lproven

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by lproven 3mo ago
The original NextBSD project was founded by Jordan Hubbard... Who also cofounded FreeBSD itself, and then years later, worked at Apple on OS X modernising its BSD base. So he should know.
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by lproven 3mo ago
A remote descendant seems to be here: https://www.cerberus-x.com/
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by lproven 3mo ago
> once I fully gave in to using AI 58 here. I won't even touch it. It seems to be heroin combined with cocaine for programmers. Not even once. AI: Just Say No.
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NextBSD project revived: macOS userland tools on FreeBSD kernel(theregister.com)
4 points by lproven 3mo ago|3 comments
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by lproven 3mo ago
Nah. Alpine, or TinyCore. Much smaller: Slackware is biiiiig .
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by lproven 3mo ago
You went the wrong direction. Go older, not newer. After trying dozens of lightweight Linuxes with disappointing results, I downgraded my Sony Vaio P to WinXP. This has full GPU acceleration on Intel Pouslbo and for XP the machine's 2G
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by lproven 3mo ago
Ditto. A fascinating read, even if I didn't understand all of it. Another brilliant techie who became a doctor instead is Dr Cameron Kaiser -- I think he might be @classichasclass here. He runs the last AMOS system on the internet, dev
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by lproven 3mo ago
And the ST equivalent, STOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOS_BASIC There's a modernised build: https://atariscne.org/news/index.php/stos-basic-v5-5-alpha-t... And a modern descendant,
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by lproven 3mo ago
Exactly -- not sure I have many machines new enough for this to apply to. The machine I'm typing on is the 2nd newest in the fleet -- it's a work box -- and it's an i7-8550U, an 8th gen "Kaby Lake" chip.
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by lproven 3mo ago
Thank you!
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by lproven 3mo ago
Since I got downvoted merely for asking: apparently, "squiz" is Australian/NZ slang for a glance or quick look. I honestly didn't know there were any Amish down under.
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by lproven 3mo ago
No, not yet, but it's attracting interest. I wrote about it here: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/12/three-altern...
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by lproven 3mo ago
> And now, from the last I heard, it has evolved into neither here nor there. Minix 3 is a true microkernel Unix-compatible: it can run most of the NetBSD userland, for instance. It is probably the single most widely run Unix-like OS in
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by lproven 3mo ago
"squiz"?
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by lproven 3mo ago
> the Ordnung What does that mean? (This entire thread is very hard for this Brit to follow. So many unknown words and whole concepts.)
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by lproven 3mo ago
"TFR"?
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by lproven 3mo ago
All right. But only curbside ones? ("Kerbside" for me. "Curb" is the verb.) A bin is any trashcan in BrEn... in your office, in your kitchen or bathroom, behind the house, whatever. So it's still not an ideal match.
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by lproven 3mo ago
> You can't unilaterally say all AI blogs are low quality. That's bullshit. Watch me. I absolutely can and do. And pictures, and videos, and picture posts, and comics, and all image-format content. If it wasn't worth creat
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by lproven 3mo ago
There was an entire book about that 50 years ago, and last month someone brought that thinking and analysis to the LLM-bot issue: EDIT: this is the one I was thinking of... https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/06&#
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by lproven 3mo ago
Still no: "Lord Buckethead" first stood in 1987, some 15 years before the "H'Angus the monkey" campaign in 2002.
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by lproven 3mo ago
Nope. Several decades later. The "Boaty McBoatface" campaign was from 2016. "Lord Buckethead" first appeared in 1987, some 30 years earlier.
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by lproven 3mo ago
No. The point of the comment was to clarify the confusion that you are reinforcing. A "bin" in BrEn does not mean a generic container: it generally means a receptacle for waste, refuse, or garbage.
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LisaFPGA: The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA(github.com)
4 points by lproven 4mo ago|1 comments
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by lproven 4mo ago
I've been occasionally helping a blind friend of mine with his PC since 2005. His screenreader talks at about 600wpm or more and after 20 years of practice I can't understand it. I speedread and can read text faster than his compu
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by lproven 4mo ago
I have also written my own obituary for him, but I did not want to be accused of spamming HN. https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-p... Colly Myers, former Psion MD and Symbian CEO,
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David Potter, founder of Psion, dead at 82(opendemocracy.net)
7 points by lproven 4mo ago|3 comments
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by lproven 4mo ago
WTAF? > If it was true Of course it is true. That is why I explained the length of my relevant experience. > you could explain how and why Why bother to an annoying troll? ELI5: My job is to understand complicated computer stuff and e
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by lproven 4mo ago
Dude. You are demonstrating, repeatedly, that you do not know how publishing works, have no idea what the different jobs are and why they are different. You display shock and anger at the notion that different people have different roles in
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by lproven 4mo ago
As I understand it, Hatari is mainly aimed at running classic ST games. I think its emulation core was the basis of the Amiga PiStorm and similar projects. There's another all-software ST emulator out there called Aranym: https:/
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by lproven 4mo ago
No. It is not bad. The problem here is your lack of understanding, and also your hostile confrontational attitude... and in addition, apparently, poor reading comprehension.

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