spijdar

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by spijdar 8mo ago
Most ideas people have aren't original, but the original ideas people do have come after struggling with a lot of unoriginal ideas. > They are original to me, and that feels like an insightful moment, and thats about it. The insig
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by spijdar 8mo ago
The modern MUSH forks do generally support telnet, but yes -- as a 29 year old who's been pathologically obsessed with "MUD archeology" off and on, I'll confirm -- historically, most MUDs did not do any sort of Telnet ne
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Funny, I've always found it interesting how "on point" it was... Granted, yeah, we never (or haven't yet) really transitioned to running "full legacy software" inside the browser, or at least it's not comm
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Yes! I don't use my O2 a lot (I think the PSU is flaky, and I'm not super interested in IRIX), but I'm aware of at least https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php , among other similar sites, full of people porting&#x2F
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by spijdar 8mo ago
It's worth pointing out that Nim is going to cache all of the compilation up to the linking step. If you want to include the full compilation time, you'd need to add --forceBuild to the Nim compiler. (Since a lot of the stuff you&
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Yes, Chromium has "native" sandboxing on all those platforms, Windows [0] Linux [1] and MacOS [2]. Chromium uses both seccomp filtering as well as user namespaces (the technology that Docker/Podman use). The Windows and MacOS
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by spijdar 8mo ago
That's what I was trying to get at -- yes, you can say that sysvinit is easier to understand than systemd, and less of a black box. But, even still, a "real Linux distribution" is full of these black boxes, especially the clo
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Learn about what stuff? Linux? System V UNIX? I haven't done LFS since my tweens (and I'm almost 30 now), but I remember the sysvinit portion amounted to, past building and installing the init binary, downloading and extracting a
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by spijdar 8mo ago
I was thinking more along the lines of compiling Tomo code, then being able to link against that pre-compiled binary from other Tomo code. Basically being able to substitute a source file module for a binary module. I don't know if Tom
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Superficially similar, but from a look at the README, it has no polymorphism or generics, which hugely differentiates it from Nim, which leans very, very heavily on templates/generics throughout the entire language/standard librar
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by spijdar 8mo ago
Yes, but SunOS 4 was both extremely popular (enough that a lot of software had explicit support for running on it) and implemented a decent amount of System V and POSIX compatibility! Probably most notably, it implemented SysV shared memory
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by spijdar 8mo ago
If you count 70s and 80s "Unixes" then on its face it is a bit strange, but a lot of 70s and 80s "Unixes" don't exactly resemble what we think of as "Unix" anyway. If instead you think of SysVR4 as the f
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by spijdar 9mo ago
I can't speak to this case specifically, but it's worth pointing out that Windows itself applies many patches for specific applications, so it follows that Wine could be obliged to mimic that behavior in cases where the applicatio
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by spijdar 9mo ago
Haha, I haven't yet, but I want to. Maybe soon! Though extending libc isn't that exciting, really: that's kind of the cool (Unix-y??) thing about it. You just (IIRC) extract the static archive, add whatever .o object files wi
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by spijdar 9mo ago
This isn't really my arena, but I did happen to recently compare the implementation of ReactOS's RTL (Run Time Library) path routines [0] with Wine's implementation [1]. ReactOS covers a lot more of the Windows API than Wine
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by spijdar 9mo ago
> So Unix has to feel like dealing with old cruft to you? ;) Well, maybe :) It's something about the system being made of a lot of messy parts which can be split apart and taped back together. Reductively, all computers are like thi
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by spijdar 9mo ago
That probably came off a bit too inflammatory/self-deprecating :) The point for me was realizing that, even though I do like all these systems and OSes, and I understand the appeal of both "pure UNIX" and (on the opposite spe
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by spijdar 9mo ago
> Certainly, macOS is a "weird" Unix if you compare it to Solaris and look at the administrative bits. But, then again, IBM's AIX is very weird, too. And that's one of the few commercial Unix implementations still kic
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by spijdar 9mo ago
I think it's a sentimental thing, mixed with a dash of elitism/"purity seeking". I don't mean that harshly. In my late teens/early 20s, I went through a "phase" where I obsessed with getting "pur
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by spijdar 9mo ago
The visceral response to the statement: > To the Unix purist, this might appear wasteful and unnecessary, but macOS isn’t, and never has been, Unix. It’s a closed-source proprietary operating system designed for use by millions of consum
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by spijdar 9mo ago
Yes, this is true! I was thinking about "disabling SIP" in the sense of being able to modify the system to e.g. disable the Spotlight launchd service. My mistake. But still -- you can't "unlock" the system (in this
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by spijdar 9mo ago
What sucks is that you can't disable SIP without _also_ disabling disk encryption ("FileVault"), because Apple changed from full disk encryption to only encrypting user data, and relying on SIP and crypto hashes to protect th
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by spijdar 9mo ago
I'd posit that Linux having a hard policy of "do not break user space" has always just been "mostly true", especially around architecture specific stuff, and stuff tied to corporations. I bring this up only because
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by spijdar 9mo ago
If your argument is that Caldera might not actually have the rights to UNIX in the first place to grant the license, that's fair. But the license they provided ( http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ancient-source-al
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by spijdar 10mo ago
In my experience, the cross-compiler will refuse to link against shared libraries that "don't exist", which they usually don't in a cross compiler setup (e.g. cross compiling an aarch64 application that uses SDL on a ppc
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by spijdar 11mo ago
Wow, imagine seeing this just after booting up my PWS running NT (and RH Linux...). NT 4, but one day I do want to try 2k. My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put N
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by spijdar 11mo ago
Huh. It'd never occured to me that Alpha/AXP was the only NT port that doesn't use 4KB pages (EDIT: and Itanium...). That's interesting -- I wonder how they dealt with that, especially with 16/32-bit x86 emulation (
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by spijdar 11mo ago
That settings menu gives you two relevant options: 1. The ability to delete specific conversations, 2. The ability to not use "conversation memory" at all . It doesn't provide the ability to forget specific details that migh
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by spijdar 11mo ago
Side-effect of the "trick" used to get Gemini to dump the data without self-censoring.
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by spijdar 11mo ago
That and part of the instructions referring to user commands to forget. I replied to another comment with the specifics. It is certainly possible there are other redaction mechanisms -- but if that's the case, why is Gemini not redacti

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