GNU Hurd in before Apple.
@jackrusher GNU Hurd in before Apple.
➛Ftrain, by Paul Ford
December 2021
Perfect Wikipedia prioritization right here: "Mach's...
@jackrusher Perfect Wikipedia prioritization right here: "Mach's derivatives are the basis of the operating system kernel in GNU Hurd *AND OF* Apple's XNU kernel used in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS." en.wikipedia.org/... Emphasis added.
➛i think it's sweet
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things.
➛The paragraph I quoted was not an unusual way to see...
The paragraph I quoted was not an unusual way to see software for the time.
➛This is kind of a deep cut but I found a two-decade old...
This is kind of a deep cut but I found a two-decade old operating system/community project called KOSH that anticipates DAOs and blockchains in some ways. It's nice they left the website up. I hope everyone involved in it is doing great today.
kosh.convergence.org/...
kosh.convergence.org/...
I feel that we should all watch this and do commentary...
@jpotisch @christianmlong I feel that we should all watch this and do commentary tracks.
➛This is the good stuff.
@doriantaylor This is the good stuff.
➛Click it Dorian.
@doriantaylor Click it Dorian.
➛This is amazing.
Oh my GOD.
@christianmlong Oh my GOD.
➛Oh man he's been called to teach a class on worship and has...
Oh man he's been called to teach a class on worship and has no worship background so he's got to cram. Stressful. Luckily he met Horton Davies, a British worship expert, and ended up reviewing them in Christian Century.
➛The protestant scholars won't support arts education in the...
The protestant scholars won't support arts education in the seminary in the 1950s, because they want to focus on preaching and worship, not art, but now a Catholic church architect named Patrick Quinn has stepped in to argue the case and won, arts ed belongs in the seminary.
➛I do but I keep focusing on the craft of them. It has to be...
I regret to inform you this might be interesting, he's...
I regret to inform you this might be interesting, he's taking the ferry to the Mission District (before Golden Gate Bridge) during the depression to do interdenominational outreach for $25 a month and everyone is rude to him because they're moonshiners and they think he's a fed.
➛In my eternal search for very calm media to guide me to...
In my eternal search for very calm media to guide me to sleep I have found an eight-cassette oral history of 20th-century California theological seminaries by a Berkeley professor emeritus of homiletics and church history. archive.org/...
➛Congratulations!!!
@page88 @richstanislaw Congratulations!!!
➛If you are looking to transition from Christmas cheer into...
If you are looking to transition from Christmas cheer into “Christmas gently melancholic wind-down with notes of yearning” just pop on these Fairuz albums:
open.spotify.com/...
open.spotify.com/...
➛open.spotify.com/...
open.spotify.com/...
Blurgh (we just cancelled three Xmas things).
Yes this is fantastic thank you.
Yep!
Just so no one gets confused I'm not depressed I'm drinking...
Just so no one gets confused I'm not depressed I'm drinking seltzer and messing with FPGA-simulated Amiga computers. I'm referencing this meme: imgflip.com/...
➛Good news, I'm retrocomputing again.
Good news, I'm retrocomputing again.
➛oh i hadn't seen it at all, i was saying yes like, i was...
@leahfinnegan @tylerwatamanuk oh i hadn't seen it at all, i was saying yes like, i was shaking my head and just going, yes
➛yes
Just imagining being on a boat in Germany listening to...
Just imagining being on a boat in Germany listening to people tell me about 68k assembly, seems ideal, basically.
➛You all were totally right about MiSTer FPGA.
You all were totally right about MiSTer FPGA.
➛I was taking a few days off to go to museums and sort of...
I was taking a few days off to go to museums and sort of reconnect with NYC...but omicron. So I'm looking at early 1990s Amiga user group CDs on archive.org again.
Do you have Covid right now?
Do you have Covid right now?
➛if we ever get a few drinks we can talk about how...
Wait I didn't realize you made a Fitzcarraldo-themed...
It's extremely true. Sometimes you just gotta start again,...
I do have a soft spot for ye olde spirit of free soft-ware...
@phyllisstein I do have a soft spot for ye olde spirit of free soft-ware embodied in that particular requirement.
➛Of course not! Why, as I was saying just the other day,...
@phyllisstein Of course not! Why, as I was saying just the other day, “:::::::::::::::::::::”.
➛But now you're ready!
Rust kids will never know what it was like to read the gnu...
Rust kids will never know what it was like to read the gnu parallel man page.
➛Say you have 50k zip files to parallel-unzip w/spaces in...
Say you have 50k zip files to parallel-unzip w/spaces in their names. Perhaps you've spent time trying to do Unix stuff using find/gfind/-exec/xargs/\;/{}/parallel/:::: and so forth. You can instead say:
fdfind -e zip -x unzip -d {//} {}
That's it!
github.com/...
