I mean.) Canada works.

FoxotCW 10y ago

He's taking medication regularly. He mentions it in streams and complains a lot about the side effects. The bad state he is in now doesn't have anything to do with lack of meds. In fact his anger over the side-effects seems to distract him a lot.

noam87 10y ago
I wonder if he could benefit from John Nash's accept and self-monitor approach to his own illness (strikingly similar to modern "ACT" therapy -- the meditative / mindful aspect of it might even jive with channeling his religious energy). https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/02/dont-use-john-nash-schizophrenia-a-beautiful-mind-promote-anti-psychotics https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/02/dont-use-joh... > Whether the rumours are true, I can’t say, but what’s certain is that the truth of Nash’s experience, the way in which he struggled and ultimately succeeded in using the power of his rational mind to overcome his delusional thinking, was replaced with a straightforward lie. And whatever the rationale behind it, the wholly disingenuous use of Nash’s recovery to promote the use of anti-psychotics is to my mind unconscionable. I think in the coming decades we'll come to see the excessive use of long-term psychiatric medication as barbaric as we now understand the use of therapeutic lobotomies in centuries past to be.