m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@romin @j
Besides, OS kernel in Rust already exists and works (kinda): https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Faster-VMs
That's what happens when you want to write code and make things — no need to reimplement Linux in its entirety and "face the toxicity head on".

@romin @j
No, I don't like the fonts!
(And I want at least my wireless card to work 😅)
Besided, I'm pretty sure that it's currently broken on anything, but Intel and ARM maybe 🤷

@romin @j
I probably won't be using the re-implementation of Linux in Rust even if they did it — I would most likely only support x86_64 and AArch64 — architectures I'm the least interested in.
I'm just going to switch to FreeBSD — they don't have Perl in the base system, can you imagine how cool is that? 🤩

@romin @j
Linux detects liquid cooling pumps in my PowerMac G5 which never had them — because some variables don't get initialised properly, maybe it worked when someone from IBM submitted that code over a decade ago, but now it doesn't — and reporting it would likely only result in support for ppc64 being removed entirely.

@romin @j
No, I'm not going to reimplement that pile of garbage, but even if I intended to — it won't take THAT long because you don't have to implement all the quirks that it had accumulated historically, you don't have to support all the hardware and all the exotic architectures which were supported historically (and all this still contains bugs).

@romin
Antlers? 😨

@romin @j
That's exactly what I proceed to, five hundred character limit prevents me from putting it into one comment 😅

@romin @j
I was planning to write a longer post about it — nothing new, just a combination of thoughts from here and there which I find reasonable. Maybe I still will 😅

@romin @j
But again — that is unlikely to happen as most of them are incapable of cooperation (demonstrating the intent by putting words into action to convince others is a huge part of that), and are incapable of writing any code — not everyone, but those who can code are most often surrounded by their "fan club", those who only make matters worse.

@romin @j
I think it would be actually kinda great if they rewrote it from scratch keeping the binary compatibility — as Drew originally suggested (already backtracked on it). Problem is, the crowd which likes "facing the toxicity head on" most likely never intended to write any code — most of them anyway. Putting effort into that might show dedication — demonstrate everyone that they won't abandon it as they often do, which in turn might make some of the Linux maintainers reconsider.

@romin @j
In this particular case there are no good guys, this is a reference case of shit prevailing over the piss. Linux kernel is an absolute clusterfuck — all things considered, it's kinda surprising it works at all, that is precisely why it's insanely hard to maintain in this state.
The cons of Linux kernel are… legacy code, the pros… also legacy code. There are zero good things about it.

@gabrielesvelto
And yes, it would be great if they had an account on Fedi, but alas 😩
At least they have an RSS feed, which is good enough for me. Once again, I'm not sure they have an English version of it.

@gabrielesvelto
I'm really thankful to The Insider for, beside their own investigations, going through all these Telegram channels and other social media for great finds like this one, they have linked this one yesterday. But their primary language is Russian so that's not what you might want, they do translations, but not for everything, for the Russia-Ukraine war, I think they post only weekly summaries in English, such as this one: https://theins.ru/en/news/274278

@gabrielesvelto
I think the original source is on Telegram, it's even linked in the screenshot: https://t.me/EjShahidenko/3227
Do they interact with subscribers in the comments? If not, most likely it just gets cross-posted to the former Twitter, so it could be cross-posted here as well — even without their involvement by a bot 🤷

@hj @kaia
Ten four! Proceed to the extraction point for evac, psssshtt…

@mmcm
Monochrome chicken 🤣
Good name for an ambient music outfit!