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"losethos"? Are you talking about this guy? https://twitter.com/losethos https://twitter.com/losethos

• 0x0 14y ago
  There was a long thread on Something Awful about this very, uh, "special" operating system written by one lone guy. Looks like it's renamed now: http://www.sparrowos.com/ http://www.sparrowos.com/
  • FooBarWidget 14y ago
    So what is special about losethos? I see it's 64-bit multi-tasking real-mode, and I see he's apparently posted some unpopular opinions on various forums (not sure what his posts are, they've all been deleted), causing him to become banned. Doesn't seem like any big deal to me. According to http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html the author is often ridiculed for his work. I don't think the G-WAN author is in a comparable situation.
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      He seems, to a layman untrained in psychology, to be very... unstable. Just for starters, he seems to think that some sort of god talks to him through some sort of "dissociated press" style markov chains, or something. His old HN account: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos His new account: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS What I mean by comparing this guy to losethos is that his paranoid rantings and delusions of grandeur (ill-considered rants like this one, or rants about conspiracies to explain why his software isn't more widely used, etc) give me serious "danger! stay away!" vibes.