lproven

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by lproven 2mo ago
Update to this: his son contacted me and informed me that Dr King was in fact 71.
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by lproven 2mo ago
This is simply not true. NetBSD includes Firefox: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/www/firefox... And Chromium: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current&#x
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by lproven 2mo ago
NetBSD is right there.
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by lproven 2mo ago
Uhuh. And what happens when the price goes up by an extra zero on the end? And then another one? And then the cloud stuff goes away because all the vendors go broke, despite the price rises, and you have to switch to using local models? Tha
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by lproven 2mo ago
"¿Porque no los dos?" "Why not both?"
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by lproven 2mo ago
> it will be ubiquitous and universal in adoption [[citation needed]] Which is gonna be tricky as I am confident you don't have a time machine. I think generative AI as a whole is a total scam. It has uses, but not many, and outside
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by lproven 2mo ago
I wrote it. I am fully aware of that, and I said so in the piece. I want to spread awareness that it's happening -- it only has a couple of days to run. So far there are only ~350 votes: https://vote.debian.org/~secreta
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by lproven 2mo ago
> I would describe most forums in the same way True that.
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by lproven 2mo ago
Honestly, this is quibbling about implementation details, IMHO. You can put DOS on a USB key and boot basically any 21st century x86 box straight into DOS. I have a hobby project that does just that: https://github.com/lprov
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by lproven 2mo ago
Posting this because I want people to vote -- and ideally vote for a total ban.
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Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?(theregister.com)
39 points by lproven 2mo ago|60 comments
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by lproven 2mo ago
Thank you for that!
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by lproven 2mo ago
All right. I write and have written a bit about enterprise distros, but because all 3 of the main vendors are just remarkably unhelpful -- I think more from sheer incompetence than malice -- I do not look at them much. It is not very germ
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My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer(theregister.com)
15 points by lproven 2mo ago|4 comments
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by lproven 2mo ago
It's hard to measure. AROS is not AmigaOS, but it's a FOSS recreation of AmigaOS which started out on x86. It reached a usable level some years ago, and it's been used in some of the projects that have launched modern Arm-bas
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by lproven 2mo ago
I am watching this with some interest -- I wrote about AROS myself last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44061609 It's a remarkable little OS, and it does have potential. The Pi is a lovely little computer bu
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by lproven 2mo ago
I am watching this with some interest -- I wrote about AROS myself last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44061609 It's a remarkable little OS, and it does have potential. The Pi is a lovely little computer bu
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by lproven 2mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287766
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by lproven 2mo ago
It absolutely did not and it is one of my least favourite things on the modern internet. It is a slow, ugly, overcomplicated mess designed by people who do not know how threading works and don't know how to do email properly. Yuck.
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by lproven 2mo ago
From a few months ago and highly relevant: https://ratfactor.com/ascetic-computing
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by lproven 2mo ago
The GUI looks a bit similar at a trivial level, but underneath, BeOS and AmigaOS were both far more mainstream and conventional than TRON.
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by lproven 2mo ago
A text version, for anyone else who dislikes video: https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html
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by lproven 2mo ago
> UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. That is the direct opposite of my personal experience. I do not live in the UK; I live in t
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by lproven 2mo ago
Thinking on, yes, I think I'd noticed that. I love the country but I've never lived there full-time, though.
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by lproven 2mo ago
If this is your project, then I implore you: put these 2 lines in there as README.md or whatever. Having the GPL as your README is no damned use to anyone.
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by lproven 2mo ago
It does. I have one, and I like it a lot. Sadly, it's no longer made, as far as I can tell, and mine only lasts a week or so now.
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by lproven 2mo ago
> required pressing ⯅• I don't know what clever jiggery-pokery you are trying to do, but whatever you typed, it's just turning to tofu on this Macbook, in both Chrome and Firefox.
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by lproven 2mo ago
I am grappling with this but I can't. You did not know that large parts of the world default to 12h time? This is absolutely NOT an American thing. I am not American and have never lived there. I am 58 years old, British and Irish, a
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by lproven 2mo ago
> how many false starts we had I did a double-take at that. False starts? The Palm? Blackberry? These things sold in the tens of millions and I saw them everywhere. I'm a Brit: I used a Psion. My PDA didn't sync with my desktop
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by lproven 2mo ago
It is all about externalities. Same as fossil fuels, same as slavery. This kind of systems thinking seems to blow the minds of a lot of heads-down software folks. You have to think about the big picture. Otherwise, the picture goes out. 1

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