oh yeah that, and compiling your kernel! Felt like opening an old spell book or something....
friend told me "ah you like hacking at DOS and stuffs, you may be interested in that, it's called 'linouqse' i guess..." so i gave it a shot.
"Slackware"... it was something like kernel 1.3.12 or 1.3.13 i am not sure... it came on 6 or 7 floppy disks.
from the boot already it seemed like nothing i had seen before: all (!) hardware seemed to be methodically enumerated, a bunch of esoteric commands and processed started their bizarre dance before my very eyes. looked already like i was accessing so much more information about the insides of my -then beloved- machine than ever?! this flashes very fast though and is a bit frustrating... then a rudimentary install menu, in text mode, asking a lot of questions.
.... trying all of this and failing many times, getting an old hard disk in a secondary bay to dedicate to the exercise... getting to it again and again (there was no Internet, where i was, then)... until finally, the thing boots up. a login prompt. i had remembered the password chosen upon install, that was it!
... a shell? i had never heard of Unix before, 100% of my previous practice before was with micro-computing, from 8bit to 16bit to DOS PC and its laughable Windows 3.1 (tm)...
...... what am i gonna do with all this, now?!
[fiddling...]
[months passed]
... "xf86something"....? what? some more configuration? some more esoteric? Where does that lead me? wait.
..... a graphical environment just popped out of my console?! with windows and shits?!!? this was there since the very beginning, like it was already there this whole time?!?!
🤯
Later on erring back on the side of Win3.1 because its "trumpet winsock" was the obvious, "easy" way to get connected to this new eldorado that opened up around (the year was 1995)... reading more about it on this new "online" helped me figure how to get back on that cool and hacky side, to finally (after months?) get the modem to connect, through PPP, to my ISP....
This is when I decided it would be cool, someday, to make this my primary OS, and that i'll work towards this end from now on. at the same time i heard for the first time of "free(libre) software" and that thing resonated within me as something i didn't know was possible: a way to organize society, based on virtuous principles of sharing knowledge and helping one's neighbor, through the same playful excitement of hacking that had kept me on my toes since i was a child? where do I sign?!
3 years later i decided to never boot a Windows OS again, and here I am, ranting on lemmy like i am 275 years old.......
Imagine a pile of floppy disks, with stuffs inscribed on it that you never heard of....
... will you insert one into your computer and reboot it?
Internet Libre o Barbarie!
"Allo, IT? Have you tried turning it off and on again?" ;)
yt-dlp -U ?
Banana Pi BPI f3 - Spacemit K1 anyone?
Has anyone used such a system as a "daily driver"?
What do you need to do in order to boot a normal distro such as Debian or such? How does it stand from the perspective of user/software freedom? What sorts of proprietary sh#ts does it need to be usable? What sorts of compromises that may not be obvious at first glance?
Also how does it "feel" day to day?
Artist Crushes Tesla With Colossal Olmec Head Sculpture
Sculptor Chavis Mármol has never owned a car, but that’s never inhibited his drive. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Mexico City-based artist (who travels largely by bicycle) dropped a nine-ton replica of an Olmec head onto the roof of a blue Tesla Model 3 in a crushing display posted to Instagram on March 11. Mármol told Hyperallergic that his intention was “to satirize the Tesla brand and its creator.”
wait until you've tried with a PCEngine! ;)
+1.
Also it can be turned into a coolest spaceship, with its CDRom attachment, a very first in 1988!
Also the HuCard format for its games is unbeatable!
you are right. they are now accessible and unified accros platforms by retroarch.
That's to me part of the delight in modern experience of classic games: to go through these games you never had a chance to complete before! mostly with a few features:
Combining those together gives anyone the occasion to just experience any of these games, from start to finish, in a relatively short period of time. a 90s arcade brawler or shmup or such goes in one sitting of usually less than one hour... anyone is free to then decide to practice them hundreds of times until they decide to stop using these features one by one and/or use them as creative constraints along the way of their own training, etc...
In short: modern emulation gaming levels the playing field (pun very much intended) when it comes to making those games accessible to everyone, especially those nail-hard ones, by giving access to a wide diversity of ways to experience them! yay! \o/
welcome home! <3
don't use it if you're flying a plane, though!
Coming from someone at the helm of a new reactionary movement, that's pretty tasty!
newsboat <3
to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long
When people make a joke about a name in a different language than theirs, based on not being able to pronounce it correctly, is it just stupidity, or stupidity AND racism?