➛fdfind -e zip -x unzip -d {//} {}
That's it!
github.com/...
no no it's happening, scroll down, they're in partnership...
excited to see the society we build after the...
excited to see the society we build after the radioshack/linens n' things crypto cobrand drops
➛first as tragedy then as farce then as brand then as...
Whoa five college-era neurons just sparked, sputtered, and...
@shabbychef Whoa five college-era neurons just sparked, sputtered, and died.
➛Look at that. It will cut you if you touch it and it will...
Look at that. It will cut you if you touch it and it will explode into sparking flames if you hang lights on it. It makes @maureenflaherty so happy.
To take my mind off the balmy mid-December temperatures...
To take my mind off the balmy mid-December temperatures coinciding with a national weather crisis and the enormous NYC Covid spike I'm listening to Light Conductor's great second album for the hundredth time and looking at our aluminum Christmas tree. lightconductor.bandcamp.com
➛It's been an honor serving with you all.
It's been an honor serving with you all.
➛A guy crossing the street just said into his phone, “Listen...
A guy crossing the street just said into his phone, “Listen to me. You need to go on YouTube and do your own research.”
➛If I were a senior product marketing manager, *I* would...
If I were a senior product marketing manager, *I* would want to go help @benpopper with Collectives™. stackoverflow.com/...
➛look at this pretty little climate pumpkin
look at this pretty little climate pumpkin postlight.com/...
➛You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of...
I like yours better, crisper punctuation.
@fka_tabs @hondanhon I like yours better, crisper punctuation.
➛This is so much fun and I'm grateful you're doing it. I'm...
@masinter @simon_brooke This is so much fun and I'm grateful you're doing it. I'm learning a lot.
➛It is truly another universe.
@jamescham @vgr It is truly another universe.
➛When you right click you get a menu with options; one is...
@simon_brooke @masinter When you right click you get a menu with options; one is for Exec and the submenu has Xerox Lisp, Common Lisp, and Interlisp.
➛Right now it requires X11 but it's being ported to SDL so...
@bennyfactor Right now it requires X11 but it's being ported to SDL so yes kind of.
➛Retro projects are often extremely toxic, but here they're...
Retro projects are often extremely toxic, but here they're taking care to set up a modern dev community (Zoom calls, code of conduct), enhancing docs, publishing a thorough annual report, and preserving "legacy" versions of the software too. docs.google.com/...
➛A new favorite project: People from 1970s PARC +...
A new favorite project: People from 1970s PARC + PARC-adjacent folks are carefully restoring/gently modernizing the Medley Interlisp system, a Lisp OS that ran on the Xerox D-machines, so that it can run on a modern VM on any OS. interlisp.org
YES
@jeremyzilar YES
➛Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations tend to warm the...
@phyllisstein @sixfoot6 Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations tend to warm the planet.
➛how's your word count
how's your word count
➛is show over
is show over
➛they are sending a giant robot made of tinfoil beyond the...
they are sending a giant robot made of tinfoil beyond the moon youtube.com/...
➛(whispering) xaml
@troutgirl (whispering) xaml
➛I love all the X's for XML stuff, like Xerces, Xalan, etc....
@troutgirl I love all the X's for XML stuff, like Xerces, Xalan, etc. Cocoon: Still going!
➛Some of those logos produce a tidal wave of emotion.
Some of those logos produce a tidal wave of emotion.
➛umm
You kind of have to now.
@shabbychef You kind of have to now.
➛There's been a learning curve but every time I try...
There is eSports but it's Excel. @richziade just sent it to...
There is eSports but it's Excel. @richziade just sent it to me, knowing I would have no choice but to watch.
youtube.com/...
➛youtube.com/...
A friend shared this with me today. This is really thorough...
A friend shared this with me today. This is really thorough public sustainability accounting, truly dives in and makes Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3 explicit and clear.
project.veja-store.com/...
➛project.veja-store.com/...
Yerp. Your own little Internet just for you.
@everyplace Yerp. Your own little Internet just for you.
➛I go back and forth on it too. I don't love the feeling of...
@erinjholmes I go back and forth on it too. I don't love the feeling of a giant corporation providing access to private VPN. But the convenience!
➛I mean this is exactly that, but about three minutes of...
@bennyfactor I mean this is exactly that, but about three minutes of setup. Same deal: I have a few big data sets that I downloaded that I'm messing with that are clunky to move around and it's just easier to just leave them on the home machine and log in if I need them.
➛I mean I think Amiga has a SSH server so once you were into...
