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by marttt 4y ago
Netsurf has also been ported to the Plan 9 OS fairly recently. https://github.com/netsurf-plan9/netsurf
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by marttt 4y ago
+1, it is also a joy to customize via the well-documented config file. E.g. adding custom search operators is very straightforward and flexible. With some unix-y thinking, one could probably also accomplish some other useful tricks on the a
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Dillo web browser domain is for sale(dillo.org)
63 points by marttt 4y ago|28 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
A n00b-level hardware question. I have an old Sony PRS-T1 e-reader with a Freescale i.MX508 SoC (32-bit Cortex-A8, ARMv7-A architecture). If I am not mistaken, this processor might be supported by NetBSD since 7.0? There is a port for the K
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by marttt 4y ago
Seems like sixel would be an excellent solution, thanks very much for that pointer. However, I can always convert PDFs to images and go forward from there, I guess. It's not a bad workaround. The fbi image viewer is available for NetBS
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by marttt 4y ago
Nice to hear this, thanks. I wonder what the framebuffer experience is like with current NetBSD. I researched this (framebuffer on Linux vs OpenBSD vs NetBSD) a while ago, since I would need a framebuffer PDF reader. It feels like at this p
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Plop Boot Managers(plop.at)
33 points by marttt 4y ago|9 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
Are the current releases of NetBSD still fast enough for decade-old x86 machines, e.g. Intel Atoms? Or is this distro also slowly adding complexity with every release? Usercase would be either console-only or console with framebuffer graphi
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by marttt 4y ago
Not exactly "experimental", considering the Unix heritage, but -- line editors. "I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm
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by marttt 4y ago
I wonder if this system got any inspiration from Plan 9? It looks really similar to 8½, Rob Pike's early window manager for Plan 9 [1]. Or even the Blit [2]. I would love to try out MGR on the Linux framebuffer, though. Edit: found an
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Idiotbox: YouTube interface for simpler (text-based) browsers(codemadness.org)
4 points by marttt 4y ago|0 comments
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C Styles: a collection of interesting C style guides(julienblanchard.com)
22 points by marttt 4y ago|1 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
I think young kids are much more OK with boredom than adults, at least up to a certain age. The whole idea of "boredom = bad" is, IMO, a cultural meme. In the course of time, kids are simply taught to think this way. Before going
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by marttt 4y ago
I also liked the digital watches quote: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight milli
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by marttt 4y ago
It would also be interesting to read the all time most upvoted comments on HN -- without seeing the actual count of upvotes.
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by marttt 4y ago
+1, I use somebody's Greasemonkey script to keyboard-navigate the Gmail simple HTML view. Very handy.
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by marttt 4y ago
I recorded an almost 2-hour live radio show with a Dell Mini 9 + Tiny Core Linux + Avid Mbox 2 audio interface + 2 dynamic mics + a small console recording program just two weeks ago. I configured a huge swapfile just in case, but everythin
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by marttt 4y ago
FreeDOS would boot in about 2 seconds, literally. :)
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by marttt 4y ago
I wonder if this indicates that refurbished netbooks actually would have some aftermarket value, for "niche people" or more capable Linux users at least. Maybe they would run into driver issues, though.
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by marttt 4y ago
"... I still run my MSI Wind netbook ..." Were the MSI Winds fanless, or did they have a fan? And the hard disk, I assume, wasn't a SSD? I ask because I just noticed kids of our relatives using an abandoned Wind as a toy (to
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by marttt 4y ago
Another worthwhile tutorial, by Steve Litt: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/execline.htm
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by marttt 4y ago
+1 for the Dell Mini 9. In fact, I use it daily for most things, as I got one in mint condition for only a few euros. Tiny Core Linux, framebuffer mode, text-only browsing, Ali G. Rudi's framebuffer tools [1]. I also added a matte scre
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by marttt 4y ago
A blogger has also written a detailed overview (in 2018) on actually using this language: https://danyspin97.org/blog/getting-started-with-execline-sc... The syntax somewhat reminds of Rebol/Red, but feels cleaner
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Execline – an interpreter-less scripting language(skarnet.org)
44 points by marttt 4y ago|4 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
This is excellent, many thanks for sharing. I don't know how I didn't think that Wayback Machine might maybe also have an API. :/ Also, lots of interesting stuff for things like the above on Common Crawl: https://c
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by marttt 4y ago
Thanks for your comment. I realized now that achive.org's "archive string" (here 20220719195142if_) is updated automatically. So if I use this string + some other URL, then I get redirected to a current snapshot of that other
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by marttt 4y ago
Yes, I remember testing socat as well for that purpose, and it worked great. Since I didn't have much other use for it at that point, I still went with rlwrap in the end. I imagine you can really do a lot with socat, though. An impress
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by marttt 4y ago
Ha, same here, actually. There is an older stand-alone Unix port as well, though -- this is what I built and use (sam -d), because I don't need the entire p9p ecosystem. I actually use it with rlwrap to get line editing history:
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by marttt 4y ago
Occasional mtm user here. I'm in no way associated with the original author of mtm, but several of his other projects are worth pointing out as well. A nice focus on simplicity. An updated version of Plan 9's sam text editor for U
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This had some great comments on the Unix Heritage mailing list, with a nice spinoff to discussing optimal line length: https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/3c54b19d-e604-68eb-2b4b-0b65e9cf... Continued on Computer Old Farts: h

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