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- Comment on This Alternative Operating System Is Keeping Retro Computing Alive 3 days ago:
That’s literally the niche inferno and plan were designed for. Plan was designed so that local and remote were abstracted away. Everything was just a data stream. You could run inferno literally in a browser. Which you don’t get much more in the web than that lol.
Specifically inferno is what android sort of half was. Android traditionally heavily leveraged java/dalvik bytecode for apps. But the root system was native. The bytecode ran on top of that. Inferno pushed the bytecode all the way to the micro kernel.
I still install other os like all these regularly. The thing that has kept me from keeping them. Is lack of a few basic things like modern web browsers. I hear haiku is making progress in that front at least. I have fond memories of running Be on an old Pentium II.
- Comment on 7win9 Game Real-Time Digital Gaming for Adults 3 days ago:
Look at out this way. Either they are desperate. Or were significant enough to bother spamming?
- Comment on This Alternative Operating System Is Keeping Retro Computing Alive 3 days ago:
Nah, the front fell off. Yes they are still kicking. But they are more just maintaining plan 9 largely as it existed.
I think it was harvey? They planned to do things a little more sacrilegious. Offering desktop environments other than Rio out of the box. Bringing over compiles for Firefox Etc. And providing a simple easy to use installer like many Linux distributions these days. Sort of like the Ubuntu of Plan 9.
- Comment on This Alternative Operating System Is Keeping Retro Computing Alive 3 days ago:
Not going to admonish the devs for doing what they like in their own time. There are a lot of hobby OS out there and they are fun to tinker around with for a few minutes.
And this is likely my own personal nitpick. But honestly rather than starting something new I would really like to see someone adopt and modernize something like Plan 9 or Inferno. A few years ago there was a group trying to do a more modern user-centered version of plan 9. Complete with a lot of the more modern apps that users would want to use on such a system. I think once they saw the actual scope that the project would require, it kind of silently sputtered out to the best of my knowledge. Those operating systems were so ahead of their time. Linux is only just now catching up in some ways.
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 4 days ago:
Lemmy.ml and programming.dev likely have the instance blocked due to its history with right-wing trolls. World does not. Therefore it works here. Lemmy ml doesn’t like the competition. Programming.dev doesn’t like the drama
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 4 days ago:
Many. They are considered a spiritual successor to the right-wing troll instance of explodingheads.com
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 6 days ago:
You and I often disagree. But not today. Well said.
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 6 days ago:
Ah, yes yes that old chestnut. Everyone else is the problem not you. People have legitimate problems with your instance and its administrators. Don’t pretend for a moment that if server focused on a different authoritarian ideology opposed to yours was the host. That you wouldn’t object either, despite the hypocrisy. You’re on Lemmy.ml not Lemmy.org. At least the rest of us can be consistent in our stance.
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 6 days ago:
If the instance is focused around defending and enabling our fascists. Then everyone should object the same. That it just exists in the US isn’t the same thing and besides the point.
- Comment on Gumroad Founder Sahil Lavingia Reveals He Was Let Go from DOGE as Software Engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs After Just 55 Days 6 days ago:
Yes. I mean I’m going to take them at their word. Making themselves look foolish doesn’t have any direct benefit to them realistically here. And them adding their voice to the already existing course isn’t a bad thing. But just how abjectly have we failed as a society. That our fourth estate, education system, Etc has allowed for this sort of thing. Deeply of course, the question was always rhetorical. Very very deeply.
- Comment on Gumroad Founder Sahil Lavingia Reveals He Was Let Go from DOGE as Software Engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs After Just 55 Days 6 days ago:
What?! Just… what!? They joined a fascist attack because they thought they could do some good enabling it?! I truly don’t understand this thought process.
- Comment on Is there any community on 3D painting ? 1 week ago:
Everything here is just starting out and there’s no problem with that. I wouldn’t call myself an animator. But I have done some animations in the past through blender Etc. And develop some small game assets Etc. Which includes texturing/painting unwrapping Etc. I certainly wouldn’t mind some content related more around all that. I know there are a lot of intricacies and techniques even just including blender to make professional looking animations Etc. I don’t know if there’s enough there to supply a whole community. But there is only one way to find out.
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 1 week ago:
But it is the Mexico. Unlike other mexicos. Looking at you new mexico.
Though you are absolutely right. And it’s more than just things like that which are normalized through innocuous seeming language.
- Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo 2 weeks ago:
I have not been on Reddit for 2 years or more. That’s how it’s always worked for years before that even. As someone who had an account there from the 2000s all through the 2010s.
So you are either misremembering or simply mistaken. I don’t like that model myself. Because it can be abused as much as it can stop abuse. Easily allowing someone to block anyone who has or might dissent to them. Helping them spread misinformation, giving it a false sense of acceptance or at least no vocal pushback. Since they couldn’t just block people that down voted but never commented.
- Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo 2 weeks ago:
While that is true. It can still bury or hide valuable discussion. Not that this advocates for bidirectional blocking. But it would be nice if there were some method or mechanism to look for people doing such behaviors and weight their inputs less.
I’ve seen banal and innocuous comments from myself and whole chains including others get down voted for no real apparent reason. Personally I see that and I choose to smile. Knowing that that person is so seething and ineffectual that that is the best they can figure out to do. But not everyone sees it that way. It’s definitely something that will have to be tackled at some point if the system is going to grow. Because whether or not you agree that it’s manageable now. It certainly won’t be if there is a huge growth spurt.
- Comment on Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! 2 weeks ago:
Your projecting. I literally said in the donation thread that I don’t care if they run their own political server in their own free time with their own resources. It doesn’t matter whether or not I agree with it. What matters is that they want to tell us that we must contribute to their hobby and political crusade. They can make all the poor life choices they want. They just can’t include me or anyone else in it.
