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eschaton posted:British computers it's not like acorn ever achieved their dream of shipping commodity computers based on their custom cpu or anything
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if you grew up in silicon valley, you may have driven past wo'0 ideafarm, usually somewhere around the stanford campus in palo alto.  A few years ago he got the van he lived out of confiscated by the city after his signs took a more sinister tone in the light of gay marriage bans being struck down in california. His whole thing was that he was trying to create an "operating system" on top of windows that promised to end all selfishness or something. If you wanted to contribute, and you were a teenager, you could buy him dinner at a local diner. Not a sex thing, he just thought teenagers were the only ones who "got it". Anyways, after like 20 years he finally shipped: https://github.com/ideafarm/ideafarm.home.1 quote:All 1/2 million lines of code were crafted by the same hands, by a man committed to craftsmanship who saw an awesome potential in the C++ language that no one else appears to have seen. IPDOS (tm) development has been the best kept secret in the software industry. Think of IPDOS (tm) as a "weapon of mass CONstruction", designed to make coding fun again while reviving innovation and empowering the independent software craft.
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i think it's more of a weird terry davis energy kinda thing, he thinks he can change the world by having teenagers let him use their cpu cycles or something, it's not really clear
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Volmarias posted:Terry Davis at least gave us TempleOS, oh yeah for sure, completely different levels of technical achievement, let alone purpose
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mystes posted:Also, if you want a ill advised OS on top of your OS for programming by wacky people there's already Squeak. Also, if you want a ill advised OS on top of your OS for programming by wacky people there's already Chrome.
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axolotl farmer posted:was Gnu/Hurd ever on it’s way to become a real OS? did they just give up when Linux actually worked? i think it was because they spent more effort on their acronym than building a kernel quote:It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
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hans reiser's parole appeal https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Hans-Reiser-Locked-Up-No-Parole As he wasn't well received in the Linux kernel community even before his arrest and conviction and now obviously further distanced from all Linux stakeholders from his heinous crime, it would be difficult to see him getting back involved in Linux development when he does end up being released. lol rough
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Jan 3, 2021 09:17
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this decade+ old romhack that culminates in a big, wide open finish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNxm5R0rLiU&t=1046s also teh meme speek of the lates 00s omg, it pwns teh evil mods so hard
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Gentle Autist posted:microsoft is the worlds biggest producer of secondhand embarrassment i knew exactly what it was before clicking the link lmao in a similar vein (but actually good) is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTh4uVJduI&t=5s and actually bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuDS0ntaJY&t=6s
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Jan 18, 2021 06:55
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secondhand apple embarrassment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCqNH7V9R0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--13mBc788&t=67s
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:wasnt there some controversy a few years back because the US navy was paying microsoft a shitload of money for, like, a windows NT 3.5 patch or something more than a few years back. these systems are basically appliances, and you're not allowed to interact with them, unless you're a technician, with specialized hardened environments. here's something to lol about : the navy's smart ship program was an experiment in replacing complex command systems and automating certain manned positions with assistive hardware. in the late 90s there was a huge uproar about how the navy paid MS $$$$ to make their ships smart and it caused a ship to shutdown for a few days. but that uproar was almost entirely caused by unix vendors and journalists who were "out" to "get" microsoft (remember, they had a really bad rep in the late 90s - all deserved). a serious show stopping bug on early tests of an ambitious plan to modernize ships was to be expected. I can't judge if microsoft did a good job or not (probably not), but it makes me lol how stupid the whole thing was. oh and then various navies kept using xp. forever. lol. fckgw blink polyfill fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Volmarias posted:People not realizing that NFTs were just a giant grifting / money laundering scheme the whole time Early on, NFTs seemed like an interesting and promising way of representing and encouraging patronage. Anyways, they immediately became gold plated funko pops for unfuckable men who have net worths exceeding $1m
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I'm always excited when someone figures out a new way to pay and encourage up and coming artists. So I guess it hurt extra hard that NFTs are basically the most tasteless and lovely form of pop art possible (trading cards but for people who daily drive a clapped out g wagon)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Curious Marc killed a decades-old chip he was showing in one of his videos by, you know, touching it. cm also used to hand out big titty underage anime girl images that his hp plotter would crap out at various retro computing events
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