m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@chjara This one looks like an obvious choice for a manly man. Right?

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I haven't seen a single person using Emacs other than online for 15 years or so. They either went extinct… or ascended? 🤔

@sj_zero It only took 20 megabytes of disk space and you could actually do something with it, e.g. xmosaic. There was also a floppy image of QNX circulating around that time which fit a single floppy and still had a GUI, a TCP/IP stack and browser. This was impressive!
And now a compressed source code of Firefox alone can fill the CD almost entirely 🤪

@djsumdog Yup, completely useless from the practical perspective, but an interesting read from historic one. I've recently found a book on "AJAX" from back when it was the buzzword. Of course it's obsolete, but still an interesting read and provides some insight on how we got to the state we are in today with the Web.
Some tech books do age well though, like Knuth's books and most Tanenbaum's, the K&R C book and Pike's Practical Programming — these never get old.

@djsumdog A very fine specimen!
And this one was the start of it all for me. Never had the original box though, I think it might have been an add-on CD to some book or magazine. It's really ancient, I think it still had kernel 1.x and even some stuff in a.out binary format. Like Abuse the game. A lot of GUI stuff was using Tcl/Tk.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Is there a way to rebuild my cats (built with -Os) to make them levitate and take the heat better?

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org E.g. ruby — it segfaults on building with - O3.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Does your mouse not feel a little claustrophobic in there? A prime example of rodent abuse, give it some space!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coolboymew Depends on implementation I guess. It's like everyone was trying to implement RCS as a database, Linus thought that filesystem-like approach will do a better job. In my opinion the idea was a piece of shit 😅, but as we see, it was implemented really well. Everyone uses git now, it does the job and it does it really fast.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @coolboymew Why would you even want folders on a phone? Folders are just an idiom for representing hierarchies, hierarchies are definitely not the best way to arrange images, audio or video. Tags will probably do a better job. E.g. you have photos of cats and photos of frogs, if you have both on the same photo, you can have both tags. You can imitate it with links/search folders/whatever, but all in all they just do not seem to be the right tool for the stuff you usually have on a phone.

Can you clean the keyboard so it looks clean on a photo?
Spoiler: no, you can't — no fur balls sticking out, still specks of dust and splashes here and there.

@evelyn Wait, what? Do they not actually mean Ally? As in name. 🤯

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Despite being somewhat of an asshole, the man did a lot of great things. Also git.
I still think we'd live in a better world had BSD took off earlier.

@JordiGH Long time ago there was a running joke about OS/2 that the new release would allow you to protect every byte of RAM with an individual password. Now we have an up to that standard level of network security 🤣

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org The community usually picks up the most inexpensive solution, Efika MX was pricey for its time (around €500), the other might have been that it was to early to hit this market. Those were the times when ARM hard float and soft float were still a thing and even the concept of device tree as a level of abstraction for the kernel wasn't there yet.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org You just don't know how to strike the right balance with devices like this. I think it's pure luck. Efika MX by Genesi came out earlier than Pi and AFAIR had better hardware. As far as community support goes, it failed. There were a dozen of supported distros, but as soon as official support vaned no one did a thing with it. I've had Toshiba AC100 before that. It wasn't a board computer, but a complete ARM-based nettop. It also failed — it had one (!) compatible Ubuntu release.

@ZySoua So, a very fine black gentlecat and a scholar! My cats are not on par with their academic degrees, still, the most reading cat breed in the Eastern Europe.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Does it use hardware at all? I remember having frame rates like this in the nineties with software rendering. Well, not exactly 15 FPS, more like 2 😅

@ZySoua Ей удалось! 👌🏿

@evelyn Don't forget to start a ssh-server on alternative port so you can always have the last word 😈