- Comment on First file server 2 weeks ago:
Then you’re going to be limited to SMB generally because of windows. If you didn’t need Windows NFS is always the superior choice. But only the pro version of Windows has any NFS support.
Just getting started pretty much any hardware will do. One of the best most accessible ways of doing it is something like a cheap Raspberry Pi computer even two gigabytes of memory is enough to get started. You won’t necessarily need the bigger ones. But generally more tends to be better. Combined with some of the more purpose built OS images for things like open media vault or own cloud. It’s a pretty easy and low bar for entry.
After that it really just depends on your interest, needs, and comfort levels. You could just as easily go into eBay and buy a used $100 E-Waste business Tower. It will give you a bit more swap ability and upgradability where you can add things like 2.5 or 10 gigabit networking if you absolutely need faster. A better method of organizing and mounting storage physically. And a few other amenities. As well as some more options software wise. But if you are really new to this. And you really want to do something a bit more DIY that you control as opposed to something like a Synology Nas. It’s hard to go wrong starting with something like a Raspberry Pi.
Just make sure to keep up on your three two one. Three different copies of your data, on two different types of media, with at least one of them stored off site.
- Comment on First file server 2 weeks ago:
First you need to specify a bit more on what you mean by file server. Are you looking for a network attached storage for home use, or remote use as well? Or are you talking something like a seed box for torrenting Etc. What general software environment will you be working with and what others are you comfortable with.
- Comment on Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! 2 weeks ago:
Lol to accuse you of not liking Lemmy as a platform. It doesn’t get much more strawman. Lol you’re one of the most frequent posters I see on Lemmy in general 😝
- Comment on Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks! 2 weeks ago:
Nutomic himself has quite a history with real shitty takes and horrible stances. Including transphobia Etc.
Then there is said flagship instance. It’s run as a leninist Vanguard fiefdom and Echo chamber. Not a development hub. Its lemmy.ml and not lemmy.org for a reason. Much of the most egregious moderation not being done by moderators but administrators. All directly under and at nutomic’s discression. Which people are well within their right to object to. Especially being told their donations must go towards enabling it.
There are a ton of devs out there with shitty politics. But it’s most of them are smart/mature enough to keep them separate.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
While it’s unquestionable that them posting this here is not the appropriate place. It’s also unquestionable knowing how you behave that you are harassing them. Even if you are not “following them around”.
- Comment on Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future 2 weeks ago:
Then I hope to see your ass out in the next few days trimming the grass with tweezers. So we can all laugh at you. Take a lesson from the luddites. They didn’t destroy the Looms because they hated the looms. They destroyed the Looms because the owners sought to cut them out.
A tool is simply a tool. It isn’t good or bad. It’s fashy Tech Bros out for a quick buck that make it bad. Be mad at them. Not the tools. AI isn’t going to make it impossible or undesirable for us to create as we always have. Just the fash.
- Comment on Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future 2 weeks ago:
Possibly. But there are valid uses of ai. Uses that streamline the process, take away some of the more tedious bits. Allow the artist to create more, easier. But you’re also not wrong to imply that for a corporation that will always be the exception and not the rule
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely. As do the tribes. Despite not being the most visually recognizable descendants. Even my father at this point simply due to the way genetics works doesn’t have the markers that a lot of the DNA tests used to identify native populations. But blood is blood, and we can trace our lineage right back to past tribal leaders even.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
Ottowae on one side recent enough, that my grandmother went to one of those white washing ”Indian schools”. Wyandotte a bit further back on the other side with a bit more Ottawae. Which is pretty common considering after the death march, those that survived ended up in kansas/oklahoma.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
As someone on tribal rolls that’s lucky enough not to live on reservations. I can say you aren’t wrong. Though my point in using them was that they are directly tied to the fascists. The ones aiming to kill FDR were Hitler sympathizers etc. So a bit more directly connected to the Nazis / fascists.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
Modern? This shit has been running unabated for the last hundred years. FDR mistakenly font Nazis were people you could make deals with. And rather than try, then hang them. Offered them freedom and no consequences as long as they voted for his legislation. Which they immediately turned around and have spent the last 100 years dismantling. It’s a very serious problem that has a country we’ve just pretended didn’t exist for forever.
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 3 weeks ago:
For sure no one else is liable to beat them at that game. Long term it isn’t really sustainable for a large group of individuals. But the thing is the game has always changed and will continue to change.
The moment there’s a hiccup in the SEO and ad revenue. There’s a good chance the Psychopaths with the money. Who don’t understand or care what’s going on will come at them like they have everyone else. Either way it’s good to see a lot of these groups getting back to their roots and taking the reins for themselves again. It’s enough to warm and anarchist’s heart
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 3 weeks ago:
It might be a little more tense than you think. There are a lot of real journalism criticism Etc trying to go Indy as well. Mostly in one Niche or another.
When it comes to a lot of scamming cryptocurrency and online things. One could argue people like coffeezilla are the better source to watch than a lot of other sites.
It’s only a matter of time until more people try it. Depending upon their success it could easily spell the end of sites like that. All someone has to do is prove another model viable. Imagine one of the staff from IGN splits taking along some of their contacts with them. And using that to get interviews and leveraging more contacts Etc .
It seems there may be a trend. And as you said there’s a lot of people who would gladly rather frequently site not as dense and slathered in s*** advertisements.
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 3 weeks ago:
And I’d question how long it’s working for them at least long term. You’re only an asset until they’re looking for a scapegoat.