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by lproven 8mo ago
I covered this on the Reg: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/debian_14_will_drop_g... There's an active fork of Gtk2 used in Ardour. There's also an active fork of Gtk1 used in CinePaint: http
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by lproven 8mo ago
Er. I may be missing something here, but isn't it smoke me a kipper ?
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by lproven 8mo ago
> how considerate Ted Tso's writing always is This is less true when T'so asks questions at conferences, of course. https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/02/rust_for_linux_mainta... https:/&#
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by lproven 8mo ago
> So the reasonable man uses Ext4 I guess. And the unreasonable one writes his own Unix clone... and ends up putting several multi-million-dollar companies out of business. I know which I admire more, TBH. But I use ext4, yeah.
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by lproven 8mo ago
Article author here. I have been following this since it became public earlier this week. Some of my info has been drawn from HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142500 -- 1 comment https://news.yc
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by lproven 8mo ago
Thanks for this. It's been most educational. > Oh, 350 prototypes were built. OK -- so I was correct when I said it didn't ship, then? Unfinished prototypes leaked, like the Commodore C65, but no final complete product? I found
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by lproven 8mo ago
Elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142500 (1 comment)
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by lproven 8mo ago
Perhaps so, but ISTM that it encapsulates the same basic point. Try to make something rich and general and you often end up re-implementing a whole computer inside your computer. Which is why these days it's easier in many cases to jus
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by lproven 8mo ago
> was its own distinct upgrade path "Would have been", surely? It never existed, did it? The Geneve shipped. MESS is one thing. I am interested in something the size of a RasPi I can connect to a screen. Think of something like
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by lproven 8mo ago
Yeah, it's pretty bad. I don't really use it any more -- sharing those files is about the only purpose, and I put them there years ago.
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4-post blog by Brantley Coile on going flying with Niklaus Wirth(coraid.com)
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by lproven 8mo ago
> I couldn’t care less what is going to happen to “humanity”. I would be profoundly ashamed to write such words on any public forum, myself. However, I fear that probably, most people don't think like me, but feel the way you claim
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by lproven 8mo ago
> I like the MS-DOS from Win98SE which was not available separately by then IBM PC-DOS 7.1 exists and works and it can handle FAT32 and drives over 8GB. https://pcdosretro.gitlab.io/ I blogged about how to get it: https
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by lproven 8mo ago
I wish there were some cheap FPGA version of the 3rd party implementation of the planned successor, the TI-99/8. It was called the Geneve 9640 from Myarc: https://dressupgeekout.com/geneve/ http://www.m
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Turing completeness is notorious for showing up in systems unintentionally Greenspun's 10th law. https://wiki.c2.com/?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
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by lproven 8mo ago
> Rust is the final language. I honestly can't tell if this is a humorous attack or not. Poe's law is validated once again.
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by lproven 8mo ago
I lived in Nigeria for much of the 1970s and it somehow pleased me that this article mentioned the only state president I ever met: Yakubu Gowon.
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by lproven 8mo ago
And my USB-DOS project includes it, for a complete environment you can boot and run direct from USB, without installation, on any PC which supports legacy boot. https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
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by lproven 8mo ago
Sorry for the slow reply. I've looked and there doesn't seem to be any way to tell. I've used them regularly for about 5 or 6 years now and the paint is wearing off. The only readable markings are the [L] and [R] indications
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by lproven 8mo ago
Translation is great, and it's one of the few things LLMs really excel at. What many people don't seem to realise, though, is that there's a vast yawning difference between "take this text and translate it from language
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by lproven 8mo ago
There are several, some based on leaked source, such as this: https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64 I wrote about some here: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/friday_foss_fest_runn
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by lproven 9mo ago
Small side note... Around COVID lockdown #1 I did a lot more walking outside, pushing a pram and listening to music on headphones. For years I'd been using cheap wired headphones from exhibition swag and things. I put a pair through th
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by lproven 9mo ago
> If I wanted to change most MS stuff, like Office, I could grab the COM object out of a registry, and override it with mine This goes back a very long time -- at least to the Windows 3.0 timeframe. The IBM-only 32-bit OS/2 2.0 came
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I compared WinApps and WinBoat, which integrate a Windows VM to desktop Linux(theregister.com)
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by lproven 9mo ago
> It baffles me that anyone would consider this a question at all. Thank you for saying this. I read this article a few days ago and felt the same: it's a 64-bit gigahertz-class RISC purporse designed internet server with a gig of
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Is there any example program that actually runs on the rpi gpu? ThreadX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX#Products_using_ThreadX This RTOS, later rebranded Microsoft Azure RTOS, later still made FOSS: https:
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Not sure if anything was actually written though. The librerpi project « librerpi is a FOSS boot firmware based on littlekernel for Raspberry Pi boards, it replaces the proprietary boot firmware normally used to boot. » https:/&#
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by lproven 9mo ago
You do you. I do think there's a great deal wrong with that, and I won't read it at all. Human can speak unto human unless there's language barrier. I am not interested in anyone's mechanically-recovered verbiage, no m
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by lproven 9mo ago
Thanks for submitting my article. :-)
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by lproven 9mo ago
I really enjoyed your talk, Michal -- it was not only fascinating but the funniest I saw at FOSDEM, too. I wrote up my impressions for the Register: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/last_z80_machine&#x2F

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