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by lproven 4mo ago
You seem not to realise that Brooks did not write or direct The Princess Bride and as far as I know has no role connected to the film.
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by lproven 4mo ago
Er, what? No, neither. I am a reporter; I write the articles. The editors write the headlines. That is how most publications work: it is completely normal and plain and standard. I've been both a reporter and an editor, and in some r
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by lproven 4mo ago
> swype was so good before it got destroyed by Nuance. 100% this. THE best text-entry method for touchscreens. Nuance enshittified it and then Microsoft killed it. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2022/06&#
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by lproven 4mo ago
Never heard of that one before, so I looked it up & watched a demo vid. Aieeee! I don't think I could ever learn to use that. I am from the 1990s fast-T9 entry era, and my thumb dexterity is poor. (And I'm left-handed with a b
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by lproven 4mo ago
If you want something modern connected with OS-9, then I have good news! https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/25/foss-de...
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by lproven 4mo ago
Yes, I have one too. Mine has an external HDD and between the 3 of them it triple-booted OS X, the last PowerPC Ubuntu, and MorphOS. TBH neither Ubuntu nor MorphOS was a patch on OS X, IMHO. Never re-set the machine up after emigrating in 2
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by lproven 4mo ago
:-) Thank you! (And for the implicit acknowledgement that, as a mere reporter, I don't have much influence over the headlines at all, and most often the editors don't use my proposed headline, subhead, or often intro paragraph.)
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by lproven 4mo ago
> posts that slander GraphenOS. FWIW, as someone who is not in the phone OS development world at all but has been reviewing phones with alternative OSes for about the last 4 years... My impression is that everyone else in the phone-OS
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by lproven 4mo ago
I put that together. Any problems, do please let me know.
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by lproven 4mo ago
Thanks for the plug! :-)
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by lproven 4mo ago
> The 6.0 graphic mode just gets in the way. You can just turn it off. WP6.2 on DOS on a 21st century machine screams along. I run it occasionally under IBM PC DOS 7.1 (the FAT32-capable version) on bare metal and it's wonderfully
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by lproven 4mo ago
> I grew up using WordStar on the Apple ][. I don't think you did. AFAIK it never ran directly on 6502. Perhaps under CP/M using the Microsoft add-on card that DOS creator Tim Paterson designed for them?
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by lproven 4mo ago
More to the point and much more complete, WordTsar: https://wordtsar.ca/
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by lproven 4mo ago
> I wonder if his views and toolset have changed since then and he might be amenable to sharing more. No. He uses WordStar 7 for DOS and made his own installable bundle of it and shared it. https://www.sfwriter.com/ws7.ht
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by lproven 4mo ago
It is about the hobby projects of Yuri Zaporozhets. Over the last few years, he has: * Taken the last public source code snapshot of QNX, version 6.4, got it building again and then ported this 32-bit kernel to 64-bit RISC-V * Built a new R
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by lproven 4mo ago
Oh, hey, that's one of mine. Thanks for posting it.
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by lproven 4mo ago
I know. (I've reviewed it and am on its mailing lists; I've contributed a tiny handful of fixes to FreeGEM.) So does the Win98 emergency boot diskette. But both post-date Win95.
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by lproven 4mo ago
DOS mostly predates CD-ROM. The DOS heyday was the 1980s. No officially-released version of DOS contains generic CD-ROM drivers; the last few DOSes (MS-DOS 6.x, DR-DOS 6/7) contain the redirector (`MSCDEX.EXE` or equivalent) but not th
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Adding BASIC09 front end tool to LLVM(discourse.llvm.org)
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by lproven 4mo ago
Interesting. Thanks for replying. I have made this same point repeatedly across HN, Reddit, Lobsters, and multiple other fora, and cited the link in articles. I have never seen any response from you before. I guess you just didn't noti
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by lproven 4mo ago
> You need to start using LLMs a lot and then you will know how we know. $SWEARWORD no! I am an AI vegetarian: I won't touch them ever except for unavoidable ones (defaults on some search engines, e.g. when I use a web browser on it
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by lproven 4mo ago
> It has a long list of favorite words, verbal tics and common structures. Go on, then, let's see the list.
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by lproven 4mo ago
> If you look at it, the diagrams are very similar, The page links to the same site you do . No wonder it is similar -- the source is the same!
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by lproven 4mo ago
[[citation needed]] I am a professional writer and have been for over 30 years. (I do not use any form of LLM ever.) This means I read a lot . This also means that I have 30+ years of experience of readers not understanding what I wrote, o
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by lproven 4mo ago
The movement is still alive. I hosted a couchsurfer last week. https://www.bewelcome.org/ https://www.warmshowers.org/
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by lproven 4mo ago
* Scarry But you're right!
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by lproven 4mo ago
Interesting. Yes, I do see that. The activity graph exactly matches that of Kirkland himself: nothing until the last 3 bars, then identical. So I think we can conclude that DK is using Claude. I detest the automatic-idiocy bots as much as a
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by lproven 4mo ago
Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
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by lproven 4mo ago
Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants". Citation: https://byobu.org/#about
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by lproven 4mo ago
On its own, it doesn't. On top of tmux, somewhat. I tried to compare terminal multiplexers a couple of years ago: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/24/tiling-termi...

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