(i guess answer depends on whether or not the different language is spoken by a minority in the space stupid people make that joke?)
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustain...
By Albert Burneko
9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.
...
Retrospectively, wasn't a lot of the space-exploration-based SciFi from the 50s 60s 70s serving the purpose of justifying massive government spendings in big rockets, mainly used to build ICBMs, to justify imperialist policies and the cold war?
were we (the scifi afficionados) the useful idiots of this missile race?
"porte" in French means a door.
Imagine each port is a door, all neatly aligned... some of them can be opened and lead to something... (a service)
Anyone successfully compiled simplex-CLI on alpine/pmos aarch64?
I tried as in the doc, but ran into
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[__0] rejecting: aeson-2.2.0.0, aeson-2.1.2.1, aeson-2.1.2.0, aeson-2.1.1.0, aeson-2.1.0.0 (constraint from user target requires ==2.0.3.0)
How Mushrooms are Grown & Processed | Modern Mushrooms Farming Technology | Food Factory
The dystopian life of a modern mushroom...
Process of Making Ball Bearings. A Mechanical Parts Manufacturing Factory in Korea.
Industrial Food Machines
a multi-machine video. It's going very fast. sometimes too fast to be satisfying...
CW: there are dead animals in there. also the commentor doesnt mention what is this funnel in which some chicks are being dropped....
U.K. Judge OKs Extradition of Julian Assange to U.S.
According to the Extradition Act (2003) which governs the process, Assange now has four weeks (to May 18) to make representations to Patel before her decision is announced.
A British judge has ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces a 175-year sentence. The final decision on Assange’s extradition will now be made by U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel. Amnesty International’s Simon Crowther spoke outside the courthouse prior to today’s ruling.
Simon Crowther: “Julian Assange is being prosecuted for espionage for publishing sensitive material that was classified. And if he is extradited to the U.S. for this, all journalists around the world are going to have to look over their shoulder, because within their own jurisdiction, if they publish something that the U.S. considers to be classified, they will face the risk of being extradited.”
Why do anarchists drink herbal teal?
Because proper tea is theft!
Are you tired of explaining over and over again why crypto-ponzi-currency is bad, hypercapitalist ecocidal scam?
Let this guy explain it for you:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
All is there, based on sound economic theory and anchored in facts....
UK Supreme Court denies Assange permission to appeal his extradition
UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in Assange extradition. The case now moves to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorize the extradition. Julian Assange’s solicitors Birnberg Peirce statement […]
UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal in Assange extradition. The case now moves to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorize the extradition.
WikiLeaks editor and publisher Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing truthful information in the public interest.
Julian Assange is being sought by the current US administration for publishing US government documents which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. The politically motivated charges represent an unprecedented attack on press freedom and the public’s right to know – seeking to criminalise basic journalistic activity.
If convicted Julian Assange faces a sentence of 175 years, likely to be spent in extreme isolation.
The UN working group on arbitrary detention issued a statement saying that “the right of Mr. Assange to personal liberty should be restored”.
Massimo Moratti of Amnesty International has publicly stated on their website that, *“Were Julian Assange to be extradited or subjected to
The Right to Read - A Dystopian Short Story by Richard Stallman (1996)
From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096.
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her—but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.
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Mozilla + Google. What's in that contract?
When vice-presidents of Mozilla were asked, along the years since it was signed, what was the exact content of the contract signed with Google, all of them answered "I don't know. I havent read it."
Who in the world read the contract Mozilla and Google signed together?
Who has a single clue of what has been in there? And subsequently how can we trust Mozilla in such conditions? How didn't it doom itself to never be in a position to compete meaningfully with Chrome, buying itself time and/or a comfortable mattress of $$$?
Who can tell the Google+Mozilla contract DOESNT contain the following:
How can we know the billion $$$ of Google didnt serve to make sure that Firefox would never be the browser that th people actually need to protect themselves against.... Google?
Cleaners to get rid of SPAM online?
I would love to hire cleaners to get rid of spam such as this lemmy community!
Shame, spammers!
RC3 - DEC.30 - 19:00 - Movie Screening & Discussion with Directors "War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange
Movie Screening & Discussion with Directors "War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange"= 30 DEC - 19h00-22h00
Movie screening and extended discussion with the directors and editors, part of the WikiLeaks team.
RC3 - RC3World - It's ON!! (full programme)
Check the programme on!
Lots of great stuff!
(Streams accessible from outside the "RC3 world" itself)