@BillSeitz I mean I think Amiga has a SSH server so once you were into the local network you should be able to SSH into an Amiga.
➛Maybe I shouldn't have a VPN.
Maybe I shouldn't have a VPN.
➛I did find myself seeing if I could run X Windows apps on...
I did find myself seeing if I could run X Windows apps on my phone via TermuX on my home desktop, and then once I got X windows running on the phone, I realized I'd sort of lost the whole thread.
➛If you're the sort of nerd who enjoys having your home...
If you're the sort of nerd who enjoys having your home Linux machine, work Mac, and Android phone talk to each other, and enjoy running "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" from the subway, tailscale.com is painless. I forget it's there. What Dropbox is to FTP it is to VPNs.
➛I wonder how the mouse I saw in Macy's is doing.
I wonder how the mouse I saw in Macy's is doing.
➛Take that creationists.
oh I've seen and that is very attractive to me at this stage
@matt_clawson oh I've seen and that is very attractive to me at this stage
➛matt this is wonderful
@matt_clawson matt this is wonderful
➛Assume that I [1] have good knowledge of FS-UAE, have...
Assume that I [1] have good knowledge of FS-UAE, have bought the Cloanto stuff many times, keep copies of every Kickstart/WB + nearly every game and app ADF ; [2] but don't want to buy a vintage 1200. Is MISTer sort of between those two worlds?
➛Retro nerds: MISTer FPGA Amiga emulation: Worth it? Also...
Retro nerds: MISTer FPGA Amiga emulation: Worth it? Also will they ever be in stock anywhere again?
➛I'm looking forward to it, I love a good horse metaphor.
@AndyHunter777 I'm looking forward to it, I love a good horse metaphor.
➛But not Seth Green?
@phyllisstein But not Seth Green?
➛Thanks, everyone. Decided to finish Fortune of the Rougons...
Me: I am nearly done with a draft of this complex memo I've...
Me: I am nearly done with a draft of this complex memo I've been working on for months, maybe one day to go.
My text editor: I'm a fully-featured LISP programming environment.
➛My text editor: I'm a fully-featured LISP programming environment.
I'm an optimist so I'm going with last week of July 2029.
@davidhsiegel @eroston I'm an optimist so I'm going with last week of July 2029.
➛A year ago I made a run at Sir Walter Scott and I did not...
A year ago I made a run at Sir Walter Scott and I did not get very far, so maybe it's time to switch it up.
➛Poll:
Poll:
➛Hard Candy Christmas, Dolly Parton, 1982
If you are the kind of person who enjoys listening to...
If you are the kind of person who enjoys listening to albums of people walking around a luxury cruise ship 54 years ago, opening with a burial at sea, headed around Cape Horn, you'll enjoy “The Last Voyage of R.M.S. Queen Mary 1967.”
archive.org/...
➛archive.org/...
Me too. I think it's a useful exploration of characters...
@patdennis Me too. I think it's a useful exploration of characters enacting a specific worldview, reacting to climate crises. Less ambitious than Ministry for the Future but more coherent/fun as a story too.
➛Proper trigger discipline makes so many appearances
Many of the characters in the new Neal Stephenson book are...
Many of the characters in the new Neal Stephenson book are emphatically the people Twitter hates the most:
- Billionaires
- Royalty
- Davos types
- Literally a man who seeks to protect his family from 30-50 feral hogs
I keep waiting for a dad to show up with a can opener.
➛- Billionaires
- Royalty
- Davos types
- Literally a man who seeks to protect his family from 30-50 feral hogs
I keep waiting for a dad to show up with a can opener.
lol i got a drum machine
@acupoftea lol i got a drum machine
➛God I don't even remember, I shouldn't have done that, I...
@leahfinnegan God I don't even remember, I shouldn't have done that, I should have encouraged you to enjoy whatever hippie shit makes you happy. That said the time I zoomed in on the Joan Didion book in your selfie, that was good.
➛I am, and I am being totally sincere, in awe.
I am, and I am being totally sincere, in awe. youtu.be/...
➛Part of the book "Surface Detail" by Iain Banks, where they...
@chrisbrandow Part of the book "Surface Detail" by Iain Banks, where they were fighting a war over the question "can we send mind-states to virtual hell." en.wikipedia.org/...
➛If we all live in a vast simulation, that implies the...
If we all live in a vast simulation, that implies the existence of celestial product managers. I wrote up the Jira board for Wired. wired.com/...
➛FINALLY!
@LyonsMusic FINALLY!
➛My tiny little niece that I watched Totoro with is now a...
My tiny little niece that I watched Totoro with is now a strong adult advocating for trans people in the Baltimore Sun. baltimoresun.com/...
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