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by lproven 6mo ago
It is an OS. And it is also a programming language, which can run on other OSes as well as on its own native one. Here's a Windows version: https://blackboxframework.org/ Here's a Linux version too: https:&#x
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by lproven 6mo ago
I absolutely agree. It's all tradeoffs all the way down, like the rest of 21st century computing. The thing is that there is a widespread mindset of "hey look, this family of distros has been offering immutable distros for quite a
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by lproven 6mo ago
How long have you got? It's a gratuitously overcomplex implementation of a relatively simple concept which uses opaque complex tooling to fake a filesystem, lying to the user about what's on their disk, in ways that are so baroque
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by lproven 6mo ago
No, it is not correct, and trying to coerce it into the reductive box of an incomplete view does not help. Comparison: you are angrily maintaining "Orange is a colour! It is right there in the rainbow! Red, orange, yellow, green, blu
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by lproven 7mo ago
> "Oberon is an operating system" was indeed evident, No, it is not evident: this is not correct. Oberon is bare-metal self-hosted programming system. It is both a language and an OS. > why do we care about this one in par
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by lproven 7mo ago
The best potted intro I know: https://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ A more in-depth look for folks with some comp-sci knowledge: https://www.scribd.com/document/3775
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by lproven 7mo ago
You might enjoy the FOSDEM talk I did about half a dozen years ago: https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_c... I adapted most of it into an article for The Register: https://ww
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by lproven 7mo ago
> What is it satirizing? Being provincial. Assuming sentients look and act like us, whoever "us" is. (Cf. whales, or elephants.) Assuming that what "we" do is the right, proper way to do things and anything else is in
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by lproven 7mo ago
We are metazoans? Well, I can't be sure about you, but I am and all my friends too.
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by lproven 7mo ago
TBH Vernor Vinge did it a _lot_ better.
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Indeed. As an example, it's important they don't read David Brin's Uplift series, or Terry Pratchett's excellent The Dark Side of the Sun .
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by lproven 7mo ago
He opened for Gorillaz in Prague about 8Y ago, and did a good set. Dude looked old and tired, but also happy to be there, performing live.
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by lproven 7mo ago
SEO is a scam, too. AI is a scam. SEO is a scam. Blockchain -- all applications, no exceptions -- is a scam. Kubernetes is a scam: it's real, it works, and nobody except Google itself ever needed it. Containers are mostly a scam: the
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by lproven 7mo ago
Some relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601168
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by lproven 7mo ago
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601168
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by lproven 7mo ago
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601168
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by lproven 7mo ago
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601168
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by lproven 7mo ago
> an independent implementation of a BSD driver It is not. That is the point here. It's not independent. If an LLM were able to generate code that can access ext4, then that LLM has to have ingested the original ext4 source code
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by lproven 7mo ago
Pioneering and seminal early Lisp AI work, ~50 years before LLMs. From the mind behind the Cyc project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician
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by lproven 7mo ago
I've covered it a few times on the Register. :-) 5Y ago: https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork... Last year: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/18/f
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by lproven 7mo ago
> The differences of Librewolf and Waterfox is pretty hard to grasp I use Waterfox on Linux and one of the things I like the most is that it works with the global menu bar in Unity, Xfce and so on. LibreWolf, in my testing, does not. My
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by lproven 7mo ago
> Ok maybe I’m too young, but what is BeOS? Does this help? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520510
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by lproven 7mo ago
> There's a Windows app I used to use that supports the same kind of thing for Windows Taekwindow: https://ttencate.github.io/taekwindow/ I rarely use Windows but any box I do need to use for a while, I put Tae
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by lproven 7mo ago
A later successor was Cosmoe: https://gitlab.com/haydentech/cosmoe-classic/ This has evolved into a new UI layer for Wayland, on top of Linux... https://cosmoe.org/index.html I wrote about it last
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by lproven 7mo ago
It is a bit. I tried to cover some of that here: https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/96552.html
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by lproven 7mo ago
> How is it different from GNU/Linux or BSDs? I am risking the one full-time paid developer of Haiku popping up here and shouting at me, because he's done that a few times before and even written to my editor-in-chief to compl
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by lproven 7mo ago
> Sure would've been nice if the Desqview engineers and the GEM guys could've merged their efforts... OMG yes. I thought this myself at the time. The thing is that they were rivals. QEMM386 bolted protect-mode memory-management
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by lproven 7mo ago
> I have been trying to track down whoever the hell owns the license to Concurrent/Multiuser DOS to try and make a case for them to release the source code Yeah, me too. You can read a little of the results of my digging here: http
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by lproven 7mo ago
Here is a different recent -- and IMHO much better -- history which covers that: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-...
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by lproven 7mo ago
:-D

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