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by vkoskiv 5y ago
I should give that a go, yeah. The gentoo attempt was mostly to see how a modern desktop class linux distro would work on a system that old. Answer: Not very fast!
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
I (fairly) recently installed modern Gentoo onto my 486DX2-66 box. I think it has 32MB of RAM in there. Boots and works fine for the most part. Compiled tools and utilities work fine for the most part, but trying to run any interpreted code
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
This reminds me of a fun story. A few years ago at a cool lan + demoparty event called Instanssi they had a local FM radio station dedicated to the event. It was then revealed that hidden in that FM transmission was the private key to a lit
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
I have JPEGView installed on most of my vintage Mac collection (that can display colors, anyway) I'm pretty sure I wasn't even born when that software was the latest and greatest!
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
> discord servers are usually social spaces; I’m more interested in the people in them than the particular topics they’re talking about. I'm more interested in the topics. That's why I went to that discord server and that chann
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
The phrase "...to better understand our [users] and to improve their experience..." always rings alarm bells in my head. It's corporate lingo for "We want to increase profits by selling your private data for as long as w
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
> I can't speak how enforced these are, but even if it's a soft requirement for now, it's enough for me to avoid it. Pity, since it seems pretty good tech wise. Strictly enforced. I borrowed an older oculus headset from a
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
TL;DR: Enabling the external HDMI connector requires the use of a proprietary blob (DRM malware) and the DDR4 memory controller has a small firmware blob that you need.
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
FWIW, OpenGL on macOS is deprecated, not removed. This means they ship an ancient version and won't provide support. I messed around for an hour or so, and managed to get it to compile fully on my older macOS 10.12 system. It seems to
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
SerenityOS does have support for unicode, and the character sets are improving over time.
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Sorry about that, I phrased it really poorly. I think I was trying to convey that the project is still somewhat niche, so no one has taken up that effort yet. But you're absolutely right, everything should be accessible.
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Take a closer look - SerenityOS doesn't reject all modern stuff. The kernel has plenty of modern security mitigations (pledge(), unveil()), and there is basic high DPI support already. Internationalization and accessibility are very co
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
While keming is important, it's still exciting to see how far along vector font support is already.
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
That is the part that upsets me the most - there are no viable alternatives. Linux I can get by with, but it's a huge compromise on all fronts except the terminal experience. Windows is obviously out of the question completely.
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
> I worry that "unification" will be realized by dumbing down the desktop rather than empowering the mobile device. This appears to be their plan. It has steadily ramped up since Mojave, and Big Sur was the inflection point. I
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Perhaps the packagers on your platform went that extra mile to build binary packages. Taking a quick look, the Homebrew formula[0] for ripgrep on macOS just lists a dependency on Cargo (rust) and then seems to invoke the cargo command for i
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Homebrew tries to install binaries by default. (They call them bottles) Building from source happens if a suitable 'bottle' isn't available, or when `--build-from-source` is specified with the install command. I know cargo is
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Binary releases seem uncommon from my perspective. Every time I go to install a piece of software written in Rust from homebrew, it invariably starts installing some massive Rust toolchain as a dependency, at which point I give up and move
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Huh, I had no idea that image was controversial. I think it's an easy mistake to make. Didn't know it was from a nude magazine originally, I just thought it was a traditionally used test image, like the Utah teapot in 3D rendering
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Not everything in the world exists to make a buck.
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by vkoskiv 5y ago
Not this again. Hey! I just forked Bitcoin into my own fork. Nobody is using it, so the transaction fees are almost zero. Therefore, it is also 100% better than Bitcoin!
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
> which I implemented for RenderMan Cool, you work at Pixar? I've been working on a small hobby renderer [1] for a few years, and RenderMan has been a big inspiration! [1] https://github.com/vkoskiv/c-ray
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
Not a C compiler. This is the original C compiler from ~1972. It's just an experiment to bring a bit of computing history to life.
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
Happy 20, OS X! Still crazy to think that for a number of years now, modern macOS has been around for longer than classic Mac OS. I just dug out my 10.0.3 install disc. I think I might do a fresh install onto my PowerBook G3 just to experie
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
Still quite slow. As far as I know, it's just a big heap of small ruby scripts that invoke each other, and ruby isn't known for blazing-fast performance. It also uses git internally, and quite heavily, so that probably adds some o
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
I think the main criticism of homebrew is that it's really slow.
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
Also restricted commenting to collaborators. Conveniently, the devETH fork chose not to limit commenting on this commit. How kind of them! https://github.com/devethorg/go-ethereum/commit/412c38434d8d...
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
Short explainer on the devETH site. devETH is a fork of cheapETH that aims to not be a financial scam. https://www.deveth.org/background.html
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
One of the pool owners here. We're forking cheapETH: https://www.deveth.org/background.html
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by vkoskiv 6y ago
I'm one of the people who totally missed the 25M coin patch when getting into the cheapETH community. After we got banned from their discord for discussing this, I wrote this short explainer about the situation last night: https:&#x2F

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