m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@birnim@fosstodon.org @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org That was just my take on cringey sarcasm, sry.
On a serious note, there was this Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (Or was it Solovyev? I've read it literally decades ago), in one of his works he had this twisted idea that in order to raise a philosopher you don't have to encourage learning, quite the opposite — you have to hide books from the child and even resort to violence.
There's also a hypothesis that comedians owe their sense of humour to their shitty childhoods

@birnim@fosstodon.org @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Well, you can! With violence!
It might have some minor repercussions in the future… Mi-i-inor, yeah… 😅

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Also lots of cat content. And by cat content I mean both content meant to be consumed by cats and content with cats as lead cast. You can't go wrong with cat content, can you?

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I like how they've made dance the primary means of expression though. The idea is so fscked up that I find it amusing!
Why write a long article about international trade if you can just dance about it? Spanish flu epidemic? Of course! You can dance about anything from marine biology to low level programming! Everybody dance now! 💃🏿🕺🏿

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Oh! I think what I was trying to remember is called webfs — a server that provides filesystem interface to the web (obvious from its name, isn't it? 🤭)
Then you can run abaco — of course javascript is out of the question, but at least you can read the articles on P9 website using the same system you run it on.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org You have to mount something, then you can get abaco running and browse the web. Even google used to work, but that was a while ago, not sure if it does now.

@drcounelis@mstdn.starnix.network @2T2@mstdn.starnix.network Don't we already? 🤣

@colinsmatt11 I also hate the pace at which they change the syntax of the language (In what way any is better than an empty interface? WTF?!!!) so gcc-go as a non-reference implementation always lags behind.

@colinsmatt11 It could be a good language though. Don't get me wrong, I usually can't take anything Google has a hand in even if it doesn't make me user their "services" e.g. WebPee as I call it. But with go Pike did a tremendous work.
It could be a modern-day C with interfaces/traits, sane lightweight threads and channels. The idea behind the language is beautiful and I like it syntactically better than rust. Unfortunately we have a general gravity towards web, so it's here too.

@iron_bug @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Yes, this was abstraction for abstraction's sake. First it was just a bunch of XML-files with weird names inside an organized directory structure. Aside from the fact that XML is not THAT human readable it was not that bad. But it turned into a shitshow pretty soon.
The most odd thing of it is that in Mac OS X, where they drew inspiration from, it wasn't that bad: XML files really worked there, were readable and had sane utilities, and launchd was not as bad as systemd.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @colinsmatt11 @allison @coyote @dushman Rust is better, but you'll still need a Tier 1 supported system for bootstrapping, I think.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @colinsmatt11 @allison @coyote @dushman Nope, having a C compiler is not enough nowadays. I have a couple of PPC-boxes so I know.
For example go is a very popular language and it is considered cross-platform because ARM and Intel are supported, but you can't even build reference toolchain on PowerPC. Well, you can on PPC64LE and you can even jump through several sets of hoops to build it for 32-bit PPC, but won't be able to build anything with it — third party modules aren't that portable.

@colinsmatt11 @allison @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coyote @dushman It's a bit better for Power: there is Raptor Computing. There was also the initiative to make a modern laptop as a replacement for the ones who use old G4 PowerBook, but would like something more modern. I'm not sure it came to fruition though.

@colinsmatt11 @allison @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coyote @dushman True. Now there is little demand for such solutions. Consumers are moving to mobile devices, and companies have no problem using "cloud" solutions and don't care where their software is actually hosted. They do it even in cases where to me it looks like a really bad idea.
But OpenSPARC has seen the light quite a long time ago. They've published docs for a very competitive CPU for the time, esp. SMT-wise. I was very optimistic, but nothing happened 😭

@nicemicro @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org What an interesting example!
I didn't have a microwave oven at home until recently, but of course I've used them and I was always reluctant to use these "presets" — does this button really do what it is supposed to? Maybe I should just set the power and time to be sure?
So when I decided to get one for myself I got one with just two big knobs. Well, not only because of that, the fact that "touch" buttons always get borked with time was also a factor 😅

@iron_bug @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Did the actually remove anything? I was pretty sure that's how GTK-based applications work when running in GNOME environment: menu bar on top of the screen, like in Mac OS X, but when run outside GNOME it's just a normal menu bar, top of the window. Is it not?

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @dushman @allison @coyote I think OpenSPARC happened before the Oracle acquisition.
There is also OpenPOWER with very liberal licensing, but no one seems to care.

@dushman @allison https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_rog_phone_6_pro-11648.php
This one has more RAM than all of my boxes, except for the Mac Pro 🤯

@dushman @allison I don't think it's on par with the game consoles though. Because even with all the quirks you can't make the heat dissipation efficient enough.
The laptops also have these nice 8 core CPUs, but still get throttled under continuous workload in half an hour or so.

@dushman @allison Phones are getting too powerful. The cheap Chinese device I've got myself this year for two hundred bucks can build mesa in a couple of minutes. This is crazy! Who needs all this computing power? And it's even got 120 Hz!
At least it can make it through 6 days on a single charge which is very good!