billgamesh [he/him, any]

Some people are sniff hungry scratchers who want to smell everything

I actually think that the joke isn’t about 2 men. I think this would be awkward phrasing regardless of the poster’s gender. i.e. if a woman politician posted this it’d still be a weird post

Great points!

Maybe. I think the real mess is because we let libertarians and the NSA make most of the infrastructure

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My point is the to my use case, the implementation details matter too. either way, the FS is an abstraction and doesn’t need to exist in the way that it does. I just think it’s funny where people draw the line at X abstraction but not Y. Where is the line and how much should people understand?

tl;dr: maybe if our abstraction is no longer relevant we need a new abstraction

Didn’t watch whole thing. Saving to watch later but when it comes to this type of thing, I always wonder where to draw the line between “you should know” and “irrelevant to most people”. I like unix and plan9 so knowing how the filesystem works matters a lot to me. I also think diskless systems and immutable os are cool and a lot of people just use computers for browsing the web.

if most of the files you care about are photos, do you need to care how the fs works? what about the difference between ext4, fat32, gefs? to me both are pretty important but i don’t expect most to care

EDIT: I appreciate this all being articulated. i may have phrased too imprecisely in that I was not trying to argue that this necessarily shouldn’t be taught as much as much as wanting a discussion of where the line is between something people need to know and something i care about.

It’s an impressive technical feat, and a bit tragic. Try it sometime in a VM (or on a separate hard drive) and read a bit about king Terry.

Sorry for the pedantry but TempleOS is not Linux. It was built from scratch by Terry Davis and doesn’t have a lot in common with Linux.

https://github.com/cia-foundation/TempleOS?tab=readme-ov-file https://templeos.org/

Nice

clickbait. i opened this post for some Xorg drama and it’s just twitter

the angle is wrong for a standard floppy, but it might just be the illustration style

is that a zip disk?

To be fair, i’m not really into movies so my opinion doesn’t matter much

I don’t own a TV. If I’m wanting a movie, i’m gonna watch it on a shitty screen with shitty speakers. i’d rather have it be quick and not take up too much space on my small hard drive

Chimera Beanix

Everytime it doesn’t work perfectly the first time, compiling is going to be a nightmare. At least it’s not autohell though

IDK if there’s different formulas in different areas, but whenever i see jumex it’s mostly corn syrup

Every US president is a war criminal

Congress needs to act now to stop web developers.